And with it came the Americans’ elusive third Women’s World Cup title. Lloyd scored three times as the U.S. burst to a four-goal lead in the first 16 minutes, and the Americans overwhelmed defending champion Japan 5-2 Sunday for their record third championship and first since 1999. A sellout crowd of 53,341 that included U.S. […]
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Elite Academy to focus on serious high school soccer players
The United Soccer Academy is excited to announce the formation of an Elite Academy designed for the serious high school player. It will be held July 20 through the 24 at the LAYSA Field in Auburn. The program is designed to help a player be better prepared for tryouts this coming fall and to have […]
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Elite Academy to focus on serious high school players
The United Soccer Academy is excited to announce the formation of an Elite Academy designed for the serious high school player. It will be held July 20 through the 24 at the LAYSA Field in Auburn. The program is designed to help a player be better prepared for tryouts this coming fall and to have […]
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Sepp Blatter says he is stepping down as FIFA head
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will resign from soccer’s governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and has promised to call for fresh elections to choose a successor. Federation Internationale de Football Association is the international soccer governing body based in Switzerland. The 79-year-old Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term on Friday, two days after a […]
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Videos: FIFA indictments: U.S. charges world soccer officials with bribery, racketeering
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department unsealed a 47 count indictment early Wednesday charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud. Four of those accused, including two sports marketing companies, have already pleaded guilty and are likely to be cooperating. Among the “alleged schemes,” said the Justice Department, […]
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Island games: Challenging to be an outlier
VINALHAVEN — Tim Kane has been around athletics all his life, but nothing compares with the sporting life on an island school. “There’s things you deal with that you don’t normally deal with at mainland schools,” said Kane, who is in his first year as Vinalhaven’s principal. “But it’s enlightening and it’s fun. It’s a […]
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Island games: Not all away games are created equal for East-West Conference teams
First up for the Buckfield Junior/Senior High School baseball team, a three-plus-hour rollick across the winding, pothole-dotted back roads of Maine. Then, a ferry. After loading the vessel, the team makes the final leg — a 75-minute ride — over western Penobscot Bay’s following seas and rolling waves to one of Maine’s largest and most […]
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Mills, Sun Journal sports department collect awards
ORLANDO — The Sun Journal sports department and sports reporter Kevin Mills are among the winners this week in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest. Mills, who has been with the Sun Journal for 23 years, earned a top-10 award in project reporting for his series of stories on the evolution of soccer at […]
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Oxford Hills seniors Mikayla Morin, Davis Turner sign with University of Maine
PARIS — NCAA Division I athletes aren’t plentiful in Maine, and they are especially rare in the rural, less affluent regions of the state. Such signings certainly aren’t an annual event at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, so the odds of having two recruits within the same senior class are remote, indeed. You might say that […]
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H.S soccer: Soccer excitement in Lewiston-Auburn
Two soccer programs with great histories finished off two successful seasons. The Lewiston boys and the Edward Little girls both played in the state championships Saturday, getting further than most teams in their respective programs. As a result the two programs, schools and communities shared a unique experience, creating quite a buzz around the Twin […]