Sports Columnists

ORCHARD PARK — If the National Football League draft is all about teams filling their needs — or at least trying to — the Bills, as the currently-popu...

ORCHARD PARK — How diverse were the assessments of the four highest-rated quarterbacks in this year’s NFL draft? The only agreement among the so-calle...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Given his druthers, Larry Sudbrook would have preferred to reach the milestone last season … or at least at home. The St. Bonaventur...

There hasn’t been much to write about from a high school baseball and softball standpoint. Wellsville’s Dennie Miles achieved a milestone victory, mak...

Kirk Stauffer, like other PGA professionals, can’t help but compare the current state of golf in the area to the game’s boom starting in the ‘90s. “We...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For St. Bonaventure basketball fans, this was supposed to be a day reserved solely for celebration. Earlier in the week, former Chee...

PORTVILLE — Mike Matz and the Portville baseball team were supposed to be playing a game on Wednesday. Instead, they were relegated to, of all places,...

ALLEGANY — The New York-Pennsylvania Corporate Soccer Showcase entered a new era on Sunday afternoon at the Carter Event Center. With their inaugural ...

ORCHARD PARK — We should have known better. Yeah, Bills general manager Brandon Beane and coach Sean McDermott met with the media on Monday afternoon ...

High school sports followers and writers, and especially baseball and softball coaches, know not to take much of the April start to the spring sports ...

Gavin Dach couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present. Three days ago, the Bradford High freshman was in Buffalo trying out for the Junior Sabr...

They last played together on Nov. 2, a Thursday night game at MetLife Stadium against the Jets. That evening, the Bills’ starting offensive line was l...

BELFAST — For a moment, Rich Sullivan was Coach Sullivan again. The longtime Belfast Central School mentor took the field that he’d overseen from the ...

Andrew Abrams isn’t afraid to take a risk. The 32-year-old native of Allegany has done it twice since graduating from Fredonia State in 2008 with a de...

Full disclosure, I’m not a hockey junkie. The last time I was in Marine Midland, nee HSBC, nee First Niagara Arena, now KeyBank Center, for a Sabres g...

It is unlikely there’s ever been a more emotional presentation of the Big 30 Basketball Coach of the Year awards. On the sidelines, Allegany-Limestone...

His credentials as a player have long-since been established. Salamanca native John Dry not only is a member of the National Fast-Pitch Softball Hall ...

Tom Espinosa distinctly remembers the conversation. The Putnam Science Academy men’s basketball coach was watching an AAU game last spring, taking a p...