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WELLSVILLE — Through five weeks, the 2025 season appeared to be a massive breakthrough for the Wellsville football program. It was Wellsville’s first ...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — The Smethport football team’s initial goal entering the 2026 season was to be competitive in its league. If last Friday’s 72-29 victo...

It’s opening week in the New York Section VI football season, and Friday night will mark the beginning of hopeful seasons for programs all throughout ...

The Buffalo Bills have released their 53-man roster. For now. The Bills roster was the most difficult to predict in years. The Bills opted to waive fu...

RANDOLPH — His start as head coach of the program he’s called home since 2007 was positively, well, Randolph-esque. The Randolph football team, under ...

CATTARAUGUS — Kory Gross remembers what a truly great Cattaraugus-Little Valley football team looks like. Gross was a senior on the Timberwolves’ Sect...

PORTVILLE — When Portville/Bolivar-Richburg/Cuba-Rushford coach Josh Brooks describes his upcoming 2026 squad, he doesn’t see it as one built around a...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — On Nov. 18, 2022, Brian Neal appeared in a photo wearing a wide smile and all five district championship medals that had just been ...

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — After losing Big 30 Player of the Year Aiden Bliss and Big 30 Defensive Player of the Year Nick Wilfong to graduation last year, ...

We’d risen in the pitch black of the predawn and driven 20 minutes to the area we were hunting that morning, splitting up to cover different areas of ...

ST. BONAVENTURE – The St. Bonaventure women's soccer team posted a shutout performance on Thursday evening at the Marra Athletics Complex, capturing a...

Programs agree to December 12 meeting in Philadelphia, cementing first matchup between the teams since 2013 PHILADELPHIA – After more than 10 years si...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For most teams, in any sport, the climb is the motivation. Every season begins with the same distant goal: reach the mountaintop, wi...

Olean and Portville football programs prepare for historic Sept. 18 matchup as booster clubs, coaches and mayors join in the fun OLEAN — They are neig...

ORCHARD PARK — Dee Alford was surprised when the Buffalo Bills asked him to field punts in practice. It’s been three years since Alford returned an NF...

ORCHARD PARK — Skyler Bell was all smiles walking off the practice field inside the Buffalo Bills’ training facility on Monday. “Man, I felt like a ki...

The St. Bonaventure Athletics Department established new annual fundraising records during the 2025-26 academic year. Combining gifts to the Bonnies A...

For the first time in four years, Olean will take the field without Joe Mest behind center. Replacing a four-year starting quarterback would be enough...