Last Monday morning I was a guest on an Albany sports talk radio show to discuss the Bills’ draft.
Dave Kahm was merely looking for a rec league to join.
After having spent a week hunting spring gobblers in Ohio with my buddy Jim Acker, I was apprehensive about our Pennsylvania season. When you never hear a gobble or talk to a single turkey hun…
(Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the new management group of the Olean Oilers for their return to the New York Collegiate Baseball League in 2022.)
(Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the new management group of the Olean Oilers and their return to the New York Collegiate Baseball League in 2022.)
So what do we conclude from the Bills’ 2021 draft and subsequent free agent signings?
From his end-of-season press conference, when he lamented the Bills’ inability to generate persistent pressure on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the AFC Championship Game, it was clear …
The fishing was quite good this year, the weather fairly cooperative and my early mornings were spent in pursuit of the wily trout.
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Ryan Swanson was admittedly hesitant about scheduling this match.
OLEAN, N.Y. – On their way back from the Coaches vs. Cancer golf outing last year at Orchard Park’s Harvest Hill, Bartlett Country Club president Frank Higgins had a suggestion for St. Bonaven…
They’d both entered the season with an unfinished matter on the mind, with aspirations of completing a journey that had begun years before.
For nearly four decades, McKean County Raceway has been run – on and off – by a string of six different individuals or groups with varying degrees of success.
An update on the Section 6 high school wrestling season and notes on former Big 30 standouts Marina Miketish (Olean) and Connor Alfieri (Smethport):
Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several small birds began to chirp and two pairs …
It likely wasn’t the state tournament they had grown up dreaming about.
My oldest granddaughter is an 18-year-old senior at a school in south-central North Carolina.
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: A look at Olean’s roster.)
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series previewing the Olean 1854 FC men’s amateur soccer team’s upcoming season. Today: Olean’s excitement for 2021 after losing last year due t…
This could get ugly.
I’d slept in yesterday morning for a change for I had many things to do: Genealogy research, pay bills, clean up the house, restock the fishing vest and then over to Olean to fry up a trout lu…
To be sure, after 7 o’clock Saturday night, the refrain was persistent: “It’s Matsuyama’s Masters to lose.”
I’m appreciating the sights and sounds of springtime this year — the peepers in the roadside ditches, the morning calls of the cardinals, seeing the daffodils and all the rest. But one thing h…
With the Pennsylvania trout season opening early this year, I don’t care for it falling on Easter weekend as it conflicts with so many family functions, my first concern was the weather.
With trout season fast approaching, I was taking all the precautions possible by readying all my trout fishing tackle. New line, oil the reels, check the ceramic guide inserts on the fishing p…
Some observations from four different sports:
I’ve never liked “shock jock” radio, those morning shows with multiple hosts spending four hours, with minimal rock music, trying to be funny, at the expense of others.
By the mid-1800s, the brook trout populations native to the eastern streams of the United States were under duress from overfishing and heavy logging, which caused siltation, and with the remo…
Hey, the first day’s next Saturday and we can go fishing once more! Hallelujah!
The news left me sad, but brought back a flood of memories.
A friend and I were discussing some current trends in popular firearms and it was easy to see that he was a bit baffled by the amount of cash his sons had recently spent on AR-type rifles and …
Trout streams are looking good. Snow that accumulated during the first part of the month has been slowly melting.
After the NCAA men’s basketball pairings came out a week ago Sunday evening, the “experts” quickly chimed in.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In the moment, as it disappeared into the tunnel area of the visiting locker room inside Indiana’s Assembly Hall, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team was inconsolable.
The day after St. Bonaventure won the Atlantic 10 Tournament over Virginia Commonwealth at Dayton and later that afternoon earned a No. 9 seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Men’s Basketball…
Well, four days into NFL free agency, the Bills have been more active than might have been expected for a team up against the salary cap. They re-signed six of their own, adding four from othe…
