2011 – Page 4006 – The Portland Press Herald

Tom Caron: New England Patriots’ rivalry with Jets comes of age

by TOM CARON January 11, 2011

The countdown is on. This Sunday afternoon, the New England Patriots get back to work with a 4:30 kickoff against the Jets. Is anyone surprised? It seems the two teams were destined to meet one another in the playoffs. We’ve been waiting for this one ever since late summer, when Rex Ryan was hamming it […]

Sports, Varsity Maine

Girls’ Basketball Notebook: Old Orchard Beach finds footing after slow start

by Mike Lowe January 11, 2011

Despite losing its first five games, the Old Orchard Beach girls’ basketball team did not panic. First-year coach Dean Plante saw some positive signs and kept telling his players things would improve. Well, last week the Seagulls won three games, including a huge victory over Waynflete, to get back into the Western Class C playoff […]

Sports

Maine Milestones, Jan. 11, 2011

January 11, 2011

The Wells High School girls’ basketball team is holding its second annual Shootin’ for a Cure program. Girls on all seven teams in the Wells schools, from fifth grade to high school varsity, are raising money to help bring breast MRI technology to the Breast Care Center at York Hospital in Wells. Players who gather […]

Nation & World

Gaza rockets raise tensions in Israel

by The Associated Press January 11, 2011

JERUSALEM — Three rockets fired from Gaza exploded in an industrial section of the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Monday, the military said, causing no casualties but pointing toward an escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza militants. The attack raised Israeli-Palestinian tensions already heightened by Israel’s destruction of an old hotel in an Arab […]