An individual battle between two future college football players and the return of a player sidelined by family concerns were part of the Bulldogs’ story.
Steve Craig
Staff Writer
Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Regions we’re most excited about in the Maine basketball tourneys
Here are the tournaments that Varsity Maine reporters are looking forward to the most.
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Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Maine basketball teams in new tournament homes
With this year’s reclassification, several groups must adjust to significant site changes compared to recent seasons, particularly in Class A and Class B.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
These Maine basketball squads might surprise higher seeds
Here are three boys and three girls teams we think have a chance to cause beautiful chaos.
Posted inBoys Basketball, Sports, Varsity Maine
These 15 players will impact the Maine boys basketball tournament
Elite players can be found from York to Madawaska and from Salem Township to Bar Harbor.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine, Wrestling
Noble repeats as Class A South wrestling champion
The Knights advance 13 wrestlers to next week’s state meet, including five champions and five second-place finishers.
Posted inHearts of Pine, News, Sports
Hearts of Pine star Nathan Messer off to Charleston
After an all-USL League One season, the dynamic fullback is moving up to the USL Championship via transfer.
Posted inSports
Bethel’s Frank Del Duca has marched to a second Olympics
The driver of USA’s No. 1 two-man and four-man bobsled teams has benefited from enlisting in the U.S. Army’s World Class Athlete Program.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Immigration enforcement is keeping kids from athletics
School districts’ attendance declines have been mirrored in student-athlete participation drops while administrators and coaches focus on player security.
Posted inHearts of Pine, Sports
Hearts of Pine sign veteran attacker
Lagos Kunga was a top player for Union Omaha’s 2024 USL League One championship team.