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Another sign of growth

 February 21, 2012

Loyalists of women's basketball are justified in rolling their eyes at another "growth of the game" opus, usually authored by some drive-by blatherer lacking an original idea.

Besides, in the spirit of crying wolf, if the "look how far...

About time somebody fought back

 February 20, 2012

Storrs

Finally. Finally, finally, finally. In lieu of excuses, wouldas, shouldas and couldas, an underdog women's basketball team, thought to be the 262nd straight unranked victim of the UConn women, growled back.

They are...

Stop with the excuses for subpar academics at UConn

 February 13, 2012

Storrs - One by one they marched in almost lockstep precision, illustrating the unanimity of their purpose. This was Saturday at Gampel Pavilion. Halftime of the Georgetown-UConn women's game, a ceremony honoring all the...

As Giants go, so goes Will Sutman

 February 12, 2012

Waterford

This is the story of resolve. Of toughness. Of adherence to principles in the face of heathens.

This is the story of Will Sutman.

Will, 8, is a survivor.

Take, for instance, how he survived Super Bowl...

Upstairs challenge a painful effort

 February 10, 2012

Ann Harvey of Stonington has run nine Covered Bridges Half Marathons in a row. So she knows about hurting in a race.

UConn should have cared sooner

 February 10, 2012

Fittingly, UConn's perch on a rural campus frames the crusade du jour within the men's basketball program. Imagine a stately barn in a pastoral setting ... with its doors flung open, horses galloping freely down the lane.

Khaleed's field of dreams? Try the classroom at URI

 February 9, 2012

Athletics at New London High, proud and prideful, are nonetheless a blessing and a curse. There's no way to measure the joy, camaraderie, memories and lifelong friends that have developed in proportion to all the big, green banners.

But how...

Why all the rage, Boston?

 February 7, 2012

Let me just say this: It's a good thing I'm not one of those I-told-you-so kind of guys.

Because then I'd have to remind you that it is I who has remained steadfast in the belief that the Boston sports fandom (minus Celtic fans who are...

A night 'Bones' deserved

 February 5, 2012

New London

Heroes, contrary to popular opinion, aren't the guys who hit the homer in the bottom of the ninth. They're the guys who give backbone to communities, fiber to families and reasons for communal celebration.

Just as...

Is all of this pain worth it?

 February 4, 2012

The unwritten script of sports, never dull and often captivating, doesn't always allow for happy endings.

Hence, this question must be asked today, in the wake of Friday's news:

Was the last game Jim Calhoun ever coached at UConn the...

These rankings have me plenty rankled

 February 2, 2012

And to think Super Bowl media day gets dismissed as a farce. It's a symposium at Harvard compared to the fraud perpetuated on the viewing public all day Wednesday.

It was "National Signing Day," a newly made-for-TV extravaganza, during...

Sorting the red from blue

 February 1, 2012

You can draw one of two conclusions.

Conclusion I: The yahoo Patriot fans are yahooing like they've never yahooed before.

Mr. Idle: Giants are smartest in the NFL

 January 29, 2012

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Super Sunday, Kris Dunn's 2,000th point and wondering what ever became of Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje:

• Mr. Idle, Mr. I to his close friends, keeps getting asked why the football Giants are on such a...

Friends of Kell get boost from BAA

 January 27, 2012

Shut out of this spring's Boston Marathon?

Well, here's a way to get in the 116th edition of the country's most prestigious race while helping raise money to erect a statue of the late Johnny Kelley, the 1957 Boston winner, along River...

Boyle has media in her blood

 January 26, 2012

New London

If facial expressions came with captions, the quizzical looks of most young athletes during impromptu media interviews might read, "Why is this overweight guy with the mismatched ensemble writing down everything I...

Freedom: We get to act on it

 January 25, 2012

Not that professional wrestlers are ever confused with, you know, Somerset Maugham or anything, but I'd be a happier guy if we all adhered to the advice The Rock used to give:

"Know your role and shut your mouth."

The latest example:...

Time for a little 'what if?'

 January 24, 2012

If you're into "what if?" games - and frankly, with two weeks of Super Bowl hubbub upcoming, it's more fun than listening to the blather - here's a "what if?" to begin the festivities:

Will Huskies become a house of cards?

 January 19, 2012

Storrs

McGarry: An intern is born

 January 18, 2012

Not that it's some stunning upset that life has more twists than a ballpark pretzel. But raise your hand if you've ever heard this one:

One week you are home eating Thanksgiving dinner with the family.

The next you are tossing...

Mr. I has plenty on his mind

 January 15, 2012

Idle thoughts, while waiting for Eli to torch the Packers, 20-game winner Michael Pineda and for someone to explain why the new search for a new athletic director at UConn costs $90,000:

• Mr. Idle, Mr. I to his close friends, is...

Only one race in the Top 80?

 January 13, 2012

Just one.

Two proud sports fans have left us

 January 13, 2012

New London

The city is a poorer place today, for reasons other than the ongoing melodramas at City Hall and One Police Plaza. Death claimed two of our best in recent weeks, two men whose loyalty, humor and sense of community made New...

CPTV is where home should always be for the UConn women

 January 11, 2012

Another winter night on Tuesday, another UConn women's game on Connecticut Public Television. Bob and Meghan. Harriet, Mary, Lee, Larry and the others in studio during timeouts. Folksy, homey, comfortable. Almost rhythmic. It's been this way now...

Calhoun’s urgent call is heard

 January 10, 2012

Hartford

Fernandes a part of history at UConn, too

 January 8, 2012

New London - It was right around Memorial Day, 2010, when Trip Fernandes, proud senior at Coast Guard Academy, was in the less familiar environment of the UConn campus. Truth be told, Fernandes would have preferred to...

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