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Mark Schmidt remembers it well. It was 12 years ago when former St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Jim Satalin recruited him to become affiliated ...

KANE — If someone is good enough at something, their talent will shine through. For Kane native and soon-to-be Gannon Golden Knight Carson Whiteman, a...

After a 735-day wait, the latest renewal of the Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic is finally here for many of the area’s top graduated football player...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Frank Brown didn’t even have to think about it. The same day it was forced to cancel the 2020 Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic due to t...

OLEAN, N.Y. — For three years, the boys’ Corporate Cup belonged in New York. After a first-ever loss at the hands of Pennsylvania, the Empire State bo...

ST. MARYS — If one were to miss more than two track and field seasons, plus the postseason of another, it would be pretty easy to become bitter. That ...

COUDERSPORT — Not many caught Hayden Keck on the football field in his four years with the Coudersport Falcons. The dual-threat quarterback was known ...

A good football coach can harness the talent of a team and help players focus on the intricacies of the game. The same is true of health coaches. They...

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on St. Bonaventure basketball great George Carter, for whom a proper burial and memorial servi...

From the moment I accepted my job as a sports reporter at The Bradford Era last July, I knew Bradford was a special place. I was blown away by the amo...

PORT ALLEGANY — This year’s Father’s Day will be nothing short of a dream come true for Port Allegany’s football coaches. Head coach Justin Bienkowski...

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 Fran...

They’d both entered the season with an unfinished matter on the mind, with aspirations of completing a journey that had begun years before. And, in th...

Tina Phillips, in her 18th season coaching the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford softball team, recently hit a career milestone recently, winning h...

For years, the stranglehold held by the NCAA over its Division I athletes has been concerning. Its arrogance was particularly annoying when a coach le...

SHINGLEHOUSE — When the ceremonial ribbon was cut prior to the first track and field meet at Oswayo Valley’s new surface on Tuesday, Bruce Kemp and th...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — On the surface, he has the look of an enforcer. Abdoul Karim Coulibaly is a 6-foot-8, 230-pound power forward who, twice now, ...

With the 2020-21 high school basketball season now over in the Keystone State, coaches have turned their attention to the offseason. The offseason is,...

Spring sports are just around the corner and the competition is heating up on the Bradford baseball team. Like all spring teams, the Owls are both exc...

The basketball season has officially come to a close for Big 30 Pennsylvania schools, which means the end of the high school basketball careers for th...