RICHMOND Recent history has proven that if you try to play an open, end-to-end match with the Richmond High School girls soccer team, you don’t have much of a chance. One thing you can do? Pack it in. Searsport did just that in Wednesday’s Class D South regional final and, aside from a couple sequences, […]

MONMOUTH The only goal in Wednesday’s Class C South boys high school soccer championship game was an example of luck being the residue of design. Monmouth Academy’s first Class C South regional boys’ soccer title was more the product of design than luck. Monmouth scored on a throw-in that deflected off of a Lisbon defender […]

RICHMOND From 2008-2014, the Richmond Greenville boys’ high school soccer rivalry was at its peak. Five times during that period, the Bobcats and Lakers met in the Class D South regional final, along with a quarterfinal and semifinal matchup. These contests, along with two regular season East-West Conference clashes, were often bloody and brutal battles, […]

The NFC is so wide open that tonight’s meeting between Atlanta and Tampa Bay could wind up having some significance when the playoff races conclude. Neither team has been particularly consistent. Had the Falcons not held off Green Bay on Sunday, they would have been in a freefall similar to last season, when they went […]

BOSTON The Boston Celtics played without new addition Al Horford for the first time this season on Wednesday night. Thanks to Isaiah Thomas and Amir Johnson, they didn’t miss a beat. Thomas had 23 points and 10 assists, Johnson finished 23 points — including a career-high four 3-pointers — and the Boston Celtics handed the […]

CHICAGO Next year is here. At exactly 11:47 p.m. local time, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series title that had eluded them for 108 years. Fans who packed bars to watch the games on television near Wrigley Field — neither of which existed back in 1908 — erupted in cheers before swarming onto the […]