Many coaching changes call for new blood, an infusion of instant energy designed to take an athletic program in a vastly different direction.
But just as often experience is the crucial trait …
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Mo Hannan’s 95th pitch of Wednesday night’s Class A softball state championship game represented not only the final pitch of Scarborough High School’s run to the title, but was the final act in …
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Excuse me for being a little cynical, but I find it hard to believe Gabby Price’s decision to resign as the head football coach at Husson University didn’t come without some internal controversy.
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It would be easy to forgive Aaron Cyr for being less than optimistic about life.
A birth-related complication resulted in the amputation of his left foot and ankle shortly after he was born, and …
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It’s a unique, rather subtle piece of information that’s now available to all baseball fans who attend games at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor.
Where once was indicated the uniform number of the …
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Consider some of the great moments in Maine high school basketball: Mike Thurston’s “shot heard round the state” that gave Caribou its 1969 state title, or Joe Campbell’s flip-in at the buzzer to give Bangor a stunning 57-56 victory over Deering of Portland in the 2001 Class A championship game.
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The last week of watching the Boston Celtics and the Boston Bruins simultaneously seeking to survive and advance through the NBA and NHL playoffs has served to restore the ordinary fan in someone who …
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The panic over the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, seemingly is subsiding, leaving behind what some might describe as a proactive approach to thwarting the spread of the disease, and what others might call …
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After selecting all four 2009 Eastern Maine champions in schoolboy basketball — Edward Little of Auburn, Camden Hills of Rockport, Calais and Woodland — in this space before the season began, …
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Thanks to Ricky Gibson, there are now lights on the football field at Maranacook Community School in Readfield.
But those who knew or knew about the 16-year-old high school sophomore from Wayne …
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