Football

Friday night lights will have to wait. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association announced Wednesday that it was delaying high school...

ORCHARD PARK — Bills receiver Cole Beasley had an epiphany in determining he’s going to focus less on personal production and more on team goals. Ente...

Section 6 will move forward planning athletic seasons for low and moderate-risk sports following the release of NYSPHSAA guidelines on Friday. In acco...

Quick quiz, how many new starters will Buffalo have come Sunday when it hosts the Jets at Bills’ Stadium in the regular-season opener? Not as many as ...

ST. MARYS, Pa. — The anticipation for the 2020 season is high for Elk County Catholic head coach Tony Gerg and the Crusaders. One year removed from a ...

There was a time when cutdown day was the most feared moment in a National Football League player’s career. Before 2004, if a player didn’t make a tea...

ST. MARYS, Pa. — The flashes of what’s potentially to come were present during the 2019 campaign. After winless seasons in both 2017 and 2018, St. Mar...

Mike Rigerman was supposed to be playing football tonight. Under ordinary circumstances, the former Pioneer star would have donned his black No. 35 je...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — Beyond the lines, of course, the scene is noticeably different. Local high school football players, doing their best to follow the ...

To say the least, this has been a bizarre countdown to the Bills’ 61st season in the era of Covid-19. No organized team activities (OTAs), no preseaso...

After much uncertainty this summer, football schedules across District 9 have been finalized. The District 9 Football League released its schedules ov...

ORCHARD PARK — “Hausch Money” is no more in Buffalo after the Bills released veteran kicker Stephen Hauschka in a money-saving move favoring youth on ...

PITTSBURGH — The chronic ache in his right arm, the one that served as Ben Roethlisberger’s companion for years, is gone. No more fibbing about being ...

Eight weeks ago, I wrote a column about the National Football League’s admittedly bizarre, upcoming 2020 season. Part of it centered on the differing ...

Monday’s announcement of a potential “bubble” for our local four-county area (Elk, McKean, Potter and Cameron) and its high schools teams was perhaps ...

RIDGWAY, Pa. — Schools in Elk, McKean, Potter and Cameron counties could be playing fall sports in a quasi-bubble, according to a press release from t...

My first day at the Times Herald was Jan. 2, 1973. But, to get acclimated, over three weeks prior I was in Buffalo for a sports overnighter with the m...

This Monday would have marked the first big date on the New York state high school football schedule. In mid-to-late August, teams would report for th...