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Top basketball recruits won’t always pick UMaine
The recent news of York High School’s Nicole Taylor committing to play Division I basketball at the University of Vermont has brought with it some questions as to why the player some regard as the state’s best will not be attending UMaine in 2011.
UMaine football games are best at the stadium
A recent visit to Orono provided the opportunity to stop in at Pat’s Pizza and the added benefit of picking up a University of Maine football pocket schedule. Of course, the …
Young athletes set for national events
Three young track and field athletes from the Bangor area will compete on the national stage over the next week and a half during the Junior Olympic Nationals and the Hershey Track & Field Games North American Final.
Bangor is logical site for Maine Basketball Hall of Fame
Congratulations to the Bangor City Council and its proactive motion of support behind the creation of the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame along with its wish that the hall be located in the Queen City. It’s a logical fit along with the council’s idea that it would be ideal ...
Darling provided inspiration
It was a hot and sticky July like this in the summer of 1974 when friend Tom Darling and I ventured from our Millinocket homes to the University of Maine in Orono for a weeklong summer basketball camp where I learned some inspirational lessons in athletics from Tom.
Blodgett’s UMaine women need a true scorer
The recent addition of junior college basketball player Sheay Longstaff to the UMaine women’s basketball team is compelling for several reasons. It’s …
Former AD reflects on UMaine, college athletics
Former America East and Hockey East commissioner Stuart Haskell reflects on UMaine and college athletics.
Wife won’t let her cancer keep Milan home
Faced with making a choice between the two loves of his life, his wife Marie and the sport of candlepin bowling, it was an easy choice for Brewer’s Charlie Milan III.
He would not go to Halifax, …
Orono wins appeal of MPA transfer waiver ruling
The Orono High School boys soccer team has compiled a 10-0 record so far this season, but one of its biggest victories may have occurred off the field Monday.
U.S. team seeks to halt Canadians’ 6-year run
BREWER, Maine — Consistency could determine the champion of the 24th World Team Candlepin Tournament that gets under way at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes Tuesday.
Charlie Milan III is hoping …
Nealey enters candlepin Hall of Fame tonight
Russ Nealey is one of a few Maine bowlers who has been successful for five decades, and he’ll be honored for those achievements when he is inducted into the International Candlepin Bowling Association Hall of Fame tonight in Bradford, Mass.



