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(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on Bradford native and former Pittsburgh Pirates assistant general manager Kyle Stark. Today: ...

The 2020 New York Collegiate Baseball League season, at least as we’ve come to know it, is over. This past weekend, NYCBL vice president and Olean Oil...

State championships will not be held for 2020 spring sports in New York, but the possibility for regular season games remains, officials said Monday. ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on Bradford native and former Pittsburgh Pirates assistant general manager Kyle Stark. Today: A...

SMETHPORT — It’s called the Elk-McKean Independent Baseball League. And its goal — according to Brandon Ruffner, one of the league’s organizers — is t...

(Editor’s note: This is the second guest column from local author Bill Robertson taking a light-hearted look at his days playing baseball in McKean Co...

For a wide-eyed 17-year-old who’d never left home before, this was a bit too much. In July of 1953, Bobby Richardson rode a bus from his hometown of S...

RIDGWAY — Barry Morgan has been behind the microphone for some of District 9’s most memorable sports moments. He was on the call for most of Smethport...

(Editor’s note: This is the first in what will be an ongoing series featuring first-person essays from senior spring high school athletes in the Big 3...

It’s been about a year since I moved to the Twin Tiers from my hometown of Romney, W. Va., and I found myself reflecting on that year during a drive t...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — His signing was essentially lost in the shuffle, wedged between the additions of touted Canadian prep prospect Nelson Kaputo a...

Amid a sea of postponements and cancelations, at least one local summer sports staple is still on as scheduled: The Big 30 Charities Classic. In an in...

(Editor’s note: The following column from The Era’s Otto Township correspondent Jim Miller is in response to Bill Robertson’s piece last week recallin...

You have to give Major League Baseball credit. At a time when other professional sports leagues have been seemingly reluctant to get creative in explo...

Robert Sawicki Jr. learned how to deal with disappointment before his college baseball career began. Graduating from Ellicottville High School in 2016...

As this period without sports, indeed any semblance of normal life, drags on, I’ve drawn some conclusions about the emotional effect of the coronaviru...

I weighed 100 pounds in fifth grade and had to wear “husky” clothes. Despite my size, I was a good outfielder in neighborhood pickup games, so I decid...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Brendyn Stillman verified what the stats already could tell anyone about what he felt like on the opening weekend of the 2020 ...

Under ordinary circumstances, their final season would have played out in nearly the same fashion the last one ended. On that final day of the 2019 ca...

It’s four o’clock on a late March afternoon, and ordinarily, local umpires such as Dave Fuhrman and Ron Bacha would be at a local diamond to officiate...