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A pair of former Olean High School classmates are back in the national Division III baseball and softball tournaments. Evan Ryan and Monica Moses are ...

The call came from a Trenton Thunder official around 9 a.m. on May 7, 2003. He had an important piece of information for Ben Lindquist and the rest of...

BRADFORD — For 18 years, Bret Butler’s focus was on the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford baseball team. And not because he shared a name with a 17-ye...

HINSDALE — For Jordan Sands, it’s become old hat. Still, there are challenges that she has raised. Last month, the Hinsdale Central School sophomore c...

ST. BONAVENTURE — On the bright side, St. Bonaventure men’s basketball fans can continue to say their team is undefeated against Duke. That unbeaten r...

It’s been seven decades since a small Franciscan school in the foothills of the Enchanted Mountains began to etch its place among the great college fo...

The decision has divided Bills fans. Ever since the team announced, on Tuesday, that it wouldn’t pick up the fifth-year option on wide receiver Sammy ...

The link between them is all of the people they attract. Diehard Buffalo Bills fans will amble over to “Jenny’s Bus” because of the cool aesthetic of ...

OLEAN — It started last November at the Sports Locker when Kris Linderman and Dave Talbot, the president and vice president of the Olean Soccer Club, ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — There are other contributors, of course, in this standout season for the St. Bonaventure baseball team. It wouldn’t be in this posit...

It was only five months ago that Mark Ward joined fellow Western New York coaches, athletes and administrators in being inducted in the Section 6 Hall...

ORCHARD PARK — One by one they went off the board, three – Mitchell Trubisky (North Carolina), Patrick Mahomes (Texas Tech), Deshaun Watson (Clemson) ...

Catching up on one of the top golfers the Twin Tiers has ever produced and the passing of one of Bonnie basketball’s biggest fans. A NOTE arrived via ...

ORCHARD PARK — That didn’t take long. Barely 16 hours after Bills coach Sean McDermott assessed that general manager Doug Whaley had done “a phenomena...

ORCHARD PARK — So what do we make of the Bills’ draft? They started and ended with six picks, but a lot happened in between. And what of general manag...

ORCHARD PARK -- Time and performance will tell us what sort of player the Bills took in Thursday night’s opening round of the NFL Draft. But what’s al...

ORCHARD PARK — It wasn’t all that convenient for the media … especially the TV guys trying to make their 11 o’clock newscasts. And even the print folk...

ORCHARD PARK — The draft dynamic has undeniably changed over the years. During John Butler’s seven-year stint as Bills general manager, which ended in...