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RIMERSBURG — Union/A-C Valley’s defense led the way in a 14-8 win over Smethport to send the Falcon Knights to the District 9 Class A championship gam...

Bad enough the Bills, last Sunday, endured an embarrassing, 9-6, loss at Jacksonville, a now 2-6 team over which they were favored by 14½ points. Wors...

NEW BETHLEHEM — It started with a punch in the mouth that left the home favorites reeling. But after the Port Allegany football team stunned top-seede...

Nov. 12—Lucas Krull had five drops in Pitt’s last five games, dropped his first target on Thursday night ... and totally redeemed himself. Pitt’s Thor...

STATE COLLEGE (AP) — Quarterback Sean Clifford used to run a lot, but that’s not really part of Penn State’s game plan these days. At this point in th...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — It was anything but a neutral court matchup. The Portville girls volleyball team, after all, had to make a three-hour drive to Liver...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — For a coach who generally avoids criticizing his team in public, Sean McDermott was honest in assessing the sorry state of t...

One finds itself in a situation nearly identical to that of a season ago. The other hasn’t been here in nearly a decade. The District 9 Small School N...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen’s laments of needing to play better have become familiar refrains following Buffalo Bills losses — and wins — for...

Bradford junior Manny Diaz ran the race of his life to place 14th at the PIAA XC State Championships held Saturday in Hershey. Diaz recorded a persona...

Can we call a moratorium on referring to the Bills as a “Super Bowl Team” come February … at least until they prove it? Oh, this week, the consensus a...

There’s a reason the Bills have this week’s longest NFL odds — 14½-point favorites over the Jaguars — come Sunday afternoon at Jacksonville’s TIAA Ban...

KNOX — They used a formula that Port Allegany fans have witnessed repeatedly this season. A pair of dangerous running backs, a savvy quarterback and a...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Josh Allen and Josh Allen have very different plans for their first meeting Sunday. Buffalo’s star quarterback simply wants ...

It was the Bills’ regular-season finale of Sean McDermott’s first year as head coach, 2017, and Buffalo’s playoffs hopes were slipping away. Oh, his t...

Record-wise, they didn’t have anything to show for it. But during the Bradford football team’s 2021 campaign, a potent wide receiver group blossomed, ...

SMETHPORT — Tuesday evening’s half-frozen drizzle signaled the return of a familiar time of year. The District 9 football postseason is back. For a tr...

Sean McDermott and Brian Daboll, the Bills head coach and offensive coordinator, respectively, knew their team didn’t turn in its best possible effort...

It is almost unthinkable that Pitt lost a shootout to Miami at Heinz Field on Saturday given the way both teams are built and the experience disparity...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jahan Dotson faced a tough decision at the beginning of the year. The Penn State wide receiver enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2020 an...