american football

BROCKWAY — Winning a district title is a historical achievement regardless of sport, class, or competition. But four in a row? That’s a different kind...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.— You know how certain pieces of trivia lodge in your brain and stay there decades for no apparent reason? Here’s one that has stuck...

JOHNSTOWN — A year after failing to win a single division game, the Bradford football team was able to put together a playoff-caliber season. That’s a...

Since I was all the way down in Johnstown last night, this week’s picks are going to be brief. That, and I’m not feeling spectacular having watched th...

DUKE CENTER — It might not have been perfect, but from the first quarter into the fourth, the Otto-Eldred football team was right where it wanted to b...

After spending the last week waiting to see where they would be playing their first playoff game, the Bradford football team is finally ready to hit t...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Many of the players hate it … the coaches, too, though they’re more reluctant to admit it. After all, each of the 32 National ...

Students from Floyd C. Fretz Middle School won $500 on Tuesday after presenting a healthy eating program in front of a Buffalo Bills player and NFL ex...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills fans aren’t sure how to react. Here’s Buffalo at 5-2, the AFC’s leading candidate for the No. 1 wild-card playoff berth, an...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Bills have started 5-2 before … and ended up disappointed. They did it in 2011 and finished 6-10. Ditto 2008 en route to 7-9....

These are busy times in the world of sports, folks. As such, I’m not going to be offering any personal thoughts this week so we’ll jump right into the...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — It was a watershed game for the Bills. Last December, Buffalo was 6-5, looking to end a 16-year playoff drought, and headed to Oa...

KANE — Ever since the announcement that the Allegheny Mountain League (AML) would be dissolved at the end of the 2017 season, there was always going t...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Their record says the Bills are exactly where they were last season at this point … 4-2 and brimming with optimism under second-y...

From the disappointment of not making the District 9 playoffs his second season as head coach in 2010 with an 8-2 team, Bradford’s Jeff Puglio’s long ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Ever since Sean McDermott was hired as Bills coach and Brandon Beane was brought aboard as general manager, focus has been on the...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The question begged to be asked. Shortly after the Bills had rallied from a 27-20 fourth-quarter deficit to edge Tampa Bay, 30-27...

Parity is something every pro sports league strives to attain. Nobody wants to see the same teams winning championships year after year. If the first ...

SMETHPORT — In a week when history was being made with the announcement of a new football league, the Otto-Eldred Terrors captured their second straig...

The overall merger plan for most of District 9’s football schools that was hammered out Wednesday and released on Thursday is welcomed and was needed....