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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The hockey dream lives on for Greg Moore — Lisbon native, former St. Dom's, UMaine star
Former St. Dom’s and University of Maine hockey player Greg Moore teaches kids at a USA Hockey summer camp. Moore is an assistant coach with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program. (USA Hockey) Greg Moore is still living the hockey life. The sport has taken him from Lisbon, Maine, to Michigan, to Orono, Maine, […]
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Women's basketball: UMaine loses starter, gains two recruits
Maine guard Julie Brosseau (10) moves the ball upcourt past Texas guard Ariel Atkins (23) during a first-round game in the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament in Austin, Texas, earlier this month. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The University of Maine women’s basketball team announced Thursday that it will lose a starter from its America East championship […]
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The Hot Corner: Maybe UMaine will one day reach NCAA tournament
Few people have provided the University of Maine athletic program with more bulletin board material than yours truly. I’ve called frequent attention to the Black Bears’ slow, steady, across-the-board decline over the past two decades, some it for circumstances beyond their control. And no program has been an easier target than men’s basketball. It’s a […]
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NFL scouts check out UMaine prospects in Orono
Cornerback Najee Goode does the vertical leap at the University of Maine’s Pro Day for NFL personnel Friday in Orono. (University of Maine athletics) ORONO — There’s little that NFL teams don’t already know about Jamil Demby, a four-year starter at left tackle for the University of Maine. His performances in two all-star games, particularly […]
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Former UMaine standout Latendresse helps lead Colby College to Frozen Four
Colby College assistant coach Michael Latendresse coaches some of his players on the bench during a game this season. WATERVILLE — It’s been 25 years since the University of Maine won the NCAA Division I ice hockey championship, the first hockey title for any Maine school at any level. This weekend, Colby College will try […]
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Record $10M gift will fund new building for UMaine’s growing engineering program
An anonymous donor has given $10 million to the University of Maine in Orono for a new engineering building, the largest gift ever by a living donor, university officials said Monday. The gift is from the family of a graduate of the engineering program at UMaine who has asked not to be identified at this […]
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UMaine’s run ends with loss to Texas in women’s NCAA Tournament
AUSTIN, Texas — The message on the whiteboard in the Texas locker was simple and direct: Rebound! The No. 2 seed Longhorns did that and a whole lot more — just about anything they wanted to, really — in dismantling No. 15 Maine 83-54 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Jatarie White […]
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Women's basketball: Wadling key to UMaine overcoming size disadvantage
Fanny Wadling, left, will be a key player Saturday for Maine in the first round of the NCAA tournament against Texas, as the Black Bears’ only post player in a starting lineup that includes four guards. (John Carl D’Annibale/ The Albany Times Union via AP) When the University of Maine women’s basketball team faces nationally […]
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Maine's women's hoops teams lead the charge
The University of Maine celebrates after their victory over Hartford on Friday, March 9. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) Before Gary Fifield left his Vermont high school coaching job to take over the University of Southern Maine women’s basketball program in 1987, he took a recruiting trip in February. “My first (Maine) high school tournament […]