special team

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kenny Pickett is not going to blow opponents away with arm strength. Or speed. Or stature. Or flawless decision-making. Or a quick r...

One of the great mysteries to me is the proliferation of NFL writers who feel the compulsion to predict the 53-man roster of the team they cover BEFOR...

MIAMI (AP) — FIU football player Luke Knox, who appeared in 23 games at Mississippi before joining the Panthers and was the brother of Buffalo Bills t...

Well, today was the last of 10 sessions of Organized Team Activities — OTAs for short — conducted by the Bills. Attendance was mostly good for the vol...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — There’s nothing Matthew Smiley can do to change Buffalo kicking off into the end zone on a fateful play which contributed to...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins spent the first four months of the season shadowboxing each other for the top spot i...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers heads into another offseason of uncertainty after one more frustrating finish to a brilliant year. Rodgers drove ...

BROOKVILLE — Brookville started fast and finished faster. The Raiders led for nearly the entirety of 60 minutes, and despite several counterpunches fr...

His 5-5, 145-pound frame might not stand out on the street. But as Braedon Johnson has shown throughout his career, it’s tough to miss him on the foot...

Some observations from a Sunday of watching the NFL’s Red Zone Channel, plus the Broncos/Chiefs last night: — If the Bills needed any further reason f...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The style points are lacking. The win total is not. The Pittsburgh Steelers are hardly complaining. Well, technically, that's not tr...

He’s become a do-it-all type of player for Bradford this season. Elijah Fitton, a junior, has emerged this year as an explosive playmaker for the Owls...

By and large, Bradford’s defense came to play Friday night. In fact, it kept the Owls in the mix throughout most of the first half even as the offense...

SMETHPORT — One of the biggest games this week in the Intermediate Unit 9 bubble will take place today in Smethport as the Hubbers host Elk County Cat...

There was a time when cutdown day was the most feared moment in a National Football League player’s career. Before 2004, if a player didn’t make a tea...

Weeknight football games — think junior varsity and below — could look a lot different around the Keystone State this fall. The PIAA approved on Wedne...

The summer lull for area sports fans is about to get a whole lot better in a week, when the Pittsburgh Steelers head to Saint Vincent College in Latro...

COUDERSPORT — It was a perfect storm of motivations for Coudersport’s Homecoming game: a showdown with their arch-rivals from Otto-Eldred, who had won...

COUDERSPORT — They call them special teams for a reason. A football team that maximizes the play of its kicking units generally prevails. And that’s w...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Hubbers haven’t had this much success to start a season in quite awhile. After finishing with just three wins in each of the...