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(TNS) I t looks like eight-man football is here to stay in Central New York. It's a trend being felt in a big way here and across other parts of New Y...

ST. MARYS, Pa. — Every team in District 9 is getting a fresh start of sorts with the new alignment of the 2018 season. But perhaps nobody needs a clea...

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. – His players made the short walk from the dusty practice field back to the school, most of them side-by-side, all of them sporting...

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — New Buffalo Bills wide receiver Corey Coleman can't escape reminders of Cleveland no matter how hard he's tried to put his two ...

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Tyrod Taylor remembers winning the starting job, throwing touchdown passes and seeing die-hard fans standing in snow at Buffalo's a...

ST. MARYS, Pa. — It was one of the biggest drop-offs in all of Big 30 football last year. Elk County Catholic, which had three consecutive winning sea...

OLEAN — Virtually everything went the Olean High football team’s way two years ago in coach Phil Vecchio’s rookie campaign. The Huskies’ 8-1 record in...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: For the last several years, this space has been dedicated once a summer to a retrospective on the former St. Bonaventure football team...

From a newsman’s report on local boys “over there,” to showing off a war trophy, from women making the Cattaraugus County Fair run to a lull in the Ol...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Three years ago the Bradford High football team endured a hugely disappointing 1-9 season with seemingly little hope of improvement in...

ORCHARD PARK — With Sean McDermott appearing before only a handful of deadline-challenged media members — the others were in the locker room rather th...

PORTVILLE — The morale at Portville Central School isn’t indicative of a football program that’s won one game over the last two years. The Panthers ha...

ORCHARD PARK — The foolishness started back in May when the Bills conducted their optional and mandatory organized team activities (OTAs). Though mere...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — After three consecutive 3-6 campaigns, expectations are growing in Smethport that 2018 will be the start of the program’s turnaround....

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — For Troy Cook, the landscape along RL Sweitzer Drive is vastly different now. An assistant during Virgil Graham’s tenure, Cook was ...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — For Troy Cook, the landscape along RL Sweitzer Drive is vastly different now. An assistant during Virgil Graham’s tenure, Cook was ...

YORKSHIRE — Among the veterans on an experienced 2018 Pioneer football roster is a group coach Jim Duprey calls his “core four.” Mike Rigerman, Nick R...

BRADFORD, Pa. — When head coach Todd Silfies and his offensive coordinator, Tyler Smith, sat down to divide up their 38-player Pennsylvania roster for...