Sports
Around the pool, details are a Staats matter
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
LEBANON — There’s no shortage of swimming experience on the Hanover High coaching staff.Head coach Sean Uiterwyk competed at Boston College from 1992-96. Diving coach Carl Renshaw both swam and dove at Carlton College in the 1980s, and Linda Bedford,...
Once-dilapidated Nansen Ski Jumps returning to competitive use
By BARBARA TETREAULT
MILAN, N.H. — Competitive ski jumping will return to the Mount Washington Valley this weekend at the Nansen Ski Jumps after a 37-year lapse, and one can feel the excitement.Jumpers from across New England will compete on the newly created 39-meter and...
Generation of Lyme soccer players credits nonprofit founder with teaching the game
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
The Hanover High boys’ soccer team may not have won the NHIAA Division I state championship, falling in a heartbreaker in 11 rounds of penalty kicks to Nashua South on Nov. 5. But for several Hanover players, the journey’s end under the bright lights...
Tunbridge hunters bag 900-pound bull moose in Maine
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
In more than 30 years of hunting together, John Durkee and Alan Stender had never had a trip quite like their expedition in western Maine last month.Durkee, an accountant and former volunteer fire chief in Tunbridge, received a permit to hunt bull...
Jim Kenyon: Dartmouth hands its football coach a win at home
By JIM KENYON
In January 2005, then-Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper announced that Buddy Teevens had agreed to return to his alma mater as football coach. When asked, Harper wouldn’t go into the specifics of Teevens’ contract, such as how long it was for,...
Strangers team up to carry rottweiler named Odin down Mount Washington
By RAY DUCKLER
She bought the dog harness two years ago, unsure if she’d ever use it.But Jeannine Robbins, of Thornton, N.H., knew that it was a good idea, that someday she might need one for her golden retriever, Appa.She never figured, however, that the harness...
Former TSA basketball star takes a long detour in hopes of playing in D-I
By GREG FENNELL
The route Tyler Chapin has chosen to follow in search of college basketball opportunities has hit a few bumps along the way.A Chelsea native who spent the past two winters pouring in points at Sharon Academy, Chapin retains a goal of playing NCAA...
Dartmouth athletic director retires in wake of Title IX debacle
By PETE NAKOS
HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...
Hanover removes Seibel as girls lacrosse coach after seven seasons
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — Chris Seibel has been removed as Hanover High’s girls lacrosse coach, a month before his eighth season was to begin. Marauders athletic director Megan Sobel confirmed the move in a one-sentence email last week that provided no other...
New coach, new promise for Kimball Union boys basketball
By ADAM BOFFEY
MERIDEN — Cory McClure is off to a good start at Kimball Union Academy.The new boys basketball coach has the Wildcats sitting at 15-3 with 10 games left in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class AA regular season. KUA extended its...
Fowler out as Dartmouth field hockey coach
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — Longtime Dartmouth College field hockey coach Amy Fowler will not return for her 21st season, the athletic department announced on Thursday.Dartmouth was 4-13 overall and winless in Ivy League play this season. It was the second time during...
Local roundup: Rivendell senior gets his chance at goaltender
Staff Reports ORFORD — Rivendell Academy senior Zach Gould has played most every position on a soccer field, save for one. He got to try it for about 10 minutes of his senior game on Friday.Rivendell boys soccer coach Kevin Brooker made an offer to...
A far cry from UNH: Day, family learning on job at Ohio State
By BILL RABINOWITZ
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ryan Day has never before been a head football coach, but his family keeps him grounded as he prepares for the start of his first season fully in charge at Ohio State, where the pressure for success can be overwhelming. As their...
Once considered vulgar, NFL surpassed college football with money, better entertainment
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Jay Berwanger won the inaugural Heisman Trophy in 1935 for the University of Chicago and became the No. 1 player taken in the first NFL draft a few months later.He chose to work at a rubber company and be a part-time coach for his alma mater rather...
40 years later, the death of Yankees captain Thurman Munson in plane crash remains shocking
By STEVEN MARCUS
NEW YORK — Forty years ago, on Aug. 2, 1979, an aircraft bearing the numbers NY15 crashed short of the runway at Akron-Canton Airport, about 50 miles south of Cleveland. The pilot, Yankees captain Thurman Munson, could not be freed before the...
Doing the splits: Vermont boys, N.H. girls get wins at Byrne Cup
By TRIS WYKES
LEBANON — Brandon Little was inconspicuous at Lebanon High on Saturday, watching the Twin State all-star boys lacrosse game in a flannel shirt and a baseball cap while leaning on a chain-link fence.The 43-year old, however, had an outsized impact...
Ex-Wasp Hartig-Orr a force on either end of lacrosse field
By TRIS WYKES
For the past couple of years, whenever Emmanuel College (Mass.) men’s lacrosse coach Trevor Craven has hosted a prime recruit on campus, it’s been Ben Hartig-Orr he’s had show the prospect around.“He can talk to anybody,” said the Saints’ second-year...
Local roundup: The numbers add up for Lebanon in opener
MILFORD, N.H. — Baseball math: six hits + three errors = a nine-run inning and a nice start to the season for the Lebanon High baseball team.After watching host Milford jump to a 4-0 lead after one inning, the Raiders gradually chipped away before...
Most NHL players have their eye on the cup ... of coffee
By ISABELLE KHURSHUDYAN
Tom Wilson was roughly 14 years old when he noticed a peculiar habit in hockey. From NHL players often arriving to rinks with cups of coffee in hand to the pot that was brewed fresh every morning at his gym, Wilson wondered what he was missing. Even...
Local roundup: Hanover, Woodstock win ski titles
GILFORD, N.H. — The Hanover High boys nordic ski team claimed seven different top-10 finishes to edge Kennett and claim the NHIAA state championship.Noah Phipps had the high finish of the day for the Marauders, taking third in the freestyle race in 12...
