PRESQUE ISLE Bowdoin College junior Jack Simonds scored his 1,000th career point as the Polar Bear men’s basketball team cruised to a non-conference 81-62 win at Maine- Presque Isle on Tuesday afternoon. The Polar Bears improved to 10-3 with the victory. Simonds becomes the 25th player in Bowdoin men’s basketball history to reach 1,000 points, […]

TORONTO Wayne Ellington made a go-ahead driving layup with less than a second remaining, and the Miami Heat stopped Toronto’s 12-game home winning streak with a 90-89 victory over the Raptors on Tuesday night. It was the only basket of the second half for Ellington, who finished with 15 points. Goran Dragic had 24 points […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. Rob Gronkowski says coach Bill Belichick makes it easy for the New England Patriots to ignore distractions such as the one created by last week’s ESPN report. “Throughout my years here I’ve seen a lot of negative, a lot of positive,” Gronkowski said Tuesday as the Patriots prepared for Saturday night’s divisional playoff […]

BRUNSWICK The Brunswick High School girls ice hockey team improved to 4-7 with a 5-2 victory over Yarmouth/ Freeport on Tuesday at Sidney J. Watson Arena. Nadia Leiner had 14 saves for the Dragons, while Freeport’s Allie Perratta had 19 saves. Brunswick jumped out to a 1-0 lead as Emily Factor scored an unassisted goal […]

WASHINGTON John Carlson, Lars Eller and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored to help the Washington Capitals beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Tuesday night for their fifth consecutive victory. Backup goaltender Philipp Grubauer stopped 37 of 38 shots in his third win of the season. It was Washington’s NHL-best 10th straight home win. ’Hawks 8, Senators 2 […]

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin college senior Lauren Petit has been named the New England Small College Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Petit led the Polar Bears in scoring in a pair of NESCAC wins last weekend, including a game-high 20 points and seven rebounds in a victory over second-ranked Tufts on Saturday. For […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Parks and Recreation Department is slated to hold two wrestling clinics for boys and girls in grades 1-8. No experience is necessary. The first clinic will be held Saturday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. On Tuesday, the second takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. A youth wrestling season […]