Boxing is reborn. Boxing is dead. Boxing merely exists. It won’t be as prolonged as the hype, mercifully, but part of the legacy of Saturday night’s Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao welterweight championship fight is examining what it did for a sport that has been rendered irrelevant. My kneejerk, morning-after suspicion, admittedly clouded by staying up until […]
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The Hot Corner: Red Sox shortcomings no big deal, for now
Are they good, or do they stink out loud? That is the question. OK, perhaps that query lacks the Shakespearean, roll-off-the-tongue appeal to catch on. For our purposes, it conveys the point, which is that April has been a month of mixed reviews for the Red Sox. Heading into Sunday’s finale at Camden Yards (it’s […]
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The Hot Corner: Seasons change. No, really, I think they might
Wake me up when the spring high school sports season arrives. You got that? No, don’t tell me it’s already here. I spoke with one high school baseball coach this week who told me in hushed, defeated tones that the pitcher’s mound was the only visible patch of earth on his low-lying diamond. I knew […]
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The Hot Corner: Maine youth sports calendar needs some work
Can’t vouch for any scientific method of quantifying it, but I’m certain I’ve heard multiple mental health professionals proclaim March “the most depressing month to live in Maine.” Most of us didn’t require such a revelation, of course. I celebrated Friday’s alleged first day of spring by thawing a frozen pipe underneath my kitchen sink. […]
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The Hot Corner: Sifting through sports season slowdown, 140 characters at a time
OK, call me a shameless self-promoter, but March is easily the best time to follow me on social media. This is counterintuitive, of course, because there is absolutely nothing happening in terms of high school sports, now or in the foreseeable future. Maybe that’s part of the appeal. I’m cantankerous, cooped-up and a little punchy. […]
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The Hot Corner: Hockey’s perfect punctuation for high school winter sports
The Maine Principals’ Association and the high school sports establishment preserve the best for last, every year. Ten winters ago, when the sanctioning body restructured the basketball tournament due to changing needs and moved the Class A showcase from the first two weeks of March to February vacation, hockey took over as the terminus of […]
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The Hot Corner: Final progress report from Tourney ’15
Another year of tournament basketball is in the books. Deep sigh. Now what do I do? Every student-athlete knows that each semester ends with a progress report. Of course, I bet a few of them wish their performance on that 94-foot-long rectangle were the only measuring stick! Today, then, is their lucky day. What follows […]
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The Hot Corner: Dirigo wins habitually, and does it the right way
The hollering from Locker Room No. 3 at the north end of Augusta Civic Center prompted an exchange of quizzical looks, followed by doubled-over laughs, among every coach and reporter within earshot Saturday night. Dirigo boys’ basketball players were, ahem, enjoying a moment. They’ve shared enough of them for our enjoyment over the years. All […]
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Sun Journal wins NENPA awards
BOSTON — The Sun Journal accepted four first-place honors and four additional top awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association for writing and illustration Saturday, signifying the best writing among all newspapers in New England. Staff Writer Lindsay Tice accepted the awards for the newspaper, including a first-place award for government reporting for […]
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The Hot Corner: No title, but one special journey for Devils
Deftly fielding a reporter’s late-afternoon Sunday phone call that probably interrupted a New England Patriots game, Lewiston boys’ basketball coach Tim Farrar forecast in November that his team had “a chance to do something special.” Well, he slam-dunked that prediction. Poster quality, too, even if “special” stopped two wins shy of every team’s dare-to-dream aspiration. […]