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For a franchise that recently went 17 seasons without a playoff berth, Sean McDermott has managed to spoil Bills fans over the past five years. Starti...

OLEAN — The NY/PA Corporate Cup Soccer Showcase had already done so much growing. Since the first boys game was held nearly five years ago, in May 201...

A common complaint among the sports media is that so many coaches at the collegiate and pro levels are guarded in their responses, speaking in cliches...

There was no escaping the message from this game. The Bills’ 33-21 victory over New England, Sunday afternoon at Gillette Stadium, was everything it a...

When the Bills hired Sean McDermott away from the Carolina Panthers in January of 2017, that hardly ended his relationship with that franchise. Four m...

It wasn’t the outcome that fans had envisioned. This, its clash with UConn last Saturday at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., was going to be the...

Buffalo fans who watched the first half of the Bills-Buccaneers game Sunday afternoon from Tampa had to be frantically searching for the antacids. The...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s interesting how quickly failed expectations can kick in sports fans’ futility gene. Just ask the 2021 Bills followers. But it’s...

The excuses, the what ifs, the woulda, coulda, shouldas are over. In a span of a dozen games, the Bills have gone from odds-on favorite to represent t...

What happened on Monday night at windy Highmark Stadium was simple … literally. New England’s 14-10 victory over the Bills was the product of two thin...

For much of two decades, it was the Dolphins who were the Bills unquestioned AFC East rival with coach Don Shula as the primary villain. In 17 seasons...

It’s not often a first-year high school coach steps in with the kind of experience Clar Anderson is bringing. Anderson took on the Olean High wrestlin...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Kathy Parmentier was prepared for this … sort of. A couple of summers with the Buffalo Bisons and several winters with the Sabres in...

My guess is that the Bills’ coaches didn’t get much sleep Sunday night. As soon as the flight from Jacksonville landed in Buffalo, it’s likely coach S...

It was the Bills’ regular-season finale of Sean McDermott’s first year as head coach, 2017, and Buffalo’s playoffs hopes were slipping away. Oh, his t...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Their personal goals have become pretty well cemented, if not by both of them publicly, then by what’s transpired during the preseas...

ORCHARD PARK — Don’t let the score fool you. Oh, on Sunday afternoon at Highmark Stadium, as the sun finally broke through a game-long heavy cloud cov...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It never seemed to be in question. As they slogged off the court inside Indiana’s Assembly Hall last March, teary-eyed and tattered ...