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08/12/2014

Diaco: No decision yet on QB, could come next week

08/12/2014

Back when he was Bobby Diaco, the cappuccino-drinking, Sinatra-singing Iowa LB

[...] he'd wear his suits and lug this giant phone and, as Romano put it, "people must have thought he was really important." Coach Hayden Fry encouraged players -- young and old -- to share stories. When teammates came to his dorm to play John Madden on the old Nintendo, Diaco would prepare Italian…

08/09/2014

O'Bannon ruling great for college athletics, another hit for UConn

You wonder how much basketball money was on the court at Mohegan Sun Friday night. I counted $473 million in career earnings — and that was just in the front row of the group photo. From left to ri...

08/07/2014

Andre Drummond on Paul George, the one-and-done college experience, etc.

WATERBURY — Andre Drummond stepped out of a massive red Escalade and into the Crosby High gymnasium for his first organized basketball game since Friday’s Team USA intrasquad scrimmage. And we all ...

07/30/2014

Mike Aresco: "This is America. We believe in upward mobility." In the AAC, you better climb fast.

NEWPORT, R.I. -- It was a day to tout Central Florida's triumph and UConn dual dominance and the undoubtedly successful inaugural AAC campaign because, well, why the hell not? At the backdrop of AAC football media day and Aresco's half-hour sermon is the haze that settled over college athletics a de…

07/17/2014

Niels Giffey is heading home (kind of like LeBron)

Imagine the Berlin newspaper with a full-page photo of Niels Giffey, back to the camera, walking away from the court in his blue No. 5 UConn jersey, arms high in the air with his index fingers raised. Giffey signed a three-year contract with Alba Berlin, his hometown EuroLeague team, according to th…

06/27/2014

A perfect fit for Shabazz Napier and the Miami Heat

For about 45 seconds, Shabazz Napier and Kemba Walker had been reunited, a draft story too good to be true here in Connecticut. Turns out Napier was Miami-bound, a draft story too good to be true i...

06/26/2014

With Shabazz Napier and the other guards in the draft, it's Production vs. Promise

One scored eight points in three NCAA tournament games; the other played for Louisiana-Lafayette and shot 26 percent on 3-pointers. In that one season, he made more clutch shots than Zach LaVine made any shots, yet he universally sits below the UCLA freshman on draft boards. The input of one Western…

06/24/2014

A look at The System, the NCAA scholarship, through the eyes of three very different recipients

Not that he goes into detail with them, but it's been going quite well for Andrew Clements, who played football at Central Connecticut State before graduating in May with a degree in business management and a concentration in entrepreneurship. When he arrived at Central, he believed the NFL was poss…

06/05/2014

The fourth-leading rusher in Connecticut football history is no longer with the team, a sentence that ordinarily should generate concern. But the fourth-leading rusher in UConn history is Ly...

05/23/2014

Thoughts on Ollie's new contract

The I's have been dotted and the contract is now official: five years and $16 million, including an annual retention clause, for Kevin Ollie. Two I's in his signature. No I's in UConn. As he...