The Maine Basketball Rankings Podcast

Ethan Snow is back on the mic for WHOU and he's here to overreact to week 6 of Maine's high school football season. We dig deep into OOB's instant classic win over Lake Region (and how late into the season you can get pier fries and play skee-ball). From there we go around the state, including Bonny Eagle's dominance, Falmouth's chances in a loaded B South, the insanity that is...

VoteDexter.comDexter High School is one of 25 finalists in this year's T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights contest. The winner gets $1M to upgrade their facilities. They're currently in third place, thanks to an outpouring of support from all over Maine. So I sat down with AD Adam Gudroe to get a look at the campaign from the inside. Vote for Dexter:https://www.t-mobile.com/brand/friday-night-...

Haley Jones majored in Diplomacy and World Affairs, so naturally she's writing about Maine high school sports for Sun Journal Sports. She's here to overreact to week 5 of the football schedule, including Wells' dramatic win over Leavitt. We also take a look at this week in Class C, the impact of TA's blowout of Portland, Bonny Eagle's defense, the potential Cony/Gardiner battle...

It's week 4 of the football season, so my Mother's favorite guest, Jay Baines, is here to overreact. We talk about Bonny Eagle's ascent to the top of the power rankings, Cony's big win over Oxford Hills, the chaos that is Class C, and a whole lot more. Plus, my kid shows up to learn why hard work is a superpower. Plus! Movie Corner. Subscribe to Maine Basketball Rankings: https://w...

It’s Week 3 of the football season so it’s time to overreact to last weekend’s games and wildly speculate about what they mean going forward. This week, Marc Calnan of Eastern Maine Sports joins me to sift through some overtime games, figure out which teams we can maybe cross off as the playoff picture is starting to emerge in a couple of regions. We also hit some soccer and preview some of the bi...

It’s Week 2 of football season so it’s time to overreact to last weekend’s games! This week, WHOU’s Jarod Richmond joins me  to try and sort out the emerging gauntlet that is Class C, a hopefully more competitive 8-Man Small School South, an impressive start to the season from Cony’s Parker Morin, whether this year’s team is Leavitt or LEAVITT, a side quest into the state of sports broadcasting, W...

With Week 1 in the books, Mike Mandell joined me to overreact to everything that happened around the state, including Leavitt's win, Cony's blowout of Messo, Kennebunk knocking off Falmouth, and so much more. Subscribe to Maine Basketball Rankings: https://www.mainebasketballrankings.com/#/portal

Darren Allen led Mount Abram to a state title in 2023 and was named the United Soccer Coaches Small Public Schools National Coach of the Year. After a season on the couch, he back on the sidelines, this time rebuilding a Spruce Mountain squad that's newly back playing 11-man after a couple of years in 8-man, and more! Subscribe to the Maine Basketball Rankings newsletter: https://www.mainebask...

Not that long ago, Medomak Valley didn't have a football team, but that all changed with the start of Medomak Youth Football and the addition of a varsity program 10 years ago. Since then, the Panthers have been at least the Regional Final for the past 3 seasons. I spoke to HC Ryan Snell about how they've built a consistent winner from scratch, why 11-man is better than 8-man, the intersection of...

It's the first day of Fall Sports, which means last night was Midnight Madness! I joined Andrew Hart of MaineHighSchoolFootball.com as we counted down the final hour of the hands-off period live from Morse High School. Shirt: 2005 Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic

It's a little bit of a different show today, as I'm bringing you my conversation with Ben Kennedy on the podcast Pucks From the Pine Tree. We talk about the Cooper Flagg impact, youth sports, movies, and so much more.

Whenever there's breaking Celtics news, I get the OG Celtics podcaster Jon Duke on to break it down. We talk about the devastating Tatum injury, the Celtics' path forward,, the Luke Kornet game, and the insanity of the Mavericks getting the #1 pick and the chance to pick our man from Newport. Also: can Kelly get him out of Dallas?

When the Forecaster stopped printing their physical paper earlier this year, sports editor Michael Hoffer found himself out of a job. On Sunday, he launched a newsletter called "Hoffer's High School Sports", the new home for his legendary game stories. Naturally, I had to have him on to promote this new chapter in his career. And because spring sports are about to start, we did a qui...

Erik Atwell used to be a screenwriter, but now he's a sportswriter, covering GSA for the Penobscot Bay Press. We talk about his path from Hollywood to Blue Hill, his novel, getting thrown into the fire of soccer playoffs, and his quest to make it to the Cross Center. Buy Erik's novel! https://a.co/d/7a7qOYN

The Celtics might have a new owner, so resident C's expert Jon Duke joins me to talk about the potential new owner. Plus, we discuss the impact of Cooper's tourney run and his Bingo commercial, take an early look at the Mr. Basketball race for 2026, and so much more.

March Madness is here and Adam Robinson joins me to go over the brackets, including how far we think Duke can go, whether or not Carolina should be dancing, how much Gonzaga got screwed, our Final Four picks, and more!

The Biddeford Girls lost the Gold Ball in heartbreaking fashion to Caribou, but the future is bright for a program that leaned heavily on sophomores and freshmen on the way to the first Regional Title in school history. Head Coach Jeannine Paradis joined me to talk about the devastation of the loss, rebuilding another program, getting kids to focus on things they can control, and whether or not sh...

It's Champions Week with St. Dom's coach Josh LaPrell! Learn how he inherited a team with no summer basketball and no JV team and turned it into a State Champion.

Before the tourney started, Jay Baines joined me to pick a Cinderella in each region so I thought it would be fun to see how we did. Jay came up with a scoring system for our picks and we picked winners for all the State Games.

The tournament is fast approaching and that means it's time to pick against the favorite see who might surprise everyone on their way to a Regional Title. This year, Jay Baines joined me to double the predictions.

It's the 50th Anniversary of Foxcroft Academy's sole Gold Ball, a championship covered by a young sports reporter who was discovered in the grocery store, of all places. 50 years later, Dave Albee has written the definitive book on the subject. He joins me to talk about the process behind his book and share stories from that by-gone era. Pre-order on Amazon .

This week we had not 1, not 2, but 3 incidents of fans getting ejected from games, which is awful. What are we even doing? And how do we stop it?

Just two weeks after snapping a 122-game losing streak, Wiscasset fired their girls basketball coach in a bizarre move. Then, the results of a Mr. & Miss Basketball straw poll and an update of the top 10.

This week, the Windham/Falmouth game was a classic, I go into reclassification a little, summarize some highlights from the week, and update the power rankings!

Some said the Lincoln Academy/Spruce Mountain boys game wasn't a good fit for Game of the Day, but they were wrong. Lincoln won on a jumper by EJ Hunt with 0.7 seconds left, but there was controversy. I dig into that, celebrate the Wiscasset girls' historic win, and go over the new Top 10 in the Power Rankings.