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25 years ago today, July 19th 1989, the sports world lost one of its promising young management talents when Jay Ramsdell died in the United 232 plane crash in Iowa.

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The Bronco Little League All Stars scored a 8-0 win over the Waldo Count All Stars in the first round of the Maine State 11/12 year old Tournament in Biddeford. The Bronco LL team includes players from Hampden, Newburgh and Winterport.

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The New England Patriots have re-signed former UMaine Black Bear wide receiver Derrick Johnson. Patriots training camp begins next week.

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Ryan Flaherty and Charlie Furbush are filling key roles for their MLB teams as the post All Star break schedule begins. They are the two state of Maine guys in the bigs - Flaherty with the Baltimore Orioles and Furbush with the Seattle Mariners.

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To put it in baseball terms, it doesn’t appear the El Paso Chihuahuas have hit a home run with their latest uniform.

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Morrill's Travis Benjamin returns to Oxford Plains Speedway today where he'll begin defense of his Oxford 250 championship.

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Boston Celtics great Bill Russell fainted and then fell while giving a speech in Nevada on Thursday. Russell was taken to the hospital as a precaution but Celtics officials are reporting he is ok.

Russell was giving a speech to Konica Minolta employees when the fainting spell occurred

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Red Sox GM Ben Cherington says the team will not concede the 2014 season - yet. The Sox start their post all star break schedule Friday night against the Kansas City Royals, trailing in the AL East by 9.5 games.

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With all the sunny weather and multiple golf tournaments playing on TV over the past two weeks, I was bound to have a miss or two. And I will admit it; I should have paid more attention to the LPGA’s Ricoh Women’s British Open, which took place at Royal Birkdale July 10-13.

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Former Washburn High School 2,000 point scorer Mitch Worcester will be a Husson Eagle in the fall and will play hoops for coach Warren Caruso. Worcester spent the past year at UMaine.

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