BIDDEFORD – Gracie Martin’s basketball career has been filled with high praise and accolades, and the Biddeford High School standout is receiving at least one more award. The Journal Tribune has selected Martin as the paper’s high school girls basketball Most Valuable Player, an honor she’s earned for three consecutive years. “It means so much […]
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Comeback Cavs! A year after pain, Virginia gets its title
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It was an easy question to ask, even if the answer was tough to absorb. “Why?” It dogged Virginia for a year and three weeks — following the Cavaliers through sweat-soaked practices, hostile arenas up and down the East Coast, on talk radio and pundit-driven TV, and in their own, doubt-filled, uncertain […]
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Journal Tribune Girls Basketball All-Stars
MVP: Gracie Martin, Biddeford Rookie of the Year: Olivia Howard, Noble All-Stars Taylor Wildes, Biddeford Emily Archibald, Kennebunk Jessica Dupler, Kennebunk Alaina Schatzabel, Kennebunk Kenzy Ouellette, Massabesic Skylar Renaud, Massabesic Marissa Holt, Massabesic Amy Fleming, Noble Raegan Kelly, Noble Shani Plante, OOB Maggie Strohm, OOB Paige Cote, Sanford Jillian Lizotte, Sanford Grace Mears, Thornton Academy […]
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Red Sox putting aside slow start to get rings, unveil banner
BOSTON — Red Sox manager Alex Cora believes assistant hitting coach Andy Barkett might have best described the reigning World Series champions’ slow start. “Last year was Disney World. This year is real baseball,” Cora recalled Barkett saying. “It’s true if you think about it. It was such a perfect season. We didn’t go through […]
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Trump administration ends MLB/Cuba baseball deal
HAVANA — The Trump administration is moving to end a deal allowing Cuban baseball players to sign contracts directly with Major League Baseball organizations. The change will once again require Cuban players to cut ties with their national program before signing with MLB. The Treasury Department told MLB attorneys in a letter Friday that it […]
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Bruins prepare for yet another playoff matchup with Toronto
BOSTON — The Boston Bruins have a successful history against their first-round playoff opponent — but they’re hardly dwelling on it. For the second straight season, the Bruins will open the Stanley Cup playoffs with a first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Boston hosts Game 1 on Thursday night. The Bruins won last year’s […]
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Eyes wide open for Mitchell in Masters debut
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Keith Mitchell has attended the Masters four or five times, and he has played Augusta National five times through friends, his time playing at Georgia or a practice round when he qualified by winning the Honda Classic. None of that prepared him for Monday. “I was nervous just simply walking across the […]
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Moreland homer sends Red Sox home with 1-0 win over D-Backs
PHOENIX (AP) — An awful opening trip ended with a win for the Boston Red Sox. Mitch Moreland homered off Merrill Kelly on the first pitch of the seventh inning, and the World Series champions beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 on Sunday. Boston went 3-8 against Seattle, Oakland and Arizona, its worst start since losing […]
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Things to know for the NCAA championship game
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Tournament will take an ugly turn in its final or, depending on your perspective, be a masterpiece in defensive basketball. The national title game Monday night pits Virginia (34-3), the standard-bearer in lockdown basketball, against the new kids on the defensive block, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (31-6). The over/under […]
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Crease concerns: Several contenders have goalie questions
Mike Smith and David Rittich helped the Calgary Flames finish first in the Western Conference. Yet there are still questions about how far those goalies can carry their team in the playoffs. Smith and Rittich sounds more like a law firm than the goaltending tandem anyone expected the NHL’s second-best team to have. Smith is […]