Football, High School, Sports
Aug 27, 2022
RANDOLPH — The expectations could hardly be higher. Coming off a sectional championship season, one might expect a small school football team to have ...
Football, Sports
Aug 09, 2022
OLEAN — In the fall of 2016, with a first-year coach, on the heels of a handful of lean years, the Olean High footbal team turned in an undefeated reg...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 27, 2021
PORTVILLE — After a sensational regular season in the spring, it’s time for a new group to take the stage for the Portville football team. Last season...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 20, 2021
FRANKLINVILLE — Less than four months after winning a sectional championship, even without several since-graduated key seniors, the Franklinville/Elli...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 13, 2021
OLEAN — Last spring, the Olean High football team rounded into strong form by the end of a shortened season. That campaign started and ended with two ...
Big 30, Football, Sports
Aug 11, 2021
PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — Drew Evens will be back under center. Blaine Moses and Noah Archer return to the backfield. But with the majority of their protec...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Sep 04, 2020
ST. MARYS, Pa. — The flashes of what’s potentially to come were present during the 2019 campaign. After winless seasons in both 2017 and 2018, St. Mar...
Big 30, Columnists, Football, ...
Dec 13, 2019
Mark Heindl was curious. A couple of days after one of his players, Greg Simon, was named the E.B. Fitzpatrick-James Russell Award winner as the Big 3...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 22, 2019
FRANKLINVILLE — While the playbook might not look identical to last season’s, Jason Marsh hopes to provide as smooth a transition as possible for his ...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 16, 2019
ST. MARYS, Pa. — The 2019 football season will certainly be an uphill battle for the Elk County Catholic Crusaders. A year removed from a 7-3 overall ...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 08, 2019
SMETHPORT, Pa. — The Smethport Hubbers are out to prove people wrong in 2019. The defending District 9 Small School North champions, which posted a 9-...
Columnists, Local Sports, Sports
Apr 15, 2019
( EDITOR’S NOTE : This is the second of a two-part series on a pair area natives being inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. Olean Hi...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 14, 2018
ST. MARYS, Pa. — It was one of the biggest drop-offs in all of Big 30 football last year. Elk County Catholic, which had three consecutive winning sea...
Buffalo Bills, Columnists, Football, ...
Feb 23, 2018
We couldn’t have known we were playing against an eventual two-time Super Bowl champion. After all, how many high-level professional athletes are lini...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Nov 20, 2017
It was a “down” year for football in the Big 30 in terms of collective success. Of 22 teams, 11 had losing records. Even the area’s best squads saw th...
Columnists, Football, Local Sports, ...
Aug 20, 2017
Some leftovers from the notebook and a voicemail as the Olean/Allegany area hosts its biggest weekend of the year with the Rally in the Valley motorcy...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 19, 2017
YORKSHIRE — It was a tale of two halves a year ago for Pioneer Central School football fans. A handful of injuries put the Panthers in catchup mode ri...
Buffalo Bills, Sports
Feb 07, 2017
ORCHARD PARK (AP) — First-year Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott has hired Gill Byrd to oversee the team's defensive backs. Byrd has 12 years of NFL ...
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