Yarmouth High student Elena Miller created a computer app that makes it easier to keep score of softball and baseball games.
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.
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports
Finally, UMaine men’s basketball may get in a season opener
The Black Bears were scheduled to start their season on Nov. 25 before heading into COVID quarantine for two weeks. They’ll try again this weekend with two games at Hartford.
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Posted inBaseball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Jon DiBiase hired as Gray-New Gloucester baseball coach
The son of longtime coach Tony DiBiase has been an assistant in three sports at multiple schools.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Frontline health care workers open to receiving COVID-19 vaccination
Workers say they are excited and ready to get vaccinated against the highly contagious virus.
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports
UMaine to resume winter sports schedule this week
Athletic competition had been paused for two weeks after multiple Black Bear teams reported positive COVID-19 tests.
Posted inSports
State blows the whistle on basketball club’s plan to play before virus rules permit
Maine Hoops, the state’s largest organizer of club sport basketball games, plans to start games Dec. 18 — four weeks before they are allowed under state guidelines.
Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
High school football in July? Coaches mull the possibilities
Several coaches believe waiting until summer is the best shot at having a season.
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UMaine men’s basketball heads home after entire team tests negative
Additional testing done in Connecticut after the team’s games were canceled reveal no one associated with the team is COVID positive.
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UMaine pauses winter sports after positive COVID-19 tests
All basketball and hockey games have been called off through at least Dec. 8.
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UMaine men’s basketball team will meet Virginia in ‘Bubbleville’ to start its season
The game is one of several slated to be played at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, as college basketball tries to navigate games during the coronavirus pandemic.