Starting Tuesday, It’s Officially Game On For Mohegan Sun And The American
On Tuesday morning, Mitchell Etess, chief executive officer of the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino, convenes his first staff meeting to discuss the promotion and execution of the newest sporting event...
View ArticleMike Aresco Talks UConn And Basketball In The American
On Monday, the American Athletic Conference – heretofore to be known as The American – takes its place along the terrain of collegiate athletics. While it will begin as a temporary union of 10, it...
View ArticleBridgeport And Mohegan Sun In Contention For UConn Hoop Home Games
Multiple sources confirmed for me Tuesday that UConn is in the preliminary stages of negotiations with both Bridgeport’s Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard and the Mohegan Sun Arena to play men’s...
View ArticleCharles, Hightower, Whalen Named WNBA All-Star Reserves
Not much has gone right for the Connecticut Sun this season. The proof is there at the bottom of the WNBA’s Eastern Conference standings where the Sun (4-11) sit with 19 games to play in the...
View ArticleThe Latest About Where UConn Will Play Its Home Games
We know now the UConn-Stanford game on Nov. 11 will begin at 7 p.m. The only thing we don’t know yet is in which Connecticut arena the game will be played. And we likely won’t know exactly where any of...
View ArticleUConn, XL Center Deal Just About Done For Men’s, Women’s Hoop
Sources are saying that a tentative agreement has been reached between the UConn athletic department and Hartford’s XL Center to stage a large number of games in the building for the 2013-14 season....
View ArticleMore Information On XL Center’s New Deal With UConn Basketball
Here is the story by the Hartford Courant’s Dom Amore, our men’s basketball beatwriter, on the new deal tentatively reached between UConn and the XL Center in Hartford to resume their relationship in...
View ArticleUConn Announces Where Home Games Will Be Played
UConn’s women’s basketball team just announced something we’ve been telling you for some time; it will play nine of its 18 home games at Gampel Pavilion, eight at the XL Center and one at a...
View ArticleOregon Issues Three-Point Warning
Oregon comes to the XL Center Wednesday to play the No. 1 UConn women. This is basically all you need to know about the mindset of the Ducks, coached by Paul Westhead, the former NBA, men’s college and...
View ArticleGeno Auriemma On WTIC: Traffic, Weather, Opinions
I just completed a three-hour stint listening to Geno Auriemma’s drive-time debut as a talk show host on WTIC-1080. It’s the first time I’ve ever listened to the show door-to-door, so to speak, and the...
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