That leads to my talking point for this week’s edition. We recently saw the regional field hockey championships contested in Portland and Waterville. Regional baseball title games are held in Standish, Augusta and Bangor. North and South tennis championships are played at an off-campus location. Hockey regionals drop the puck at a neutral site. (Well, […]
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In the Crease: Together, continued change is possible
To watch him pace the sideline during one of his Lewiston High School boys’ soccer games is to watch a bundle of human emotion slowly wind itself tightly — every pace quicker with each passing minute of a tough contest. To hear him — if you can, as the season wears along — is divine. […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Better to say ‘bye,’ or hello to another game?
Sometimes words have two meanings, as Led Zeppelin taught us, and when we’re in late October or early November, bye has only one connotation to those of us paid to keep our tunnel vision directed at high school football. It’s the off week which some of the best teams in the state receive as a […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Predictions
Although they aren’t battle-tested going into the Class A North playoffs, the Portland Bulldogs have a team that’s built for this time of year. Hard to say which element I like more: the one-two punch at running back, or the smothering defense that hasn’t allowed a point in, oh, a month. Seeds will hold up […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Rivalry games are a lost art
This is the week when traditional rivalries used to dominate the headlines, but no longer. We have Lewiston at Edward Little … and … and … well, no offense to Poland and Gray-New Gloucester, but when that is the second most bitter gridiron grudge on the docket, it’s safe to say times have changed. Mt. […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Talking changes to put safety first
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 […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Keeping track of stuff that annoys us
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 […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Tossing around goose eggs
Oakes: So, like, I know we chose a verbal profession, but let’s get numerical this week. Four weeks complete mean that we are halfway (scary, huh?) through the high school football season. There are 78 varsity teams in the state, including one that already closed ranks for the year, but let’s gloss over that topic […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: You get a playoff berth! Everybody gets a playoff berth!
Oakes: You and I don’t always agree on social issues, boss man, but I know both of us have lamented the increasing stench of our “everybody gets a trophy” culture. Well, much as I love our local high school football scene and almost everything about it, I must reluctanctly admit that it is an agonizing […]
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H.S. Football Head to Head: Top 10 list inspires class envy, lively debate
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 […]