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.
COLLEGES
Florida's Mullen hoping for sizable leap in second season
Dan Mullen made a big leap in his second season at Mississippi State, but his Florida team doesn't have quite so much room to grow
Big 12 opposites: Oklahoma at top, Kansas' Miles returns with ring
Oklahoma's streak of four consecutive Big 12 titles coincides with Kansas finishing last each of those years
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.
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LOCAL ROUNDUP
Local roundup: Ledyard wins Senior League softball state title
Ledyard rolled to the Senior League (ages 13-16) softball state title with a 15-5 win over Bristol on Sunday night, winning the mercy-rule game in five innings.
Newest Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame inductees announced
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 as part of Homecoming Weekend.
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.
PROFESSIONAL
Major League Baseball roundup
Cody Bellinger hit his 32nd and 33rd homers, Clayton Kershaw struck out seven in six innings and the major league-leading Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Philadelphia Phillies 16-2 on Monday night
Old Nets think Durant, Irving can succeed where they didn't
Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving gave the Brooklyn Nets two big victories in one night
ON THE AIR
Baseball
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.
8 p.m., SNY, WCBS (880-AM) — MLB: New York Mets at Minnesota Twins.
Bowling
7 p.m., FS1 — PBA Summer League quarterfinals from Portland, Maine.
Soccer
9 p.m., ESPN2 — International Champions Cup: Fiorentina vs. Guadalajara from Bridgeview, Ill.
Tennis
6 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: Orlando Storm at Springfield Lasers.