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The Hot Corner: The politics of dancing (how coaches tiptoe through blowouts)

Week 1 of high school football quickly showed me two things: A) Adding a fourth class didn’t dramatically reduce the number of blowouts. B) The politics of navigating those one-sided games, for both victorious and vanquished coaches, will never change. Coaches consistently proclaim that games of hammer-versus-nail “aren’t good for anybody,” and those gentlemen are […]

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The Hot Corner: Time to examine what our kids are consuming

There are so many visible and intangible forces sabotaging our kids’ lives that we just can’t seem to keep track of them all. We’ve done a credible job, for example, with anti-bullying programs and by teaching them to respect people of different faiths, skin tones or other orientations. Yet somehow we fell asleep at the […]

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Par For the Course: Match play tourney set for Fox Ridge

No tournament ever will replace the Maine Amateur as the crown jewel of amateur events in the Pine Tree State, but the Maine State Golf Association’s Match Play Championship, scheduled Tuesday through Thursday at Fox Ridge, has become a popular event in this, just its fourth year of existence. Unfortunately, only one of the past […]

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The Hot Corner: Super win for the little guys

OXFORD — Travis Benjamin now has won the same TD Bank 250 that Kyle Busch dominated two years ago. Same event that Kevin Harvick commanded three Julys before that. The difference couldn’t be more dramatic if you took a panoramic photo of Charlotte Motor Speedway, then plopped it down next to a snapshot of Benjamin’s […]

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The Hot Corner: Forty looks super on this little, big race

Turning 40 gets a bad rap. I’ve been there, and now, as of Sunday evening, so has the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. When approaching that milestone, we often read about the dreaded midlife crisis. Hey, I changed the left digit of my age together with the right one eight months ago, and […]

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The Hot Corner: Ten days of angst, bargaining and acceptance

They don’t make television and movie comedies like they used to. When you’re connected to Boston sports fans through every pipeline of new media, however, you don’t need a sign reminding you to giggle or guffaw. It’s like Caddyshack multiplied by Animal House filtered through Cheers, every fun-loving day. If you aren’t ROFL, LYAO, either […]