National Sports

Are you excited about the Bills coaching search? Me neither. Somehow the toxic environment in Buffalo’s front office has a way of draining away any po...

By RALPH RUSSO AP College Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. — College football's first national championship rematch was fitting sequel to the original, wit...

By CHUCK POLLOCK Olean Times Herald EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Notes and quotes from the Bills’ 30-10 loss to the Jets before a microscopic crowd (?) at ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Back in the first week of September, my preseason assessment of the Bills, predicted that Buffalo was bound for a second strai...

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger, Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown stood on the sideline in sweatsuits already thinking a...

By CHUCK POLLOCK Olean Times Herald EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Back in the late 1970s when the Bills were awful, a former Buffalo sports writer referred ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — No. 5 Penn State has suspended two starters for the Rose Bowl for violating team rules. Team officials said Wednesday that wide rec...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As predicted, Jeff Madigan will not relinquish his playoff hopes for the Bills, as long as they’re mathematically alive. It’s conceded...

ORCHARD PARK — Neither snow nor rubber pellets nor Rex Ryan’s defense could come close to stopping Le’Veon Bell Sunday. The fourth-year running back c...

ORCHARD PARK — This is the kind of game it was. After the Bills were smoked, 27-20, by the Steelers — don’t be duped by that seemingly competitive fin...

ORCHARD PARK — If Bills’ general manager Doug Whaley was being truthful earlier in the week when he said a decision hadn’t been made on the future of ...

By J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald Last week, we had a new No. 1 in our weekly A-10 power rankings segment. This time around, there’s a new No. 2. VCU,...

To many Bills fans, Monday night’s 31-25 defeat by the Seahawks at CenturyLink Field was absolutely devastating. And it was a severe, if not mortal bl...

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE — Jimmy Graham needed only one hand to catch two first-half touchdown passes from Russell Wilson, and the Seattl...

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The wait ‘til next year is finally over. The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. Ending more t...

CLEVELAND (AP) — After 108 years, what’s one more day? The Chicago Cubs are far from finished. They’re frothing. Addison Russell hit a grand slam and ...

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO — They’ve waited 108 years for a championship. So with this World Series on the verge of slipping away, the ...

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON — The ball settled into the right fielder’s glove, the Cleveland Indians poured onto the diamond and the fans f...