ORONO – It took a month and probably a bit longer before Gerald McLemore stopped waking up to the last basketball game he played. He couldn’t hit the delete button. He couldn’t erase the memory of Maine’s season-ending loss to Hartford in the America East tournament. Not that he wanted to forget. McLemore is another […]

BATH – It takes fewer than 10 seconds for Kevin McKellar to run 30 yards on a football field. More than enough time for the Morse High quarterback to make a decision he should never regret. Rather than run or even walk into the end zone, McKellar intentionally stepped out of bounds 8 yards from […]

Speaking only for myself … The baseball playoffs are already duller. The Tampa Bay Rays lost Tuesday and are gone. How fitting that it was a one-run game in the bottom of the ninth. With their miniscule, small-market payroll, they wore the underdog label well. The best kind of party crashers. Even more, they were […]

The college sports’ Big East will raid another conference to replace Syracuse and Pitt.

The Maine Sabers were winners in their return to the Eastern Football League for the 2011 season.

While watching New England Patriots rookie Nate Solder beat down Cameron Wake, Miami’s big pass rusher Monday night … Did anyone tell Arron Achey and his University of Maine teammates they should be weaker, slower and smaller than last Saturday’s opponent? That Pittsburgh had too much of everything? Actually, Coach Jack Cosgrove did, to knock […]

Waking up in his dorm room on that September morning, Dennis Dottin-Carter turned to his television to see if it would be a nice weather day. Football players like to know if they’ll be dealing with afternoon heat at practice. “I saw the first building fall. I saw the plane hit the second building. It […]

BANGOR – When the time came, Sean Murphy packed his clothes, kissed his wife goodbye and explained again to his three school-age children why their father’s summer vacation was over so soon. He was going camping for two weeks in a college dorm with about 80 young men. It would be quality time. A series […]