Steve Craig

Staff Writer

Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.

Sports

Spring Meadows Golf Club earns New England honors

by Steve Craig December 7, 2020December 9, 2020

The club is the first in Maine ever selected as the New England Golf Course Owners Association’s Course of the Year.

Sports

State blows the whistle on basketball club’s plan to play before virus rules permit

by Steve Craig December 3, 2020December 4, 2020

Maine Hoops, the state’s largest organizer of club sport basketball games, plans to start games Dec. 18 – weeks before they are allowed under state guidelines.

Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

High school football in July? Coaches mull the possibilities

by Steve Craig November 29, 2020November 28, 2020

Several coaches believe waiting until summer is the best shot at having a season.

Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

Coaches say local Thanksgiving football tradition is worth saving

by Steve Craig November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

For only the second time since 1911, the annual Deering-Portland Thanksgiving high school football game will not be played this year.

Maine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports

UMaine men’s basketball heads home after entire team tests negative

by Steve Craig November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

Additional testing done in Connecticut after the team’s games were canceled reveal no one associated with the team is COVID positive.

Maine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports

UMaine pauses winter sports after positive COVID-19 tests

by Steve Craig November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

All basketball and hockey games have been called off through at least Dec. 8.

Maine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports

UMaine men’s basketball team will meet Virginia in ‘Bubbleville’ to start its season

by Steve Craig November 23, 2020November 24, 2020

The game is one of several slated to be played at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, as college basketball tries to navigate games during the coronavirus pandemic.