Former Ellsworth High School basketball coach Charles Katsiaficas, former University of Maine women’s basketball coach Joanne Palombo-McCallie, and longtime Rumford and Mountain Valley High wrestling coach Jerry Perkins are among eight people who will be inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. The 33rd… Read More
Jack Scott built his reputation in athletics as a tenacious basketball and baseball player at Ellsworth High School and Husson College. He continued to achieve excellence as a coach at Ellsworth. Scott is among 11 people who will be inducted Saturday into the Maine Sports… Read More
BANGOR – When becoming as extensively involved as they were in certain sports comes as a huge surprise, being inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame for that involvement is simply shocking. The theme for Sunday evening’s 31st annual MSHF Induction/Awards Banquet seemed to… Read More
Rain or shine, it will be a shining moment for seven Eastern Maine sports luminaries Sunday night as they are enshrined in the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Richard Barstow, Mike Bordick, James “Chico” Hernandez, Brian Higgins, Irving Kagan, Roger Reed, and Peter Webb make… Read More
Their collective careers, as athletes, coaches, officials and administrators, have spanned parts of six decades. Their accomplishments range from regional and state championships to national titles, major league records, World Series appearances and All-Star recognition. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
Jim Beattie, a former pitcher at South Portland High School, the University of Maine and in the major leagues, heads the 2005 induction class for the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Beattie, a fourth-round draft pick (91st overall) in 1975 who won a World Series… Read More
Six men will be inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame during a ceremony Sunday at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland. Augusta native Richard Daniels; Melrose, Mass., native Robert Hatch; Arnold Green of Portland; Brad Leach and Dick McCabe of Biddeford, and Morton… Read More
BANGOR – Watching her 3-year-old son Shawn Michael play his first organized T-ball team made Lynne Walsh think a lot about her husband, the late Shawn Walsh, and the influence he had on the members of his University of Maine men’s ice hockey team as their coach. Read More