PORTLAND – Colie Walsh didn’t think twice. The football was out of someone’s grasp, loose and rolling on the field. He dived for it and wouldn’t let anyone pry it from his hands. Walsh played the fumble as if he had done it countless times before. Except he hadn’t. Not in a game like this, […]

PORTLAND — Tonight is fight night in the cramped and hot room that is the Portland Boxing Club. The semifinals of the USA Boxing New England championships begin at 8 p.m. and Juan Lopez will be ready. He is a high school senior and his experience as an amateur is limited to eight fights. He’s […]

He grew up not far from Happy Valley and some of his earliest memories are of going to Penn State football games. He can remember the great Ernie Davis running the ball for Syracuse. He saw how proud his father was of Joe Paterno because they shared the same Italian heritage. I called this former […]

ORONO — Maine didn’t see Towson coming. Even more, Maine didn’t fear Towson winning. Which may be why those numbers seemed so stark late Saturday afternoon on the big scoreboard in Alfond Stadium. Towson 40, Maine 30. A conference underdog lost to the bigger underdog. The team that was predicted to finish ninth in the […]

Three local players claim gender discrimination after being told a co-op boys’ team isn’t allowed.

Carl Smith was torn. He can’t be in two places at once Saturday. Should he make plans to drive two hours north to Orono for the college football game with conference championship repercussions? Twenty years ago he thrilled Maine fans when he took handoffs and found open spaces with regularity. He set the standard for […]

CUMBERLAND – “Great race,” said Nick Morris to Harlow Ladd. There wasn’t time to say more. Two hearts and two minds were still trying to come to grips with what had just happened. After some three miles of running over slick grass and muck at Twin Brook Recreation Area, they arrived at the finish line […]

While trying to imagine the finish to Maine’s next football game on the road against nemesis Villanova on Saturday … The wave-of-the-cap recognition to Jason Motte outside the Bonanza Steakhouse in Sanford had to be taken down Tuesday. “I had promised a local charity I’d put their message on the sign,” said Geoff Titherington, the […]