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Buffalo active early in NFL free agency
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 20, 2021
Well, four days into NFL free agency, the Bills have been more active than might have been expected for a team up against the salary cap. They re-sign...
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If only Sabres could follow the Bills’ path
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 05, 2021
We’ve heard this song again and again … nine times to be exact. And, by the end of the first week of May, the count will be 10 … as in a decade of sea...
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Bona adds another first with outright Atlantic 10 crown
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 01, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s a peculiar component in this prolonged, and sometimes difficult to fathom, period of greatness: A growing number of the St. Bon...
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Bona checks a couple of boxes in Davidson win
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Feb 23, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE — Lost, perhaps, in the magnitude of the game itself, was this particular footnote: For the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, thi...
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For the Bonnies, it comes down to Atlantic 10 mark
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Feb 22, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE — Reilly Center would have been bedlam … indeed it should have been. Instead, its 5,480 seats sat empty, as they have been all season,...
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Bookmakers tab Bills NFL’s third-best team
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Feb 12, 2021
The reality hit Bills fans late in last Sunday’s Super Bowl. After the Chiefs had handled Buffalo in Kansas City, 38-24, for the AFC title, which wasn...
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Bona surviving through A-10’s changing slate
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Feb 10, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE — Coaches are creatures of habit and routine … especially on the collegiate and pro levels where there’s so much at stake. And never h...
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Recollections of the Bills’ first Super Bowl
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Feb 05, 2021
( EDITOR’S NOTE: This NFL season marks the 30th anniversary of the Bills’ first-ever Super Bowl appearance. After the 1990 campaign, the Bills and Gia...
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Puglio selected to coach in PA East/West game
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JOEL WHETZEL, Special to the Times Herald 
Feb 04, 2021
It’s an opportunity Jeff Puglio didn’t think he’d get again. A year ago, Puglio, the Bradford High football boss, was chosen to coach in the Pennsylva...
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Jordan made indelible mark on Torrey, PCS community
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jan 29, 2021
He’ll remain in awe of the man who gave so much of himself to his community. Don Jordan, after all, had become synonymous with the Portville sports sc...
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Observations on Bills’ tough loss against Chiefs
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Jan 25, 2021
Some observations from the Chiefs 38-24 win over the Bills in Sunday night’s American Football Conference Championship Game at Kansas City’s Arrowhead...
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Johnson takes his place in Bills’ lore
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Jan 17, 2021
In one glorious moment, Bills nickelback Taron Johnson wrote his name in franchise history for all time. With the Ravens seemingly ready to tie Saturd...
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Bonnies display talent, depth in beating St. Joe’s
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Jan 07, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE – That’s how you take care of business. If you judge by the record, 0-7 Saint Joseph’s seemed no more an obstacle to St. Bonaventure’s...
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Allen, defense have Bills set for postseason
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Dec 22, 2020
It would seem the Bills are peaking at just the right time. At 11-3, with the AFC East title and a home playoff game already clinched, Buffalo is stil...
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Pause leaves Bona uncertain heading into season-opener
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Dec 12, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — As with almost everything else in this COVID-19-altered season, Mark Schmidt’s pregame media availability on Friday was … delayed. T...
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Bills still can’t pull away from Dolphins, Pats
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Dec 07, 2020
Some observations from a Sunday of watching the NFL’s Red Zone Channel, plus the Broncos/Chiefs last night: — If the Bills needed any further reason f...
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It wasn’t pretty, but Bills got a needed win
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Nov 30, 2020
Pro football coaches are famous for reminding us that “it’s hard to win in the NFL.” Indeed, those on losing streaks admit, “I thought I’d never win a...
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