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Now the real test starts. Yeah, in this space two weeks ago, Buffalo’s season-opener against the Jets at Bills Stadium was assessed to be a “must win....

(Editor’s note: This story is the first in a multi-part series on football media members from the Salamanca area.) Ryan Talbot had a pinch-me moment i...

Now comes the hard part. Even the most cynical Bills fan would have looked at this season’s schedule and concluded a 2-0 start was to be expected. Hos...

Bills fans won’t soon forget this game. Who wouldn’t recall a stadium power outage that blacked out the network telecast for over 20 minutes? And what...

He played in Buffalo for four seasons, and was always tied to the theory that he owed his first-round draft selection to former coach Rex Ryan, who pi...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For the last six months, we’d been operating almost strictly on conjecture. Indeed, from mid-April, when he delivered a kind of stat...

Her name became familiar to Times Herald readers as a seventh-grader at Portville when she swam for the combined program with Olean High. But her unus...

OK, after yesterday’s column focused on the obvious negatives that came out of Buffalo’s season-opening, 27-17 win over the Jets at Bills’ Stadium, it...

To be sure, hundreds of thousands of Bills fans are celebrating today. After all, Buffalo handled the Jets, 27-17, Sunday afternoon at Bills Stadium a...

There will be a delicious irony tomorrow afternoon at the blandly named “Bills Stadium” when Buffalo – favored by 6½ points – hosts the Jets to open t...

The void, of course, was already significant. Now, it’s utterly staggering. For the first time in anything that could be considered a modern era, ther...

During his playing days, former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis embraced what he calls the “art of preparation.” Ellis, the Sabres’ new director of ...

It wasn’t just another implausible plan for a season in the next calendar year. It differed from the hypotheticals, non-answers and instructions to “w...

Quick quiz, how many new starters will Buffalo have come Sunday when it hosts the Jets at Bills’ Stadium in the regular-season opener? Not as many as ...

There was a time when cutdown day was the most feared moment in a National Football League player’s career. Before 2004, if a player didn’t make a tea...

For the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, 2019-20 was the year for round numbers. Indeed, during the ill-fated campaign itself, Bona celebrated i...

Mike Rigerman was supposed to be playing football tonight. Under ordinary circumstances, the former Pioneer star would have donned his black No. 35 je...

OK, truth be told, I caved on baseball. When the 2020 season fell apart as a byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic and Major League Baseball desperate...