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ST. BONAVENTURE — For the last six months, we’d been operating almost strictly on conjecture. Indeed, from mid-April, when he delivered a kind of stat...

Notes from Buffalo’s 27-17 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon at Bills Stadium: — The National Football League’s initial attempt at de...

(Editor’s note: this is the first in a two-part series on the postponement of New York’s high school football season.) It wasn’t the news they hoped f...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — Its second year under a new head coach could be viewed in one of two ways. The Otto-Eldred football team, it could be argued, took ...

During his playing days, former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis embraced what he calls the “art of preparation.” Ellis, the Sabres’ new director of ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Mark Schmidt described it as the biggest obstacle to keeping his players healthy for the coming season. “The challenge is when stude...

From marching for labor to freedom for Louis Zamperini, from plugging old oil wells to the end of the nativity in city parks, here’s a look back on th...

Section 6 will move forward planning athletic seasons for low and moderate-risk sports following the release of NYSPHSAA guidelines on Friday. In acco...

Quick quiz, how many new starters will Buffalo have come Sunday when it hosts the Jets at Bills’ Stadium in the regular-season opener? Not as many as ...

There was a time when cutdown day was the most feared moment in a National Football League player’s career. Before 2004, if a player didn’t make a tea...

SYRACUSE — By the end of this week, the blueprint for holding a fall high school sports season in New York state will start to emerge. The New York St...

OK, truth be told, I caved on baseball. When the 2020 season fell apart as a byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic and Major League Baseball desperate...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — Beyond the lines, of course, the scene is noticeably different. Local high school football players, doing their best to follow the ...

ELMA — If there was a podium for placing in the local amateur soccer ranks, the Olean 1854 FC soccer team would have been on it for the third-straight...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Smethport High School graduate Caleb Lutz was born to be around athletics. His grandfather was a football coach, his father a basketb...

Slowly but surely, the signs have begun to point back toward this cherished September custom. They’re leading toward a high school football season. Ac...

Eight weeks ago, I wrote a column about the National Football League’s admittedly bizarre, upcoming 2020 season. Part of it centered on the differing ...

Eric Hemphill is fairly certain of what he’d have wanted in the same situation. Mike Matz has a similar viewpoint. “Almost 99.9 percent of the time, I...