Football

OLEAN — Phil Vecchio knows the task at hand. His Olean football team won four out of its last five regular season games to earn the No. 7 seed in the ...

ORCHARD PARK — The betting line is giving a lot of Bills fans pause. Off to a 5-1 start, Buffalo owns the second-best record in the American Football ...

ORCHARD PARK — Ryan Fitzpatrick should have known better, after all he played four seasons and 55 games for the Bills … half of them at then-Ralph Wil...

ORCHARD PARK — Don’t let the final score fool you. Yeah, the Bills didn’t cover that 17-point spread, but their 31-21 victory over the Dolphins before...

ORCHARD PARK — Notes and quotes from the Bills’ 31-21 win over the Dolphins Sunday afternoon at New Era Field before 68,340 sun-soaked witnesses: — Th...

ORCHARD PARK — Who would ever imagine that the Bills would be part of a National Football League point-spread record … on the positive side, no less? ...

Early this season, it appeared that Ryan Fitzpatrick’s career as an NFL quarterback was winding down. He started the first two games for the beleaguer...

SALAMANCA — Logan Frank kept breaking tackles, and the Franklinville/Ellicottville football machine kept rolling along to finish off a perfect regular...

Win and you’re in: that’s the message from Olean High football coach Phil Vecchio to his Huskies. Technically, the Huskies (3-3, 2-1) don’t need a win...

BRADFORD — The ceremony is well-deserved. Tonight, before the Bradford High-Karns City football game at Parkway Field, WESB’s Frank Arlington — “Willi...

Almost from the day he was hired as head coach early last February, Brian Flores has found himself denying the Miami Dolphins are tanking this season....

The Olean High football team’s goal has been singular, and it’s been in place since before it took the season’s first snap. “Olean hopes to continue m...

Clearly, it’s already been a bizarre season in the American Football Conference. Of the 11 AFC teams that haven’t their bye week, only four own record...

YORK BEACH, Maine — Some random thoughts from a Bills bye week which left an open Sunday to spend a fall weekend in Maine: — The saddest part of the t...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Saturday night’s contest with Redbank Valley was billed as the toughest test to date for Coudersport. Suffice it to say the Falcons...

CATTARAUGUS — It didn’t take long on Friday night to show why Franklinville/Ellicottville has been the team to beat among Western New York Class D foo...

You had an idea where this was headed last Saturday when Duke Williams was added to the Bills’ 53-man roster. In the eyes of those who saw him in trai...

In the controlled jubilation of the Bills locker room at Nissan Stadium following their 14-7 victory over the Titans in Nashville, Lorenzo Alexander o...