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Some thoughts and observations while waiting to see whether it’s the Cavaliers or Warriors who win the NBA Championship: IT APPEARS, finally, that the...

A couple of notes following the first full week without a local high school sporting event since last August: LOCAL GOLF enthusiasts may have recogniz...

BRADFORD — Some items discovered while cleaning out the notebook: BIG 30 CHARITIES Classic Committeeman Craig Funk is looking for groups to participat...

A year ago, Aaron Phillips was a last-minute addition to the Olean Oilers, a “fill-in” player whose role was never quite clearly defined. The then-St....

OLEAN — Jeff Spears has been involved in sports programs at Olean High School since the mid 1970s. The 1979 OHS alum is currently serving as president...

JAMESTOWN — Almost immediately, Billy Kalbaugh was brought back to 1970. “So, Billy, throughout (that time), they had a Ramsey Lewis song,” opened Gre...

When the Times Herald opted to pick a Big 30 All-Star team for baseball and softball in 2006, we knew that was long overdue. Over 11 years, we’ve conv...

Jordan Corbett’s career is on hold … but only for two months. The Olean-born mixed martial arts fighter expected to be in a bout for the New York stat...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It won’t be easy replacing two of the most productive players in recent memory. That’s the first thing coach Mark Schmidt said when ...

OLEAN — Shawn Dubin never really expected to be in this position. Soccer, not baseball, was his first love in high school. And before graduating from ...

SALAMANCA — The late nights, driving after varsity basketball games to his Blasdell home became too much, for now at least. Brian Koscielniak and his ...

OLEAN — It was just over two years ago when I was sharing a few adult beverages with a college buddy and he began extolling the virtues of pickleball....

Over the years, when St. Bonaventure has needed a basketball coach, it has often turned to an alum. The main reason, of course, is that graduates have...

Mere days after helping to win one championship, Evan Ryan already was focused on another. Last summer, the 2013 Olean High graduate was the regular s...

Sports enthusiasts from throughout the Big 30 region can file this one under the heading – ‘This one got away from us.’ Back in 1989-90, Ron Saar coul...

OLEAN — Their paths first crossed in the early spring of 2011, ironically enough in a gym and with nary a tennis racket in sight. Ben Wright had just ...

After a visit to Gannon University in Erie, Pa., this past season, Zach Bierfeldt had a pretty good idea of the kind of setting he’d like to find for ...

My first recollection of the Indianapolis 500 is from 1953 … I was seven years old. For some reason, my father, who I wouldn’t call a sports fan, was ...