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CLEVELAND — After nearly two decades of dysfunction, bad draft picks and coaching and front-office changes, the NFL’s longest playoff drought is over....

Persistent pro football bettors have one indisputable rule: Don’t bet in the first or last week of the NFL regular season. It’s true the opening week ...

A chaotic NFL season has come down to this. With Week 17 approaching, numerous NFL teams will be battling for their playoff lives in the regular seaso...

If they’re singing anything in Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Seattle, it could be “I Can See Clearly Now.” All three took some big steps Sunday. As for ...

How much does tonight’s game against the Patriots at Foxboro mean to Bills fans? The last time Buffalo swept the series against New England was 1999 w...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Baker Mayfield coughed up the ball — and the Cleveland Browns’ chances to wrap up a playoff spot. After a 23-16 loss to the Ne...

ALBANY — The New York health commissioner is considering whether to allow 6,700 fans to attend a rare Buffalo Bills home playoff game if all attendees...

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association winter sports season will begin on time Friday, but the high school postseason will have a diffe...

In the complete and utter chaos that has been 2020, it’s only fitting that one of the NFL’s usual laughingstocks may finally take the field in the mon...

PORTVILLE — On the final day of the regular season, the Ellicottville and Portville boys soccer teams still had much to play for. Friday night’s CCAA ...

Competing in CCAA West Division I, each league game could be the one that keeps the Olean High boys soccer team in or out of the playoffs. Aiming to s...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Ellicottville boys soccer coach Matt Finn made a move to get one of his best players, senior co-captain Bryce Butler, more involved on...

Few players understand what Buffalo Sabres captain Jack Eichel has endured over his first five NHL seasons better than Taylor Hall. Hall needed 529 ga...

CLEVELAND — On a night for debates, Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees made quite an opening statement. Shane Bieber had no rebuttal. J...

There was one area where the Bills’ hierarchy felt it had to improve upon after last season’s crushing overtime playoff loss at Houston. In the words ...

After much uncertainty this summer, football schedules across District 9 have been finalized. The District 9 Football League released its schedules ov...

(Editor’s note: This is the next in a series in which the Times Herald and Bradford Era will present the best season/team accomplishment for every sch...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on Friendship/Hinsdale native Geoff Sherman. He’s in the midst of up to a three-month stint in...