Football

Over the first two weeks of the regular season, the Franklinville/Ellicottville football team showed just how explosive its offense can be and played ...

As impressive as the performance was, it almost got lost in the glittering effort put out by the Bills offense in last Thursday’s 31-10 domination of ...

Forget home field advantage. In District 9, visiting teams ruled Week 3. Of the 10 games played between D9 teams Friday night, just two home teams — O...

It’s not been two full days since the Bills laid a 31-10 smackdown on the defending Super Bowl champion Rams in Los Angeles, and there’s still so much...

ALLEGANY — The folks who put together the schedules didn’t do the Allegany-Limestone football team any favors to start the season. After taking a lops...

BOLIVAR — The eight-man football era is off and running to a fast start for the Bolivar-Richburg football team, particularly for the Wolverines’ light...

ORCHARD PARK — For one night — and a big one, no less — the Buffalo Bills played up to the weighty expectations many had hung on them this offseason. ...

Shortly after its first-ever game in the new Section 5 8-man football league, the Bolivar-Richburg coaching staff wanted an honest assessment from its...

Wow. If this is the way the Bills are going to play on the road against a quality opponent, then maybe the oddsmakers have been right all along. Last ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Josh Allen passed for 297 yards while accounting for four touchdowns, Von Miller had two of Buffalo’s seven sacks, and the Bills s...

FREWSBURG — The Portville football team continues to find sources of motivation, and continues to respond with big-time performances. Last week, after...

It’s finally here. From the time the Rams held off Cincinnati, 23-20, to win Super Bowl LVI last February, speculation began that this season’s perfec...

A week ago in this space, we proclaimed rather confidently that it was going to be a collectively good year for the Big 30 football teams in New York....

The Otto-Eldred, Smethport and Coudersport football teams were all in search of a pick-me-up. Each had lost its season-opener, and in Week 2’s non-lea...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The “Immaculate Reception” will live on forever in Pittsburgh. Now too, will the number of the author of the most iconic play in NFL...

SHORTSVILLE — Steve Smith had said a week earlier that he thought he had a team that could contend in the 8-man ranks. If Saturday was any indication,...

ORCHARD PARK — The memories are too fond, and the bonds formed too tight for Von Miller to say anything negative about the Los Angeles Rams even as th...

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin deliberately — and quite effectively — declined to announce a starting quarterback for months, even as all signs pointed to M...