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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The NFL can probably start engraving its Comeback Player of the Year trophy. Each time the Highmark Stadium public address voice ...

There goes that sneaky time again, slipping by, invisible, but always seemingly picking up speed and surprising you with its rapid passage. July is go...

It’s striking how few coaches talk about college athletics being on the right path these days. They’ll acknowledge robust financial health, for sure. ...

The orange-red sun touched the Western horizon, a glowing furnace setting the clouds alight in a scarlet grow, the white flecked clouds afire, deep co...

Sift through opposing teams’ home run and OPS leaders, and it’s unlikely you’ll find many rotational players. They’re often franchise types, multiple-...

The Buffalo Bills added some competition to their wide receiver depth chart on Friday when they signed wide receiver Andy Isabella. Isabella, 26, will...

Sometimes, a coach hates being asked a certain question, and yet, also loves to answer that same question. So when a reporter at Big Ten Media Days in...

Her stay was supposed to be temporary. Upon graduating from St. Bonaventure in 2015, Summer Sawaya was going to spend the summer in Key West, Florida,...

A lot has gone wrong for the Pittsburgh Pirates since their 20-8 start to open up the season. By “a lot” I mean pretty much ... everything. As a team,...

PITTSBURGH — Wow, did ESPN’s Matt Miller touch a nerve. And all he did was express an opinion that reflects the sensible thinking of most NFL teams th...

The still waters glimmered slate gray in color as dawn slowly drained the darkness from the sky. It was just cool enough that a light jacket was neces...

Another loss Sunday, this one 8-4 in 10 innings to the San Francisco Giants, completing a miserable weekend at PNC Park. That makes 44 losses in the p...

Though I was very young in those days, I still remember traveling to our favorite summer vacation spots. Time moves slowly in those early years and th...

It’s easy to say Roansy Contreras and Luis Ortiz are the two biggest disappointments of the Pirates’ season. Contreras opened the season in the rotati...

From the beginning, their goals were as clearly established as they were similar in nature: Both the Port Allegany baseball and Friendship/Scio softba...

So, Pirates fans, if you liked the trade rumor surrounding Andrew McCutchen on Monday, then you are going to love the one floated about Pirates pitche...

(Editor’s note: Following is the third in a three-part series on the great 1967-68 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, about which members of that ...

Today the fertile imaginations and genius of firearms inventors has produced a dizzying array of pistols. They come in in many calibers, shapes and si...

Tyreke Evans, O.J. Mayo, Richard Dumas and Donald Sterling all have a few things in common. Two of those similarities are that they were all involved ...

The Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association held its annual meeting in State College earlier this year. A great opportunity for state writers to meet...