Mark Feith has started a new football clinic called “207 Football” “I have seen a need to help educate and train football coaches and players on fundamental skills training and primarily on safety,” Feth said. “I have been extremely fortunate in the overwhelmingly positive support and response received from coaches, players and parents in various […]
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New England Football League looking for teams for its 25th season
The New England Football League is looking for teams for the 2018 season. It’s full contact tackle for players over 18 years old. There’s three levels of play using NCAA rules with some modification for player protection. Games are played with five certified officials and a certified EMT. The season runs from July-November with eight […]
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Indoor football: Maine Mammoths prepare for home opener
The Maine Mammoths play their first home game on Saturday against the Carolina Cobras. For the first time in nearly two years, fans in Maine will have a chance to watch a local professional sports team play in downtown Portland. Saturday night at Cross Insurance Arena, the Maine Mammoths will take on fellow expansion franchise […]
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H.S. football: Brian Jahna tapped to turn around Gray-NG
Brian Jahna was hired to do for Gray-New Gloucester what he did at Lake Region – build a struggling high school football program to respectability. “The structure is really there in community throughout the levels and there’s just incredible excitement around football there,” Jahna said. “It’s just a matter of tapping into some of those […]
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H.S. football: Spencer Emerson takes over Poland program
New Poland Regional High School football coach Spencer Emerson, an Edward Little High School graduate, served as Bates College’s defensive backs coach in 2016 and the Lewiston High School defensive coordinator in 2017. (Sun Journal file photo) If Poland Regional High School’s new football coach has his way, the Knights will be playing fast. That […]
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Lobster Bowl participants get the message of game’s meaning
LEWISTON — The annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic team meeting at the Kora Shrine always serves as the motivational pregame pep talk for players and cheerleaders selected to participate in the state’s premier showcase in July. Emily Williams of Auburn and patient ambassador for Shriners Hospitals Alec Cabacungan were the equivalent of mini-Knute Rockne […]
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UMaine football: Black Bears searching for Mack's replacement
Maine’s Josh Mack finds a hole on his way to the end zone in Sept. 2017. Mack transferred after a stellar sophomore season. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) ORONO — The University of Maine football team opened its spring practice Wednesday on a raw morning that felt little like spring. Here’s another thing that didn’t […]
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Peter L. Dionne
AUGUSTA — Peter L. Dionne, 81, died unexpectedly at home Tuesday, March 27. Born in Lewiston in 1936 to Muriel (Jo) Ayer and Donatien Dionne, Peter grew up on Webster Street with his younger brother, Andre. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1954 and moved on to Bowdoin College, where he joined Sigma Nu fraternity […]
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Dropping Dimes: Eight-man football is awesome. Maine should try it
Let me tell you a bit about the Neah Bay Red Devils. Neah Bay and its school (enrollment: 82) are located on the Makah Reservation on the Pacific Coast in Washington. Within the boundary is Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point of the United States. Everyone else will say Neah Bay is located at the end […]
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Lisbon's Mynahan among Lobster Bowl coaches; Rosters announced
Former Lisbon High coaching legend Dick Mynahan will be back on the football sideline this summer. Mynahan, who retired after the 2016 season with a 30-season record of 209-85, will be the coach of the West team for the 29th annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic, to be played Saturday, July 21, at Thornton Academy. […]