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Balls, Pucks + Monster Trucks
The trick to finding the Portland Boxing Club for the first time is not giving up right at the end, when you’re getting close.
Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
October 3, 1995, brought my worst experience at the University of Memphis.
Balls and pucks
The best meal of my year is the breakfast a chef friend has been cooking in his home on the first Sunday morning of NFL football for the past 14 seasons.
Balls, pucks and monster trucks
They have cheap drinks, food, free admission, ample parking, and earthy farm smells — and it’s really close to Portland. You can gamble and smoke butts.
Balls, pucks, and monster trucks.
One of my favorite stories about my dad is a sports story.
Balls and pucks
Boston haters will say that the Celtics purchased their 17th championship.
Animal-rights groups are targeting horse racing
Is horse-racing's white-gloved, mint-julep-drinking image morphing into something more widely considered animal abuse?
Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
What got spilled on the floor of the Frank Fixaris Memorial Press Box to make it stickier than glue-based rodent traps?
Balls and pucks
So I say, to hell with the opener. Catching up with the Sox when they finally get to Oakland is fine.
Balls and pucks
Last Saturday my alma mater dropped a squeaker for the ages.
Balls and pucks
My lady friend is obsessed with the New York Giants, and it’s making things tough.
Balls and pucks
Everyone knows that boxing is a tough, cruel game, but that’s not the entire definition.
Portland police ignore a stone-cold mystery
When members of Portland’s Sudanese community gathered at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on November 16 to lay to rest 26-year-old Edward Okeny, the church was filled with more than just their collective grief.
Balls and pucks
Evel Knievel certainly wasn’t the first person to become a superstar by risking life and limb to entertain the masses.
Balls and pucks
Why is jawing with total strangers acceptable at sporting events, which are full of alcohol and kids?
Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
D-Money and Adam Ricker met with the Television Championship Belt on the line, even though this didn’t happen on television but in a Libbyville backyard.
Cuisine
The big winners of this year’s Chili and Chowder Challenge soup-cooking contest aren’t the best restaurants in town.
Censored art
Members of the Portland Victory Garden Project say the police protests that caused the University of Southern Maine to close “Can’t Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning and Others” have backfired by spreading the show’s ideas.
Supporters take prisoner’s paintings for a walk
The controversial art of Thomas Manning, a man branded a cop killer by his detractors and a political prisoner by his supporters, returned to the USM campus that had sent it packing one week earlier when some seventy supporters gathered there last Friday to stage a rush-hour “moving art show” protest. Widow speaks out: wife of fallen trooper: marchers don't understand. By Jeff Inglis
After organizing an exhibit to spark debate, USM closes it when the talk gets too tough
The giant sucking sound that all of Southern Maine heard coming from Forest Avenue last week was not some accidental draining of a huge milk tank at Oakhurst Dairy, but the integrity and independence of Maine’s largest public university going down the toilet. Slideshow: Thomas Manning's exhibit at the University of Southern Maine Brut portraiture: Inmate Manning's art part of outsider tradition. By Ian Paige
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