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Bobby Bell had always hoped, and believed, this day would come. From his earliest days with the organization he helped build, the NYCBL’s Olean Oilers...

In good health and believing her soccer program to be in good hands, Mary Neilon sounds as if she has no regrets about retirement. One of the area’s l...

RANGER, Texas — Billy Gillispie wasn’t interested in the romanticized aspect of this story. The longtime no-nonsense basketball coach, whose stops at ...

DUBOIS, Pa. — A year after winning a state championship and qualifying for the Junior League World Series, Elk-McKean’s All-Stars are back for another...

Sue Piechota needed something to satisfy a competitive itch. Since taking up running at age 50, the Olean resident had taken part, and fared well, in ...

The alert came from Olean’s Ed Thierman early this week that another honor had been bestowed on Jeff Prescott, inarguably the Big 30’s most successful...

CUBA — For David Wild, it was the logical next step. “I went to Cuba-Rushford ... I played football for this team, I was the modified head coach, so I...

The “offseason” won’t stop seven Cattaraugus County boys basketball teams from playing the next two months. The Cattaraugus County Boys Basketball Sum...

Who knew, when the Yankees and Red Sox travelled to London for a two-game series this past weekend, that a pair of Olean slow-pitch softball games wou...

One was loaded from the start. The other, by year’s end, boasted the most all-stars of any area squad. But as talented as the Wellsville softball and ...

Catching up on a few Big 30-related notes while wondering where the month of June went: — Five Big 30 players were among those named to the 2019 New Y...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The link was, of all things, a self-owned construction company in Davenport, Florida. In the three years since he last wore an NFL u...

For nearly two years her story captivated the Southern Tier. Kim Pressler, the pride of Franklinville, became a household name when she won the Miss N...

It was posted on the Elk-McKean Senior League’s Facebook page and immediately caught my attention. The local Little League baseball team — which pulle...

Barry Mungar was not only absent from the green room, he wasn’t even in the country. The former St. Bonaventure standout, a Hamilton, Ontario, native,...

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — For Pitt-Bradford alumnus Austin Parent, baseball was always his “first love.” The former Panther catcher and member of this...

Her name has appeared in these pages quite regularly over the years, from her days as a record-setter at Olean High, to her appearance at the 2016 Oly...

She played four sports at Portville Central School ... but one of them was not football. Back then, Devon Peace was on the Panthers’ soccer, basketbal...