Archive for November, 2009
After last season’s playoff appearance, the University of Maine football team headed into this season ranked in the top-25 and poised for another playoff year. Initial struggles from the beginning, including an offense that sputtered, injuries …
1. New Orleans Saints (NFC South Champ)
The Saints are sitting atop the NFC at 9-0 with home court throughout the conference rounds all but wrapped up. Even if New Orleans lost out, they would likely still …
Is there any time in sports more fun than the Major League Baseball offseason? The hot stove fires up and some entire teams get new faces in a matter of days. When it comes to the …
“If You’re Not First, You’re Last”
In the comedy “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” Bobby was a pit crew worker for a NASCAR team who just wanted to go fast. His dad told him …
A roller-coaster third period could not settle Saturday’s weekend finale between the Boston College and University of Maine men’s hockey teams at Alfond Arena and neither could five minutes of overtime. The teams each took a …
The Boston College men’s hockey team let a two-goal lead slip away Friday night but regained it in the third period and held on to beat the University of Maine Black Bears 4-3 in the first …
The curtailment of $6 million is $1.5 million less than the system was expecting but represents a 3.38 percent cut of the expected state appropriation.
The University of Maine released the first draft of the Academic Program Prioritization Working Group criteria Monday, which the work group will use for examining academic programs at UMaine.
University President Robert Kennedy charged the work group …
The National Wildlife Federation — a wildlife advocacy group — released a report Wednesday detailing 35 ways college students can affect sustainability and green energy initiatives on their campuses, as well as such efforts of students …
The University of Maine System is working to increase the first-year retention and graduation rates during the next six years by engaging first-year students more actively on campus and implementing programs and resources aimed to increase …
