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The Bradford girls track and field team ended 2021 with a bang. It took all of the Lady Owls’ 94 points to win a District 9 championship, a title that...

Tom Tessena has seen plenty of unique challenges during his 50 years as Bradford boys track and field coach. The 2022 season will present yet another ...

Fifty years have passed since Tom Tessena landed the Bradford boys track and field job, partially by coincidence. Tessena remembers well the fateful a...

Bradford defeated Smethport, 177-162, behind perfect 25’s from Harrison Morrisroe and Wyatt Stark. Jaydon Schwab added a 22 for Bradford, while Cam Au...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission today reported results from the 2021-22 deer seasons, which ended in January. Hunters harvested an estimated 376,810 ...

NEW YORK — Its crowd was incredible, a sea of brown and white that was bridged in the end zone by nearly the entire student body. It had a world of mo...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York looks poised to become the next place to give a huge subsidy to a professional sports arena, despite questions about whet...

KANE — The list of District 9 schools that boast an outdoor, artificial-surface athletic complex is quite short. This fall, Kane Area School District ...

NEW YORK (AP) — K’Andre Miller scored 2:02 into overtime and the New York Rangers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 Sunday. Frank Vatrano had two goals, Ale...

The term “rebuild” might be an understatement. The Bradford softball team returns just six letter winners for the 2022 season, a season in which it wi...

PORTVILLE — For the first 14 minutes of the Big 30 Senior Classic boys basketball game, New York and Pennyslvania’s seniors played a back-and-forth ga...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — The afternoon, as both sides re-iterated after the Big 30 Senior Classic, was not about the scoreboard. The New York girls, however,...

One coach has awaited his assignment for two years. The other learned of hers just a week ago. As Eric Lutz and Molly McMahon prepare to coach the 202...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It wasn’t redemption, it wasn’t a rubber match and it wasn’t revenge, either. But for the Bradford Blizzards U16 hockey team, defeatin...

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — It would be hard to top David Bednar’s first season with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The right-handed relief pitcher had a sparklin...

Jon Baker had waited 40 years before returning to the sidelines to coach again. Then he had to wait a couple more. Baker, the former Olean boys basket...

It’s a debate that’s … never actually been much of a debate. For years, especially those in which St. Bonaventure has been somewhere between the fring...

Well, what does the National Invitation Tournament committee think now? Despite the NIT’s best efforts to shaft the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball t...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — It began as a day of celebration, a deluge of joy following the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team’s thrilling road win ove...

DUKE CENTER — Everything about Otto-Eldred’s season was dominant. The Lady Terror basketball team swept the North Tier League in 2021-22, and to no su...