BOSTON The expensive flops are gone. So is the misfit manager. And the Boston Red Sox are winning again. Winning more than any other team in major league baseball. That’s 58 wins, most in the majors and just 11 fewer than they had all last season. Keep up the .598 pace they have at the […]

TOPSHAM — Antonio Meucci ripped a bases-loaded, two-run double in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift Apple Valley to a 2-1 victory over Lewiston in the title game of the Area 2 Babe Ruth 13-Year-Old baseball tournament at Mt. Ararat Middle School on Sunday. Trailing 1-0 after Lewiston jumped on top in the […]

WALTHAM, Mass. It was the first thing Celtics general manager Danny Ainge told Kris Humphries on Monday when the two sat down to talk: “We’re not tanking.” “It’s the first thing he told me, too,” said Keith Bogans, who came to Boston along with Humphries, Gerald Wallace, MarShon Brooks and three firstround draft picks in […]

MANCESTER, N.H. — The Portland Sea Dogs (46-50) were shut out for the fifth time during a nine-game road trip, falling 4-0 to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (49-46) on Wednesday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Eastern League play. New Hampshire swept the three-game series and has won eight straight. Portland lost its […]

WISCASSET Saturday was bright and sunny as the race cars hit the track for five exciting feature races that included Super Stock, New England 4-Cylinder Pro Stock, Pro Stock, Thunder 4’s and the flex race of the week, Outlaw Mini’s. It was Bath Iron Works Day, and employees of BIW received discounted admission prices. First […]

AUGUSTA Not long ago the Maine Principals’ Association had a piecemeal approach to recognizing good sportsmanship among the schools and teams that participated in its activities. That effort began with the awarding of banners to boys and girls basketball teams at the end of each year’s tournament based on a vote of MPA’s basketball committee […]

OLATHE, Kan. — Brunswick’s Jerry LeVasseur recently competed in the USATF Master Track and Field Championships. The 75-year-old athlete picked up gold medals in the 10Kand4x800,asilverinthe 5K,1,500and4x400,anda bronze in the steeplechase. With a fourth-place showing in the triple jump, LeVasseur picked up 27 points for the New England 65 Plus Runners Club. His point total […]

BIDDEFORD — Maine Games will host the NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition for boys and girls on Saturday at Waterhouse Field, the official kick-off for the 2013 Shriners Lobster Bowl Classic. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and must be completed by 8:30 a.m. The event is free and open to all players ages 6-15. […]

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — The fourth annual Lobster Roll 5K and Kid’s Fun Run will be held on July 27. The 5K begins at 8 a.m., with theFunRunslatedfora9a.m. start. The race is one of the fundraisers Community On Track holds each year, with all proceeds going toward the construction of an eight-lane outdoor track facility to […]

BRUNSWICK — Shannon Malloy, a 2011 graduate of Bowdoin College, has been named as an assistant coach for the Polar Bear field hockey team. Malloy returns to Bowdoin after serving as an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Trinity College the last two years while earning her master’s degree in public policy. At Trinity, […]