NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An egregious mistake by the refs overshadowed the Los Angeles Rams’ moment of triumph. Too bad. This is one amazing L.A. Story. For all the debate stirred by a blatant penalty that wasn’t called in the closing minutes of the NFC championship game, the Rams thoroughly earned their 26-23 overtime victory over the […]
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Patriots make third straight Super Bowl, beat Chiefs 37-31 in OT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s the dead of winter, meaning the weather in New England can be brutal. And that the Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl. It took them overtime and more of Tom Brady’s brilliance to get there — for the third straight year. While the folks back home dealt with […]
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Pats’ Brady, Chiefs’ Mahomes achieve success different ways
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One of them is a sixth-round pick who married a supermodel, became one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history and is still going strong well past his 41st birthday. The other is a first-round pick who is still dating his high school sweetheart, has exactly one season as an […]
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Patriots-Chiefs Matchups
It will be dark and cold, perhaps absurdly cold, Sunday night in Kansas City. Arrowhead Stadium will be lit up, though, and the winner of the Patriots-Chiefs game will head to Atlanta for the Super Bowl. Here’s how they match up: WHEN NEW ENGLAND HAS THE BALL As they have much of the season, the […]
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Irving has 32 as Celtics rally in 4th quarter, top Hawks
ATLANTA (AP) — Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics found a way. Not bad for the second part of back-to-back games. Irving scored 32 points and the Celtics rallied to beat the Atlanta Hawks 113-105 on Saturday for their third straight win. After trailing for most of the night, Boston took the lead with a […]
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Zibanejad, Lundqvist lead Rangers past Bruins 3-2
BOSTON (AP) — Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist hopes his teammates take some time to think about how well they’ve played going into a long break. He’ll also have some time to reflect on his climb up the NHL’s career wins list. Lundqvist made 27 saves to take over sole possession of sixth place in wins […]
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Bruins goalie Rask leaves game with concussion vs. Rangers
BOSTON (AP) — Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask suffered a concussion on a hard collision with Rangers forward Filip Chytil and was helped off the ice late in the opening period. The 31-year-old Rask, who entered the game Saturday night tied with Cecil “Tiny” Thompson for the most victories in club history with 252, gave up […]
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Plante earns 200th win as OOB girls basketball coach
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — It wasn’t pretty, but the Old Orchard Beach girls basketball team picked up a 30-25 win over visiting St. Dominic Academy on Saturday afternoon — and the Lady Gulls would help their coach reach a big milestone in the process. Longtime OOB coach Dean Plante recorded his 200th career victory thanks […]
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New MPA football proposal puts Tigers behind the 8-ball
BIDDEFORD — Most of the talk coming out of the Maine Principals’ Association football committee meeting on Tuesday was about the possible creation of two divisions for 8-man football starting next fall — but that wasn’t the only proposal that could drastically change the landscape of football in the state. If there are two 8-man […]
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Baseball World: Cora’s in the catbird seat
Who wouldn’t want to be Alex Cora right now? At just 43 years of age, the young Red Sox Manager is getting ready to start the 2019 season at the helm of a team that not only won 108 games in the regular season last year, a franchise record, but sailed through the American League […]
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