LONDON Five things to know about Sunday, the last and 16th day of the London Olympics: —LeBron leads U.S. to gold over Spain. —The Who closes rocking closing ceremony. —Jake Varner wins wrestling gold for U.S. —Joshua lands Britain’s third boxing gold. —Uganda’s Kiprotich cruises to marathon victory. LeBron James stood with both arms in […]

GORHAM — The Brunswick Junior Legion baseball team ended its magical run through the playoffs with a 13-4 loss to Gray/New Gloucester on Saturday afternoon. After a difficult regular season in which Brunswick struggled to finish games and was 4-12 at one point, the players gelled to win the last two games and make the […]

LONDON This was no Dream Team. This was reality. The gold medal was in doubt for the U.S. men’s basketball team. The Americans led Spain by only one point after three quarters, a back-and-forth, impossible-to-turn-away-from game that almost anyone would hope for in an Olympic final. Especially, it turns out, the U.S. players. “We knew […]

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. Rory McIlroy hit off wood chips and out of sand. He even stuck one shot in a tree branch — and went on to make par like it was no big deal. By the time the PGA Championship was over, he was in a class by himself. “On 18, I was just […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — When first questioned, New England Patriots left guard Logan Mankins budged about as much as he does on the field. After practicing for the first time Sunday since offseason surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, the 310-pound perennial Pro Bowler admitted he was surprised when […]