Sacred Heart-Waterbury beat Notre Dame-Fairfield so badly in the CIAC Class M championship at Mohegan Sun that the final score read like a UConn women's game. An exaggeration? The UConn women beat Robert Morris in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Storrs a few hours earlier Saturday by the...
Things are moving along for a few UConn players who performed well at Pro Day earlier this month in Storrs and hope to parlay that into a chance at the NFL. Safety Andrew Adams will meet with the Falcons, not far from his Fayetteville, Ga., home, in early April. Reserve safety Junior Lee, who put...
STORRS — Snapshots are just that, moments in time. When the UConn football team opened spring practice on March 9, coach Bob Diaco, a defensive player in high school and college who naturally became a defensive-minded coach, spent much of practice with the linebackers in particular. At any given...
STORRS — The coaches are clear. E.J. Levenberry is clear. Nothing is handed to a player. It is earned. But now Levenberry gets his long-awaited chance with the UConn football team. Huskies coach Bob Diaco knew Levenberry was good coming out of C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Va. Diaco recruited...
Geno Auriemma has been awarded the Pat Summitt Trophy as the 2016 United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division I national coach of the year, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association announced Wednesday. It's Auriemma's sixth WBCA NCAA Division I national coach of the year honor. "The WBCA is...
What: Bridgeport Regional Semifinals Site: Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport Time: Saturday, 11:30 a.m. TV: ESPN (Dave O'Brien and Doris Burke) Radio: WTIC-1080 (Bob Joyce and Debbie Fiske) Series history: First meeting Streaks: Mississippi State W2, UConn W71 Mississippi State (28-7) 35 VICTORIA VIVIANS,...
STORRS — With UConn leading by 40 points with 5 minutes, 49 seconds left in Monday night's NCAA Tournament second round game, an era ended at Gampel Pavilion. Seniors Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck walked to the bench. It was the last opportunity for the Gampel crowd to see Stewart...
Class M champion Sacred Heart-Waterbury, which won its third consecutive state title, was named the No. 1 team in The Courant final state high school boys basketball ratings on Monday, and Class L winner East Catholic-Manchester was No. 1 in the area ratings. Sacred Heart routed Notre Dame-Fairfield,...
Capital Prep of Hartford won its fourth straight state title with a 51-48 win over New London in the Class L championship game and finishes the year No. 1 in the Courant's high school girls basketball state rankings again. "We faced much adversity during the season," Capital Prep coach Tammy Millsaps...
The Darien boys hockey team ended the season in the same place it started: No. 1 in The Courant state ratings. The Blue Wave won their second straight Division I championship Saturday with a 4-2 victory over Fairfield Prep at Yale's Ingalls Rink. It was Darien's third straight appearance in a final....