Sports Columnists

It’s unlikely, in the 47-year history of the Times Herald Football Edition, there’s been a more timely cover story. The concern about chronic traumati...

OLEAN — As he flipped through the channels Sunday morning, J.R. Kemp’s stomach began to turn. He watched as Hurricane Harvey caused unprecedented and ...

It could have been worse — LeSean McCoy could have gotten hurt — but not much. You see, plenty went wrong for the Bills on Saturday night in Buffalo’s...

What should you be looking for when the Bills face the Ravens in preseason game No. 3 tonight in Baltimore? Plenty. The reality is, this is your last ...

A day before opening the 2017 Big 30 football season in earnest, the new coaches in the Allegheny Mountain League North were at the height of their op...

It started last August – almost a year to the day – when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem before a pres...

They last crossed paths on a mid-November day in 2012, in a raucous Koessler Athletic Center in Buffalo. St. Bonaventure basketball fans likely rememb...

Who can blame Bills fans for thinking their team is cursed? They all know the math: 17 straight years without a playoff berth, nine coaches – two of t...

Every NFL head coach has his own schedule for when his team practices, when he meets with the media and, indeed the length of the workouts. New Bills ...

The plastic baseball hit me dead center in the forehead and jolted me awake from an early morning sleep on a couch at my sister’s place. “Ball … ball,...

Some leftovers from the notebook and a voicemail as the Olean/Allegany area hosts its biggest weekend of the year with the Rally in the Valley motorcy...

OLEAN — Now in its 10th year on Delaware Avenue, the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament has become about more than just competition and trophies....

Even an experienced spinmeister couldn’t find a way to put lipstick on this pig. If you’re a Bills fan and aren’t worried, you haven’t been watching. ...

An old friend was in Olean earlier this month, in the midst of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur golf tournament, and ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — This is a column I wasn’t planning on writing. Jaylen Adams had already participated in the prestigious adidas Nations basketball ca...

PITTSFORD — So now that the shock of Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby being traded has worn off, Bills’ fans have moved on to the next question: How did...

SALAMANCA — Last weekend marked the 15th anniversary of Jim Kelly’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Thurman Thomas’ 10th. The backfie...

How much did the Bills current management team want to distance itself from Doug Whaley? Two blockbuster trades Friday further separated general manag...