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When he was 16 years old, Jordan Corbett got a chilling message from a judge. “He told me I’d be dead by 21,” recalled the Olean native of his sometim...

It’s about to get very real for Allegany-Limestone Central School graduate Martha Ruether. Born 16 weeks premature at a weight of just one pound-eight...

Mary Westman had competed at the international level as a junior in the Indigenous Games and made All-America women’s wrestling teams for the Universi...

Some thoughts on the NCAA Division I basketball championships, men’s and women’s: YOU KNOW how politicians find a way to spin bad news to make it soun...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The distance from working a Randolph dairy farm to being the national NBA writer for the Washington Post isn’t as far as it might se...

Evidently, Jaylen Adams didn’t realize that April Fools’ Day was last Friday. Either that, or St. Bonaventure’s sophomore point guard couldn’t resist ...

I hate April Fools’ Day. In my experience, most people don’t appreciate being made the butt of a “joke” by a prank that usually amuses only the person...

Last week, in this space, while reviewing the recently-completed St. Bonaventure basketball seasons, my assessment also included a persistent rumor th...

Tareq Coburn needed a change. Oozing with potential that had yet to be tapped, the then-rising senior on the powerhouse Cardozo High School basketball...

The wheels began to turn eight years ago. Rick DeKay, the long-time coach and athletic director at West Valley, feared for the future of scholastic sp...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The phone call came on a Friday morning in late October. Katie Sinclair vividly remembers because this wasn’t just any call and this...

It was 13 days ago the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball season ended and 10 since the women’s campaign concluded … ample time for reflection on both t...

It’s become the refrain, a kind of rallying cry for Syracuse and its fans, with each passing, improbable victory in the NCAA Tournament. “See, Syracus...

It was 1984 and the Times Herald sports department needed new interns. And for the first and only time, the search was conducted via a classified ad i...

In the fall of 2010, this was merely a makeshift wrestling room in the basement of a home on Goodrich Avenue. Jeff Prescott, whose name is synonymous ...

Most anybody who has ever played fantasy sports already knows the answer to the question that continues to vex New York State Attorney General Eric Sc...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Days after the plane landed in Bradford, after the bus made a right turn onto campus and came to a stop behind the Reilly Center, th...

It was the end, no matter the result, for the Olean High School boys basketball team. Win or lose Sunday, the Huskies’ season was history. Olean’s gam...