steve smith

Shortly after its first-ever game in the new Section 5 8-man football league, the Bolivar-Richburg coaching staff wanted an honest assessment from its...

BOLIVAR — Steve Smith knew it would likely be a different kind of game this time around. After all, since hanging tough with his Bolivar-Richburg team...

BOLIVAR — For the second time in as many season-openers — a span of just five months — the Bolivar-Richburg football team gave itself a chance against...

WELLSVILLE — The Section 5 Class C high school football season is scheduled to kick off next Friday night with a trio of 7 o’clock contests. It’s a ca...

CUBA — It wasn’t the work of art that Steve Smith might have envisioned. At least, not for a team that had knocked off arguably the section’s best Cla...

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — With Americans hunkering down and hankering to get outdoors during the pandemic , L.L. Bean recorded its best annual sales grow...

After 16 months between football games, it might be fair to expect some rust when teams from Section 5 finally take the field this weekend. At Bolivar...

Football coaches normally expect the first day of practice to be spent on a hot, sunny summer day, a few weeks before the start of school. Instead, co...

This Monday would have marked the first big date on the New York state high school football schedule. In mid-to-late August, teams would report for th...

Steve Smith would take this over another hollow title any day of the week. In three of his first four seasons, his Bolivar-Richburg football team, aft...

They produced two of the most head-turning victories of the weekend. Randolph/Frewsburg, in Year 2 of its merger, opened the New York portion of the B...

BOLIVAR — Steve Smith wished he had more defensive statistics on hand. It was easy to understand why. The Bolivar-Richburg offense did its part, scori...

BOLIVAR — The Bolivar-Richburg football team went 3-6 on the field last fall but posted its third straight winning season. Confused? As Wolverines coa...

It’s an ordinary preseason practice for the Franklinville/Ellicottville Titans. After stretching and calisthenics, coach Chad Bartoszek instructs his ...

After a record-setting junior season, Jake Smith wasn’t finished. This fall, the Bolivar-Richburg football team’s star senior matched his single-seaso...