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OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD) is defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning,...

OLEAN — One coach is quite familiar with the honor. The other? Not so much. In either case, the news is always humbling and, as far as we’re concerned...

ALLEGANY — On a piece of paper are the words Owen Barber wrote just a few months ago. They were the Allegany-Limestone junior’s goals for the track an...

A year ago, both Bolivar-Richburg teams, baseball and softball, were getting set to play in the state semifinals. For that reason alone — not one, but...

ANDOVER — The best writers in Hollywood couldn’t possibly have come up with a better script. In a story that’s taken 38 years to unfold, the final cha...

(Editor’s note: On Monday, the OTH featured a story in this space on Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas’ first collegiate start, which happened to...

Johnny Unitas wanted to go to Notre Dame. Like so many other football-playing youngsters at that time and beyond, Johnny U dreamed of playing for the ...

OLEAN — Martha Ruether insists she’s still getting used to the “celebrity status” that accompanies an athlete of national acclaim. The former Allegany...

OLEAN — He first began to make this his dream in a backyard in Orchard Park some 13 years ago. David Hollins, 6 years old at the time, with a cap so b...

OLEAN — Making history had been on the minds of Jake Volz and Geoffrey Broadbent since last spring. They knew no Olean High tennis player had ever qua...

OLEAN — Nearly four years into it, Bobby Bell has more than proven he can construct a roster capable of competing in the New York Collegiate Baseball ...

OLEAN — Even before it started, Bobby Bell understood the season-long narrative would be much more about a stadium than it would be his actual team. H...

What a treat not to be writing about some fool trying to run both the Indy 500 and the Coca Cola 600 in the same day. Happily, NASCAR’s Kurt Busch, wh...

Some thoughts on Alfred softball, Marcell Dareus and the Sabres coaching search: TO FOCUS on Alfred's two-and-out performance at the NCAA Division III...

With college basketball’s regular signing period having come to an end on Wednesday, now is a good time to take a look at where the St. Bonaventure me...

When Chance Anzivine was a senior on the Olean High School football squad two years ago, he wasn’t the flashiest or the most productive player. But he...

(Editor’s Note: This is the third of a follow-up series on St. Bonaventure’s three signed recruits for next season. Today’s is on Florida prep standou...

In Alfred University’s rich athletic history, it has never won an NCAA championship. Yet. But that could change starting Thursday. That’s when the Sax...