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Some leftover notes on the Bills from this past week: SOME 28 of the 32 National Football League teams have gotten the OK from state and local governm...

Bills coach Sean McDermott probably knew it was coming. After all, much of the NFL’s last few months has been focused on Covid-19, which disrupted all...

Let’s talk some baseball … specifically no-hitters and Tony La Russa. IF IT SEEMS as if there’s a hitless game every other day in the major leagues, t...

OLEAN — Dwayne Randall figured there was a strong chance he’d be No. 1. After all, the current head golf professional at Bartlett Country Club had bee...

Tuesday marked the beginning of Phase II of the National Football League’s offseason program which allows veterans to report to the team’s facility fo...

Will a time come when the Sabres’ organization takes the “Kick Me” sign off its backside? Still waiting. This beleaguered franchise which, this past s...

Success in the National Football League presents a scheduling paradox. The good news is that the best teams get the greatest national TV exposure. The...

It’s been their objective since each was taken in the 13th round of consecutive Major League Baseball drafts. “That’s the goal,” Shawn Dubin said of a...

The Portville football team wanted to make a statement so bright that Colt Matz could see it from his hospital room in Buffalo. The Panthers wore oran...

Last Monday morning I was a guest on an Albany sports talk radio show to discuss the Bills’ draft. The host, who has interviewed me for years, opened ...

SHINGLEHOUSE, Pa. — On March 4, Bill Howard prepared to officiate a basketball game like he had done many times before … except this one had a differe...

( Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the new management group of the Olean Oilers for their return to the New York Collegiate B...

( Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the new management group of the Olean Oilers and their return to the New York Collegiate Ba...

So what do we conclude from the Bills’ 2021 draft and subsequent free agent signings? For one, general manager Brandon Beane was telling the truth whe...

From his end-of-season press conference, when he lamented the Bills’ inability to generate persistent pressure on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes i...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Ryan Swanson was admittedly hesitant about scheduling this match. His St. Bonaventure golf team, after all, had played in a two-day ...

OLEAN – On their way back from the Coaches vs. Cancer golf outing last year at Orchard Park’s Harvest Hill, Bartlett Country Club president Frank Higg...

They’d both entered the season with an unfinished matter on the mind, with aspirations of completing a journey that had begun years before. And, in th...