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FREWSBURG — Not sure if, when or how the high school wrestling season would take place in Western New York this school year, Salamanca coach Keith Jon...

LOCKPORT — The Pioneer wrestling team, ranked No. 2 in Western New York, held off a challenge from No. 3 Starpoint, earning a 32-25 non-league dual vi...

OLEAN — The Olean High wrestling team was more successful in one regard. Coach Mike O’Connor’s squad won a greater number of the matches that were act...

An update on the Section 6 high school wrestling season and notes on former Big 30 standouts Marina Miketish (Olean) and Connor Alfieri (Smethport): F...

It likely wasn’t the state tournament they had grown up dreaming about. They traded Albany’s 17,000-seat Times Union Center for a sports complex at Ma...

From the return of the fallen to more Fighting Irish spirit at St. Bonaventure, from a tally of Olean to big names on the first Big 30 wrestling all-s...

BOLIVAR — In a matchup of perennial Section 5 small school wrestling powers, Canisteo-Greenwood bested Bolivar-Richburg, 48-20, in an Allegany/Steuben...

The week began with optimism for Western New York wrestling teams, then fear. Now, again, they wait. After getting the go-ahead from the state governm...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has decreed that higher-risk high school sports can start playing on Feb. 1, so long as officials in...

Game on? Athletes, coaches and parents holding out hope for a high school season in sports such as basketball and wrestling at last received some enco...

How winter sports could look this academic year became a little clearer this week, as the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association released r...

( Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series centering on the Bonnies’ official start to a still-uncertain 2020-21 season. Today, the imp...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carlton Haselrig, a Pro Bowl right guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1990s who is also the only wrestler in NCAA histor...

It was the announcement that schools and their athletes had been anticipating for the last several weeks. It, unfortunately, came with the news that n...

( Editor’s note: Following is a two-part series centering on St. Bonaventure master strength and conditioning coach Darryn Fiske. Today: How he and th...

Changes coming to HS wrestling this week? The PIAA wrestling steering committee at its meeting in late April made a proposal to remove a weight class ...

The 12th group — containing eight players — has been named to the 47th annual Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic. This year’s game is set for the night...

As temperatures begin to rise and gray skies turn to blue, we feel the urge to get outdoors and get active again after another long winter. There is w...