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FILLMORE — In a drama-filled game, Filmore (5-0-1) leapfrogged Bolivar-Richburg (6-2-1) for first place early on in the Allegany County Division I gir...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was billed as a matchup of two of the top quarterback picks in the 2018 draft: New York’s Sam Darnold, the No. 3 overall se...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The victory Olean High pulled off Tuesday afternoon is often required of teams to win sectional titles and advance deeper. The Huski...

CATTARAUGUS — While the final score may look to tell otherwise, Franklinville kept within reach of the Cattaraugus-Little Valley softball team until t...

ROCHESTER — Jeff Anastasia politely disagrees with Raymie Auman. After Auman’s Wellsville boys basketball team fell to press-heavy Greece Odyssey, 63-...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The finish was, uhhh, unusual. It was a critical game for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team on Wednesday night at the Reilly...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — The Otto-Eldred BirdDawg trap team took its first steps in kicking off the season Jan. 12 at the Otto Township Fire hall. The team,...

The holidays are over and now we must stare into “the long dark teatime of the soul” that is winter in Upstate New York. But as it is a new year, it’s...

Merwin Geise was born in 1896 in the Haskell area. Growing up on King Street in Olean, he couldn’t have had any notion that, as a young man, he would ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Before Friday, most of the preseason attention had centered on his classmates. Kyle Lofton was the highly regarded point guard who h...

BOLIVAR— Four years ago, the outcome of Saturday’s Section 5 Class D2 championship didn’t seem possible for the Hinsdale girls soccer team. At that po...

Soccer is a way of life for Kuzma Harmon. Adopted from Russia when he was only four years old, the Friendship senior immediately gravitated toward the...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — There have been plenty of memorable finishes in the storied history of Smethport Hubber football. But perhaps none were as wild — o...

ORCHARD PARK — His numbers were hardly awesome, 10-of-19 passing for a lowly 82 yards. Last Sunday’s 13-12 win over Tennessee was actually a product o...

OLEAN — COLORS Unity raised more than $700 for the Alzheimer's disease patients during its second annual fundraiser last month, and will now take in m...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — It was a perfect storm of motivations for Coudersport’s Homecoming game: a showdown with their archrivals from Otto-Eldred, who had...

SALAMANCA — Paul Haley’s team had enough turnovers and missed passing opportunities to drive any coach mad, but that didn’t stop Salamanca from claimi...

OLEAN — Give Brian O’Connell this, the Olean Oilers owner/manager is prescient. Before Sunday afternoon’s game against the Genesee Rapids at Bradner S...