When you're named Hoffershighschoolsports/cPort Credit Union Softball Player of the Year, you get to upgrade your wardrobe as well. Congratulations to Cheverus standout, the great Addison Deroche
Two more spring Player of the Year t-shirts to come...

If someone had told me back in the day I'd get to be a paid sportswriter for 25 minutes, I'd have jumped at it. To do it for 25 years was beyond my wildest dreams. It's been the great joy of my life. I am so incredibly fortunate.

I've had the privilege of working alongside some of the best writers, editors and management the state has produced over the past quarter-century, I've met so many great friends (and best of all, my wife) through my job and I will always treasure all of those relationships.

As you can see by these photos, I grew up in this job, in more ways than one. I've always joked that what I do "beats working for a living" and it's so true.

They, along with our longtime editor, Mo Mehlsak, gave me the support and freedom to cover local sports with a different, more in-depth approach, and the end result was a dream job and a product that was warmly received by the community.

While it's a time of sadness and uncertainty, I'm opting to focus on gratitude...

Back in the fall of 1999, Marian McCue and Karen Rajotte (now Wood) took a chance on me and I'm forever in their debt.

A professional/life update...Please read to the end...

My 25-year affiliation with The Forecaster has come to an end, as our ownership group shut down the print editions effective this week. My time with the company has come to an end as well.

I had a great time joining Travis Lee for the Hoops8 basketball tournament preview show. Click here to watch.
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Please join Travis Lee and me for the Hoops8 Basketball Tournament Preview Show tonight from 7-8.
We're on between Bruins and Celtics games and it's 10 years to the day since the first one!

My first basketball game since March 2nd. Let's see if I remember how...

Thank you, Maine Field Hockey Association! Honored and humbled!