Not sure if Week 7 is officially the week high school football lovers wonder how the season flew by so fast, but it’s never a bad time to realize it is dwindling rapidly and we should appreciate it while it is still around. • We have so many great matchups this weekend with a lot […]
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Huddle Up: Whitehouse talking points, Week 6
October is football. Football is October. If you don’t agree, I question whether you actually watch football. But please, continue reading. • A scheduling quirk allowed me to play couch potato on a fall Saturday afternoon last week and watch WABI’s broadcast of the fantastic Lawrence-Winslow game. Lawrence won 17-14 on a last-second field goal […]
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Huddle Up: Whitehouse talking points, Week 5
As we enter the second half to the 2018 high school football season, some folks are going to start trying to project playoff seedings via whatever number of Heal point scenarios they can dream up. I am not one of those people. I gave up projecting Heals several years ago after failing on a few […]
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Huddle Up: Whitehouse Talking Points for Week 4
This week’s edition of Whitehouse Talking Points is dedicated to Larry King’s old USA Today column. The man essentially invented tweeting. He had his finger on the pulse of everything back then (back then being when people still read USA Today) and shared what he knew in 140 characters or less. And readers hung on […]
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Huddle Up: Whitehouse Talking Points heading into Week 3
If there is anything I hate more than fans and sports writers jumping to conclusions after two weeks of football, it’s those who jump to conclusions after one week. Social media has destroyed all self-control and so all I do now is knee-jerk reactions. I’m actually proud I made it as far as Week 2. […]
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Huddle Up: Another Haley tribute is due
Last Saturday’s memorial service for Mike Haley featured a number of amazing speeches remembering the legendary football coach and administrator. I felt privileged to hear all of them, and wish I could have stuck around after the service to hear more stories being swapped. The memorial didn’t lack for stories, or laughs, and certainly not […]
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Huddle Up: Predictions so nice, Whitehouse made them twice (well, three times now)
So far, I am on record making predictions for the 2018 high school football championship pairings in Classes A, B, C and D on a couple of forums, WMTW’s always insightful Blitz 8 Preview Show (still available to stream online) and Varsity Maine’s season preview. I’m going to make predictions again in this space because […]
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Huddle Up: Embrace the hate, Pats fans. It beats being irrelevant
Among the many fallacies about the New England Patriots being pedaled by the media and jealous fans of everyone else is that the Patriots were the laughing stock of the league before Bill Belichick and Tom Brady came along. The Boston media, in particular, throws it out there, in a lazy attempt to try to […]
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H.S. football: The state of 'Local 14'
For the first time since 2001, the Sun Journal won’t have one of our “local” teams to cover in a state championship game. The final five of the 14 teams (including Class E Telstar) that we cover regularly from our palatial Park Street newsroom and gridirons across the Androscoggin-Oxford-Franklin country region bowed out last Friday […]
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Huddle Up: Super Bowl win truly unbelievable
No, really. They won. They won in the most unlikely, unprecedented, unbelievable fashion. And no, this column, this newspaper, isn’t left over from Super Bowl XLIX. If you didn’t see it, if you went to bed with visions of Super Bowl XX in your head, I can’t possibly describe it to you. Let’s just say […]