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UConn Recruiting Loss Is Good for The Sport And For UConn
Don’t tell this to Geno Auriemma, but the decision by A’ja Wilson to play for her home state university in South Carolina instead of UConn should be good news for UConn fans. A’ja Wilson, a McDonald’s...
View ArticleTed’s Montana Grill Sets Opening Day At Hartford’s Front Street
Maybe Front Street in downtown Hartford should change its name to Frontier Street on May 12. That’s the day Ted’s Montana Grill opens for business with its second location in Connecticut, the chain...
View Article8 Crisis Management Principles Adam Silver Followed Deftly
The consensus is that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver nailed it by banning Donald Sterling for life, fining him $2.5 million and declaring he’ll force the L.A. Clippers owner to sell the team. How Silver...
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Hartford Marathon Has Title Sponsor; New Haven Open Close
NOTE: An earlier version of the post said the New Haven Open would announce a title sponsor Thursday. Seven months after ING sponsored its last Hartford Marathon, the race has lined up another...
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‘High-Roller’ Bet Settled As UConn Champion Flag Flies In Kentucky
The UConn Husky championship flag flew this past weekend over Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green Kentucky, atop the “Kentucky Rumbler” wooden roller coaster. Photo courtesy of Beech Bend Amusement Park,...
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NASCAR Message In New Britain: ‘Our Fans Are Welcoming’
Steve Herbst grew up removed from NASCAR culture in Peekskill, N.Y. His sister Susan is president of the University of Connecticut and his brother heads Colgate University. At the dinner table in...
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WWE Shares Smacked Down After Warning On TV Rights Deal
The recently-high-flying WWE lost nearly half its value in pre-market trading before Friday’s opening bell, after the company announced a new deal with NBCUniversal, and said it would need 1.3 million...
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ESPN’s New $175M Studio: ‘Unlike Anything On Sports TV’
BRISTOL — Once you get past Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other politicians talking about jobs, and you’ve heard ESPN President John Skipper talk about how the network’s new Digital Center 2 brings amazing...
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Back9Network Signs Deal With DirectTV, Hiring Aggressively
Back9Network, the startup golf lifestyle TV and online programmer, said Monday it signed a multi-year deal for a channel on DirecTV, its first television contract. The deal means Back9 will immediately...
View ArticleShould Hartford Have a Triple-A Team Instead Of Double-A Rock Cats?
My first thought on hearing that the Double-A Rock Cats’ owners agreed to move to a new stadium in Hartford was, why isn’t Triple-A the main goal? This was the dream of the late Mayor Mike Peters,...
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