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Pollock: Bills fans buy into off-season moves, trades
Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, Columnists, ...
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 30, 2015
Some random thoughts on the Bills’ impressive season ticket sales and the Sabres tanking: IF YOU DOUBTED whether what the Bills have done this off-sea...
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Roof: UPB softball waiting to get back outside
College Sports, Columnists, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Mar 21, 2015
BRADFORD, Pa. — Tina Phillips is kind of getting used to the scenario: Practice indoors, go down south for a week, then return home and head back indo...
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For O-E’s, SBU’s Labella, Lafayette has NCAA fever
Columnists, Local Sports, Sports
JOE VINELLI, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Mar 18, 2015
Talk about being under tremendous pressure. Lafayette sports information director Phil LaBella has a lot of work in a short amount of time. But the Ot...
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Pollock: Interesting offseason for Bills
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 17, 2015
It was the morning after the opening of NFL free agency in 2003. We awoke to find out that moments after midnight, the pass rush-starved Bills had sig...
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Butler: Some notes on VCU and the A-10 snub
Columnists, Local Sports, Sports
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 17, 2015
The most stirring moment in the Atlantic 10 this season took place in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon. VCU had just held off Dayton to cap a stretch of f...
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Pollock: A-10 honors Bona’s Weise, Van Tatenhove
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 14, 2015
It’s a noteworthy concept by the Atlantic 10, but also a bit of a misnomer. Late this morning in the Barclays Center 40/40 Club, former St. Bonaventur...
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Butler: Ndoye ready for final act with Bonnies
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 12, 2015
BROOKLYN — Youssou Ndoye glanced up at the scoreboard and took a deep breath. The baby-faced 7-footer, then just a freshman, was set to check into his...
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Butler: Bonnies head into A-10 tourney on a roll
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 11, 2015
For St. Bonaventure, the last one, of course, was symbolic of the nearly four months that had come before it. The Bonnies, in a game they couldn’t pos...
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Pecora: It’s tough to win in the A-10
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 09, 2015
ST. BONAVENTURE — It hasn’t been quite the same at Fordham for Tom Pecora as it was during his nine seasons as head coach at Hofstra. While at the Lon...
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Pollock: Schmidt at his best with these Bonnies
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 09, 2015
ST. BONAVENTURE — At first blush, it seems absurd conjecture. But it’s not. In my mind, Mark Schmidt, who won’t be honored for it on Wednesday when th...
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Somber anniversaries remembered by A-10
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 07, 2015
RICHMOND — The tragedy occurred one year ago this past Thursday. Brian Moretti, concluding his initial season as St. Bonaventure's women's basketball ...
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Butler: Bona playing for playoff momentum
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Mar 03, 2015
Given how recent the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team’s Atlantic 10 tournament title still is, Mark Schmidt was among the best candidates for the...
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Portville pulling together to support Gleason
Columnists, High School, Sports
JIM MELARO, Olean Times Herald 
Mar 02, 2015
PORTVILLE — There’s something special about many of the school districts that the Times Herald covers. They are more than academic campuses where chil...
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Pollock: Posley on point for the Bonnies
Columnists, Sports, St. Bonaventure
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Mar 01, 2015
ST. BONAVENTURE — As the Alumni Weekend/Senior Day crowd of 4,671 filed out of the Reilly Center on Saturday afternoon, the arena’s speakers blared “T...
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Roof: Big 30 gets a second NYS mat qualifier
Columnists, High School, Sports
TOM ROOF Olean Times Herald 
Feb 25, 2015
Taking time to follow up on this past weekend’s District 9 wrestling tournament, while looking ahead to this weekend’s Northwest Regionals and the New...
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Pollock: NASCAR got it right with Busch
Columnists, Sports
CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Feb 23, 2015
The Daytona 500 has always fascinated me. How can you not be intrigued by a sport which conducts its Super Bowl BEFORE the regular season starts. Oh, ...
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