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CUBA — Steve Yatzkanic had a plan in place. In 2017, the Cuba-Rushford baseball coach inherited a talented freshmen class — one that had been groomed ...

Football has always been a big part of Tyler Arlington’s life. Growing up, Arlington could turn the radio dial to WESB and hear the exhilarating calls...

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Dylan Close and John Eakin were like so many other collegiate athletes around the country. After months of training and preparati...

It won’t be remembered as a typical spring for Pitt-Bradford women’s soccer coach Melissa Graham. With the outbreak of COVID-19, UPB canceled its spri...

Usually, with rare exceptions, only state champions end the season with a victory. For better or worse, the Olean High boys basketball team became an ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The 10 a.m. departure time for Emmitsburg, Maryland, came and went. Brooke Kane-Walker and her St. Bonaventure softball teammates we...

The Unified Bocce Ball Regional Championship was held this past week, with the teams from three area schools coming together at Oswayo Valley High Sch...

An update on former Olean football star Aaron Backhaus and Allegany-Limestone bowling standout Cameron Spring as the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball ...

NORTH COLLINS — With one quarter left in its league season, and playing on back-to-back nights, the Salamanca girls basketball team needed a big finis...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Tyler Gigliotti had put together plenty of similar performances during his four-year career at Bradford. Last season, in the District ...

Matt Burke had a good experience playing in the now-defunct Cattaraugus County Exceptional Seniors baseball game “decades ago.” In recent years, he’d ...

This year, the theme is variety. Since its inception in 2015, the Times Herald’s recollection of the top 10 local sports stories of the year has large...

One coach made a triumphant return to the state final four. The other guided his team to a dozen wins for the second consecutive season, this time thr...

ORCHARD PARK — Virtually every coach has one … a go-to phrase to sprinkle into most every press conference as the finale to an uninformative answer. F...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For a guy who played point guard for one of the most prestigious and successful college basketball programs in the country, then fol...

FILLMORE — Despite losing three productive seniors from last year’s 23-1 squad that won a sectional title, the bar still remains high for Fillmore coa...

If you ask Lintz Bliven, he’ll tell you he’s the luckiest coach in Allegany county. Bliven, head coach of the Genesee Valley boys basketball team, wil...

OLEAN — It might not have been the start that Tim Kolasinski envisioned for his debut as Olean High varsity boys basketball coach, but it was certainl...