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OLEAN — After a pregame thunder delay and two hours and 40 minutes of baseball, the scoreboard read 24-3 in Olean High’s favor. But the biggest victor...

The Big 30 girls basketball Player of the Year is also one of the top five players in Western New York. Franklinville sophomore Dani Haskell earned a ...

We couldn’t have known we were playing against an eventual two-time Super Bowl champion. After all, how many high-level professional athletes are lini...

Ensuring the health of employees through the establishment of wellness programs has become a popular trend in the U.S. Companies establish these cours...

AMHERST — A letdown would’ve been understandable. After all, Monday’s sweep of eight-time defending state champion Eden was probably the most emotiona...

BROCTON — One year later, much is the same. The Portville Central School girls volleyball team is the Section 6 Class C-2 champion again. The Panthers...

Recent bouts between Floyd Mayweather and MMA fighter Conor McGregor and Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez have resulted in an uptick in boxing inte...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Take a look at the scores of the Allegheny Mountain League’s North Division as it squared off against the South on Friday night and...

The plastic baseball hit me dead center in the forehead and jolted me awake from an early morning sleep on a couch at my sister’s place. “Ball … ball,...

OLEAN — Brennan Payne almost knew it was coming. The 2004 Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur titleist was on the final hole...

New coach Jay Weitzel knows the 2017 Olean Oilers won’t be like the 2016 Olean Oilers. But that doesn’t mean the New York Collegiate Baseball League c...

NIAGARA FALLS — John Zambanini has marveled all season at his Olean High baseball team’s ability to hit from the top of the order to the bottom. The t...

The Western New York Association of Youth Bureaus presented its Champion for Youth award to state Sen. Catharine Young for her efforts to improve the ...

A couple of wrestling notes on current Portville great Nicholas Kozlowski and former Allegany star Ray Ryan; Kozlowski, a senior at PCS, became a two-...

AVON — For the second-straight year, the Bolivar-Richburg girls basketball team underscored a great season with a trip to the sectional semifinals. Fo...

Mark Schmidt, as he’s known to in such settings, began things on a lighter note. The moderator on the Atlantic 10’s weekly coaches conference call ope...

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK — The Buffalo Bills are putting their faith in Sean McDermott to fix their under-performing defense and r...

On Oct. 11, Ontario County hosted its fourth annual Wellness Fair. Organized by the Ontario County Wellness Committee, the Wellness Fair’s objective w...