Justin Bowen is entering a whole new world. Six years ago, Bowen began working out on a wrestling mat with his father, Joe. Since then, Bowen the younger has rolled over the competition, picking up state and regional wins every step of the way. Soon… Read More
Some people just can’t get enough baseball. With the summer baseball programs basically completed, Winterport’s Pat Moran goes to something of an extreme to get his swings at the plate. Each Sunday the 15-year-old Moran hops into the car with his parents and travels to… Read More
Adam Cohen will be a senior at Bangor High School when school gets under way next month. For the past two years he has been training seriously as a natural body builder. His hard work paid off earlier this month when he won the junior… Read More
Not so long ago John Paul “J.P.” Soucy ate just about everything in sight. His favorite food item was pepperoni pizza and why not. His family owned the Pizza Dome in Old Town and Soucy was a power weightlifter who once bench-pressed 495 pounds. He ate a lot… Read More
The Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club took a trip in July to Charlemont, Mass., for the White Water Open Canoe Downriver Nationals and returned home with a pair of national champions. Naomi Nicholas and Gabrielle Fields defeated the field on the Deerfield River at… Read More
Anytime the discussion turns to bugs in Maine, the jokes just roll off the tongue. What’s Maine’s state bird? Why the black fly, of course. Like Jimmy Durante, we’ve got a million of ’em. But Josh Pennington says as far as bugs are concerned, Maine… Read More
Rob Cady remembers the good old days. That was back when he could lace up the skates and hit the ice for a nice game of gentlemen’s hockey and keep up with people. But the way Cady remembers it, those days passed by in a… Read More
It wasn’t all that long ago that Orono High School was one of the state’s football powers. It just seems that way to some of the people there. Include in that group Mike Archer, the school’s athletic administrator. Archer has watched as the number of… Read More
When Nick Carparelli Jr. decided to leave his job as director of operations with the New England Patriots to become assistant commissioner for football in the Big East Conference he figured it would be without much fanfare. After all, he’d only been with the Patriots for one year. Read More
Olympic gold medalist wrestler Brandon Slay will be in Dover-Foxcroft Aug. 6-9 for the Foxcroft Olympic Wrestling Camp. Maynard Pelletier, an assistant wrestling coach at Foxcroft Academy said that Slay, the 1671/2 pound gold medalist at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, will be joined by… Read More
In the 18 years of the Maine-Nebraska Friendship Series, it is estimated that almost 700 Maine high school wrestlers have competed against their counterparts from west of the Mississippi River. The two states alternate years hosting the event which includes a series of wrestling meets. Read More
Tom Brown is one of the top disabled sailors in the world. In fact, he sailed his way onto the U.S. Disabled Sailing Team in the 2.4 Metre class in 2000 and has been there ever since. But Brown’s biggest battles don’t necessarily come on… Read More
Back then Steve Pound could fly. In 1968, he had a sweet jump shot. He could take the ball to the basket. He scored 40 points per game and became a legend in Millinocket, leading Stearns to the state championship. “The stories make you better… Read More
BANGOR – Last summer Joe Alvarez wasn’t sure what he was going to do. Having just completed his junior year at the University of Maine, he knew one thing – golf at the school was no longer an option. The university had dropped the program as part of… Read More
For years Mike Brooker and his compatriots in Bangor Senior Little League worked to get the Senior League Eastern Regional baseball tournament in Bangor. Little League Baseball did them one better last November when Bangor was awarded the Senior League World Series. The tournament will… Read More
Charlie Vascellaro drives a truck for a living. But it’s not just any truck. Vascellaro is the teamster who hauls the Babe Ruth Museum travel exhibit around the country. “I drive the exhibit from place to place in a truck. We set it up for… Read More
Justin Thompson knows roads. At just 19 years of age, the senior at Mount View High School of Thorndike can jump in a car and take you wherever you’d like to go in New England without a road map. Thompson is a virtual road warrior. Read More
For some, the dream of playing pro sports never dies. Others become content playing local levels of their sport. Former University of Maine defensive lineman Adrian Stone is attempting to provide an outlet for both with the formation of the Maine Indoor Football League. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Going into the final day of competition at the NCAA men’s swimming championships, University of Texas sophomore Ian Crocker said that he didn’t know what to expect. “We were definitely in a struggle with Stanford. We knew they would be tough. We’d been telling ourselves… Read More
Dan Gacetta Jr. has had a thing for sports marketing for a long time. The 36-year-old Cape Elizabeth native first got the bug for it at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. Gacetta’s father, Dan Gacetta Sr., was Maine’s representative to the U.S. Olympic Committee… Read More
Jack Fleming felt like he was at the end of his rope. He needed this thing. A thing that was hard to describe and apparently harder to build. The thing was a trailer. A trailer with three aluminum boxes that would hold equipment. And when… Read More
Corey Violette loves seafood. In fact, each summer the Gonzaga University basketball player comes “home” to Maine to spend a few weeks at the family cottage on Portage Lake to see family and for a little home cooking. “I just hang out in the outdoors. Read More
Stacy Livingston would rather be talking about almost anything other than this. She’d prefer to talk about her Salt Lake City Olympic experience. Of standing at center ice in the women’s gold medal hockey game and dropping the puck to start the game. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
Jason Sargent’s introduction to target shooting came at an early age. His grandfather, Roger Sargent, took him to the Blue Hill Rifle and Pistol Club when he was young. “He paid attention,” the elder Sargent said of his grandson. “Some of the young guys, in… Read More
That Matt Moretti won the Penobscot Valley Conference Skimeister award for the second straight year should come as no surprise. It’s in the genes. Moretti’s grandfather, Darrell Robinson, was an Olympic alpine skier for the United States at the Oslo Olympics in 1952 where he… Read More
At the far end of the Bangor Auditorium – the end where the elephants are brought in when the circus is in town – Teddy Heroux is much like he has been for the last 38 years of his life. He is surrounded by young men wearing Belfast… Read More
Matt Michaud puts more miles on his skies each week than many of us put on our automobiles. He also fires more rifle rounds in a week than some of us will fire in a lifetime. Michaud, a 1995 graduate of Fort Kent High School,… Read More
On a cool, misty spring day in Boston, soccer referee Jason Pelletier blew his whistle and awarded a free kick to a team from just outside the penalty area. Moments later he was running for his life. “I had to abandon the match,” Pelletier said… Read More
It’s like somebody carved out a piece of Maine and put it in Michigan. That’s how Joanne McCallie looks at her move from Vacationland to the North Coast. “It’s so interesting because there are so many similarities,” McCallie said. “The people here are friendly and… Read More
Throughout Jack Bicknell’s III travels, and he has covered a lot of territory in his 38 years, there has been one constant. Although he only lived there for four years, the Louisiana Tech head coach lists Orono, Maine, as his hometown. “I loved it. I… Read More
It’s doubtful racquetball will ever return to its heyday of the 1980s when Keith Mahaney turned Bangor into one of the most lucrative stops on the pro tour. Harry Riley would settle for much less. Riley would settle for Bangor hosting a tournament – big… Read More
One day in 1996, Rosalind Morgan was on the road returning to her home in Houlton from Portland when she remembered some friends of hers were in Oakland competing in the Holiday Classic weightlifting tournament. Her decision to stop in Oakland and support her friends… Read More
Adam Craig is a national champion but unless he was wearing a sign around his neck proclaiming such, you probably wouldn’t know it. He may be, in fact, the best kept secret this side of Spencer’s Ice Cream in Milford. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
The night before the University of Maine football team was to play its NCAA Division I-AA quarterfinal game, former Maine coach Tom Lichtenberg found out who the Black Bears’ opponent was. “Northern Iowa?” Lichtenberg said. “You’re kidding.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
Herb Beane has spent a lot of time in a bowling alley. For the past 11 or 12 years, the Bangor native has bowled in two leagues each week at Family Fun Lanes in Bangor. So, when things started getting quiet in the lanes a… Read More
Sometimes you just have to cover your ears and stop listening to the buzz. For example, the word on the street was that Maine Heat couldn’t win a candlepin world team championship with three members old enough to join the AARP. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
Although the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics don’t officially get underway until Feb. 8, 2002, the prelude to the Olympics starts Dec. 4 in Atlanta with the Olympic Torch Relay. More than 20 Mainers are among the 3,505 people chosen by Chevrolet and Coca-Cola, the… Read More
What began as a plan to spend his days on the ice ended with Stuart Cady finding himself in the heat of the desert. Cady abandoned his initial desire to attempt a career as a professional hockey player and landed at the Mesa campus of… Read More
Former Falmouth High School soccer great Roger Levesque may be on a path that someday takes him into the circle of great Maine athletes that includes the likes of Billy Swift, Ricky Craven, Joey Gamache, Mike Bordick and Joan Benoit Samuelson. Levesque, 20, is a… Read More
Abby Spector answered the phone at 5 p.m. in her dorm room at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her voice told the story. The phone call awoke her. “We just returned from a tournament and we never seem to get enough sleep,”… Read More
If you’ve been to a Brewer football game at Doyle Field you’ve seen John Wakely. He’s always there. He’s the guy standing on the top row of the stands, just behind the band. Wakely is a 1968 graduate of Brewer High. And from his perch… Read More
How many times have you wished you were a fly on the wall in the Red Sox clubhouse? Corey Reynolds spent the last year and a half as the team’s batboy and he says the fly knows no more than you. He says there’s no such thing as… Read More
Millions, millions and millions more golfers go through their entire wretched, double-bogey filled lives without coming within the front bunker of a hole-in-one. Now there’s this 15-year-old young man from Brewer who had two in a week. His name is Josh Hawkes and he’s not… Read More
Marcel Bastide has a gold medal but more importantly he still pedals a bicycle with both of his legs. Bastide, a transplanted Frenchman from the Toulouse area who lives in Orrington, won a gold medal in the 20-kilometer bicycle race in the 50-59 age group… Read More
Just a few months ago local figure skater Tessa McCue was on the verge of new heights. She had made the big move in the junior skating ranks, having successfully completed a triple axle. That jump is used as a measuring stick for a skater’s growth. Read More
It turns out the Bronx Junior Little League team that defeated Bangor in the Eastern Regionals at Marlboro, N.J. was the team that Danny Almonte should have been playing for. You remember Almonte. The pitcher who turned out to be too old to be true… Read More
You could do worse than spending a day on a golf course in Bar Harbor listening to Charles Barkley stories from someone who intimately knows the Round Mound of Rebound. That’s how former University of Maine men’s basketball coach Skip Chappelle spent last Friday –… Read More
Friday, Oct. 13, 2000 was truly an unlucky day for Bangor boxer Marcus “The Irish Grenade” Davis. It was the day his boxing career almost blew up in a ring at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Conn. Though the fight was filmed by ESPN for possible… Read More
