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Cage finding new role
With the clock winding down and his team about to sock away its third straight win, guard Calvin Cage drove the lane and threw up a high-arching shot that looked like it didn’t have a
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Cage finding new role
With the clock winding down and his team about to sock away its third straight win, guard Calvin Cage drove the lane and threw up a high-arching shot that looked like it didn’t have a
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Warrior miscues dooms Tonawanda from the start
Tonawanda couldn’t shake off a horrid start and Nichols took full advantage with a 51-44 win Friday in the opening game of the North Tonawanda Tip-off Tournament. Tonawanda won the opening
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NT gets team effort for opening win
North Tonawanda lost nine seniors from last year, leaving an inexperienced team to face Clarence, but luckily for the Jacks, Andy Davis, the only returning member to see any significant gametime
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Deer season open but deer aren't buying it
According to Jim Snieder, a senior wildlife biologist, the deer take is down. In talking with Jim at the Springville check station, he said the wet summer offered plenty of green vegetation and this
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Hawks, Ryan roll up postseason awards
Cardinal O’Hara completed another successful fall season with various honors for their on-the-field accomplishments.In girls' soccer, First Team All-Catholic honors was awarded to Maria Amato
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Patience pays off for Evans
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Receiver Lee Evans learned the value of staying patient a long time ago.While playing in high school at Bedford, Ohio, Evans didn’t get frustrated even though he was
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Rallying for the troops
Kate Wright sees her father every Saturday. But there’s a catch.Wright’s father, Joel, is a master sergeant serving with the 98th Division of the U.S. Army Reserves in Baghdad,
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Out of it? Stay in it as long as you can
With Week 13 of the NFL regular season fast approaching, many fantasy football leagues are nearing the end of their regular season. Free agent/roster move deadlines are nearing and owners need to
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NU avoids Providence repeat
BUFFALO — Niagara University’s 87-82 basketball victory over Canisius lived up to Little 3 standards Wednesday night in their Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference opener.Juan Mendez scored 30
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Middleton back in the mix
When Roderick Middleton scans box scores, the University at Buffalo junior digs deeper than most college basketball players.Points are great, but other categories mean just as much — or
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Multi-tourney winner John Szczerbinski on a roll
John Szczerbinski appears to be at the top of his game, having won two bowling tournaments at Parkside Lanes last week, and three other titles recently in the Teen All-Stars competition at Broadway
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Bass Pro provides a shot in the arm
In a little more than two years, the Bass Pro catalog — wish-book for countless thousands of outdoor enthusiasts — will come to life in downtown Buffalo. Bass Pro founder and chairman Johnny Morris,
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Mularkey keeps his eyes on the road ahead
ORCHARD PARK — Right now, Mike Mularkey refuses to look back on what could have been. Instead, he continues to look forward, focusing on what could be.The first-year Buffalo Bills head coach
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Bills dominant in easy win at Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — From the opening kickoff, it seemed all coach Mike Mularkey needed was to wind up the Buffalo Bills and watch them go.Actually, he encouraged them to wind down in
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Couples tops Wood to win Skins Game
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Somebody had to win the Skins Game.So why not Mr. Skins himself?Fred Couples continued his amazing run in the Thanksgiving weekend tournament, prevailing in
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NU wins big over St. Johns
LEWISTON — Juan Mendez and Alvin Cruz, seniors who came to Niagara University from the Florida Air Academy four years ago, helped the Purple Eagles soar over St. John’s 102-81 before a sellout crowd
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Homecoming for Drew
SEATTLE — Drew Bledsoe doesn’t get back to his hometown of Walla Walla, Wash., too often these days. A road game at Seattle is as close as it gets to a homecoming for the Buffalo Bills
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Bulls run out to a 25-point halftime lead, then coast
BUFFALO — It took three starts, but the University at Buffalo’s men’s basketball team finally lived up to the preseason hype Saturday.With four players in double figures and a stifling
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Sorenstam sets up rich Sunday
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Annika Sorenstam calmly sank a short birdie putt on the ninth hole, earning a hug from Tiger Woods.More importantly, it kept $250,000 in play in the Skins Game.“I
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On the ball: Boys and Girls Club offers a hockey league with everything you could want
Most kids would jump at the chance for free food and fun if given the chance. So what’s holding up the Tonawanda Hockey League, held at the Franklin Street Boys and Girls Club, from accruing
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Spitlers carry on the tradition
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — When Saint Peter’s College opened its men’s basketball season Saturday at West Virginia, freshman guard Tim Spitler didn’t play much, if at all. But he’ll made
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Warrior program comes of age
Even though they may have given up the fewest points in Western New York, boast nine First Team Division players, have Western New York’s All-Academic team with an average of over 90 and an
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Richter was one of a kind
The Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium is getting quite crowded. When Jim Ritcher is honored at halftime of Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Rams, he will be the 21st entry on the wall. But it’s
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Area schools stake their claim to postseason honors
Lauren Bates may not may advanced far in the states after bowing out after one match, but the Kenmore West prodigy was a lock to make the Niagara Frontier League All-League Team.The Section
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Vincent feels helpless about Bills' woes
This wasn't what Troy Vincent had in mind when he joined the Buffalo Bills as a free agent after five straight Pro Bowl appearances with the Philadelphia Eagles.The veteran cornerback, who
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Home Grown — Rick Cassata is honored in Ottawa
Early in his career, Rick Cassata was faced with one devil of a choice — football or baseball. For one of the City of Tonawanda’s most famous natives, the choice was a simple as a quarterback
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Still going strong
TONAWANDA — Annie Szuis may be breaking waves at her age, but she also breaking barriers along the way.Szuis, 85 and a Tonawanda resident, has been setting various swimming records in her age
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Sorry Sequel: Frannies rolls over Marauders again
ORCHARD PARK — The St. Joe’s Marauders were determined to shut down Zak Kedron and top-ranked St. Francis this time around.They did, for the first half at least.St. Francis, held
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Jacks all business heading into final
ORCHARD PARK — It was almost symbolic of the Jacks’ secret to success.On media day at Ralph Wilson Stadium for the Section VI championships, the North Tonawanda contingent of coach Eric
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Core: Alex Port, Steve Julian and Matt Scalice have grown together on and off the field
Coach Eric Jantzi’s enjoyed a luxury that not many teams around Western New York have enjoyed for the past three years.Every game, every practice and every workout session he knows he can
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