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Mike DiMauro
Friday, May 10, 2024
Mike DiMauro
Friday, May 10, 2024
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North Stonington — The boys of winter watched amusingly earlier this week, their old coach who donned the snazzy suits for basketball in more casual duds for softball: ma...
Waterford — In the pantheon of geniuses, there’s Albert Einstein, Bill Belichick and perhaps the person who invented remote control. But could even those estimable savant...
New London — There are many inhabitants of the 06320 who proclaim devotion to their city — talking it more than walking it — often sounding like editorials that have forg...
East Lyme — Three of his teammates were there last week, signing their names, absorbing the cool vibes of college “signing day” at East Lyme High. Drew Sager — make that ...
There is a growing narrative suggesting baseball is losing young people, whose shorter attention spans and forays with instant gratification don’t blend well with a game ...
East Lyme — The memory remains vivid, especially to the dad, because, well, dads get this way a lot. Sure, life’s rhythms naturally create memories for dads and sons, but...
Questions to ponder:
How many social media platforms are you familiar with?
Do you understand which platforms your kids use regularly? What they’re posting? To whom?
If t...
Stonington — There are no words. Even now, more than a year later. Kevin Hesch was supposed to grow old with Heather and the five kids, all the Thanksgivings, Christmases...
Waterford — It was one of those crystalline, sun-soaked days with which April, and her hints of hope and renewal, treats us occasionally. A day just perfect for celebrati...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for artificial turf at Bacon Academy, the MVP for Juan Soto and for the Celtics to go two straight possessions without jacking up a 3:
• Dr. ...
News item: Tickets for the Connecticut Sun’s season opener against the fighting Caitlin Clarks of Indiana (May 14 at Mohegan Sun Arena) range from $126-$586 apiece on the...
It’s still my favorite voicemail of all time. The voice was unmistakable.
“Mike,” the voice said. “This is John Sterling. A friend of mine sent me your column. I want you...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for warmer weather, the Giants not to screw up the draft and for people to maintain proper traffic flow by not backing into every parking pla...
There’s an old joke about a man who wanted to become a monk, later learning from the head monk he must take a vow of silence. Only two words every three years.
After the ...
There are good reasons sports fans think they’re powerless against the machine. The machine of networks setting start times at bed times. The machine of outrageous ticket...
It is both amusing and amazing that otherwise well-meaning, rational humans can watch the same video evidence of a play and draw such contrasting conclusions. Exhibit A c...
Among Geno Auriemma’s greatest cautionary tales to his players over the years is reinforcing the Shakespearean maxim that your greatest strength is your greatest weakness...
Colchester — Not to quibble with Colin Powell here, but his line, “all the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and eff...
How ironic — or pathetic — that as Huskymania moves toward its annual March Madness crescendo, the potential renovation of UConn’s downtown Hartford home has been thrown...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Gerrit Cole to heal, an unusually warm spring and for turf and lights at Bacon Academy:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, is the fi...
It is National Athletic Trainers Month, an occasion for all of us to appreciate and understand the roles of highly qualified health care professionals in our schools.
And...
Colchester — The only difference between death and taxes, Will Rogers once said, is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
Among other interpretations of...
Many of us will spend the rest of our lives missing “Dr. Longshots,” otherwise known as the New London original named Thomas E. Eshenfelder — “Esh” — a man who made us la...
Old Lyme — Maybe the real stars of the show here are members of the hiring committee, who inspected 16 other candidates and ultimately chose this 21-year-old, perhaps sum...
Our modestly sized corner of the world punches above its weight in many categories, not the least of which is exporting Major League Baseball players. Who knew our little...
How ironic, if not miraculous, that the UConn men’s basketball players represent the university and play the game with poise and composure so completely lacking in their ...
Maybe fate’s guiding hand planned this long ago. Or maybe it’s plain old serendipity. But how fitting that the conscience of Wheeler High’s last act comes at a time when ...
The message, via Facebook, arrived sometime Thursday.
“Mike,” former UConn guard Maria Conlon wrote, “you made me quite famous last week, LOL. Hope you are well.”
And wha...
Waterford — There are moments when real life gets in the way of all the “breaking barriers,” “silencing stereotypes” and “you can be anything you want to be” bromides.
Re...
Recency bias is hardly recent, a phenomenon hard wired in us to favor the experiences new to our memories over anything historical. It’s like how yesterday’s halfcourt sh...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Opening Day, the Rangers to win the Cup and for Gus Johnson to stop shouting:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, was doing some dete...
Fact: All six state high school football champions from 2023 and the top 16 teams in the final state polls participated in the Connecticut High School Alliance, a conflue...
Mohegan — Until Tuesday night, the only “Wheeler” that really ever accomplished anything in basketball around here was named Tyson. (Father and son). But then there was n...
Some snotty, sarcastic person wrote this 10 years ago:
“There's just no way of knowing for sure, what with Freddie Mercury's passing and all. But when Mercury and Queen s...
In roughly six weeks, the next major national sporting events conclude: The crowning of men’s and women’s college basketball champions, the annual late-winter rhythms of ...
Groton — And to think it began as just another night in Mike Nystrom’s happy place. Game night in Saints Country. Same pregame routine, like all the others in the last 41...
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