Patriots and Broncos square off in highly-anticipated game Sunday afternoon in Denver.
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The airing of Maine high school sports grievances
In a strangely cathartic experience as part of Festivus, Evan Crawley writes about the things that bother him most.
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Coin flip decides regular season champ in Big Ten
Winslow High School football coach Mike Siviski walked to the edge of Waterville’s Drummond Field and took part in what had to be one of the oddest rituals in his more than three decades of coaching high school football, writes Travis Lazarczyk.
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Yogi-isms part of the lore
I have never been — nor ever will be — a fan of the New York Yankees, but I have always been fond of Yogi Berra. Berra, who died at the age of 90 early Wednesday morning, wrapped up his playing career well before my time, but 18 All-Star teams, 10 World Series titles, three […]
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Brady won (for now), but sad Deflategate saga made us all losers
It only seems right with the recent release of “Straight Outta Compton” to borrow this line from Ice Cube: “Today was a good day.” No, not because Brady’s suspension was overturned or Roger Goodell and the NFL seemingly got their butts handed to them in court. It is because the most inane, moronic and flat-out […]
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Just start running
The horror stories were plentiful and poignant. “Oh my God, the Beach to Beacon? It’s a disaster,” one friend told me a few weeks before the famed 10-kilometer race. “I hate that race but try and enjoy it,” another one told me. “If you like being in big crowds then you’ll be OK. Logistically, though, […]
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A baseball Hall of Famer comes to Oakland
Ferguson Jenkins offers advice at Harold Alfond Fenway Park at Camp Tracy.
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Kraft pulls a stunner with Deflategate about-face. Is he sincere?
Six days before the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks would play one of the most entertaining — if not the greatest — Super Bowls in history, Robert Kraft stepped to a podium for an impromptu news conference and addressed the Deflategate scandal. The embattled Patriots owner defiantly defended his organization, saying, “If the (Ted) […]