Recommendations by the Maine Principals’ Association that would cut varsity sport schedules in response to the nation’s economic travails have elicited plenty of reaction.
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Last summer high school athletic programs faced a transportation crisis, specifically how to cope with escalating travel expenses given that diesel fuel hovered near $5 per gallon.
That crisis has …
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Dan O’Connell’s formula for coaching success is not revolutionary. “The biggest thing I’ve found is that if you get the community behind you and you treat the kids with respect and get them to believe in themselves, you’re going to be successful,” he said.
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Perhaps this space — and the predictions that follow — should be turned over to colleague Pete Warner, he of the record eighth Bangor Daily News Football Forecast championship secured recently.
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It was a little more than three years ago, Sept. 16, 2005, when this space was devoted to the fact the Mount Desert Island football team had won its first two games of the season.
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As Greg Curry loaded firewood on a trailer Sunday morning for delivery to his mother’s house, the Dover-Foxcroft man and avid Boston Red Sox fan couldn’t help bring up the subject that has come to epitomize his favorite team’s current playoff plight.
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When Paul Soucy became Hermon High’s athletic administrator in 2002, one of his early priorities was to identify sports-related needs at the steadily growing school.
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The undefeated Camden Hills of Rockport boys soccer team put on a dominant performance Wednesday afternoon, easily defeating a Gardiner team that had come into their midseason clash with just a single loss of its own.
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I’ve had this math problem for the last three years now.
For a while I let it go, believing it was just my problem — much like the problem I had the first time I took college calculus.
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Nate Warren is accustomed to fast starts.
He’s the reigning Class C state champion in the 100-meter dash, winning the event last spring in 11.29 seconds. He also helped Bucksport win the state 400-meter relay in 45.56.
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With 19 players back from a team that won the Eastern Maine Class D championship a year ago, the Ashland boys soccer team should be back in the postseason mix again this fall.
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