The 1965 Winthrop boys’ basketball team was hungry for a title. A year before, Winthrop was undefeated heading to the Class L Championship game against Ellsworth, but the run for perfection came up short with a 55-52 loss. A year later, Winthrop found redemption as it capped off a 16-2 season with the Class L […]
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Phil Knight, Nike co-founder, to step down
NEW YORK (AP) — Nike Chairman Phil Knight plans to step down, and says he wants President and CEO Mark Parker to succeed him. Knight, 76, says he plans to stay involved with the company after he steps down as chairman. Parker has been Nike’s president and CEO since 2006. Nike Inc. says it expects […]
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Island games: Challenging to be an outlier
VINALHAVEN — Tim Kane has been around athletics all his life, but nothing compares with the sporting life on an island school. “There’s things you deal with that you don’t normally deal with at mainland schools,” said Kane, who is in his first year as Vinalhaven’s principal. “But it’s enlightening and it’s fun. It’s a […]
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Island games: Not all away games are created equal for East-West Conference teams
First up for the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School baseball team, a three-plus-hour rollick across the winding, pothole-dotted back roads of Maine. Then, a ferry. After loading the vessel, the team makes the final leg — a 75-minute ride — over western Penobscot Bay’s following seas and rolling waves to one of Maine’s largest and most […]
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High school basketball: Hyde School leaves MPA, cites ‘racial’ comments
BATH — The president of Hyde School in Bath, Malcolm Gauld, told CBS 13 on Sunday he’s pulling the boys basketball team out of the Maine Principals’ Association. He said they’ll be re-entering the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council. The association oversees regular season play and hosts state championship tournaments for more than 150 […]
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MPA approves 5 classes for high school basketball
ROCKPORT — Chris Young has worked on the front lines of the battle among Maine’s smallest high school basketball programs to remain competitive against ever-increasing odds. The assistant principal and athletic administrator from tiny East Grand School in Danforth has watched his teams struggle to keep pace as larger schools with dwindling enrollments have joined […]
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H.S. Baseball: Blake Slicer, Will Frank fling Oxford Hills past error-prone Edward Little
Six errors led to four runs without a hit in the Vikings’ half of the fifth inning Wednesday, spelling the difference in a 4-2 KVAC baseball verdict at Austin Field. “We didn’t hit the ball very well. We didn’t get any guys on, so when we finally could, we did make some things happen, and […]
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A-L Sports Hall of Fame: Lewiston’s groundbreaking athletes honored
During the 1990’s, Rodney Gendron and Peter Landry were doing things in the sport of gymnastics that no other locals had ever achieved. Katie Lachapelle was skating new paths for future female hockey players, while Kristi Royer Ouellette was setting a new standard of excellence in Lewiston basketball. None of them set out to do […]
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Cavaliers cave against Celtics
CLEVELAND (AP) — Marcus Smart scored 19 points, and the Boston Celtics maintained their grip on a playoff spot by holding off the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 99-90 on Friday night. The Celtics had five players score in double figures. Isaiah Thomas had 17 points, Avery Bradley scored 15 and Tyler Zeller finished with 13. Boston […]
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Ranor takes MVRBL title
RUMFORD — Ranor Mechanical, Inc. knew when and how to make the necessarily adjustments to recently win the Mountain Valley Recreation Basketball League championship. Aaron St. Pierre and Nate Carson combined for 48 points and nine 3-pointers as Ranor maintained its composure down the stretch en route to a 93-80 win against previously unbeaten Laid […]