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CLARION, Pa. — The Terrors weren’t ready for it to end. At this stage of the season, no one is. The Otto-Eldred boys basketball team was one of four C...

MIAMI — Shohei Ohtani emerged from the bullpen and fanned Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in a matchup the whole baseball wor...

The Ka-Bar Blades, an Olean based 16U travel hockey team, recently paid tribute to local cancer patient Colt Matz. Ka-Bar, coming off a 2-1 victory at...

On the morning his team could earn a trip back to Glens Falls, Kevin Hind was feeling nostalgic. The longtime Randolph boys basketball coach put up a ...

BUFFALO — Sabres captain Kyle Okposo is one of the oldest players on one of the NHL’s youngest teams, and takes care to present a patient front in the...

DUBOIS, Pa. — Otto-Eldred basketball fans have gotten used to doubleheaders. They’ve also gotten used to winning. Wednesday evening again featured bot...

ORCHARD PARK — Safety Jordan Poyer has elected to stay put by reaching a two-year agreement to re-sign with the Buffalo Bills on Wednesday after brief...

In its rich history, the Archbishop Walsh boys basketball program has produced over a dozen 1,000-point scorers, three Big 30 scoring champions, two B...

BROOKVILLE, Pa. — The Cameron County boys basketball team’s underdog story came to an end as it lost to Union (New Castle), 51-37, ending its season i...

AMHERST — The New Life Christian School girls basketball team made it a sweep of Christian Central Academy on Friday night, winning the IAC Championsh...

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure’s new women’s basketball head coach is a familiar face: Jim Crowley, the winningest coach in program history, is ret...

OLEAN — The New York Lottery announced Thursday a prize-winning ticket worth $20,450.50 was purchased at Tops on West State Street. The ticket was sol...

In another year, Mark Schmidt would have ended this night in his hotel room, scouting the following day’s opponent. And if not that, he’d have been sw...

HERSHEY, Pa. — One thing about the PIAA wrestling tournament? Everyone is good. Fans of the sport already knew that. Wrestlers who have been there kne...

With the dust of Super Saturday settling and the district playoffs over, the area’s surviving basketball teams now have a new task at hand: the PIAA s...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Last year, St. Bonaventure advanced to the Collegiate Hockey Federation Cup tournament on a high, fresh off a dominating win over Bu...

There are times when something one intends to write thankfully isn’t written. That happened to me early last month … to my good fortune. St. Bonaventu...

AMHERST — Count James Hutter among those who firmly believe in the difficulty of beating a team three times in a season. After handling Archbishop Wal...