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He played in Buffalo for four seasons, and was always tied to the theory that he owed his first-round draft selection to former coach Rex Ryan, who pi...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For the last six months, we’d been operating almost strictly on conjecture. Indeed, from mid-April, when he delivered a kind of stat...

Quick quiz, how many new starters will Buffalo have come Sunday when it hosts the Jets at Bills’ Stadium in the regular-season opener? Not as many as ...

There was a time when cutdown day was the most feared moment in a National Football League player’s career. Before 2004, if a player didn’t make a tea...

OK, truth be told, I caved on baseball. When the 2020 season fell apart as a byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic and Major League Baseball desperate...

ST. BONAVENTURE — This anecdote, while perhaps not widely known, has at least been circulated among the most die-hard St. Bonaventure basketball fans:...

Eight weeks ago, I wrote a column about the National Football League’s admittedly bizarre, upcoming 2020 season. Part of it centered on the differing ...

Eric Hemphill is fairly certain of what he’d have wanted in the same situation. Mike Matz has a similar viewpoint. “Almost 99.9 percent of the time, I...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It was the bright side, if you’re willing, to the cancelation of both the Atlantic 10 Tournament and NCAA Tournament in March: At le...

The Bills won’t even be allowed to conduct a practice in pads until Monday, three days after their long-ago postponed preseason opener at Baltimore. I...

OLEAN — The games weren’t played until a full 11 weeks after the original date, they ended up being contested across the border from the scheduled sta...

The most common question that comes my way from Bills fans is, “Do you think there will be a season?” And if you listen to unicorns and rainbows NFL C...

The Roycroft Inn, East Aurora (3 years), Sheraton, Blasdell (5), Niagara University, Lewiston (13), Fredonia State (19), St. John Fisher College, Pitt...

His name has appeared in the same box scores as Carmelo Anthony, Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. He’s currently living in the NBA’s heavily restrict...

So, cynicism aside, my curiosity and genuinely missing baseball got the best of me. Thus, driving through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and into Maine ...

I was in DuBois covering the District 9 North/South Softball Challenge last Wednesday when an unexpected, but welcome, press release from the Pennsylv...

It’s been ingrained in the community for the last century, nearly as much an Olean pillar as the oil from which it was named. And it’s allowed for som...

Providence women’s basketball Jim Crowley shared updates on his team and the world in general during a virtual Zoom meeting held with fans on June 25....