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I’m very hard on hunting and fishing equipment, unfortunately dropping or breaking things with disturbing regularity. In addition, whenever something ...

For the second straight season, the Bills head into their bye week smarting from a last-second road loss. A year ago, it was the cringe-worthy 32-30 “...

With a 17-game schedule, it’s impossible to divide the season into quarters. However, when the National Football League opted for a 16-game campaign b...

ORCHARD PARK — It seems crazy to criticize a team that just won 40-0, pitched its second shutout in three games and has put up 118 points in its last ...

The performance wasn’t exactly what she had hoped … but the experience was priceless. Martha Ruether, the vision-impaired Allegany native who’s had a ...

The legacy remains, 41 years after he retired, 12 of them following his passing. It’s doubtful that any Southern Tier race driver has ever come close ...

ORCHARD PARK — Well, it took three games but the Bills have seemingly found their 2020 mojo. Yeah, they won 35-0 last Sunday at Miami but there were p...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series with Ron Rivera, coach of the Washington Football Team, and his long-time relationship with two...

There was a time when the Bills unquestioned rival was Miami. The Dolphins – “Dalphins” as late Buffalo play-by-play man Van Miller used to call them ...

I know, I know … “It’s only one game.” To be sure, both coach Sean McDermott and quarterback Josh Allen reminded us of that following Sunday afternoon...

ORCHARD PARK — Let’s make this perfectly clear at the outset. There’s no insult in losing to the Steelers … even in your own building. After all, Pitt...

ORCHARD PARK — Maj. Matthew Blue was understandably hesitant. Blue, of the United States Airforce, had already seized his “once in a lifetime” opportu...

BRADFORD, Pa. -- Nearly 50 years later, it’s become a link between past and present. Bob South recently happened upon an Olean resident who played in ...

OLEAN — It could be argued that today’s Championship Flight semifinals of the 85th annual Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateu...

Starting Monday, through two weeks from Sunday, the Twin Tiers’ most popular country clubs will host a pair of high-profile golf tournaments, one prof...

Some thoughts on an interesting weekend in sports: Over nearly a half century at the Times Herald , I’ve literally written hundreds of thousands of wo...

The unexpected call came in the middle of June. It was from long-time friend Patti Crist, wife of Chuck, the former four-sport MVP at Salamanca High S...

It was the summation of a season that was hardly promised, but still thankfully played out. Mere days before it was scheduled to open the shortened ca...