I like optimism. And I like optimistic people. But sometimes folks need a reality check. Right now the University of Maine is selling season ticket packages to Black Bear home football games. That must be the very definition of “wide eyed optimist” because it would seem to me there’s at least a 95% chance fans […]
Jeff Solari and Sterling Pingree debate…… Solari says: It’s going to be weird not going to Fenway Park this summer. I was very much looking forward to seeing some of the biggest names play there. Not Trout or Altuve. You know. Def Leppard. Motley Crue. Joan Jett. Guns N’ Roses. But now that’s not going […]
By Steve McKay: Is it just my imagination, or are our local athletic fields summoning us to come visit them? I know, odd question. More on that later. So, how’s your “new normal” going these days? I don’t know of anyone who isn’t living through a major routine shift compared to what we were doing […]
Personally some of my best sports memories are from 32 years ago. June 1988. Senior year. MDI high school baseball. I was one of the captains on the first MDI baseball team to ever win a playoff game. The memories are vivid. It was a beautiful sunny and warm Saturday morning. We were the #7 […]
It’s not a newsflash that the COVID 19 pandemic is wreaking financial havoc on the people and businesses of this country and our state. The immediate hit has been devastating and unfortunately we haven’t yet begun to feel the long term effects. Athletic departments at small colleges and large universities alike are not immune. Take […]
What’s better than a heads up match between two storied rivals? A heads up match between two pairs of rivals; the best of the last 25 years at what they do. Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning taking on Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady at the Medalist course in Hobe Sound, Florida. As a golfer myself, […]
Right now it looks like we could have “real” Major League Baseball games early in July. The proposal is for a roughly 80 game schedule. Followed by the playoffs. There would be fewer divisions with teams from both the American and National Leagues intermingled into “regional” divisions. So I have heard that could mean the […]
I hate this debate. But after 2 months of stay at home and more than a month of “The Last Dance”, I’ll finally bite on this clickbait debate. Chuck Klosterman recently said in an interview, he thinks Michael Jordan is a better basketball player, but Lebron James is better at playing basketball than Michael Jordan. […]
Watching the 2004 postseason on NESN last week was tremendous fun, reliving moments where I could not only recollect where I was, but probably also who I was with and what I was wearing too. As the games went along, there were several discussion points that I came across in the 16 years of hindsight. […]
Ten years ago this week, I proclaimed for the last time that “This is The Shootaround on AM 620 WZON Bangor.” That is the way I ended every hour. The Shootaround has been off the air for a decade? WTH? Let me be the first to say “time flies.” The “Fabulous Voice Babe,” who did […]
