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OLEAN — Erik Hoops can’t say his predecessor proverbially “left the cupboard bare.” When John Powers opted to leave as St. Bonaventure’s golf coach af...

OLEAN — Apparently, sleep isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be ... at least to Eric McHone. The 43-year-old Southeast Region Sales Manager for Salaman...

Marquise Simmons was sitting in his Las Vegas hotel room when he received the phone call that made it all worthwhile. Oh, everything that he’d been th...

PITTSFORD — Some observations from the Bills’ rain-interrupted training camp workout on Wednesday afternoon at St. John Fisher College: THE WEATHER wa...

From an early age, Justin Bienkowski believed that this was a kind of calling. Growing up with his brother in a “very high school football-related” ho...

Some random thoughts for a summer Monday: AT THE risk of being Captain Obvious, Olean High baseball coach Matt Threehouse has to be salivating. The im...

He had an idea what would happen when his Olean Oilers found a permanent home, but Brian O’Connell Jr. wasn’t going to offer any predictions on the re...

We were teammates on the Olean High School track team for two years, which is to say that because of the disparity in our athletic ability, I had a co...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The focus, it seemed, was on the new guys, an intriguing bunch that just might end up being one of Bona coach Mark Schmidt’s better ...

PITTSFORD — NFL training camps are rarely the source of high drama. There’s a lot of stretching, individual unit drills, some 7-on-7 and a bit of scri...

My first Bills’ training camp as a member of the TH sports department was 41 years ago ... though the memory remains fresh. It was 1973 at Niagara Uni...

OLEAN — In recent years, as it relates to the New York side of the Big 30 border, it’s been an anticipated day for the wrong reasons. Oh, the players ...

OLEAN — He might have been a little late to the tournament, but that didn’t stop Joe Bock from making his presence known. Standing on the first tee at...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Steve Watson has overseen a myriad of projects and made plenty of key personnel decisions in his near eight years as St. Bonaventure...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The signs became evident last summer, shortly after he had been tabbed the coup to Bona coach Mark Schmidt’s 2013 recruiting class. ...

Pro athletes’ egos are notoriously outsized, stoked by multi-million dollar contracts and primped by throngs of fans who have woven a substantial part...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In most cases, this is perhaps the quietest time of the year for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team. Save for the presence of...

Like the rest of the country, Mel Mahler was struck by how the United States was able to advance out of the World Cup’s so-called Group of Death. Afte...