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The Bills started it late Thanksgiving afternoon. Their unexpected, but thoroughly enjoyable, evisceration of the Cowboys in Dallas commenced a great ...

Talk about emphatically answering every criticism and doing it on the biggest stage, before the largest audience of the season. Ever since the season ...

ORCHARD PARK — When the Bills’ offense was introduced before Sunday afternoon’s game at New Era Field against Denver, the starting running back was Fr...

It was big local news when the son of a pair of Portville natives was taken in the fifth round of last April’s National Football League draft. Cole Ho...

ORCHARD PARK — Oh how the view of the Bills’ schedule has changed. When this season began, it was apparent that the AFC East, collectively, had the ea...

It isn’t that St. Bonaventure’s success was any less credible. You don’t win nine of 10 games, five of those by 17 points or more, down the stretch an...

Ohhh, the Bills needed this one. A week after letting an exceedingly winnable game escape in Cleveland, considerably tightening the AFC playoff race, ...

ALBANY — A friar associated with Siena ambled through a corridor inside the Times Union Center, arms raised, a wide smile on his face. It wasn’t an un...

Talk about cross purposes. Back in the offseason, when the Dolphins’ front office began unloading contributing players, it became obvious that the fra...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The circumstances are eerily similar. A year ago tonight, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team had a key post player, LaDarien ...

ORCHARD PARK — OK, so I’ll be the wet-blanket guy. Before we get all wrapped up in the Bills’ best half-season start in 26 years, a dose of reality is...

ORCHARD PARK — Two concerning statistics came out of the Bills’ 31-13 loss to Philadelphia last Sunday at New Era Field. One, of course, was the 218 r...

You had an idea where this was headed last Saturday when Duke Williams was added to the Bills’ 53-man roster. In the eyes of those who saw him in trai...

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series detailing my picks for the Atlantic 10 preseason all-conference teams and predicted order of fi...

ORCHARD PARK — Considering the numbers, it’s remarkable what the Bills’ defense has done a quarter of the way into this season. Off to a 3-1 start, Bu...

ORCHARD PARK — Bills fans are nothing if not resilient. At the beginning of every campaign during the team’s 17-year playoff drought, they invariably ...

BUFFALO — Despite all the thrilling places his coaching career has taken him, from the highest levels of college basketball to the NBA, John Beilein s...

ST. BONAVENTURE — My first interaction with John Soder came about five years ago when his name and number came up on my caller ID. He identified himse...