Oakes: Not quite sure how to start this week’s repartee, man. Our custom here is dry wit and irreverence, since we write about fun and games for a living, and all. Sometimes the merriment takes a back seat out of necessity, and this past Saturday’s events at Greely put football in a perspective that fortunately […]

Now that we have that disclaimer out of the way, let’s get real. We don’t get into this profession or perform its duties very long without finding a few things about high school sports that royally tick us off. And both of us are prone to beat up ourselves more than we do others, so […]

Oakes: Look down below! It’s our Top 10 list. I don’t know if it’s inspired by David Letterman or not, but we have been putting ours out there every week of football season since the early 1990s. (Yes, I say we because I was here then, which has both its advantages and depression-inducing qualities).  It […]

Oakes: So, I don’t know if you noticed while editing a dozen stories on deadline at 11:19 p.m. this past Friday night, but Gray-New Gloucester beat Mountain Valley, 44-37, at Chet Bulger Field. This was significant, as you know, because the Patriots hadn’t won a game since 2012 and had never beaten the Falcons. And […]

Oakes: Well, sport, the high school football playoffs are upon us. There will be quarterfinal games breaking out all over the state Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, and yes, by golly, some of them will be breakouts, as in more ugly and painful than a shingles flare-up. And unless you have been hiding under a […]

Pelletier: Greetings again old, old friend. This week, I’m going to take you back to your childhood, when the rules dictated you couldn’t throw a forward pass in football. Remember that, man? I don’t. Maybe we won’t go that far back, but the topic is in the ballpark. It’s one that draws the ire of […]