The University of Maine has named women’s basketball player Liz Wood and track and field athlete Wilson Adams the recipients of the 2015 “M” Club Dean Smith Award. The award is presented annually to the top male and female student-athletes with outstanding academic and athletic achievement along with citizenship and community service. Adams of Barrington, […]
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For years, the University of Maine has hosted popular races such as the Black Bear Triathlon, the Healthy High 5k/10k and the Black Bear Attack Adventure Race. This summer, UMaine will host its first full and half marathon as part of the Black Bear Race series. The inaugural Black Bear Marathon and Half Marathon will […]
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The University of Maine’s 26th annual Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony will honor 268 student-athletes for their academic success on Feb. 9 in Wells Conference Center. At the 6:30 p.m. ceremony, 187 student-athletes will be recognized as scholar-athletes for achieving a 3.0 or higher grade point average for the 2014 year and/or having a cumulative GPA of […]
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Gretchen Faulkner, director of the University of Maine Hudson Museum, was heralded in a Yahoo Sports piece for her efforts in loaning the museum’s transformation mask that inspired the Seattle Seahawks logo to the Burke Museum at the University of Seattle. A Kwakwaka’wakw (kwock-KWOCKY-wowk) artist or artists carved the cedar mask in the late 19th […]
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Jack Cosgrove, head coach of the University of Maine football team, and several players spoke with the Bangor Daily News about under-inflated footballs in response to the NFL’s investigation of the New England Patriots. Cosgrove said he was confused about the circumstances surrounding the investigation. “How did the air come out of the balls?” Cosgrove […]
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When the Seattle Seahawks lost 24–20 to the Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 16, 2014, the defending Super Bowl champions were 6–4 and reeling. But a week later, the Seahawks won the first of six straight regular-season contests. In the ensuing Divisional Playoff, the top-seeded Seahawks trounced the Carolina Panthers, then clinched a have-to-see-it-to-believe-it 28–22 […]
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The University of Maine football program has released its 2015 schedule. The season is highlighted by a pair of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) contests at Boston College and Tulane, a home game against Yale, and a competitive set of Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) league contests where UMaine will face all three CAA teams who made […]
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One-Bid Wonders carried a feature about the friendship of University of Maine men’s basketball teammates Zarko Valjarevic, a Serbian, and Marko Pirovic, a Croatian. While killing along ethnic lines occurred for more than a decade in the former Yugoslavia, these two are as close as brothers. Valjarevic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1991, months […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the annual Skate with the Bears event that was hosted by Friends of Maine Hockey at the Alfond Arena. Members of the University of Maine men’s and women’s ice hockey teams were on the ice meeting fans, signing autographs and posing for photos. UMaine men’s ice hockey player Brady Campbell […]
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The Rockland-based Courier Gazette carried a story about Don Shields being named the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s Maine Sportscaster of the Year. Shields, who calls University of Maine women’s basketball games for Learfield Sports/Black Bear Sports Properties, also has called area high school basketball contests for 30 years. The Bangor Daily News also carried […]
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