MIKE DIMAURO - RECENT COLUMNS
New book on Montelli hearkens happy memories
Published: December 2, 2020 | Mike DiMauro
Former St. Joe's coach Vito Montelli talks about 50 years in basketball
Fuller deserves proportionate accolades
Published: December 1, 2020 | Mike DiMauro
Fuller wins league award for a kickoff
Yes, Virginia, there is a San Francisco (just ask Pete Barry)
Former CGA coach remembers his days at USF
Tim King has the community — and the truth — on his side
Tim King should keep his job as Valley Regional/Old Lyme football coach.
Of Porter, Cabral and their faith-based journey back home
It is entirely human to yearn for the next thing in our lives. Endure the present, but flirt with the future. This was Keith Porter.
Why does distance learning preclude athletics from happening?
If COVID's circumstances necessitate fluidity, our actions must thus remain fluid.
Will the NCAA consider listening to Jere Quinn?
Season No. 43, the only one Jere Quinn has ever coached in a pandemic, will challenge him as no other.
In hindsight, Heinsohn was simply the best
Tommy Heinsohn made his mark one night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
To ECC leadership: Thanks for a job well done
A million little haunting details became a daily dilemma around the games our kids play this fall, but Eastern Connecticut Conference athletic directors were up to the challenge.
Daigneault's words about 'fake news' ought to be memorized
Read more, turn off the television, get off the internet and social media, grab multiple newspapers and read.
Stick to sports? Sure beats our pathetic voting process
At least there's football to watch this weekend. A scoreboard. A winner. A loser. And all before bed.
Pete Gianakos: An institution at an institution retires
Mr. G's co-owner Peter Gianakos, who has helped feed us for 64 years, is retiring.
Kids should benefit most from NL community center
At some point, the priority needs to shift to the kids, especially in New London, where lip service has conditioned many of them to think they're entitled to less because they've always had less.
These women at UConn are worth every dime
This is where my reckless, feckless idealism gets in the way. Because I root for everybody. Make all the money you can, baby. It's called capitalism. As one pundit once noted, "money's money and there was only one Mother Theresa."
At East Lyme, the band plays on ... despite our new abnormal
Angelica Fadrowski had two options: respond or react. The latter would have been understandable, given our new abnormal
Be careful (and hopeful): Karma isn't messing around
We've reached the point in 2020 where the mere reference to 2020 describes 2020. Example: Something bizarro happens? Go palms up, give a shoulder shrug and offer an absorbing, "well, it's 2020 after all."
Whalers were outscored 105-4 ... and then they won
Imagine: outscored 105-4 over an entire season. But still having the guts to show up every day.
Can the ECC's 'football related activities' save youth football?
Youth football is facing participation issues that the ECC's 7 on 7 model can solve.
An attitude of gratitude as high school sports return
High school sports make their return to Connecticut on Thursday as does GameDay on theday.com
Fitch's Williams speaks his truth, giving us salvation at the 50-yard line
Norwich — Heroism necessitates fearlessness, the kind that summons courage from the terror of vulnerability — and ultimately produces a moment where bravery and inspiration meet at a happy intersection. Thomas Williams, a junior at Fitch High, will remember Friday night for...
A guide for parents to watch their kids play sports this fall
Parents can watch their kids at some, not all games this fall
Are the feds really going to withhold money from 1st graders?
An elementary school with no ties whatsoever to CIAC may lose $400,000 in federal funding because of the CIAC's stance on transgender athletes.
Is there still room on the Sun bandwagon?
The Connecticut Sun are two wins away from a repeat trip to the finals.
A salute to Mo and NL's fighting spirit
The All-Whaler class reunion celebrated New London's finest.
It's a mask, not a catheter
There are people – not the majority, but enough – who have turned mask wearing into a hissing contest
Jim Leone: the wind beneath the wings of St. Bernard
St. Bernard is minus one of its cleanup hitters now. Jim Leone, a 41-year theology teacher and football/wrestling/baseball coach, has opted for retirement – and just in time before having to learn Google Classroom, too.
Spring: When a young man's thoughts turn to ... football
Springs offers a safer version of Friday Night Lights
Dr. I's suggestions to combat the H.S. football crisis
Here are a few Idle Thoughts ... from COVID-19 to "hey, batter batter."
Dear H.S. football folks: Cope with the word 'no'
Giving science more time is the far better option than 22 football players breathing on each other in close proximity.
So when did high school football become more important than a lung?
We all want to know more about this virus. We just don't yet. We are still learning. Sometimes, science, patience and faith are all we have.
Barry and Sue poured more than coffee into Muddy Waters
Barry and Sue, who have decided to sell Muddy Waters, probably have no idea the impact they've had on the community just by choosing the vocation of coffee-pouring.
The Mets lost their hero, a guy that made fans treasure their childhoods
Every team has one. The icon. The Man. The one player the fan base agrees — as much as fan bases can agree on anything — who symbolizes all it's ever meant to wear the uniform.
The NBA has turned activism into a living thing
The NBA players, who have turned activism from rhetoric into practicality, not only just made it easier for inhabitants of Milwaukee, Detroit and Charlotte to vote, but turned it into a cooler, safer experience.
Embracing the 'Mamba Mentality' to do better
I promise you: If you've ever been made uncomfortable — especially because of your own indiscretion — you learn that being uncomfortable is a great teacher.
CIAC: where amateurs know more than experts
The high school sports wheels spin furiously but with no traction.
CIAC's foibles are everybody's fault
If school systems want change, there will be change. And things must change
Killingly: the home of true Native American expertise
Maybe the actions of the Washington football team and from the Guilford school system would deliver a blinding flash of obvious to the Killingly school board.
We need to prepare the kids, not criticize the process
Kids, coaches and anyone else with an affinity for local sports were offered some hope Tuesday, when a CIAC source spoke of the likeliest path – for right now anyway – that fall sports return.
Baseball in the fall and football in the spring? Hmmm ...
Baseball in the fall would be a natural extension of a summer activity
Why does a golf course get more consideration than the kids?
And to think but three miles separate Norwich Golf Course from Jenkins Park. Three miles. Same city. Yet another example in this country that geographical proximity hardly begets corresponding philosophical connection.
No more excuses at UConn: It's time to win
UConn has competitive advantages – some self-evident, others to be exercised – other Big East schools do not.
Lorraine Allen: I'm glad I got to know her ... and will miss her dearly
New London hasn't known many more civic minded people than Lorraine Allen.
On transgender athletes: The law cannot stand still
Our antiquated, one-size-fits-all laws on this issue do not address the inherent concerns of equity, morality and biology. They need to be rewritten.
Change is happening before our eyes
This country works best when we include everyone of all colors, religions, ancestries and orientations who learn with, play with and learn about each other.
Local businesses offer hope to 700 with graduation gift boxes
Dozens (and dozens) of local businesses have offered us hope this month. They conspired to fill 700 "graduation boxes" with goodies for every kid graduating from East Lyme, Waterford and New London High Schools.
Do we have the guts to start teaching history differently?
History is a living thing, with tentacles and voices stretching across varying races and cultures
All-world fundraiser Bill Stanley can use a helping hand now
It requires time and many acts of good to reach institutional status. Ladies and gentlemen ... Bill Stanley.
CIAC: the home office for competitive disadvantage
Three-time defending state champion St. Joseph moves to a less competitive division
It's time to get the bugs (mosquitoes) out
If we have a high school sports season this fall, what guarantees do we have that it won't get hijacked again by those infamous mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis? Ah yes. The dreaded EEE.