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Registration opens for Empire State Games

LAKE PLACID — Registration is open for the 46th Annual Empire State Winter Games, taking place Feb. 5-8, 2026. Athletes of all ages, from across the state and beyond, are invited to compete in the United States’ largest and longest-continuing multi-winter sporting event, being held in Lake ...

PSC hoops take on DI team in Albany

ALBANY — In a program and school first, the Paul Smith’s College men’s basketball team has gone toe-to-toe with an NCAA Division I program. On Tuesday, the Bobcats traveled to the capital district to take on the University of Albany Great Danes in front of a large crowd at the ...

PSC student wins national XC title

UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania — Paul Smith’s College junior, Eliot Soderholm, emerged from the USCAA Men’s 8K National Championships atop the podium last week at the Penn State’s Fayette Campus in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Soderholm, of Reston, Virginia, finished the challenging course ...

Bomber girls XC finish 8th, ‘Jacks boys earn 10th at states

QUEENSBURY — The Lake Placid girls cross country team closed out the season with an eighth-place finish at the NYSPHSAA cross country championships on Saturday at Queensbury High School. Meanwhile, the Tupper Lake boys, who claimed the Section X, Class D title a week ago, finished 10th in ...

Chock and Bates win Skate America title in LP

It was a golden day for the U.S. figure skating team at Skate America on Sunday. It bodes well for more gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February. Madison Chock and Evan Bates won a record-tying fifth ice dance title at their home Grand Prix event, while world champion Alysa Liu ...

Local girls hockey players win elite tourney

Three Tri-Lakes girls hockey players — Harper Strack of Lake Placid, Anna Kavanagh of Tupper Lake and Kayla Harvey of Saranac Lake — who compete for the Canton Blades, won one of the nation’s largest all-girls hockey tournaments on Nov. 9. The Blades captured the Tier 1 Yellow ...