At the end of my sophomore year I elected to drop out of UConn for just one year because my grade point average was deeply embedded in the proverbial doo-doo and I was “fresh outta cash.” I needed motivation to study and time to earn some money. Moving back in with the family I ...
LAS VEGAS— For the second time in three seasons, Gonzaga is back in the Elite 8. Following an epic79-76 Sweet 16 winover UCLA, Gonzaga will now play UConn in the West Regional championship on Saturday. Ahead of the game, Gonzaga head coach Mark Few addressed the media to...
“It’s also a time where with our record, something needs to be done about it.” The good news for the 76ers is that several teams in the Eastern Conference are off to slow starts. Despite their poor start, the 76ers were just 3½ games out of a play-in spot. But this team ...
to be excited:Being back in the Final Four for the first time since the Lady Bears went 40-0 to win it all in 2012 is a good place to start, especially after four losses in the Elite Eight since that last appearance. Baylor was the best team in the country all...
In a few months I’d go from playing for hundreds of dollars to millions of them. No, the big revelation was that, more than talent or money, I was out of time. If golf wasn’t going to be my life, I was ready to jump into another field, one in which trying hard and succeedin...
John’s, Marquette and UConn, so although it’s not impossible, it seems very unlikely that DePaul could sweep those three games. So, unless chaos ensues — which is entirely possible within the Big East — Butler will be playing in the eight-nine game to open up the Big East ...
I was born and raised a Husky fan back when UConn was a small agricultural school, meaning, it wasn’t the center of the college basketball universe for men’s and women’s basketball. When it came time to make my decision of where to attend college, I wanted to stay close to home ...
Adama Sanogo (16.9 PPG 7.2 RPG) is a force, and one of the reasons UConn owns the nation's top offensive rebounding rate. He's surrounded by two players (Jordan Hawkins, Alex Karaban) who both shot more than 38% from 3 this season. Tristen Newton (10.1 PPG) is one of ...
Together, Bird and Rapinoe nabbed two FIFA World Cups, four WNBA and three NCAA championships (Bird playing for the legendary UConn Huskies squad) and five Olympic gold medals. And Rapinoe is currentlycompeting alongside her USWNT teammatesfor a World Cup three-peat. ...
The Boston Red Sox begin their 2024 season tonight, a season that will also celebrate 20 years since the 2004 Sox won baseball’s world championship for the first time since 1918. Those lovable “idiots” (as they called themselves) that “reversed the curse” will live forever in Boston fo...