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ST. BONAVENTURE — By now, Olivia Brown and Asianae Johnson are used to meeting on Zoom. The popular video chatting program is how the St. Bonaventure ...

Since April, the Salamanca boys basketball team has done all it can remotely to prepare for this winter. Coach Adam Bennett started holding Zoom meeti...

It won’t be the most crushing defeat in Bills history. After all, the “Music City Miracle,” when a 16-15 Buffalo lead on a field goal with 16 seconds ...

The call came from Kerry Snow, the former Big 30 All-Star who was a standout quarterback at Otto-Eldred and went on to play at Bucknell in the mid-197...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Kyle Lofton had just fielded another question on this Media Day Zoom call, addressing how his team’s preseason preparation has been ...

What a difference one milestone victory can make. Even as the Bills got off to one of their best starts in the franchise’s 61-year history, there were...

For all the positive impact Sean McDermott has had since taking over as coach of the Bills, his critics, albeit quietly, have registered one persisten...

The name, albeit ethnically insensitive, has been around for nearly a decade. At least that’s when I first heard the phrase “Bills Mafia.” To most of ...

It was as painless as this exercise has ever been. This winter, the Atlantic 10 will welcome back 14 of 18 all-conference selections, including five o...

ST. BONAVENTURE—Under ordinary circumstances, its focus would lie almost solely on the season. On the games that lie ahead. Free of the perils of a gl...

The response to my column on the death of regional sports legend Chuck Crist was unprecedented in this era of email. Dozens were merely thankful for t...

So here we are at the midpoint of the season and maybe even in a better place than many Bills fans had hoped. In a coronavirus-impacted campaign, wher...

It would be really easy to criticize Buffalo’s 24-21 victory over the Patriots on a miserable Sunday afternoon at Bills Stadium. But that would be a p...

All you need to know about Chuck Crist is that he was the guy who most every boy wants to be. An exceptional athlete at Salamanca High School, he acco...

In any other year, Inga Welty would be “gung-ho into basketball” by now. The Portville girls coach would have long since been holding open gyms and in...

For the second time in six years, Holiday Valley’s Steve Carney earned the top recognition for a golf professional in the region. The Western New York...

We can all agree that Buffalo’s 18-10 win over the 0-7 Jets Sunday at the Meadowlands was less than impressive. However, there’s also no denying that ...

When I occasionally run into sports card or memorabilia collectors, they are never bashful about telling me how much their collection is worth. And I ...