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Jim Crowley delighted in telling the story … though it wasn’t exactly true. Each time he spoke to my sports writing class at St. Bonaventure — which w...

ORCHARD PARK — It wasn’t exactly an audition … more like a meet-and-greet. When the Bills held their rookie mini-camp this weekend, it was more like o...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Their story, as coach Mike Threehouse tells it, began in the spring of 2013, on the heels of a rough introduction and a lost season....

CUBA — For decades beginning in the 1950s, “Beat The Champ” became a popular weekly program that featured area bowlers competing in an elimination sty...

A couple of updates: It’s time for the Olean Little League season to open, weather permitting, and, is there a book on Olean High wrestling in the off...

By all accounts, the spring recruiting focus for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has been on adding another big man. Even better if that big...

ORCHARD PARK — So what do we make of the decisions made by the Bills’ hierarchy in the NFL Draft? Clearly, after it ends, all 32 teams feel they’ve ha...

ORCHARD PARK — They’re called the” boom-or-bust” rounds for a reason. When the NFL Draft reaches its third day, rounds 4-7 are reserved for players wi...

ORCHARD PARK — It isn’t exactly the Sammy Watkins question. But after Friday night’s trade up of eight positions in the second round to take Alabama l...

ORCHARD PARK — NFL Draft cliche No. 1: “We’re going to take the best player available.” Cliche No. 2: “We couldn’’t believe he was still there when ou...

ORCHARD PARK — The move Doug Whaley made two years ago in the NFL draft is still a source of disagreement among Bills fans. Buffalo’s general manager ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — His goal, at first, was to bring St. Bonaventure to the modest level of a well-run varsity high school program. In the fall of 2006,...

His memories of dear friend Dwayne “Pearl” Washington reach as far back as the late 1970s, when the two had met in a Brooklyn gym class as 13-year-old...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Larry Sudbrook could see this coming. A year ago, as his team struggled to its second-worst record of this millennium, the long-time...

A year ago, Tommy Easton could only watch and wonder as to what his baseball future held. Months earlier, the then-Ellicottville junior, a three-sport...

ORCHARD PARK — Even though Tyrod Taylor, in his first season as a starter, went 8-6, any number of Bills fans still maintain this team needs a franchi...

Some thoughts on Rex Ryan introducing Donald Trump at Monday’s rally in Buffalo and an update on former Allegany-Limestone distance-running star Tammy...

Not long ago, OTH sports editor Chuck Pollock wrote a memorial following the unexpected death of former sports department colleague Jennifer Frey. A 1...