Steve Craig

Staff Writer

Steve Craig reports primarily about Maine’s active high school sports scene and, more recently, the Portland Hearts of Pine men's professional soccer team. His first newspaper job was covering Maine high school sports in 1986 working out of a tiny office in Skowhegan at the front of a hand-sewn shoe shop. After 12 years as a sportswriter in Dover, New Hampshire, he had a multi-year stint as the Portland Press Herald's freelance motorsports writer. In 2012 he was happy to make a working return to Maine as a staff writer for the Press Herald. Steve was named the National Sports Media Association's 2022 Maine Sportswriter of the Year, 27 years after winning the award for New Hampshire.

Fall sports, Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

Greely ponders its football future

by Steve Craig November 6, 2018November 6, 2018

With a limited number of players, forming a co-op team or eight-man football are being considered.

Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

Football: Marshwood runs past Falmouth for 49-24 win

by Steve Craig November 3, 2018November 3, 2018

The Hawks use a powerful ground game to roll to a win in the Class B South semifinals.

Fall sports, Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

Football: Flaker, Scarborough roll to regional final

by Steve Craig November 2, 2018November 2, 2018

Jarett Flaker rushes for 256 yards as the Red Storm beat Bonny Eagle 61-23.

Maine, News, Sports

Former Maine coach apologetic, defensive about profane tirade that went viral

by Eric Russell and Steve Craig November 2, 2018November 3, 2018

Mike Woodbury says, ‘I have to be better than that,’ but at least one Maine athlete who played for him isn’t buying his ‘superficial apologies.’

Football, Sports, Varsity Maine

High school football notebook: Portland’s Elowitch finding more room to run

by Steve Craig November 1, 2018November 1, 2018

The running back credits his team’s overall improvement as the key to his big senior season.

Boys Basketball, Maine, News, Sports

After coach’s tirade against student goes online, Maine athletes say he did the same to them

by Steve Craig October 31, 2018November 1, 2018

Mike Woodbury, who ran club teams here for decades, is under fire after a profanity-laced rant involving a basketball player where he works at The Nation Christian Academy in Florida.