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By any historical measure, he should have been a curmudgeon. “Baseball lifers” have a way of becoming irascible, prickly, unfriendly characters as the...

Being the head wrestling coach at the United States Air Force Academy places Sam Barber in close proximity to USA Wrestling and the USOC’s Olympic Tra...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Clearly, the first half did not go the way New York’s coaches for the 45th Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic had hoped. The Northern h...

Often sports teams participate in tournaments which provide athletes with a plethora of competition to enhance their season and improve their skills. ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The Franklinville/Ellicottville football team’s then-undefeated season ended in November at New Era Field, but as it turned out, the T...

While Frank Brown helped the Iroquois Nationals play for an FIL World Championship medal, the National Lacrosse League’s expansion draft decided his p...

OLEAN — Chad Bartoszek has the luxury of coaching six of his Franklinville/Ellicottville football players in this year’s Big 30 All-Star Charities Cla...

A year ago, Ed Sponeybarger had just turned 31 and recently left a job at UPS. For the father of five, with another on the way, Sponeybarger, a Kill B...

Goals don’t come easily – if ever – against Olean 1854 FC, the city’s first-year men’s amateur soccer team. In Buffalo & District Soccer League 2nd Di...

ALLEGANY — Just like it had in its first two games of the District 2 Little League all-star playoffs, the Ellicottville/Cattaraugus-Little Valley soft...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse program, which plays its first season in 2018-19. Today,...

(Editor’s note: this is the first of a two-part series on the St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse program, which plays its first season in 2018-19. Today, ...

SALAMANCA — The 49th Penn-York Junior Golf League season teed off Monday morning, with Arcade’s Sam Hyman taking home the first Division I boys trophy...

School may be out for summer next week, but the work is just beginning for many area high school basketball players. The Cattaraugus County Boys Baske...

Not satisfied with playing merely one sport per season, both of Salamanca High School’s athlete of the year award winners hold the distinction of a fo...

CICERO — Mushirah Sheppard’s day in the state pole vault championships ended a bit earlier than she may have liked, but she still took home a career-b...

Maybe qualifying for states in one event each, as opposed to two each last year, will be a “blessing in disguise” for seniors Abby and Bailey Gostomsk...

What does the “process” look like, up close and personal, over the summer for Sean McDermott’s team? High school coaches from Western New York got an ...