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Class is in session: How Dan Hurley’s winning ways at UConn are impacting...
You may be seeing more sophistication unfolding in the high school basketball games you’ve been watching across Connecticut. Nothing too intricate in these early weeks of the season, perhaps, but some...
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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Don’t mess with UConn; extraordinary Windsor High...
You may agree with the posture coach Jim Mora has taken since the UConn football team won the Fenway Bowl on Dec. 28. A system that allows teams to recruit another team’s players in the days leading up...
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Hidden gem: This CT high school’s band manages to put a pep into plenty of...
DURHAM – The Coginchaug High boys basketball team was warming up Friday night before its game against Westbrook. So was the Coginchaug pep band. Band director Tim Fisher held up his whiteboard. “Brass...
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Girls basketball Week 4 in review: Conard player sets West Hartford scoring...
Emily Knowles scored her 1,000th point last season as a junior. This season, she became the all-time leading girls basketball scorer in Conard and West Hartford history. On Dec. 28 on the last basket...
View ArticleBoys basketball Week 4 in review: Bloomfield, Granby revitalized, rolling along
The Bloomfield boys basketball team lost a couple of key players, the Kerr twins, to prep school in early February last year and finished the regular season 8-12 – a year after advancing to the state...
View ArticleHartford Courant’s Lori Riley wins Connecticut Sportswriter of Year
If there’s a Connecticut sports story that deserves to be told, readers can bet that The Courant’s Lori Riley will tell it. And after 35 years of climbing into press boxes from Avon to Vernon,...
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Maximus effort: This CT wrestler is one of the best in the state and he’s...
SIMSBURY – Steve Konopka’s favorite movie was “Gladiator,” the 2000 film starring Russell Crowe. He loved it so much he named his strength-and-conditioning gym “Strength N Honor,” after the phrase...
View ArticleManchester boys basketball rallies from 25-point deficit to beat Windsor
WINDSOR – The Manchester boys basketball team rallied from a 25-point second-quarter deficit to beat Windsor, last year’s Class L champion, 95-94, Wednesday night in a CCC North game. With 27.7 seconds...
View Article‘This is a big win:’ This CT basketball team rallied from a 25-point deficit...
WINDSOR – Derrick Sheets, one of the state’s leading 3-point shooters, sat on the Manchester bench with four fouls. The first half wasn’t even over yet and his team was trailing Windsor, last year’s...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Sheehan Girls Basketball beats Mercy in Overtime
The Sheehan Girls Basketball team beat Mercy 53-49 in overtime.
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Winning and twinning: Wresien twins help Sheehan girls basketball extend win...
WALLINGFORD – Jenna Wresien had the ball with a little over a minute left in overtime against Mercy, a team that Sheehan coach Mike Busillo can count on one hand how many times he has beaten in the...
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Youth movement fueling Ellington boys basketball success
ELLINGTON – The Ellington boys basketball team is young. But the youth movement has been good for the Knights, who are undefeated. Two sophomores are in the starting lineup. So is a freshman. But one...
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Girls basketball Week 5: Coventry on a roll; there’s a new 1,000-point scorer...
The Coventry girls basketball team lost to Somers three times last year – twice during the season then a third time in the second round of the Class S tournament. Somers went on to win the Class S...
View ArticleBoys basketball Week 5: Glastonbury is 8-1 and it’s no secret who’s driving...
The Glastonbury boys basketball team is off to its best start in a while at 8-1. The Guardians have won seven straight. Senior guard David Smith is a big reason why. “It’s not a secret that we’re only...
View ArticleU.S. House passes bill on hot-button transgender topic: Here’s what to know
The U.S. House passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports, the first step in what is expected to be a long and controversial process....
View ArticleGlastonbury’s Brooke Strauss wins Gatorade Cross Country Player of the Year
She’s already the Class LL champion, State Open champion and New England champion, and on Thursday, Glastonbury’s Brooke Strauss captured the Gatorade Connecticut Girls Cross Country Player of the Year...
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Meet Abdou Toure, Connecticut’s top-ranked 2026 prospect who received an...
SPRINGFIELD – The first key on Andover (Mass.) coach Dave Fazio’s game plan for his team’s matchup with Notre Dame-West Haven at the Hoophall Classic on Thursday was to not let Abdou Toure dunk. Less...
View ArticleBoys basketball Week 6: East Catholic wins the battle of Manchester, rematch...
The East Catholic boys basketball team lost its first game, by three points, at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield last Thursday night. The Eagles were headed to play then-unbeaten Manchester Friday....
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Girls basketball Week 6: Powered by two freshmen, Prince Tech off to a hot start
Prince Tech has a freshman orientation in July and girls basketball coach Polly Innerarity is in charge of the gym during that time. Two girls came in and started playing basketball and Innerarity...
View ArticleNorthwest Catholic beats Holy Cross in battle of top state girls basketball...
WATERBURY – Abby Casper scored 15 of her 20 points in the second half as Northwest Catholic beat previously unbeaten Holy Cross 64-53 Monday night in a battle between two of the state’s top girls...
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