A quick perusal of this year’s Bangor Daily News High School Basketball Preview shows some interesting coaching combinations for the 2008-2009 season.
Admittedly, most of the coaching rosters …
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From time to time, when I sit down to prepare thoughts for this space, I come up with things and suggestions for sports, acting as if I were the Sports Czar.
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Merry Christmas!
Thoughts turn today to the seemingly ongoing battle each year to minimize the holiday of Christmas by reducing its significance with a plethora of activities, mostly sports-related, that take young people away from the home and put them into one athletic event or another.
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Triggered by news out of Watkins-Glen, N.Y., that Watkins Glen International is in need of a sponsor for its NASCAR spring Cup race after Centurion Boats pulled out of the final year of its contract, …
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I must confess that I actually missed last week’s so-called Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving day, which finds droves of shoppers racing out to begin the Christmas shopping season.
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Basketball officials endure hours of in-class and on-court instruction
The next time you attend a high school basketball game in eastern Maine, take a look at the game officials down on the floor.
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I was never much of an outdoorsman.
Having said that, I do retain many family memories of the upcoming Thanksgiving week.
Like most boys in a Maine family, I was, however, taught the …
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Bob Sinford is a rock picker.
As boys soccer coach at Machias Memorial High School, Sinford spends much of his time performing the insignificant, mundane tasks which contribute to his successful program.
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Today is Election Day.
No, I’m not going to admonish readers to vote because I know most of you will. I would, however, like to address a few issues that I wish were on the ballot this …
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Back in the day before television rights affected most of what professional sports did in the preseason, the Boston Celtics played some of this exhibition stuff right in our own backyard at the Bangor Auditorium.
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I didn’t laugh. I didn’t cry. I chose rather to reflect.
As the 2008 baseball season came to a disappointing end Sunday night for the Boston Red Sox, I chose to look back on a season and …
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I used to be an owner of one of those amplifying devices that gives the user — yours truly — an added edge in listening to a sports broadcast at the volume of his or her convenience.
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With all the hoopla surrounding the New York Yankees’ final home game last weekend at Yankee Stadium, I couldn’t help thinking about historic sports venues in my own life.
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