Michael Hoffer
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Longtime Sports Editor of The Forecaster. Z-list celebrity. Patriots, Packers, UK hoops. Detailed game stories and nostalgia are my specialty.
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R.I.P. Warren Hoffer.
August 17, 1936-November 6, 2014.
I'm enormously proud to be your son...
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After 75 games this spring and somewhere between 250-275 this school year, it's hammock and reading time. I'll be back covering games Aug. 29. In the meantime, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your continuing support and wish you an awesome summer!
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Portland beats Lewiston, 34-13, for 5th successive victory. Griffin Foley, just days after his father's passing, scores two TDs!. Inspiring!
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How spectacular is this photo? Rumor has it that the DeWolfes earned themselves a new puppy as well tonight...
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My original tweet didn't go through for some reason, so take two...
Congratulations to
@moss_terion
on signing his National Letter of Intent this morning to attend and play basketball at the University of Maine!
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Sad to report Evan Gallant, former sweet swinging Bulldog, passed away this a.m. after long bout with cancer. Condolences to his loved ones
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Fresh off leading South Portland to its first state title in 30 years, Owen Maloney has been offered a preffered walk-on spot at the University of Maine. Congratulations to a great player and young man!
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After 80 game stories this spring and 260 this school year (hooray, almost a return to normalcy), it's time to step back from game coverage until Aug. 31.
Enjoy your summer (it's coming, at some point), as I plan to enjoy mine and thanks, as always, for your support!!
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@Edelman11
@Patriots
I don't hate you,
@edelman11
, but no way in hell will I ever listen to that particular episode. Some wounds never heal.
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In the blink of an eye, 20 years have come and gone...
My first article for The Forecaster, Oct. 7, 1999.
Thank you for joining and supporting me for the past two decades and here's to 20 more years (maybe, I'd be 71 by then)!
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Culminating a storybook journey from the Congo to college basketball, congratulations to
@PortlandGBB2020
standouts Gemima Motema and Amanda Kabantu on signing their NLIs today to Northeastern and Bentley, respectively!!
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I understand this dunk got quite the reaction last night...
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Portland coach Joe Russo, who had a well publicized battle with cancer last year, said this about returning...
"I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity to come back & coach this year. I didn't know if I could 7, 8 months ago. I'm going to take some time. Right now it's 50-50."
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My 2019 basketball tournament scorecard..
41 games attended
35 games watched
30 games covered for The Forecaster (10 of which I doubled up for the Press Herald)
59,604 words written
Thousands of tweets
Another year in the books! Great to spend time with so many awesome people!
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For the second straight school year, I covered 243 games. That's 500,000 words, give or take.
What a year it was!
Now it's time to recharge the batteries.
Game stories resume in early September.
Have a great summer everyone and thanks, as always, for your support!
#Lovemyjob
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After 71 game stories this spring and 243 this school year, it's time to recharge the batteries. Game stories will resume Aug. 30, but in the meantime, I wish everyone an awesome summer (if it ever gets here) and thank you, as always, for your support!
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Yarmouth boys and girls both repeat as Class B champs and both finish 18-0. Doubt that's ever been done.
No question that Yarmouth is Soccer Titletown.
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Congratulations to longtime Yarmouth boys' soccer coach Mike Hagerty on his 250th victory with the program, 7-0, over Poland tonight!
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Congratulations to Cheverus field hockey standout Hannah Abbott on signing her Letter of Intent to attend and play at the University of Maine!!
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Boys' basketball
1) Portland
2) Deering
3) Falmouth
4) Greely
5) Cheverus
6) Yarmouth
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In a year with two players (Anna DeWolfe and Mackenzie Holmes) who would be shoo-ins for the big awards most years, it was fitting they split them today (Holmes won the Gatorade Player of the Year and DeWolfe Miss Maine Basketball). Congratulations to each tremendous player!
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Terion Moss gets his 1,000th career piont on a floater with 6:11 left in the first half!
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Lost in the shuffle over the past week was South Portland girls' basketball coach Lynne Hasson winning her 100th game with the program in the Red Riots' quarterfinal round victory over TA. Congrats, Coach, on 100, and congratulations on 101 yesterday!
@SPREDRIOTS
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For the third time in his high school career, Jared Conant scores a goal! 5-0 Yarmouth
#VarsityMaine
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Unbelievable ending to a game for the ages. Stillman Mahan's long 3 beats the horn and Portland downs Deering, 51-50. Bulldogs face Bangor in semifinals Tuesday.
#VarsityMaine
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Cinderella Cheverus. Unbelievable.
Congratulations and good luck.
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Football
1) Portland
2) Falmouth
3) South Portland
4) Cheverus
5) Yarmouth
6) Deering
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Time to hit the beach and the hammock, catch up on some reading and recharge the batteries to get ready for year 19, which begins Sept. 4. Thank you all for your support and kind words. I love what I do and our interactions are very meaningful to me...
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If you're scoring at home, Greely, aka the school of champions, has already won five titles this winter and could add a sixth Saturday afternoon.
Unprecedented excellence.
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Boys' basketball
1) Deering
2) Portland
3) Greely
4) Falmouth
5) Cape Elizabeth
6) Yarmouth
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Scarborough boys' soccer reaches an amazing 10th regional final in 12 years. Doesn't matter who graduates or plays where, this is a dynasty.
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Boys' basketball
1) Portland
2) Deering
3) Falmouth
4) Greely
5) Yarmouth
6) Cheverus
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Congratulations to longtime Portland boys' basketball coach Joe Russo on being part of the 2018 Maine Basketball Hall of Fame class!
More on this later today.
A full list of inductees attached.
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One of the great moments in Windham football history and one of the most painful in Cheverus' football history...
http://t.co/CBb6FugZPg
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I hope all the spring athletes and coaches, who didn't have as much as a single practice last year, relish every moment of this season, beginning today. You've earned it! Looking forward to seeing you soon.
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Gallant, PHS Class of 2014, was a terrific hitter, solid second baseman and a heroic, courageous young man. RIP.
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The loneliest man in the world turned into the happiest seconds later Saturday evening...
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DeWolfe hits 1,000 career points. Congratulated by teammates
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Congratulations to Yarmouth's Nolan Hagerty on being accepted to attend and play basketball at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts!
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After 223 game stories and somewhere in the neighborhood of a half-million words, my 18th year of covering high school sports has come to a close. It had its share of challenges, but as always, was memorable...
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Best of luck to all fall athletes as another season begins! I'll see you later this month with our Fall Sports Preview. My 18th year of game coverage starts August 30th.
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Maddie Fitzpatrick just told me she's going to go to Cheverus and get in the gym as soon as she leaves the Civic Center.
Think she'll be ready for a transcendent senior season? Bank on it.
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2017-18 Evans Spear Award (top senior boys' hockey player in Class B South) finalists are:
Quinn Solberg Brunswick
Alex Glidden Cape Elizabeth
Lucas Roop Gorham
Ben Kennedy Greely
Cooper May Yarmouth
Keenan Gamache York
Winner announced Sunday...
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Unbelievable, historic pitching effort by Greely's Ryan Twitchell today. Perfect game, first in program history! 18 Ks. Congrats, Ryan!!
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Before the calendar flips and we say good riddance to 2021, I want to thank you all for your continued support! I can never properly express my appreciation! Happy New Year!
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Longtime Portland High teacher, historian, "one-point scorer," announcer and grand gentleman Peter Gribbin honored before the Portland-Bangor game for his longtime service. One of a kind!!
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Congratulations to Miss Maine Basketball, Ashley Storey!!!!
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For the first time in 30 years, Yarmouth is a true soccer Titletown. First time the boys and girls both win Gold Balls in same year.
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Football
1) Scarborough
2) Deering
3) Falmouth
4) Portland
5) Cape Elizabeth
6) Cheverus
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Congratulations to
@redriotbaseball
standouts Noah Lewis (University of Maine), left, Anthony Poole (Southern New Hampshire University) and Hunter Owen (Vanderbilt) on signing their NLIs this afternoon!
@SPREDRIOTS
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A championship coach becomes an AD. Lance Johnson, the 10-year coach of the Scarborough football program, is replacing Rob O'Leary as Portland High's athletic director.
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Portland repeats as AA champion, makes it three Gold Balls in four seasons with a wire-to-wire 60-38 win over South Portland.
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You better believe there were a lot of smiles in South Portland tonight
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SP Fall Athletes of the Year
@HenryCurran148
&
@c_loring
http://t.co/tI1Mk6tymb
http://t.co/MgF56GIQq3
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The champs have been overthrown.
Windham shocks Portland, 55-53.
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Congratulations to Greely's Camille Clement, who just signed her NLI to attend and play basketball at Northeastern!!
@GreelyRangers
@Sarah_clement3
@clementtime
@BrianClement234
@aclement23
@cgclement2
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In spite of everything, we had a wonderful, full winter sports season. Much gratitude and congratulations to everyone!
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Congratulations to this year's Western Maine Conference Bob Butler Award winners (given for top play, citizenship, leadership and sportsmanship) Anna DeWolfe of Greely and John Martin of Gray-NG.
#VarsityMaine
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Boys' soccer
1) Deering
2) Falmouth
3) Yarmouth
4) Cape Elizabeth
5) South Portland
6) Portland
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This win will be sweetest of all for Scarborough coach Mike Giordano, the longtime SP coach, who had reached a couple previous regional finals, but lost. If this score holds, Giordano, one of the best people in high school sports, will at last get to coach in a state game.
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On a personal note, following the game, Michael Hoffer meets Madison Bolduc's mother, Angi, at an outing with mutual friends. On Aug. 3, 2019, she becomes Angi Hoffer. I was the biggest winner that night!
This Date in History
Oct. 24, 2014
In a memorable Western A girls' soccer prelim, Portland and Deering need more than 110 minutes to determine a winner in a 8-vs-9-seed showdown...
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Congratulations to Cape Elizabeth baseball standout Brendan Tinsman on signing his National Letter of Intent to attend and play at Wake Forest!
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Congratulations to SP girls' hoops star Maggie Whitmore on signing her NLI to play at Bentley!
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When your fiancee notices the double dribble that the announcers and referees miss, you know you have a keeper :)
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I don't know much, but I do know that
@anthonypoole122
deserves serious Fitzpatrick Trophy consideration and that Aaron Filieo deserves serious consideration for Coach of the Year.
#Wakeuptheechoes
TOUCHDOWN RED RIOTS!! Poole 65 yard TD pass to Small. PAT no good. 9:30, 4th. Red Riots 27, Tigers 19
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Simon Chadbourne sets a new Porltand program record with eight 3s in a game
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Cheverus' magic runs out. Scarborough wins Class A South title, 2-0. Red Storm to play Lewiston in state game Saturday.
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Congratulations to Anna DeWolfe!!!
Big 🍎 bound! Greely junior Anna DeWolfe has committed to
@FordhamWBB
of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Congrats, Anna!
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Josh Morrissey's bicycle kick built for one (as in the first goal)...
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Boys' soccer
1) Deering
2) Falmouth
3) Yarmouth
4) Scarborough
5) Cape Elizabeth
6) Portland
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Congratulations to Portland's Jake Knop, who signed his NLOI to play baseball at Manhattan this morning!
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Even though Falmouth lost, Simonds deservingly wins the Vinall Award as the regional tournament's top player/sportsman.
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Murphy layup at horn. CAPE WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 44-42
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@YHSClippers
Gibson Harnett was a hero and champion. He was those things even if he never picked up a baseball, shot a basketball or kicked a soccer ball. A tremendous human being, who just happened to be a fabulous athlete and leader. Love and condolences to his family and all who loved him.
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After 80 games seen and 79 game stories written, it's time to bid adieu to a great fall sports season. The weather was, on balance, terrific and the action was certainly memorable. I'll see you Dec. 9 for the start of winter sports...
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Congratulations to Deering's Jack Lynch on signing his National Letter of Intent this afternoon to attend and play baseball at Merrimack!!
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Football
1) Portland
2) Falmouth
3) Deering
4) Yarmouth
5) Cape Elizabeth
6) Scarborough
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