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PORTVILLE — Matt Milne admitted he was nervous Thursday night. “I won’t lie,” said the Portville wrestling coach, whose Panthers were facing a Maple G...

Reflections on the services for Jim Melaro, helicopter sports parents and another honor for “Woj:” IT WAS a week ago today that funeral services were ...

It was the most successful season for local high school sports in recent memory. In the last 12 months, among other accomplishments, Olean High School...

NORTH POLE — Sure, the holidays are a time of giving, but is it too much to ask the jolly man in red for a few gifts here and there? If you ask basket...

Sometimes one player makes all the difference. At least if that player’s name is Sara Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer’s return to Olean after a year in Arizona has...

There was no singular moment, no telltale sign that either coach’s season would be highlighted by a championship. Sure, recent history had indicated t...

WELLSVILLE — Independence is a good thing. As a country, we celebrate independence once a year on the Fourth of July. The Wellsville boys basketball t...

ALLEGANY — Smethport still has a game to play today, but first coach Adam Jack and the Hubbers’ football team collected some hardware Sunday afternoon...

ST. BONAVENTURE — He’d made his mind up years ago in a small gym just outside of Pittsburgh. Ever since he was a kid, watching as his dad conducted pr...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It was already set up to be one of the most memorable nights of Nate Sestina’s collegiate career. After all, the Cameron County prod...

WELLSVILLE — For the Fillmore Central School girls soccer team, the win was a long time coming. Nineteen years, to be exact. When the Eagles last reac...

Aaron Wight didn’t have to look far for guidance when it came to running the girls’ varsity soccer program at Cuba-Rushford. Luckily for Wight, his da...

( Editor’s note : This is the second of a two-part series detailing my picks for the Atlantic 10 preseason all-conference teams and predicted order of...

SALAMANCA — Going on his 44th consecutive year of coaching basketball at Salamanca High School, Pete Weishan may have stepped out of the varsity spotl...

SALAMANCA — The Basketball Coaches Association of New York (BCANY) has announced that Pete Weishan, current boys junior varsity basketball coach and l...

PORTVILLE — Portville Central School inducted six new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame last Friday. Honored were Francis “Tony” Wilson, Jamie Mo...

ORCHARD PARK — Sean McDermott had every opportunity to take a shot at the media … and every right to do it. After his Bills conjured Sunday’s stunning...

In a way, I should have written this column last fall. But at the time, Dave Waugh’s death was just too difficult for me to grasp. How unfair, I thoug...