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It began roughly 30 years ago as a small get-together among softball teammates. Bo Bertino and his buddies would gather at a local watering hole on the first Saturday in December to share tall tales and cold brews.

Forty-one are scheduled for December and January, and that’s not counting the national championship game, which has replaced the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as “the granddaddy of them all.”

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Allen and Judge remind us that it doesn’t take much effort to express gratitude and share good fortune with others. So, during a time of year when I devote this space to giving thanks, I doff my cap to Allen, Judge and others who, in ways large and small, give back.

For the second consecutive week, Buffalo managed to squander a double-digit, fourth-quarter lead and lose a game it should have won.

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Jake Crouthamel died Monday at age 84, and to fully appreciate his impact on Syracuse University athletics, one must journey back to his arrival on campus in March 1978. At that time, the sports landscape at SU was desolate by ...

It will be awfully hard to sell Yankee fans on a 2023 club without baseball’s most valuable Aaron since Hank.

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"No city, no fan base has ever experienced the across-the-board suffering we have. And no city or fan base has ever showed the resiliency and resolve we have.”

As we learned again Sunday in Kansas City, no hurdle appears too high for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. In a rematch of the two best quarterbacks on the planet, Air Allen leaped over yet another would-be tackler on ...

Sunday afternoon, for the first time in five years, I was back at Highmark Stadium chronicling a Buffalo Bills game, which meant this was the first time I’d seen Josh Allen perform in person. The Right Arm from God didn’t disappoint.

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John Wildhack is taking a page from the Buffalo Bills and taking the show on the road.

One of the neat offshoots of Judge’s historic run is that it’s called attention to Maris’s unforgettable season.

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Syracuse coach Dino Babers has always been what we in the newspaper business call “good copy.” And he didn’t disappoint in his post-game press conference Saturday, deftly invoking a metaphor with the Colossus, a famous California amusement park roller coaster that claims to be among the world’s fastest.

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Brito has no memory of his last visit to Frontier Field. No memory of the single he ripped in the top of the first inning – giving him eight hits in 21 at-bats since being promoted to Triple-A by the Phillies just days before.

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Long-time Bills fans need no reminder how those glory days featured gory endings, starting with Super Bowl 25 when Scott Norwood’s potential game-winning 47-yard field goal sailed wide right.

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Victory-famished sports fans often plummet from feeling angry to apathetic. And that can be problematic because at least angry fans care enough to remain financially and emotionally invested in their teams. They still attend games, still buy merchandise and concessions, ...

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