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Nothing in Andy Herrick’s life has stopped him from playing the sport he loves. A pandemic season was no different. Herrick, a sophomore at Salamanca ...

For nearly four decades, McKean County Raceway has been run – on and off – by a string of six different individuals or groups with varying degrees of ...

It likely wasn’t the state tournament they had grown up dreaming about. They traded Albany’s 17,000-seat Times Union Center for a sports complex at Ma...

( Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: A look at Ol...

( Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: Olean’s excit...

This could get ugly. When Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced Tuesday that Bills and Sabres fans could attend Highmark Stadium and KeyBank ...

For years, the stranglehold held by the NCAA over its Division I athletes has been concerning. Its arrogance was particularly annoying when a coach le...

To be sure, after 7 o’clock Saturday night, the refrain was persistent: “It’s Matsuyama’s Masters to lose.” There was Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama with a ...

So, 19 days before the beginning of the National Football League Draft, where do the Bills stand roster-wise? As of today, Buffalo’s roster numbers 71...

ST. BONAVENTURE — By the time the final horn sounded in its 74-65 triumph over VCU in the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship, this much was starting ...

SHINGLEHOUSE, Pa. — When the ceremonial ribbon was cut prior to the first track and field meet at Oswayo Valley’s new surface on Tuesday, Bruce Kemp a...

So much for that dream meeting between the No. 1 and No. 2 men’s college basketball teams in the country. What happened on Monday night in Indianapoli...

ST. BONAVENTURE -- On the surface, he has the look of an enforcer. Abdoul Karim Coulibaly is a 6-foot-8, 230-pound power forward who, twice now, has h...

Some observations from four different sports: Pro football Circumstantially, AFC teams get the extra home game this season – it reverses next year – h...

I’ve never liked “shock jock” radio, those morning shows with multiple hosts spending four hours, with minimal rock music, trying to be funny, at the ...

Five hundred and nine days later, the memories have become rather hazy. It was back on Nov. 9, 2019, that the Franklinville/Ellicottville football tea...

OLEAN — Jason Brooks attempted to take responsibility. The Olean High boys basketball team had just returned home from its season-ending 87-71 loss to...

The news left me sad, but brought back a flood of memories. Between periods of Thursday night’s telecast of the Sabres-Penguins game, it was announced...