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Class MM football: Windsor stunned by a last second Masuk field goal in state...
NEW BRITAIN – Masuk junior Jackson Zylick lined up three times for a field goal with less than 10 seconds left and the game on the line in the Class MM football championship against top-ranked Windsor...
View ArticleHigh school football championships: Updated scoreboard
Friday/Saturday championship results Class LL: No. 2 Greenwich 14, No. 5 West Haven 0 Class L: No. 2 New Canaan 35, No. 4 Darien 21 Class MM: No. 6 Masuk 24, No. 1 Windsor 21 Class M: No. 4 St. Joseph...
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Twin brothers lead Killingly’s march to perfect football season, claim to be...
EAST HARTFORD — The Allard brothers are of one mind when it comes to football. “We never give up, like three times we were down two scores and we came back to win,” Hayden Allard said, after scoring...
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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Hometown connection helping Central Connecticut...
Patrick Sellers has been at nine schools and recruited hundreds of players, but when he saw a name pop up from Florence, S.C., his hometown, it was a first. “I didn’t know who he was until I got into...
View ArticleClass S football: Bloomfield dominated by Ansonia in championship game
EAST HARTFORD – Thirty years ago, Bloomfield and Ansonia played for the first time in what would become a storied rivalry in Connecticut high school football. The score was lopsided, an Ansonia win for...
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Who’s No. 1? Final CT High School Football Coaches’ Poll unveiled after wild...
The final Hartford Courant Top 10 state high school football coaches’ poll of the season is also the craziest. New Canaan finishes as the state’s No. 1 team after winning its third straight CIAC Class...
View ArticleClemson’s Swinney can’t wait for Belichick’s positive impact on Atlantic...
By Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Practice plans. Film breakdowns. Travel bookings. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney had his focus split several ways getting ready to face No. 4 Texas in...
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High school boys basketball preview: Loaded with state powers, CCC will be...
For the first time in 20 years, Northwest Catholic boys basketball coach John Mirabello will start the season without one of his sons either on his bench or, going back in time, helping out as a...
View ArticleAssumption-bound Maddy Handrahan leads Glastonbury girls basketball to...
GLASTONBURY – The Conard-Glastonbury girls basketball game was close Monday night but when Glastonbury senior guard Maddy Handrahan came down the court and saw her younger sister in the corner, she...
View ArticleEast Catholic beats defending Div. II champion Windsor in boys basketball opener
WINDSOR – The two CCC boys basketball heavyweights, Windsor and East Catholic, usually face each other later in the season. But this year, the schedule had the two rivals playing each other on the...
View ArticleFolk hero: After starring in New York City, Meriden’s Sincere Folk returns to...
WINDSOR – The East Catholic boys basketball team lost four starters from a team that advanced to the Div. I quarterfinals last year, including coach Luke Reilly’s son Samson, a dynamic guard who...
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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: At Old Lyme, Brady Sheffield’s a coach ‘far beyond...
Brady Sheffield is walking at a brisk pace through hallways he knows so well, papers in hand, through the school’s media center to the film room. He stops to help one of his young players find...
View ArticleTensions brew over trans athletes at Southern California high school, as...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The debate over the rights of transgender athletes to compete in school sports intensified this week in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, as two Republican lawmakers...
View ArticleCaitlin Clark effect hasn’t reversed the decades-long decline in girls...
By JOSH FUNK OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Plunging participation in girls basketball led one of Nebraska’s largest high schools to cancel its varsity team for the year. The decision by Grand Island Senior High...
View ArticleConnecticut High School Football Alliance schedule released for 2025 season
The Connecticut High School Football Alliance will return for another season in 2025. The Alliance, a scheduling agreement between seven of the eight leagues in Connecticut high school football, is a...
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‘A walking miracle’: Fifteen years ago, this CT man got a new heart and came...
When Dennis Thomas went to the hospital in August 2009, a heat wave was blanketing the state. He had been feeling fatigued, and his mother thought he didn’t look great at Sunday dinner, so he went in...
View ArticleYear in CT Sports: Huskies repeat, Dan Hurley spurns Lakers, UConn women...
A group of reporters were stationed in the alley between Gampel Pavilion and UConn’s training facility, an old-fashioned stake out. UConn’s basketball teams have provided the state of Connecticut with...
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CT High School Sports Recap 2024: Last-second wins, heartbreaking losses and...
There were moments of glory, last-second losses and improbable victories in state high school championship games in 2024. There was history made: a woman coached a boys basketball team in a state...
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It was dad vs. daughter for the first time in this CT high school basketball...
BRISTOL – Bristol Central girls basketball coach Steve Gaudet said he thought about leaving coaching after last season. He wanted to watch his daughter Ava, a sophomore, play at Farmington High School....
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Former CT football player killed in New Orleans attack
A former Loomis Chaffee football star has been identified as one of the victims killed in the New Orleans truck attack on New Year’s Day. Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, played football and lacrosse as a post...
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