Archive for April, 2007
Yesterday, the University of Maine softball team gathered together for a Senior Day game against the University of Albany in which it seemed like just about everything was going against them. Coming off a season in which they had recorded the most wins in school history, their record of 21-25 was not what they had hoped it would be, despite losing seven seniors from last year’s squad.
The NFL draft, like previous years, was full of surprises. Brady Quinn was taken at the No. 22 spot to the Cleveland Browns when he was supposed to go No. 3. The Miami Dolphins chose Teddy Ginn Jr. instead of taking Quinn. The biggest shocker for any team, in my opinion, was the Oakland Raiders trading Randy Moss to the New England Patriots.
Daren Stone, Mike DeVito and Matt King can rest easy tonight – their football careers are not over. Lifelong dreams came true for the trio of the University of Maine gridiron stars yesterday, as the National Football League came calling for their services.
At the end of an era, all the great ones – from Laverne and Shirley to Mary Tyler Moore – do a slow turn, nod and hit the lights.
For boob tube aficionados like myself, it’s a signature move or scene we’ve come to expect when it comes time to close out a television series.
I spent five years living in the dorms and this past year in an apartment. With graduation quickly approaching, my words of wisdom for future generations of University of Maine students are: you’ll have it made living off campus – so don’t stay on.
Early morning fire alarms, dorm damage – both the results and the knowledge you paid for somebody’s barf – roommate roulette, uncontrollable heaters that go full blast in October but never in January, no NESN, distant parking – the bad far outweighs the good.
My friend, Gabi, was signing up for classes last week and shouted to me across the Oakes Room, “Sarah, name the best class you’ve taken at UMaine.” She was looking for an elective for next fall.
Without hesitating, I said PAX 360: Conflict Resolution, a class offered by the peace studies program.
Game 22 – at New York Yankees – Matsuzaka vs. Pettite
5:36 p.m… – T-Minus 1 hour 29 minutes.
I’m nervous. I know that sounds odd, but I don’t think any Sox fan can honestly say they aren’t nervous about tonight’s game. It’s not that I don’t believe in D-Mat or that I think we can’t hit Pettite, it’s just the nagging “what if?” that always accompanies anything between Sox and Yankees games.
Friday will mark the last opportunity of the semester to enjoy the sounds of the Maine Steiners and Renaissance, the University of Maine’s premier male and female a cappella groups, as they showcase a free choral double feature at the Maine Center for the Arts at 7 p.
1/17/1957
“Coeds Beware, For A Man Is Among You”
Attention, girls of Balentine Hall!
Did you know there is a man in your midst?
Well, there is.
At least that’s what the official University student list would have you believe.
For on page 41 it gives the campus residence of one male student as Balentine Hall.
Coming into the college football season this past fall, all eyes were on one kid: Brady Quinn. He was coming off a junior season in which he, under the guidance of offensive guru and first-year head coach Charlie Weis, brought the Notre Dame football program back to respectability and the spotlight was on him.
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