Kaitlynn Saldanha couldn’t watch. Middlebury College teammate Margo Cramer was running the anchor leg (the 1,600-meter segment) of the women’s distance medley relay at the NCAA Division III indoor track and field championships, holding a comfortable lead. A year earlier, Cramer was in the same position but failed to hold on, and the Panthers finished […]

Maine avoids elimination from the playoffs by staging a furious rally and winning in overtime.

Local rinks have made sure that ice-making machines have kept strong air quality. Air quality in hockey rinks has been a major topic since “The Today Show” on NBC recently ran a story about the dangers of carbon monoxide in rinks that have little or no ventilation.
The show profiled a 14-year-old boy who was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning after a game, and a former Ice Capades skater who suffered from long-term carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Red Claws’ top player used toughness to beat his street-plagued past. “He was just focused and he didn’t let nothing get in his way,” says his mother, Lolita Pruitt, who now lives in downtown Detroit. “He went to practice, he liked basketball. He was a good child. He didn’t let nothing bother him, the surroundings, the neighborhood. He was just focused.”

Matt Rickett played basketball while growing up. It was hard not to. His mother, Liz, was a phenomenal player in high school and college and coached at McAuley. So Matt Rickett ran up and down the court at Deering High, alongside Carlos Strong, who would eventually lead the Rams to a Class A state championship […]