BOSTON The Boston Red Sox kept adding starting pitchers, and Clay Buchholz kept getting bumped further down in the rotation. There was David Price last offseason and Drew Pomeranz mid-year. By the time Chris Sale was acquired from the Chicago White Sox at the winter meetings this month, Boston had seven starters to choose from […]

LISBON “Their arms are as long as our bodies,” shouted Lisbon coach Julie Petrie after a turnover against Boothbay in a girls high school basketball contest on Tuesday. The Seahawks, the defending Class C South regional champions, showed their length while pulling away from the Greyhounds for a 51- 26 Mountain Valley Conference victory. Boothbay […]

BOSTON Thomas Greiss stopped nearly everything for the New York Islanders, including their five-game winless streak. Greiss stopped 48 of the 50 shots he faced — both career highs — and the Islanders beat the Boston Bruins 4-2 Tuesday night for the club’s first victory in almost two weeks. “They were shooting pucks from everywhere,” […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. After an anemic first half for the Boston Celtics, guard Isaiah Thomas knew things had to change. Thomas took it upon himself to push the Celtics past a 17-point second-half deficit and into overtime for a 112- 109 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night. Thomas scored a career-high 44 points, including […]

PRAGUE Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was injured by a knife-wielding attacker at her home on Tuesday and had to undergo surgery on her left hand. An operation that took 3 hours and 45 minutes revealed that the left-handed player’s injuries were “serious,” but “there’s no reason to think she wouldn’t be able to play […]

BRUNSWICK Freeport sweeps Sacopee Valley Madeline Suhr scored 20 points as the Brunswick High School girls basketball team rolled to a 54-30 Class A South win over Falmouth on Tuesday. The Dragons improved to 3-1 and hosts Leavitt on Thursday (6:30 p.m.), while the Yachtsmen fell to 2-2. Suhr dominated, picking up eight rebounds, eight […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. DeMarcus Cousins returned from a brief ejection and finished with a season high 55 points, capping a wild day for the hot-tempered big man and sending the Sacramento Kings past the Portland Trail Blazers 126-121 on Tuesday night. Hours after he was fined by the Kings for his profanity laced tirade against a […]

HALLOWELL Avery Pomerleau scored three goals as Cony/ Monmouth/ Hall- Dale skated to a 5-2 high school hockey victory over Brunswick on Tuesday at the Bank of America Ice Vault. Michael Eno gave the Dragons (0-3-1) a 1-0 lead of f assists from Alex Labbe and Max Burtis. But, Pomerleau tied the game late in […]