Jones, Thomas of Sun receive honors from WNBA
Connecticut Sun Alyssa Thomas was chosen to be a reserve for the WNBA All-Star game on Monday, while teammate Jonquel Jones earned her fourth Eastern Conference Player of the Week honor of the season.
Jones leads Sun past Fever
Jonquel Jones had 26 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and three steals as the Connecticut Sun pulled away in the third quarter for a 76-63 win over the Indiana Fever on Sunday.
Thomas propels Sun past Mercury
Alyssa Thomas played almost the entire second half and scored 16 of her team-high 20 during that stretch as the Connecticut Sun beat the Pheonix Mercury on Friday night, 79-64, to snap a five-game losing streak.
Sun's Clarendon using her voice to help others in the LGBTQ community
Connecticut Sun guard Layshia Clarendon has dealt with homophobia, even within her own family growing up. She's been open about her life story, hoping that it helps others feel that they're not alone.
Sun's Jonquel Jones to start in WNBA All-Star Game
Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones was named a starter for the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game on Thursday.
COLUMNS
Strecker's trying to drum up interest in football and dispel some myths
Example: A concussion is inevitable, if one decides to partake of high school football.
UCONN
UConn baseball to participate in MLB4 tourney next season
The UConn baseball team will join College World Series champion Vanderbilt, runnerup Michigan and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the second annual MLB4 tournament.
UConn men's basketball team gets probation for NCAA violations under Ollie
UConn's men's basketball program has been placed on probation for two years and former coach Kevin Ollie has been sanctioned individually for violations of NCAA rules during his tenure.
Hurley says recruiting getting a bump from Big East move
Men's basketball coach Dan Hurley says he's already seen benefits on the recruiting trail from UConn's decision to move back to the Big East
COLLEGES
National champ Vanderbilt set to continue its roll in 2020
National champion Vanderbilt appears set to continue its roll in 2020 with roster loaded with elite talent
Vanderbilt wins 2nd College World Series title
Mason Hickman and Jake Eder combined for 14 strikeouts, Vanderbilt knocked out Michigan ace Karl Kauffmann in the fourth inning, and the Commodores won the College World Series with an 8-2 victory in Game 3 of the finals Wednesday night.
Vandy rides Rocker to 4-1 win, forces a Game 3 vs. Michigan
Vanderbilt rides Kumar Rocker to 4-1 win, forces a Game 3 against Michigan in College World Series finals
HIGH SCHOOL
The Day's All-Area Baseball Player of the Year: Ledyard's Ken Turner
Everything about Ken Turner’s youth and high school baseball career — the accomplishments, the command of pitches that belies his age — suggests he’s never played another sport. He’s too refined to dabble with...
The Day's All-Area Softball Player of the Year: NFA's Bailey Comeau
The softball coach at Norwich Free Academy, Bryan Burdick, long defined his all-state pitcher, Bailey Comeau, with a word which outlined her unfaltering composure: equanimity.
The Day's All-Area Boys' Lacrosse Player of the Year: Waterford's Caleb Holdridge
Caleb Holdridge, who led Waterford to its first Eastern Connecticut Conference tournament championship, finished his career on Rope Ferry Road with 242 goals and 230 assists, earning Class M all-state and National High School Coaches' Association...
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LOCAL ROUNDUP
Newest Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame inductees announced
New London — The Coast Guard Academy will add five members to its Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 3 at the annual Hall of Fame Banquet held in the Otto Graham Hall of Athletic Excellence in Billard Hall as part of Homecoming...
Mystic gets all the pitching it needs and then some, captures District 10 Little League title
Dylan Joyce, throwing darts for fastballs along with a sweeping curve, pitched a three-hitter Sunday as Mystic won the district Little League baseball (ages 10-12) title 7-1 over East Lyme.
Local roundup: New London/Mystic wins Intermediate baseball state title
New London/Mystic won the Intermediate League (50-70) baseball state title on Sunday with an 11-0 win over Coventry.
PROFESSIONAL
Molinari returns claret jug, faces long odds getting it back
Fifty-one weeks after he won the British Open and gazed at his name etched on the silver claret jug, he had to return it.
Thomas blowing in the wind at Tour de France
Geraint Thomas and his teammates don't need a mountain to deliver a hammer blow on their rivals at the Tour de France.
Djokovic beats Federer in 5th-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon
For nearly five tight, tense and terrific hours, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer traded the lead, playing on and on and on until an unprecedented fifth-set tiebreaker was required to settle their memorable Wimbledon final.
ON THE AIR
Baseball
2 p.m., MLB Network — MLB: San Francisco Giants at Colorado Rockies.
7 p.m., NESN, WTIC (1080-AM), WEEI (103.7-FM) — MLB: Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox.
7 p.m., YES, WFAN (660-AM) — MLB: Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees.
7 p.m., ESPN — MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies.
7 p.m., WICH (1310-AM) — NYP: Tri-City ValleyCats at Connecticut Tigers.
10 p.m., MLB Network — MLB: Houston Astros at Los Angeles Angels.
Basketball
9 p.m., ESPN2 — NBA Summer League final from Las Vegas.
Cycling
8 a.m., NBCSN — Tour de France.
Tennis
7 a.m., Tennis Channel — ATP Swedish Open from Bastad, Sweden; WTA Bucharest Open from Romania; ATP Croatia Open from Umag.
11 a.m., Tennis Channel — ATP Hall of Fame Open from Newport, R.I.
7 p.m., CBSSN — WTT: Vegas Rollers at Washington Kastles.