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The Alfred State College football team will be entering its third year of Division III next fall with a new coach and a slightly new look to its sched...

C ATTARAUGUS — Joe Crandall has coached in the Big 30 long enough to earn a break if he so chooses. The long-time mainstay at, first, Cattaraugus, and...

ORCHARD PARK — This hasn’t happened to the Bills in 10 years. Back in the 2004 draft, with 32-year-old Drew Bledsoe heading into his final season, Buf...

Initially, admittedly, he was a bit stunned. Nate Sestina had worked all of last summer, at one AAU tournament after another, to impress the collegiat...

Tonight we find out. Oh, we already knew the Sabres, who finished last in the National Hockey League for the second consecutive season, had already ea...

Charlon Kloof and Marquise Simmons followed along closely. Through the winter and into the spring, the two former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball pla...

For Justin Jakovac and many others who have competed for Bill Sprague, his passion for running was born out of a sense of camaraderie. Growing up in A...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In a world of one-and-dones, academic fraud, financial malfeasance and major questions about the NCAA’s seeming make-it-up-as-you-go...

GREAT VALLEY — In a room full of coaches accustomed to winning, the word didn’t come up all that much. And when it did, it was usually put in perspect...

In the late 1980s, Pat Driscoll’s workspace as a basketball official came on the dusty, pride-filled intramural courts at St. Bonaventure University. ...

A second Alfred State College football player is looking to join former Pioneer Rod Streater in the NFL. Record-setting running back Rasheed Williams,...

For many fans and media types, the job he did last season was Mark Schmidt’s best in his eight years at St. Bonaventure. To recap, Schmidt took a team...

This time around, it doesn’t seem quite so alarming. For the third time in the last six years, Mark Schmidt and the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball t...

OLEAN — The heads-up came from Carroll Anstaett, the 89-year-old former investment manager, whose baseball history in this area dates back to the earl...

Catching up with a couple of local youths and updating their accomplishments: JIMMY GROVE capped his football career at Bradford High School by being ...

(Editor’s note: This is a two-part series centering on the St. Bonaventure baseball team in 2015. Today’s piece is on the medical condition that coach...

Tim Bergan is one of those coaches you remember not only for the success his teams achieved on the field, but also for the many relationships he was a...

BRADFORD, Pa. — We almost missed it. But thanks to the enthusiasm and joy that one area member of his profession brings to work every day, we didn’t. ...