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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The Bangor Daily News had a roundup of news and notes from UMaine athletics, including the announcement that women’s basketball coach Richard Barron will make an appearance next week on the ESPN show “Outside the Lines.” Also mentioned was the UMaine softball team’s new fundraising project selling commemorative bricks to fund improvements at Kessock Field. […]
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University of Maine hockey player Spencer Abbott was named Thursday morning one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, which is given annually to college hockey’s top player. The Hobey Baker Memorial Committee announced the three finalists, known as the Hobey Hat Trick.
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A benefit hockey game to raise funds for a scholarship created by the friends and family of former University of Maine police officer Leroy Patterson is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday, April 1 at UMaine’s Alfond Arena.
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University of Maine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron will be featured in an upcoming episode of the ESPN show “Outside the Lines.” The show is scheduled to air at 3 p.m. on April 3. Barron was interviewed about Title IX and the use of male students as practice players for women’s basketball teams, among other […]
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