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They’d envisioned it, wanted it, viewed it as a natural next step since acquiring the Olean Oilers in 2021. Matt Fidurko, the Oilers’ director of oper...

A fit young man and his pretty girlfriend were fishing a little inlet on Chautauqua Lake. My wife and I caught a bucketful of perch quickly, but notic...

I’m often asked which sport I prefer, hunting or fishing. Wow! That’s a difficult question to answer. Both sports require the same dedication, study, ...

FRANKLINVILLE — This upcoming year, the Franklinville/Ellicottville football team will have a relatively new look with first-year coach Justin Tatlow ...

BRADFORD — Portville/Cuba-Rushford football coach Josh Brooks has answered the call to take to the sidelines for team New York this summer in the 51st...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A day later, it didn’t get any better. In fact, somehow, some way, it might actually have gotten worse. Twenty-four hours after St. ...

Human beings are by nature remarkably flawed. When we’re not doing foolish things, we know we should wisely avoid, chance, bad luck or not just thinki...

For how proud he might have been somewhere deep inside, Mark Schmidt sounded, above all, defeated. In this moment, mere minutes after the final buzzer...

The Buffalo Bills didn’t have to look far to settle on their offensive and defensive coordinators for the 2024 season. The Bills hired two in-house ca...

( Editor’s note: Following is the third in a three-part series on the creation of Team Unfurl, an NIL collective for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball ...

I guess I’ll never understand Mother Nature completely. This spring during gobbler season we didn’t have a frost, we had a hard freeze! Some areas wer...

( Editor’s note: Following is the first in a three-part series on the creation of Team Unfurl, an NIL collective for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball,...

After the mixed reactions when the Bills traded up to take Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid in Thursday night’s opening round of the National Football Le...

( Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series with St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach on the challenges and change in landscape create...

It hasn’t been a pleasant start to 2023 for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Mark Schmidt. When the calendar changed, he saw his Bonnies go from...

So what do we make of the just-completed Division I men’s and women’s college basketball seasons? And, more to the point, how were they impacted by th...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The last three weeks have been a blur to Jim Crowley. It was 21 days ago that the Providence women’s basketball coach parted ways wi...

It seems more and more sports personalities from my youth are passing away, and they remind me of each of our mortalities, especially when it’s somebo...