PORTLAND — The Maine Running Hall of Fame has announced its six newest members. The 18th induction ceremony will take place on Nov. 9 at the Italian Heritage Center, beginning at noon. The MRHOF has selected Susannah Beck of North Yarmouth, Pauline Kenniston of Westbrook, Matt Lane, previously of Yarmouth, Jerry Levasseur of Brunswick, Sheri […]

AUBURN — The Mountain Valley Conference has announced the All Conference team in high school golf. Taylor Morang of Winthrop and Markella Gammaitoni of St. Dom’s were named the Players of the Year, while Winthrop coach Lonney Stevens picked up MVC Coach of the Year honors. Wiscasset golfer Grant Hefler was named to the MVC […]

KENNEBUNK — Alex Bandouveres rushed for over 100 yards, and Jesse Devereaux made a key fourth-quarter interception as the Brunswick High School football team downed Kennebunk 41-26, on Saturday. The Dragons finished the regular season with a 7-1 record, good for the No. 1 seed in Eastern B. Brunswick has a bye into the Eastern […]

WATERVILLE — Maggie Godley scored twice to lead the Bowdoin College women’s soccer team to its seventh New England Small College Athletic Conference win by shutting out Colby, 3-0, on Saturday afternoon. The Polar Bears, ranked fifth in New England, improved to 10-3 overall and 7-2 in conference play, while the Mules fell to 6-7-1 […]

For the longest time the cash infusion that the NBA was expected to gain from a renegotiated television contract was nothing more than a whisper, a mythical figure that would generate wild guesses about the total. This month, the numbers finally were identified — $24 billion, nearly tripling the league’s revenues on an annual basis. […]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras, a 22-year-old slugger who was regarded as one of the majors’ top prospects, died Sunday in a car accident in his native Dominican Republic. Taveras was driving a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro at the time of the crash on a highway between the beaches […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. All season, the defense has shouldered the lion’s share of the workload for the University of Maine football team. The unit did its job again on Saturday afternoon, but it was the offense that finally demonstrated significant growth. Freshman quarterback Drew Belcher engineered the decisive scoring drive late in the fourth quarter, lifting […]