University of Maine football standouts Michael Cole and Justin Perillo have been named to the 2012 College Football Performance Awards’ Watch Lists, according to the Maine Black Bears website. Cole, a junior defensive lineman from North Brunswick, N.J., was a Second Team All-CAA selection last season. He led the conference with 11.0 sacks and had […]
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UMaine is building a new facility to support the Black Bears’ baseball and softball teams, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. The facility will be a batting pavilion, funds for which were raised from private donors. The batting facility will be available for use by youth baseball and softball teams in the […]
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The University of Maine’s doubleheaders Friday and Saturday against America East conference leader Stony Brook will be the stage for a series of events before, during and after the games. Friday’s doubleheader, which starts at 3 p.m., features a Goodwill clothing drive for which donations are welcome. There will be fireworks following the second game. […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson has established a new Faculty Liaison Program with the Department of Athletics in which faculty members volunteer to serve as academic mentors, role models and advocates for each of UMaine’s intercollegiate athletic teams.
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UMaine men’s hockey coach Tim Whitehead appeared in a photo that went with a story on the MSNBC website about Bangor author Sarah Smiley and her project to entertain a different dinner guest each weekend while her husband is deployed. Whitehead and members of the hockey team were dinner guests in February. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Channel 5 (WABI) reported on a bone marrow drive organized Wednesday by members of the UMaine football team to try to find a stem cell match for the deputy chief of the Maine Warden Service, who has cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. The annual event, started to honor former assistant football coach […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article on the status of the 2013 renovation plans for Memorial Gym and its basketball court known as The Pit because of its shape and seating configuration. Funds for the work are being raised privately. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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In a series of notes about UMaine athletics, the Bangor Daily News reported that UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove is scheduled to give the keynote address at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast on Sunday, April 22. There were also briefs about UMaine field hockey’s spring season and an upcoming UMaine women’s hockey fundraiser. Contact: […]
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In Channel 5 (WABI) and a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news reports, Jason Hoyt of Black Bear Properties at the University of Maine described the purpose of a recent visit to the UMaine campus last week of 200 fifth-grade students from the greater Bangor area and Lewiston as part of the second annual Weight Watchers of […]
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The Portland Press Herald ran a column about Sunday’s benefit hockey game for a scholarship in honor of Leroy Patterson, a 33-year veteran of the UMaine Department of Public Safety who died in January. Paul Culina, UMaine’s head athletic trainer, said Patterson was the epitome of what a university police officer should be. UMaine football […]
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