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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 inNews, Sports
Fans of Iceland’s long-shot World Cup soccer squad live and die with ‘our team’ at Portland pub
Tiny Iceland, playing in the sport’s premier event for the first time, loses to Nigeria, 2-0, but one fan says, ‘Just being in the World Cup is a victory for us.’
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Posted inSports
American Legion baseball is on the decline in Maine
American Legion teams are dwindling as players prefer to play on travel teams to get more exposure and face better competition.
Posted inSports
The Shipyard Old Port Half Marathon will have new starting and finishing lines
The changes are made to avoid congestion in downtown Portland on Saturday.
Posted inGirls Lacrosse, Sports, Varsity Maine
Class B girls’ lacrosse: Cape Elizabeth beats Yarmouth in OT
Emily Healy scores with 42.9 seconds left to give the Capers the crown.
Posted inNews, Schools and Education, Sports, Varsity Maine
School board ends long, emotional debate with vote to remove Native American imagery from Wells mascots
The unanimous vote leaves Skowhegan as the only high school in Maine to retain a Native American nickname or imagery.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education, Sports, Varsity Maine
Wells teams should still be the Warriors, panel recommends, but stop using Native American imagery
The results of Wednesday’s secret ballot vote, released Thursday, show 17 of 24 votes in favor of keeping the school’s nickname and eliminating the logos.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Varsity Maine
Wells mascot committee may have violated open meetings law with secret vote
The group that’s examining what to do about the Native American imagery associated with the high school mascot made its recommendation to the school committee via secret ballot.
Posted inFood & Dining, Life & Culture
KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, is this reviewer’s motto for grilling
Which is only part of the reason he liked the maple-sriracha chicken drumstick recipe so much.
Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Baseball notebook: Class A South is a close, competitive league
Without the dominant pitchers of seasons past, more teams than usual are playing winning baseball.