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ORCHARD PARK — It hasn’t happened since 1986 when the Giants’ Lawrence Taylor was honored. In fact, only twice in the 54-year history of the National ...

Need another indication as to just how odd Wednesday night’s game between St. Bonaventure and Buffalo really was? Over the last three seasons, only si...

It’s a tough editorial decision that every media outlet eventually faces: how to handle the passing of a high-profile individual who has had a controv...

Is it really a mystery why the Bills are en route to a 16th straight season missing the playoffs? Yeah, I know, even after Sunday’s 30-22 loss to the ...

ST. BONAVENTURE -- There aren’t many opposing coaches who can say it … Temple’s John Chaney comes to mind. But few can claim, if they don’t own the Re...

Some of the specifics have been forgotten over time, trapped, perhaps, in that otherwise indelible basketball summer of 1977. The final score? Well, t...

There was always the feeling that, no matter the circumstances, this particular St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team would somehow survive. There was...

BUFFALO — That’s the way we remember Little Three basketball. Yeah, I know, these days it’s the Big 4, but it’s hard for the University at Buffalo to ...

FOXBORO, Mass — We’ve seen it so many times before and the result is almost always the same. And it was a rerun on Monday night at Gillette Stadium. T...

FOXBORO, Mass. — One thing about having a colorful coach, if a question touches a nerve, you know it … and fast. On Thursday morning, in a media day i...

GLENS FALLS — Lydia Lukomski admitted she never really was a leader. Not because she couldn’t. She never had to be. As she ascended through Portville ...

Plenty of basketball players with ties to the Olean area have begun their seasons at both the college and professional levels. Here is how a few of th...

SYRACUSE — Before the game started on Tuesday night at the Carrier Dome, Jimmy Satalin, predicted of St. Bonaventure, “I think they’ve got a chance … ...

The old St. Bonaventure-Syracuse rivalry began in earnest on a wintry February night in 1977, in a buzzing, overflowing Reilly Center. Before that sea...

Some thoughts and observations from a rare Sunday — with the Bills already having won Thursday night — of watching the NFL all day … courtesy of the S...

Over the past two seasons, Bills general manager Doug Whaley has taken his share of criticism … including in this space. The soon-to-be-43-year-old fo...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Some notes, quotes and observations from St. Bonaventure’s hoops doubleheader sweep on Friday night at the Reilly Center. -- It’s on...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — They didn’t carry Rex Ryan off the field as the Bills did last year in Detroit with then-defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, w...