Oct 03, 2012 10:52 pm | UnBylined OAKLAND, Calif. — Same chaotic, champagne dance-party scene in the clubhouse just two days later. New T-shirt: AL West champions. The Oakland Athletics won the division title with another improbable rally in a season full of them, coming back from four runs down and a 13-game division deficit to stun ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 10:48 pm | Larry Mahoney John Bapst-Foxcroft football moved to Husson BANGOR, Maine — The LTC football game between unbeatens Foxcroft Academy and John Bapst High of Bangor has been moved from Cameron Stadium to Husson University's Winkin Complex on Saturday night. Game time will be at 7. Both teams are 5-0 and share the ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 10:34 pm | UnBylined Miguel Cabrera won baseball's first Triple Crown in 45 years Wednesday night, achieving one of the game's greatest feats. Cabrera topped the American League with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs and 139 RBIs, becoming only the 15th player to win the Triple Crown and the first since Boston's ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 10:32 pm | Dave Barber KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pat Summitt said in an affidavit that she initially felt she was being forced to step down as the Lady Vols' basketball coach by Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart, who later told Summitt that she had misinterpreted his comments. The signed affidavit was part of a lawsuit ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 10:30 pm | UnBylined Today's games HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY Bangor at Hampden 3:30 p.m. Belfast at Maranacook 3:30 p.m. Camden Hills at Nokomis 3:30 p.m. Cape Elizabeth at Falmouth 7 p.m. Central at John Bapst 7 p.m. Cony at Messalonskee 3:30 p.m. Dexter at Piscataquis 4 p.m. Edward Little at Mount Ararat 3:30 ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:37 pm | UnBylined FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots' offense is rolling again as it heads into a game against a team whose defense it dominated twice last season. Since then, of course, the Denver Broncos have made significant changes in the unit that allowed an average of 43 points and 480 ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:36 pm | Dave Barber BASEBALL Hitting League Membership At UMaine, Orono, at Paul J. Mitchell Batting Pavilion, Hitting League Membership, all levels, session 2 Jan. 1-March 31, Mondays and Tuesdays (6:30-9:30 p.m.), Saturdays (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.), $400 for each session or $750 for both, for info, contact UMaine assistant baseball coach Ryan ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:29 pm | Larry Mahoney DEXTER, Maine — The field hockey season got off to a difficult start for the Dexter High School girls. Kristy Veazie, who led the Tigers to a 15-2 mark and a berth in the Eastern Maine Class C final a year ago in her first season as a head coach, ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:28 pm | Larry Mahoney BUCKSPORT, Maine — Junior Alanna Davis had been one of the Bucksport High School soccer team's top scorers the past two seasons. Head coach Bill Tracy said she scored "seven or eight goals" each season. But when the Bucks lost goalkeeper Amber Embleton to a season-ending injury at the outset ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:26 pm | UnBylined ST. LOUIS — Thirty-eight years ago, the last time the Arizona Cardinals were 4-0, their home was St. Louis and they were known affectionately as the Big Red. Nearly a quarter century since departing for the desert, they're on top of their game again. The surprising Cardinals don't have one ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:26 pm | Pete Warner ORONO, Maine — Ever since the University of Maine athletics department announced its proposal to renovate Memorial Gymnasium, it has been searching for ways to convert the outdated structure into a suitable, modern basketball facility. What UMaine officials have discovered is that undertaking that portion of what is now a ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:05 pm | UnBylined NEW YORK — The rhetoric is rising, while the time before the planned start of the NHL regular season is running out. And now it seems more likely than not that regular-season games will be canceled before the league and the players' association even get back to the negotiating table. ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 08:04 pm | UnBylined NEW YORK — Stop the flop. The NBA will penalize floppers this season, fining players for repeated violations of an act a league official said Wednesday has "no place in our game." Those exaggerated falls to the floor may fool the referees and fans during the game, but officials at ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 07:55 pm | UnBylined AUTO RACING Formula One, Grand Prix of Japan, practice, 1 a.m., Speed-TV BASKETBALL, WNBA LOS ANGELES at MINNESOTA, 8 p.m., ESPN-TV FOOTBALL, COLLEGE SOUTHERN CAL at UTAH, 9 p.m., ESPN-TV FOOTBALL, NFL ARIZONA at ST. LOUIS, 8 p.m., NFL-TV; WZON Bangor (620 AM), WZAN Portland (970 AM) radio GOLF European ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 07:49 pm | The Associated Press NEW YORK — Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine's job was safe for at least one final game. General manager Ben Cherington would not discuss the status of the Red Sox's beleaguered first-year manager before Boston's season finale against the New York Yankees on Wednesday night. "I'm not going to talk ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 07:43 pm | Larry Mahoney ORONO, Maine — Playmaking center Blaine Byron, who led the Kemptville 73's of the Central Canada (Junior A) Hockey League in scoring last season and is leading them again this year, has verbally committed to attend the University of Maine on a hockey scholarship next fall. The 17-year-old Byron had ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 06:31 pm | UnBylined CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There's debate as to where a driver wants to be in the race to the Sprint Cup title. Brad Keselowski likes the view out front. Keselowski takes a five-point lead over Jimmie Johnson into Sunday's race at Talladega Superspeedway, the fourth of 10 races in the Chase ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 02:09 pm | Daniel Perkins Join PVSC for the first meeting of the year. Our annual spaghetti supper and speaker will be at 6 pm on Tuesday, October 9th at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono. Members should bring a dessert to share. Guest speaker is Lauren Jacobs of the Maine Winter Sports Center ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 01:21 pm | Pete Warner BELFAST, Maine — Saturday's Maine Cross Country Festival of Champions brought together many of the state's top runners. That atmosphere helped produce many of the best times clocked by Maine runners this season as 18 of the top 25 performances were logged during the girls seeded race, and 16 of ... read more | comment
Oct 03, 2012 10:45 am | UnBylined LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston High School football coach Bill County was expected to return to the team Wednesday after a medical scare earlier this week. County, 54, experienced a transient ischemic attack, or TIA, on Monday morning, according to Lewiston athletic director Jason Fuller. Often referred to as a “mini ... read more | comment
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