BOSTON Boston’s 18-point loss at Utah in its first game after the All-Star break was a rough one. It didn’t take very long for the Celtics to learn from their mistakes. Jae Crowder had 22 points, and the Celtics extended their home win streak to 11 with a 100-95 victory over the Jazz on Monday […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady reportedly has agreed to a two-year contract extension with the New England Patriots. The deal will significantly lessen Brady’s salary cap hit for 2016, which would have been about $15 million. He was due to make $9 million next season, plus a $6 million bonus, and $10 million in […]

Loui Eriksson is still with Boston. Dan Hamhuis is still a Canuck. And Jonathan Drouin is still on the roster of the Tampa Bay Lightning after the NHL’s trade deadline came and went Monday. The league said there were 19 trades involving 37 players completed on Monday. That’s lower than last year’s numbers of 24 […]

BOSTON — The University of Southern Maine women’s indoor track team had a solid day of competition on Saturday at the 2016 NEICAAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships held at the Track and Tennis Center on the campus of Boston University. The NEICAAA New England Championships features competitors from NCAA Division I, II and […]

BOSTON — Bates College competed at Boston University this past weekend. Former Brunswick High School standout Allison Hill ran the 60-meter hurdles in 8.91, the third time in her career she has surpassed the nine-second time. Hill finished seventh in the meet. Bates heads to Tufts College in the “Last Chance Meet.”

BIDDEFORD — Brooke Kelleher scored with 2:11 remaining in overtime to give the University of New England a hard-fought 10-9 win over St. Joseph’s College in a non-conference women’s lacrosse game played Saturday afternoon at the Big Blue Turf. Jocelyn Davee of Freeport passed to Kelleher from behind the net, and the junior attack carried […]

STANDISH — Top-seeded Saint Joseph’s College (23-5) edged No. 3 Emmanuel College (21-7), 66-62, in the 2016 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Women’s Basketball Championship at the Harold Alfond Center on Saturday afternoon. With the victory, St. Joseph’s earned the GNAC’s automatic qualifier into the 2016 NCAA D-III Women’s Basketball National Tournament. The Monks put […]

TOPSHAM — The Topsham Parks and Recreation Department will host a three-week softball clinic. The clinic will be held at Mt. Ararat High School (participants are asked to use the back entrance for access) on Sundays beginning on March 20. The other two weeks will take place on April 3 and 10. The cost is […]