(Editor’s note: This is the last in a three-part weekly series on the 1999 Salamanca football season, which culminated in the program’s first state championship game appearance.)
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With a roll of the dice and a Zoom meeting, the Allegany-Limestone and Ellicottville softball teams came together for an unconventional Senior Night on Tuesday.
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part weekly series on the 1999 Salamanca football season, which culminated in the program’s first state championship game appearance.)
By Holly McGonigle
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part weekly series on the 1999 Salamanca football season, which culminated in the program’s first state championship game appearance.)
Throughout senior year, teachers and parents of students probably at least once heard some of us say things like, “I want to drop out” or “I hate school.”
Salamanca’s Kawliga Stahlman and and Cattaraugus-Little Valley’s Sully Higgins are among the latest group of eight players named to the 2020 Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic rosters.
Marissa Hamilton always dreamed of playing Division I basketball and professionally overseas.
One of the area’s longtime football minds is turning to a digital media platform to record his memories of a hall of fame career that spanned nearly a half-century.
(Editor’s note: Dan Ninham is a member of the Oneida Nation. He writes feature stories on Native American athletes for ndnsports.com.)
Randolph senior Kira Lewis will continue her soccer career at Mercyhurst next fall, the school announced April 13.
For as far back as my memory takes me, I can remember there being a softball in my hands, ready to make it onto the field. Day by day, my best friend taught me everything he could about the ga…
(Editor’s note: This letter is the first of a continuing series in the Salamanca Press, honoring high school seniors in spring sports in their own words. Submissions may be sent to samwilsonsp…
When Pennsylvania closed its schools for the rest of the academic year, thus canceling the remaining winter and upcoming spring sports contests, it left the Big 30 Basketball Senior Classic co…
Salamanca’s Jarrett McKenna and Franklinville/Ellicottville’s Jordan Grinols are among the eight high school seniors added this week to the rosters for the 47th annual Big 30 All-Star Charitie…
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UW football coaches says he "gets energy" when considering challenges ahead as team eyes return to campus when COVID-19 restrictions end.
Carlton "CJ" Guidry, a three-star wide receiver from the Houston area, included the Huskers among his top three schools Wednesday.
The UA is planning to bring student-athletes back to campus - which mostly has been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic - in phases starting in mid-June.
The rule was passed on a one-year experimental basis, and last month the NFL competition committee declined to endorse its renewal.
NFL owners tabled a proposal Thursday that would have given teams an alternative to the onside kick, the second consecutive year they have decided against addressing what has become a thorny issue.
While the NCAA’s Division I Council has opened the door for football and basketball players to begin working out on campus on June 1, Big Ten Conference schools are mixed on when they’ll allow them to happen.
College football recruiting is not immune to the peculiar era that has been the spring of 2020. Tennessee (No. 2 in the 247 Sports Composite rankings) and North Carolina (No. 4) are ahead of traditional recruiting powers such as Michigan, Florida, LSU and Notre Dame. Minnesota and Iowa are top 10 teams; Texas and Georgia are not.
Nebraska performance nutrition director Dave Ellis said he expects to see "significant gaps" in the physical condition of student-athletes as they move back toward on-campus workouts after more than two months of shutdown due to the coronavirus.
A day after earning a No. 22 ranking in HERO Sports’ preseason FCS Top 25 poll, the SIU football program was shut out of the website’s three All-America teams that were released Thursday.
AUBURN — Big Kat Bryant thought 2019 was going to be his year.
In other news, Sents and Bohlken have been named Missouri's Brad Davis Community Service award winners.
Three Montana State players landed on the HERO Sports FCS Preseason all-American team on Thursday.
TUSCAOOOSA — Alabama’s thinner-than-normal recruiting class added a four-star linebacker today.
Nebraska already has between 150 and 175 student-athletes on campus, Athletic Director Bill Moos said on his monthly radio show Tuesday.
Star running back Aaron Jones is entering the final year of his rookie contract, and Green Bay drafted his potential successor last month.
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In his second year leading the program, and in his first full offseason, Atlantic girls basketball coach Kelly Juhl has been able to spend more time this summer working with his players individually. The Trojans spent six weeks after the end of the school year practicing as well as scrimmagi…
