PORTLAND — There was no backfield-by-committee on Saturday for Oak Hill. No hemming, hawing and breaking into a cold sweat on this most January of November days about what plays to run, either. The Raiders entered Fitzpatrick Stadium and the Class D football championship with not even the hint of an identity crisis. Oak Hill […]
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Western Class C Football Championship: Leavitt runs away from Winslow, 47-18
The opponent scored first. Somebody in green got hurt. And then the Hornets got angry and spent the rest of Saturday night pummeling the Winslow Black Raiders into submission. Nate Rousseau, Billy Bedard and Nate Coombs each scored two touchdowns in a 47-18 Leavitt victory that was a gem in all phases. “‘We’ve won a […]
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22-year-old Norwegian clinches chess world title
NEW DELHI (AP) — The world of chess has a new king, and it’s a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns. Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the chess world championship Friday, becoming the first Western player since Bobby Fischer to hold the title. Carlsen, a […]
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U.S. wins geography championship
MINOCQUA, Wis. (AP) — Teenagers from Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Hampshire bested competitors from 17 other countries to give the U.S. its sixth title at National Geographic’s biennial geography championships for schoolchildren. Asha Jain, of Minocqua, Gopi Ramanathan, of Sartell, Minn., and 14-year-old Neelam Sandhu, of Bedford, N.H., edged their counterparts from Canada and India […]