ORONO — The flintlock rifle is approaching 290 years old, and if it is to return to the state where Ebenezer Nutting of Falmouth fashioned it long before the American Revolution, a bearded guy from New Jersey is going to have to spend a lot of time leaning over a football Saturday afternoon.
Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he studied philosophy in college and worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut before moving to Maine. He spent his first two years of marriage living in the keepers quarters of the Portland Head Light and has three grown children. In addition to baseball, he has covered nearly every sport played in Maine, from biathlon and curling to running and sailing. Currently he works part-time and can be found near cross country trails in fall, swimming pools and ski slopes in winter and tennis courts in spring. All other times, he’s probably on a pickleball court. He is a two-time USA Pickleball national medalist (silver and gold) and played for both the Austin Ignite and Indianapolis Drivers in 2023, helping Indy win the inaugural National Pickleball League championship over Austin in a league for senior pros aged 50 and over.
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Maine defensive end Cole out for the season
The junior suffered a torn quadriceps tendon in the Black Bears’ 26-3 victory over Delaware.
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COLLEGE HOCKEY: Young Maine ready to go
ORONO — Dan Kerluke, an assistant coach for the University of Maine men’s ice hockey team, has a better idea than most of what to expect from the Black Bears when they open their season tonight at Alfond Arena against visiting Quinnipiac University of Hamden, Conn.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Fighting through the pain for 1 more year
ORONO — Kris Enslen won’t lie. He thought seriously about hanging it up this summer, calling it quits on a collegiate football career that had become a literal grind, a bone against scar tissue grind inside a knee that twice required surgical repair.
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Cheverus stripped of 2010 basketball titles due to ineligible player
It is the first time the Maine Principals’ Association has ever vacated a team championship, said Richard Durost, its executive director.
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Maine Marathon: Vassallo outdoes himself – by a mile
Dan Vassallo, a Colby grad living in Peabody, Mass., wins in a time of 2 hours, 21 minutes and 12 seconds to best his previous record.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Maine can’t stop Villanova’s run
ORONO — They stopped the penalties.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Johnson making most of his time at Maine
ORONO — At this time a year ago, three games into the University of Maine’s football season, Derrick Johnson found himself on the outside looking in.
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COLLEGE HOCKEY: New look team at UMaine
ORONO — The goal hasn’t changed, said Mark Anthione, a University of Maine junior forward from Lewiston, but the conviction has.
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MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY: Maine slated for middle of the pack finish
BOSTON — Hockey East head coaches figure Maine will be right in the middle of things this winter.