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PITTSBURGH — Denzel Gregg didn’t have to be reminded. The lone four-year senior on the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team knows how (mostly) fruitl...

The response to Sunday’s column, in which Saint Joseph’s men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli called out the St. Bonaventure student section for inter...

Dick Lindamer had to learn on the run … or, more specifically, the drive. In the spring of 1971, on an off night as coach of the Bolivar High School b...

As I drove to the office Thursday morning, I thought, ‘This is not baseball weather. Scott Johns won’t be happy.’ To be sure, baseball was one of the ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The climb has been slow, but steady for the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team. After beating Rhode Island, still winless in th...

ST. BONAVENTURE — As the horn ended the game, St. Bonaventure basketball coach Mark Schmidt turned back toward his bench, bent over and threw an overh...

ST. BONAVENTURE -- It has to be on their minds, just what these Bonnies might still be capable of accomplishing this season. They have to feel, despit...

He’s been gone from Coudersport for 15 years, but what he accomplished with that school’s girls basketball program, in particular, hasn’t been forgott...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Most coaches guard their teams with the tenacity of a bulldog. No matter how things go on the court, field or diamond, their posture...

OLEAN — His path to becoming the most dominant swimmer in Olean High’s history began in earnest at the end of last season. Seth Farrand, then a junior...

If only the Bills lone major issue was the future of quarterback Tyrod Taylor, there would be more reason for a degree of optimism. But, alas, there’s...

First, an amusing sidebar from another college basketball game Tuesday night: the Siena-Rider tilt in Albany. Jimmy Patsos, remember him? His name has...

One of the main questions that came up both in Bills general manager Doug Whaley’s ill-fated press conference, the day after the regular season ended,...

Always in search of good stories to share with our readers, these two items fell into our laps over the weekend. One regarding a former Big 30 coach w...

Some thoughts and observations after a weekend of St. Bonaventure basketball and NFL playoffs: n Though a transition year for the Bona women’s team, a...

ROCHESTER — It was a game the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team was supposed to win. Here were the Bonnies at their home-away-from home court, Blu...

ORCHARD PARK — The Bills introduced their new coach — the fourth in six seasons — on Friday afternoon at the team’s fieldhouse. We’ve been through it ...

In many ways, it was a manifestation of the kind of personality this team has had for much of the season. Wednesday night’s game at Richmond was a sig...