When the Tough Mudder descends on Westbrook’s Sunset Ridge Golf Links this coming weekend, it will bring with it roughly 15,000 participants, all of them determined – energized, focused and confident. At least, that’s how they’re likely to feel when they begin the course. How they’ll feel when they finish, well, that’s anybody’s guess. Not […]
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Tough Mudder requires ‘totally different mentality’
When the Tough Mudder descends on Westbrook’s Sunset Ridge Golf Links this coming weekend, it will bring with it roughly 15,000 participants, all of them determined – energized, focused and confident. At least, that’s how they’re likely to feel when they begin the course. How they’ll feel when they finish, well, that’s anybody’s guess. Not […]
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Local youth excel at Track and Field Championship
About 1,175 kids signed up to attend Saturday’s State Youth Track and Field Championship at Windham High School, according to man-with-the-microphone and Scarborough track maestro Ron Kelly, and when the parade of athletes circled the track around midday, that number seemed just about right. “It’s individual,” Kelly says of track’s particular appeal for many kids. […]
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Local youth excel at Track and Field Championship
About 1,175 kids signed up to attend Saturday’s State Youth Track and Field Championship at Windham High School, according to man-with-the-microphone and Scarborough track maestro Ron Kelly, and when the parade of athletes circled the track around midday, that number seemed just about right. “It’s individual,” Kelly says of track’s particular appeal for many kids. […]
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Donahue gets Hall of Fame nod
“It was pretty unbelievable,” says Westbrook native and current South Portland resident Matt Donahue of getting the big news. Donahue, now 62, was a Maine basketball superstar in his high school years, and will be among the inaugural class of inductees to the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame in a gala at the Cross Insurance […]
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With Owen, Red Sox giveth, taketh away
Once again, the Boston Red Sox have reached down to the Sea Dogs to fill holes in the upper ranks of the system. Henry Owens, the first pitcher in the 20-year history of the Portland Sea Dogs to win 14 games, has been promoted to Pawtucket. And it is a very safe bet that the […]
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Beast of the Northeast returns to Westbrook
In its six short years, the Beast of the Northeast Little League baseball tournament has grown by leaps, bounds, steals and homeruns. The 2014 contest, held in Westbrook over the past two weekends, attracted 17 teams from across Maine, elsewhere in New England, and even Canada – Nova Scotia, to be exact. The Mountaineers, who […]
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6,500 compete in TD Beach to Beacon
Cape Elizabeth once again awoke to the sights and sounds of the TD Beach to Beacon – 6,500 grimacing runners and thousands upon thousands of cheering spectators – Saturday morning, and once again, the event lived up to its billing. Kenya’s Bedan Karoki Muchiri took the top men’s spot – Maine native Ben True (28, […]
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6,500 compete in TD Beach to Beacon
Cape Elizabeth once again awoke to the sights and sounds of the TD Beach to Beacon – 6,500 grimacing runners and thousands upon thousands of cheering spectators – Saturday morning, and once again, the event lived up to its billing. Kenya’s Bedan Karoki Muchiri took the top men’s spot – Maine native Ben True (28, […]
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30 years after Olympic win, Samuelson still has Midas touch
It’s been almost 30 years to the day since Joan Benoit Samuelson took gold in the inaugural women’s Olympic marathon, exploding gender barriers in the running world. And in that time, she’s used her fame as strictly a means of improving life for countless others. It’s common knowledge that she’s the founder of Maine’s premier […]