Taber's career at Princeton comes to a sudden end
Caroline Taber, a senior pitcher at Princeton, had already decided not to return for her extra year of eligibility afforded recently by the NCAA. Then, the Ivy League took it from her anyway.
Top title games: UConn's '99 win vs. Duke a program changer
Khalid El-Amin remembers UConn's resolve to win a program-changing national championship.
Pats' McDaniels faces huge challenge prepping Brady's successor
Josh McDaniels just might have the toughest job in the NFL this coming season.
Ex-NFL kicker, Saints hero Tom Dempsey dies at 73
Former kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal, died Saturday while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus.
HIGH SCHOOL
The Day's All-Area Boys' Basketball Player of the Year: Old Lyme's Aedan Using
Aedan Using, the centerpiece of Old Lyme High School's Shoreline Conference championship team, is The Day’s 2020 All-Area Player Boys' Basketball of the Year.
Checking in with ... Sophia DiCocco (NFA)
(Editor's note: The Day will be publishing a profile of a spring athlete for each day the high school athletic season is suspended.) School: Norwich Free Academy Class:...
The Day's All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year: East Lyme's Sophie Dubreuil
East Lyme senior Sophie Dubreuil, who will continue her career next season at Division II St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y., was named The Day's 2020 All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year.
COLUMNS
Playing politics during a pandemic? You no longer matter
This pandemic, if nothing else, has illustrated a few things to me: 1) politics during a health...
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CT SUN
WNBA postpones start of season because of virus
The WNBA has postponed the start of its season because of the coronavirus pandemic
PROFESSIONAL
British Open canceled until '21 as golf schedule reworked
The British Open will not be played this year for the first time since 1945, with the R&A choosing to play golf's oldest championship next year at Royal St. George's and move the 150th Open at St. Andrews to 2022.
John Henry's under fire for furloughing some Liverpool FC staff
Red Sox owner John Henry is under fire in England after his Liverpool Football Club announced they'd place some non-playing staff on temporary leave.
Trump meets with US pro sports leaders to discuss virus
The NBA, NHL, NFL and Major League Baseball were all represented on the call by their commissioners — Adam Silver, Gary Bettman, Roger Goodell and Rob Manfred, respectively.
McLaughlin wins virtual IndyCar event racing from Australia
McLaughlin won IndyCar’s virtual race from virtual Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, the second race in the series’ attempt to create content during the worldwide shutdown of sports.
Fields of green: Mild winter, no games aid ballpark grass
Camden Yards was all green and would have been ready for what was going to be Major League Baseball’s earliest start, March 26. Then the season was put on hold indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemi
Premier League players can't agree wage cuts
Sports minister Nigel Huddleston asked the world's richest soccer league on Friday to ensure it “helps the national effort.”
Perriman says late-season breakout was real
Perriman was arguably the NFL's most productive wide receiver during the last month of last season for Tampa Bay.
UCONN
Andre Jackson getting ready for first season at UConn
Andre Jackson is doing whatever he can under challenging circumstances to prepare for his first season at UConn.
Massachusetts guard Ducharme commits to UConn women
Caroline Ducharme, a 6-foot-1 junior guard from Milton, Mass., has made an oral commitment to join the UConn women's basketball program, the Huskies' third member of the Class of 2021.
Wilson leaving UConn men's basketball program
Reserve forward Sidney Wilson, who's promising career never took off at UConn, is planning to transfer.
COLLEGES
Bentley coach Barbara Stevens inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame
Stevens has since eclipsed the millennial milestone for career wins and Friday she was bestowed the ultimate accolade: a spot in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies are scheduled to be held in Springfield on Aug.
AP top tourney one-and-done players
Davis shot 1 of 10 from the field that night but still was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four because of everything else he did as Kentucky won the national title.
Stonington's Arruda finds her way to Seton Hall softball
Among the things former Stonington High School center fielder Miranda Arruda has learned so far during her freshman year at Seton Hall University: that she's fast, that she's a Division I softball player and how to negotiate an airport security line.
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U.S. Women's Open in Houston postponed until December
The U.S. Women’s Open in Houston is now scheduled for two weeks before Christmas. The LPGA Tour pushed back the resumption of its schedule until the middle of June and found slots for three tournaments that have been postponed.