Sports Columnists

Yeah, it’s April Fools Day, but April 1 is no joke to golfers. That’s the target date for virtually every area course to open, though for some adventu...

You can set your watch to it. Read a story about an athlete or a local sports team on a newspaper’s website or on social media these days, and you’re ...

Usually, with rare exceptions, only state champions end the season with a victory. For better or worse, the Olean High boys basketball team became an ...

The Bills have had their share of first-round busts since the common NFL Draft started in 1967. By then the National and American football leagues had...

The pages featured almost everything you’d expect for this time of year. In April of 1995, you would have come across, among other things in the Times...

This is an unprecedented time for sports fans. Come late March, in any other year, we’d be well into both men’s and women’s March Madness, the NBA and...

The calls kept coming, and the bus never left. The St. Bonaventure baseball team never took its trip to Maryland-Eastern Shore last Thursday, and by t...

The decision wasn’t easy but it was obvious. After all, courtesy of the novel coronavirus, the Triple Crown horse races – Kentucky Derby, Preakness an...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The 10 a.m. departure time for Emmitsburg, Maryland, came and went. Brooke Kane-Walker and her St. Bonaventure softball teammates we...

Some thoughts on the NFL’s “league season,” the Stefon Diggs trade and Buffalo’s activity in this year’s free agent market: — The National Football Le...

Another year, another North Tier League championship for the Coudersport Falcons. Coudy (23-4, 16-0) polished off its fifth consecutive league crown t...

March Sadness. From its opening games against the likes of Georgetown and Syracuse way back in November, you could tell this season would be different...

A friend called me yesterday morning and wondered, “What are you going to write about now that there are no sports?” It was an excellent question, and...

The date was Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, two days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The National Football League played its full ...

Some random thoughts on post-season basketball, both scholastic and collegiate: — One of the hardest tasks for a high school hoops play-by-play announ...

ATLANTA — The goal came when she ran the 2017 Philadelphia Marathon in a time of 2:50:20. Needing to shave just five minutes, 20 seconds off her time,...

OLEAN — It was supposed to be a discussion of a new book, followed by signings from its author. But, two-thirds of the way into Thursday night’s sessi...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Amadi Ikpeze was there. He wasn’t the only current member of the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team to have played on March 9 of ...