The New England Patriots announced on Monday that they signed defensive end/linebacker Trevor Bates to their practice squad. Bates, a Westbrook, Maine native and former University of Maine football player, was released by the Indianapolis Colts earlier this season. The 6-foot-2, 247-pound Bates was a seventh-round pick of the Colts in the 2016 NFL draft. […]
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The Hot Corner: The stein is half-empty for Maine athletic programs
Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine. Shout ‘til the rafters ring. Then promptly tip those glasses and imbibe enough to transport yourself to a time when University of Maine athletics collectively provided cause for such exultation. It’ll be a while. It would be shocking to anyone under the legal age who was born […]
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Lip gloss. Hoodies. Hot dogs. It isn’t just TV stations and the post office benefiting from this election season’s heated campaigns in Maine. Fired up by the last presidential debate, Amanda Nelson, owner of a small Maine soap company behind quirky scents like Unicorn Farts and Bloody Lumberjack, created 40 tubes of Nasty Woman lip […]
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Red Claws’ newcomers already feeling at home in Maine
PORTLAND —It’s unlikely that any of the 16 training camp players with the Maine Red Claws pictured their journey to the NBA including a stop in Portland. Short of a spot on an NBA roster, though, at least four of the Red Claws know they could be in places far less conducive to finding their […]
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Women’s Hockey: Maine shocks No. 5 Boston College
Vendula Pribylova provided the game-winning goal with 36.9 seconds left, re-directing in a point shot from Brittany Colton. “The thought process was really just kind of get it to the net, don’t get it blocked,” Colton, a freshman, said. “I saw some teammates in front of the net, just shoot the puck, hope and pray […]
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Libertarian VP candidate Weld swings through Lewiston, calls Maine ‘friendly territory’
LEWISTON — Steve Roop listened politely for more than a half-hour Saturday while former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld laid out for a small group of business and political leaders gathered at Fish Bones American Grill why he and Gary Johnson ought to be elected vice president and president on the Libertarian ticket next month. Roop […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The International Cryptozoology Museum fits more weird, more Wessie
PORTLAND — It’s the only place in the world to find the long, elegant dart gun Roger Patterson planned to use to drop Bigfoot in California after first famously catching it — allegedly — on tape. The only place with a little swatch displayed as a piece of the actual screen window the Fouke Monster poked its […]
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Bob McPhee’s inspiring ride from the hospital to the Hall of Fame
Outside McPhee’s home, his good friend Ryan Palmer arrives to help the wheelchair-bound sportswriter into a van for the short drive to Dirigo, where McPhee is set to cover the game for the Sun Journal of Lewiston and the Rumford Falls Times. For the 57-year-old McPhee, this routine of covering high school sports — his […]
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Calais man sentenced for floating to Canada on air mattress
SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick — John Bennett said he was so driven to protect his girlfriend from an imminent threat that he was willing to break international laws trying to do it. His actions have cost him two months in jail, according to a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Canadian officials say the 25-year-old […]
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Maine Council of Churches ‘dismayed’ by Gov. LePage’s ‘vitriolic attack’ against lawmaker
The Maine Council of Churches on Saturday weighed in on Gov. Paul LePage’s profanity-laced voicemail to a state lawmaker, calling it a “vitriolic personal attack.” “The words he chose to use in the message and interview (after) were unspeakable — and yet he spoke them, disgracing the office of governor and dishonoring our state in […]