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When I was a kid – well before Title IX which profoundly expanded sports opportunities for females – among the most admired students in high schools w...

Jim Satalin figured he was in the metaphorical driver’s seat. In early spring 1976, the former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach, then in his fou...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The numbers say that the second annual New York/Pennsylvania Corporate Cup Soccer Showcase was a success … especially electronically. ...

Larry Sudbrook’s 33rd season wasn’t supposed to end this way. St. Bonaventure’s veteran baseball coach, late last spring, concluded that the 2018 camp...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Only a three-and-a-half hour drive from his hometown of Hazleton, Pa., Bobby Planutis was at least vaguely aware of the pull of the ...

His arrival in Buffalo was surely unexpected, to say nothing of bizarrely timed. From the Bills’ inception in 1960, owner Ralph Wilson had developed a...

The Southern Tier Diesel will take a year off, a leave of absence, as coach/owner J.R. Bennion called it, but the Olean-based football team plans to r...

My only interaction with Brad Stevens was brief, and it came from the back of a cramped interview room inside Hinkle Fieldhouse. The stars behind this...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part interview with Brian O’Connell, owner of the Olean Oilers, headed into their seventh season with the N...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series with St. Bonaventure senior Jaylen Adams. Today’s story focuses on what’s next for the All-Con...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on Houghton College’s recently promoted Skip Lord, now the school’s Executive Director of Athl...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series with St. Bonaventure point guard Jaylen Adams. Today’s story focuses on Adams’ legacy and what ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on Houghton College’s recently-promoted Skip Lord, now the school’s Executive Director of Athle...

Jarrod Bell is thankful every day that the pieces fell into place. Wellsville Central School needed a new football coach and found one some 600 miles ...

OLEAN — Using Mike Martel’s analogy, Sunday would have been Christmas Eve. Five days ago, Olean 1854 FC, the area’s first-year outfit in the Buffalo a...

Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, et al, and now … Russ Brandon? The list of powerful men brought down by inappropriate behavi...

BRADFORD, Pa. — A friend of mine was buried this morning. Oh, he wasn’t a person whose story you would normally expect to occupy this space … but he’d...