Former Patriot LB to visit Waterville youth football camp
WATERVILLE, Maine — The 18th annual Central Maine Youth Football Camp will be held Friday and Saturday at the All-Pro Sports Center on 161 West River Road.
Former New England Patriots linebacker Eric Alexander will be a guest speaker at the camp, which will be held 6-8 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The camp is for those in grades 1-8 and there is a $50 fee.
Those seeking more info may email centralmainefootball@gmail.com or call 207-509-5371.
UMF junior begins term as president of NAC student group
University of Maine at Farmington women’s basketball junior Elizabeth Ferry was recently elected as president of the North Atlantic Conference’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and began her one-year term last Tuesday.
Ferry will preside over at least two annual SAAC meetings. She will also attend conference gatherings of athletics directors and other stakeholder groups, as well as the 2015 NCAA Convention in Washington next January, to give voice to the concerns of the approximately 2,000 NAC student-athletes..
“This will be a tremendous learning opportunity for Elizabeth, and a chance to further enhance and develop her already strong leadership skills,” said Julie Davis, UMaine-Farmington athletics director.
Dodgers put Beckett on 15-day DL
The Los Angeles Dodgers placed pitcher Josh Beckett on the 15-day disabled list with a left hip impingement and recalled reliever Pedro Baez from Triple-A Albuquerque on Tuesday.
Beckett left Sunday’s win in Colorado after five scoreless innings and 82 pitches.
After starting the season on the DL with a thumb bruise, Beckett make 17 straight starts and was 6-5 with a 2.26 ERA, 32 walks and 95 strikeouts in 103 2/3 innings. He will be eligible to come off the disabled list soon after the All-Star break and could miss only one to two starts.
The 26-year-old Baez pitched one game for the Dodgers on May 5 at Washington, giving up two runs and two hits in one inning of relief in his major league debut.
Blogger hired to defend Redskins’ name quits, cites attacks
A political blogger hired by the NFL’s Washington Redskins to defend the contentious team name has resigned after two weeks on the job.
Ben Tribbet, 34, said late on Monday on Twitter that he was quitting, citing a growing number of personal and political attacks. The Redskins, long the target of criticism over the team’s name, hired Tribbet on June 25.
“I don’t want to be a distraction to the team as the political attacks have shifted towards being personal towards me,” Tribbet, who had run a left-leaning political blog called “Not Larry Sabato” wrote on Twitter.
The NFL franchise hired Tribbet a week after a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal canceled six Redskins’ trademarks, saying the name was a slur. The ruling set the stage for a court battle with the team’s owner, Dan Snyder, who has defied calls to change the name.
Two Miami football players arrested, dismissed from team
Linebackers Alex Figueroa and Jawand Blue are no longer part of the University of Miami football program after they were arrested and charged with sexual battery of a 17-year-old girl.
The two players were booked into jail on Tuesday. Both were suspended by the university and barred from the campus, athletic director Blake James said.
Figueroa and Blue are accused of buying the girl drinks, bringing her to Figueroa’s dorm room on July 5 and performing repeated sexual acts without her consent, according to the police report. The victim reported the incident to university police, who contacted the Coral Gables Police Department.
The two were charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim and held on $10,000 bond, according to records. Figueroa also was charged with possession of a stolen or forged driver’s license.