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Back in the early 1970s, before coaching in the National Football League became a year-round proposition, the draft was held in late January. Shortly ...

ST. BONAVENTURE – Not long ago, it would have been the biggest story, by a wide margin, of the summer. Earlier this month, The Athletic released its e...

A 12-year-old from Amherst had a round for the record books last week. Playing among much older teenagers (in the girls’ age 16-18 division) in the WN...

I keep a list of all the Major League Baseball ballparks I’ve visited as a fan over the years, thinking maybe someday I’ll get to all 30 teams. So far...

( EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on Rixford, Pa. native Scott Fox, a NASCAR award-winning engine assembler for the highly-succ...

The Sunday before Memorial Day is a great one for auto racing fans ... the Indianapolis 500 at 12:30 and the Coca-Cola 600 some six hours later. And S...

( Editor’s note : This is the first in a two-part series on Salamanca native Bradley Poole, who intends to run 300 miles in three days to raise both m...

Some leftover notes on the Bills from this past week: SOME 28 of the 32 National Football League teams have gotten the OK from state and local governm...

This column was supposed to be on the PGA Championship. After all, 50-year-old Phil Mickelson was bidding to become the oldest winner of a major in th...

The Portville football team wanted to make a statement so bright that Colt Matz could see it from his hospital room in Buffalo. The Panthers wore oran...

So what do we conclude from the Bills’ 2021 draft and subsequent free agent signings? For one, general manager Brandon Beane was telling the truth whe...

From his end-of-season press conference, when he lamented the Bills’ inability to generate persistent pressure on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes i...

This could get ugly. When Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced Tuesday that Bills and Sabres fans could attend Highmark Stadium and KeyBank ...

To be sure, after 7 o’clock Saturday night, the refrain was persistent: “It’s Matsuyama’s Masters to lose.” There was Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama with a ...

So, 19 days before the beginning of the National Football League Draft, where do the Bills stand roster-wise? As of today, Buffalo’s roster numbers 71...

ST. BONAVENTURE — By the time the final horn sounded in its 74-65 triumph over VCU in the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship, this much was starting ...

So much for that dream meeting between the No. 1 and No. 2 men’s college basketball teams in the country. What happened on Monday night in Indianapoli...

ST. BONAVENTURE -- On the surface, he has the look of an enforcer. Abdoul Karim Coulibaly is a 6-foot-8, 230-pound power forward who, twice now, has h...