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ST. BONAVENTURE — The regular season for the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team ended ignominiously Saturday afternoon at the Reilly Center befor...

I first met Chris Henzel in the winter of 1973. The Times Herald had just hired me away from Bradford’s WESB radio to join the sports department while...

An update on former Olean football star Aaron Backhaus and Allegany-Limestone bowling standout Cameron Spring as the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball ...

It’s the biggest story in professional baseball, and perhaps all of sports. And it’s not going away anytime soon. The Houston Astros illegally stole a...

It’s been an unprecedented nine days in my long career at the Times Herald . Over that span I’ve written three columns about the passing of acquaintan...

You’d think, after 19 years, Fox-TV Sports would have learned how to handle breaking news in one of its NASCAR telecasts. Ah, no so much. The day afte...

When I think of Don Haskins, one word immediately comes to my mind: craftsman. Don passed away, a week ago today, at age 80. For 44 years, until his r...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Maybe it was the date. After all, the Davidson College basketball team has won 13 straight games on Valentine’s Day, 10 of them unde...

The number of golfers he trained over a half-century as a PGA pro numbers well into the thousands. Jim Barillo not only owned a sweet swing, he also t...

The last thing Eric D’Arcy expected to be was a Hall of Famer. A wrestling star in the lighter weights at Archbishop Walsh, he earned a scholarship to...

ST. BONAVENTURE — His life has changed significantly over the last six years. Andrew Nicholson transitioned from the NBA, where he was the 19th overal...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s been a season of streaks for Mark Schmidt’s St. Bonaventure basketball team. There was that 1-4 start back in November when his...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Mark Schmidt often describes the first five minutes of each half as “critical” to his team’s success. On Wednesday, St. Bonaventure’...

It’s become an almost annual question for National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell at his pre-Super Bowl press conference. “Does the NFL wa...

It’s become a tradition. Every year, my last column before the Super Bowl is dedicated to a list of off-beat “proposition bets” that have little to do...

Marissa Hamilton waited, and made sure to be ready when her time came. The Great Valley native and Ellicottville High School graduate saw occasional p...

It’s human nature that we tend to focus on the issues which directly affect us and pay decidedly less attention to circumstances on the periphery. For...

ST. BONAVENTURE — His days almost always began in the same fashion: With a basketball in his hands. Each morning before school, Dion Wright woke up ea...