american football

The questions have been non-stop since O.J. Simpson was granted parole from a Nevada prison – effective as early as Oct. 1 – last Thursday afternoon. ...

These kinds of nights are normally reserved for the spring. On May 2, 2015, a couple of friends and I celebrated perhaps the greatest sports day of th...

It had been three weeks since the Southern Tier Diesel took the field last, but if they were rusty it didn’t show in the results. The Diesel scored a ...

Coaches will quickly warn their players: It’s not football, don’t take too much out of it, win or lose. But area high school football teams get the ch...

It used to be one of the highlights of my twice-annual trips to York Beach, Maine. At least once each week, I’d make the half-hour drive down to Seabr...

One of the first things I tell my sportswriting students at St. Bonaventure is that I’m very much a believer in that popular saying: “Find a job you l...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the next in what has become an annual look-back series at the old St. Bonaventure football team. From 1946-1951, Bona was a le...

ORCHARD PARK — It’s withdrawal time for Buffalo Bills fans. After last Thursday’s final session of mandatory camp, coach Sean McDermott and his team w...

Saturday night showed the Southern Tier Diesel just how quickly a comeback road win can turn into a deflating two-score loss. After a four-plus-hour r...

ORCHARD PARK — To say that Sean McDermott differs from his predecessor as Buffalo Bills coach is a bit like suggesting CNN and Fox News have differing...

It began as a column about the day St. Bonaventure’s Bob Lanier went No. 1 overall in the 1970 NBA Draft. The story about Lanier was ultimately writte...

Entering a season with a small-numbered roster and an all-new wide receiver group, Southern Tier Diesel coach and owner J.R. Bennion expected to have ...

OLEAN — The schedule shows some familiar names, but it’s a change nonetheless for the Southern Tier Diesel. Under a new Northeastern Football Alliance...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — It was a happy coincidence. Each year, a group of friends and I head to the Baltimore/D.C. area for a weekend. We usually take in a ...

It’s become a cliche for college and pro sports teams to claim they have “the best fans in the country.” And while the veracity of that statement is o...

ORCHARD PARK -- One thing is certain when the Bills open their season hosting the Jets on Sept. 10, their roster will have a dramatically different lo...

It’s been seven decades since a small Franciscan school in the foothills of the Enchanted Mountains began to etch its place among the great college fo...

The decision has divided Bills fans. Ever since the team announced, on Tuesday, that it wouldn’t pick up the fifth-year option on wide receiver Sammy ...