The fans and players were almost all gone but the shock still hadn’t settled in after Mynahan’s Lisbon Greyhounds pulled off a stunning 20-17 comeback win over St. Hilaire’s Winthrop/Monmouth Ramblers in the Class D South championship game. Having just finished patiently and thoughtfully answering questions from the media, both coaches stopped to chat in […]
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Huddle Up: Lobster Bowl started strong 25 years ago, and keeps getting stronger
The first Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl wasn’t as close as its score would indicate. The West scored the first 24 points in a 24-12 victory at Thornton Academy’s Hill Stadium, the first of nine consecutive West wins. Matt Friedman scored the last West touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 46-yard run that ended in […]
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Huddle Up: Time for All-Star Game to go global
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game rosters will be announced Sunday night. In the hours and days leading up to the July 15 game, there will be a lot of ink spilled and bandwidth and airwaves clogged debating the merits of the participants in a game most people will stop watching by the fourth inning. […]
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Huddle Up: Red Sox aren’t ready to ride to fans’ rescue
Greetings, Boston Bruins fans. Sorry about the premature end to your season. I know, losing to your hated rival really hurts. Watching a legend age before your eyes and get outplayed by your most despised adversary while it happens rubs salt in the wound. Speaking on behalf of the fair-weather Bruins fans many of you […]
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Huddle Up: MLB should give replay rule the hook
When you get right down to it, the Major League Baseball season is one long replay. A lot of things get repeated over the course of 162 games: Jonathan Papelbon blows save after save. Joe Maddon outsmarts himself with some cockamamie decision every other series. Past a diving Jeter. Past a diving Jeter. Past a […]
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Huddle Up: NCAA’s challengers are mostly amateurs
We get a lot of e-mails to the sports department from authors or their press agents peddling sports-themed books. A disproportionate share of those books are about the NCAA. You can probably guess whether they’re for or against. The interesting thing about these books and the press releases announcing them is the provocative rhetoric. Comparing […]
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Huddle Up: Gripping thoughts while winter slowly loses its grip
Over here in the toy department, this is supposed to be the slow time of year, the transition from winter to spring. But as we all know too well, winter refuses to leave, and there’s too much going on to consider this a lull: • The signings of Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner and re-signing […]
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Huddle Up: Boy’s impact on Bobcats won’t fade
All it takes is one photograph of Kobe Huynh with the Bates baseball team to know this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The picture is from Kobe’s first and only meeting with the Bobcats. In the foreground is the beaming face of Huynh, a vivacious 14-year-old boy from Auburn. In the background, looking […]
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Huddle Up: Augusta Civic Center is now ‘the Capital’ of high school hoops
AUGUSTA — Welcome to the Augusta Civic Center, the new capital of Maine high school hoops. “The Capital.” I like it. “The Mecca,” aka the Bangor Auditorium, is nothing but a memory. And not a moment too soon. The Cross Insurance Center stands in its place and, from all of the photos and videos I’ve […]
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Huddle Up: Super Bowl is the winner and still champion
At 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening, over 100 million Americans will gather in front of their TV sets to watch a football game. Well, some will be watching a football game. Others will be wishing the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos would hurry up and get off the field so Bruno Mars can do his thing […]