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They had trained together five days a week for nearly six months in the backyard solitude of Josh Snyder’s rural home. And although Milo the golden retriever seemed to have this baseball bat fetching routine down pat, Snyder still worried ...

Mike Neer likes to joke that he doesn’t get enough credit for helping Jay Wright become the best-dressed coach in college basketball. “He showed up for his job interview at the University of Rochester back in 1984 in bib overalls ...

As a cub reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle in the summer of 1974, Michael Lewis had some time to kill during a copy desk shift one evening and joined a colleague at a Rochester Lancers match at old Holleder ...

Felicia Bond Zimmermann was within ear- and eye-shot, about two fencing strips away at the arena in Cairo, Egypt Sunday morning, when the Ukrainian coach announced his team would not be competing against the Russians. Soon, fencers and coaches from ...

Bernie Lillis points with pride to a framed photograph on the mantelpiece above the fireplace of his Fairport home. There we see a closeup of his son, Chris, at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. While ...

Their paths first crossed in 1973. Mike Krzyzewski and Mike Neer were barely household names in their own homes in those days; lightyears away from being the basketball coaching legends they’ve become. Coach K was Captain K back then, serving ...

Journalism, in many respects, is like a continuing education course. Every topic you tackle, every interview you conduct teaches you new things, broadens your horizons. The lessons I’ve learned these past 52 weeks have been profound, extending beyond the fields, ...

The Buffalo Bills decision to go camping in Orchard Park rather than at St. John Fisher College was disappointing, but hardly surprising. The writing has been on the wall for several years, as more and more NFL teams opt to ...

After Syracuse University basketball games in the early 2010s, I occasionally would steal a glance at the lanky lads leaning against a wall, off to the side, as they watched their famous father answer reporters’ questions in the bowels of ...

The Cooperstown shopkeepers I spoke with two summers ago could barely contain their enthusiasm. The summer of 2020 was going to be their most profitable ever, thanks to the induction of Derek Jeter into the Baseball Hall of Fame on ...

A half-century ago this week, a seed was planted in the mind of a 6-year-old white kid from suburban Rochester who knew not a lick about Negro Leagues baseball. Doug Brei was an inquisitive lad, and already a voracious reader ...

Sunday’s Super Bowl will be another opportunity for Patrick Mahomes to get the G.O.A.T.’s goat. Win or lose, Tom Brady still will be regarded by most as the Greatest Of All-Time. But a victory by the 25-year-old Mahomes versus the ...

In an ideal world, this memorable Buffalo Bills season would have ended with a blizzard. A blizzard of confetti, not snow. The Bills would have beaten Kansas City Sunday night, then headed to Tampa on Feb. 7 and knocked off ...

Were these not pandemic-addled times, Chuck Hinkel would be following the lead of legendary singer Fats Domino and going to Kansas City. He’d be traveling to Arrowhead Stadium to work on the stats crew for CBS’s telecast of Sunday’s highly ...

As they awaited the snap for the play that would determine victory or defeat, Michael Mayer and his son, Alexander, fidgeted in their seats, not far from the locker room tunnel at Bills Stadium. They were hardly alone in their ...