Spring Break
HARTFORD - If the first 10 minutes of the game were to decide the winner, it would not have been the Huskies. However, with the help of Charde Houston, the women's basketball team defeated the Houston Jaguars, 71-65, at the Hartford Civic Center in their first preseason game.
Head coach Randy Edsall holds no illusions about what it will be like to play at Mountaineer Field Wednesday night in front of a national television audience. "It's a 60,000-seat stadium and their fans usually get pretty loud," Edsall said. "They're not going to be very hospitable.
LAWRENCE, Kan. - This past weekend I left the familiar settings of the Storrs-Mansfield area for Kansas City, Mo. to attend a conference on college journalism. While the conference was interesting the highlight of the weekend came on Saturday when I took a trip to Lawrence, Kan.
The most disappointing team in the NFL this year is the 1-6 Green Bay Packers. Yes, that's right, the Green Bay Packers. This has been a playoff team since the inception of the NFL. Now they are keeping the basement of the NFC North, the worst division in the league, warm and they will probably stay there the whole season.
So here we are, halfway through the 2005 NFL season and some things never change, at least in the AFC. If the playoffs were to start today, there would be only one change in the conference from a year ago. The Patriots, Steelers, Colts, Broncos and Chiefs are once again tops in the league with the Bengals looking to rain on their parade.
HARTFORD - Even though it was her first time stepping on the court for a college game, Renee Montgomery looked especially calm in her debut. Montgomery, who was the first UConn player introduced, ran onto the court amid cheers and began jumping around to pump herself up for the game.
When John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino took over the Boston Red Sox in 2002 it seemed as though they had learned from the mistakes of Red Sox past. However, the departure of General Manager Theo Epstein suggests otherwise and casts an ominous cloud over a team that should be expected to contend again in 2006.