Meet an unassuming throwback to the days when men drove fast race cars. Not the other way around.
Steve Solloway
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Steve Solloway: Still waiting for Crawford to return
What would Red Sox fans ask if they had five minutes with Carl Crawford?
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He’s roamed through life, and through the backfields
James Dobson played one season of varsity football at Noble High and four more as a starting wide receiver at Husson University. Now he’s a vagabond, carrying his football pads and shoes to any tryout he can find . . .
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Steve Solloway: The Olympian who’s proving as good as gold
At her new camp for young girls, U.S. luge team member and Maine native Julia Clukey has shown that athletes can have real impact even when they’re out of the spotlight.
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Women persevered, even when doors were closed
Go away, Sharon Reishus was told. Don’t come back. You can’t use the high school’s weight room. It’s for boys only. Even though she was a discus thrower on the girls’ track team, it did not open this door. Reishus was one of thousands of young women in high school or college who were dismissed […]
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For this Wyeth, art is a fast Kentucky Derby horse
To her friends in Maine, Phyllis Wyeth of Tenants Harbor is the gracious and determined lady who overcame terrible misfortune and happened to marry into a family of beloved American artists.
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Steve Solloway: Still waiting for that day when racism is a memory
Craig Wilson is a 46-year-old former high school hockey star who lives and works in Augusta. He has a 12-year-old son, Cameron, who is a pretty good youth hockey player. Craig and Cameron Wilson happen to be black. So when Craig Wilson heard of the racist tweets that followed the Boston Bruins’ overtime loss to […]
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Steve Solloway: The audition for a star quarterback
ORONO — Spend 30 minutes with Marcus Wasilewski and John Ebeling. Talk to them about football and their lives. You won’t need more time to learn they’re articulate, athletic, stand-up guys. But are they college quarterbacks? Can either of them lead the University of Maine to another winning season and an invitation back to the […]
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Steve Solloway: 18 games for the Sox, but still remembered
Ed Phillips’ daughter asks her father if he’ll be nervous, walking across the field at Fenway Park in front of another sold-out crowd. No, he assures her. “I was nervous when I was the one walking out of the bullpen to the mound,” he said. “It will be a lot easier to go out there […]
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Steve Solloway: Penobscot marathoner inspires Maine team
Monday’s weather forecast of sun and temperatures soaring to 80 degrees in Boston doesn’t worry Bob Bryant. Marathon courses are a bit more than 26 miles, so he’ll stop 26 times for water. That his 50-year-old legs will start aching from pounding the pavement isn’t a major concern, either. The police chief from Maine’s Indian […]