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RANDOLPH — The expectations could hardly be higher. Coming off a sectional championship season, one might expect a small school football team to have ...

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...

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...

FRANKLINVILLE — Less than four months after winning a sectional championship, even without several since-graduated key seniors, the Franklinville/Elli...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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-...

( 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...