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SMETHPORT, Pa. — One of the biggest games this week in the Intermediate Unit 9 bubble will take place tonight when Smethport hosts Elk County Catholic...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Fichtner watched the big kid with the strong arm and the sense of invincibility that is the province of the very young and immediat...

Bills fans won’t soon forget this game. Who wouldn’t recall a stadium power outage that blacked out the network telecast for over 20 minutes? And what...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Josh Allen followed up on the most prolific game of his NFL career with an even better one. The third-year pro threw for 417 yar...

Shortly after Miami lost its season-opener, 21-11, to the Patriots in Foxborough last Sunday, the murmurs began. Was it already time for rookie Tua Ta...

ST. MARYS, Pa. — There were bound to be some growing pains as Bradford rolled out its new schemes on offense and defense. Unfortunately for the Owls, ...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — The Coudersport football team opened its season up with a 60-6 rout of Port Allegany Friday night. Leading the way for the Falcons ...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — The Smethport football team is off and running. Led by dual-threat quarterback Noah Lent and speedy tailback Braedon Johnson, the H...

PITTSBURGH — The pain was familiar to Ben Roethlisberger. Welcome even. And the best part about how his 38-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback’s ...

RIDGWAY, Pa. — A year ago, Ridgway led Kane 21-10 entering the fourth quarter before the Wolves rallied for a 25-21 upset of the Elkers at Paul R. Mil...

INDIANAPOLIS — Now that the Big Ten has a rescheduled kickoff weekend, coaches and players can start the sprint to opening day. Expect a wild ride. Af...

ORCHARD PARK — The mere mention of the Buffalo Bills potentially cutting Trent Murphy before the start of the season was preposterous to teammate and ...

EMPORIUM, Pa. — Like many football coaches across the state and country, Ryan Neyman is just happy his team will be able to play this fall. Now enteri...

Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all. Less than five weeks after pushing football and other fall sports to spring in the name of pl...

KANE, Pa. — The Kane football team experienced a little bit of everything in 2019. There was the five-game win streak to begin the season, which inclu...

OK, after yesterday’s column focused on the obvious negatives that came out of Buffalo’s season-opening, 27-17 win over the Jets at Bills’ Stadium, it...

ORCHARD PARK — Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills got the season off to a throwing start. In overseeing three consecutive first-half touchdown drives, A...

There was one area where the Bills’ hierarchy felt it had to improve upon after last season’s crushing overtime playoff loss at Houston. In the words ...