Columns

A few weeks ago, with his team headed to the NFC Championship for the second time in three years, Nick Sirianni publicly acknowledged his high school ...

Mark Schmidt casually strolled out of the Reilly Center’s media room with a WWE belt over his shoulder, quipping, “I feel like John Cena.” Normally th...

There certainly could be easier matchups for a team coming off its worst defensive performance of the season. Before the Bills wrap up the regular sea...

Sydney Shaw was born into a hunting family. Her sister took to the sport early on, but Sydney had other interests and wasn’t all that enthusiastic abo...

Friday’s work day began like normal. I loaded my camera bag with all the essentials, took the short walk down Main Street, through the back alley and ...

Wide, dry, sage flats stretched across the steep hillsides surrounding me. When I stomped on the ground a small cloud of dust exploded around my boots...

As one reviews their life it can occasionally be discouraging remetmbering opportunities lost, poor decisions made, relationships that should have bee...

ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — Let’s forget, for a moment, about the increasingly unscrupulous nature of college basketball. Let’s put aside the likelihood (ne...

I’m the type of individual who likes to make sense of things. Not that that’s unusual, humans like to place things in perspective, giving life order. ...

With the spring sports season progressing to the playoffs and graduation around the corner, it’s time to take stock of a few Big 30 area graduates mak...

At approximately 4:05 p.m. on Saturday at PNC Park, there could be a changing of the guard as far as how the Pittsburgh Pirates are looked at from a n...

Kids are born with certain skill sets. These loves, passions and talents I believe are genetic and cannot be taught. I’ve taken youngsters fishing on ...

This gobbler had been unpredictable for two weeks. He gobbled one morning and not the next. Sometimes he answered my calls, sometimes he remained sile...

My grandson Nate’s school break took place the third week of April this year. Nate loves to fish and what kind of grandparent would I be to deprive hi...

By now I’m sure you’ve seen the Jontay Porter story. The Toronto Raptors player was just banned for life from the NBA for gambling. But it was much mo...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Jim Crowley isn’t entirely sure how he’d game plan for Caitlin Clark. “I wouldn’t know until I had to make the decision,” he s...

It was Saturday, the first day of Pennsylvania trout season. It was finally here at last. I was up at 5 a.m. and met Scott Neely before 6. When we pul...

It was such a heartwarming scene, I had to watch it several times. The Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen hit his 300th home run on Sunday in a 9-2 win over th...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — In a season marked by the myriad Ls in the won-lost column, there were slivers, here and there, that could be viewed as real p...

Bertha Hayes, my grandmother on mom’s side, burst into the room and after a quick glance around, barked like an irate drill sergeant at my brother, Ga...