BOSTON — Red Sox left-hander David Price says he’s feeling better, just days after getting a cortisone shot to treat a cyst in his left wrist. “First time I’ve had an injection like that, so it made it sore the first 48 hours,” the 33-year-old said Saturday before Boston’s game with the Los Angeles Angels. […]

KENNEBUNK – The Tommy McNamara Charitable Foundation is always looking for ways to make a direct impact on the lives of youth in the community.  So, when the Kennebunk Youth Football Program reached out over the winter in need of help with the purchase of 120 top-of-the-line helmets, it was a match made in heaven.   […]

While trying to decide what I was going to write about in this spot this week, I thought of something my grandmother used to tell me when I was young, many, many years ago. This was a woman who lived to listen to her Red Sox play on the radio in the days when the […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown has reportedly filed a grievance with the NFL over a league rule that prevents him from wearing his 10-year-old helmet. ESPN reported that Brown had a two-hour conference call Friday with an independent arbitrator to state his case for why he should be able to use […]

SACO — The stands at Thornton Academy’s Hill Stadium were peppered with eager families during the evening session of the school’s youth football camp on a warm Thursday night in Saco.  The high attendance for a practice session at the stadium isn’t uncommon.  For a community that’s seen its high school team win four Class […]

PHILADELPHIA — Colin Kaepernick is eager to prove he’s good enough to play in the NFL. A person close to Kaepernick told The Associated Press on Friday: “Colin has always been prepared to compete at the highest level and is in the best shape of his life.” The person spoke anonymously because of the confidential […]

BOSTON — J.D. Martinez had a moment of panic in between home runs when a drive deep to right didn’t quite make it out of Fenway Park. Two other hits by Martinez did as he slugged a pair of homers while leading the Boston Red Sox to a 16-4 rout of the slumping Los Angeles […]

DETROIT — Jakobi Meyers caught two touchdown passes in an impressive preseason debut, and the New England Patriots drubbed the Detroit Lions 31-3 on Thursday night. Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford didn’t play, and plenty of other key players were also spectators, but Meyers stood out for New England. The undrafted rookie caught scoring passes […]

KENNEBUNK — The sun beamed down on 25 enthusiastic kids on the athletic fields behind the Dorothy Stevens Community Center in Kennebunk. There was plenty of reason for excitement from the group of first through fifth-graders on Thursday afternoon, too.  After all, it was the last chance they’d have to show off the skills they’d […]

BOSTON — Red Sox ace Chris Sale and assistant pitching coach Brian Bannister logged long hours in the video room after Sale was lit up twice by the rival Yankees recently. With a few tweaks, the lanky left-hander was picture perfect Thursday night. Sale righted himself and struck out 13 over eight innings of two-hit […]