NEW HAVEN — In his junior year of high school, John Isner grew seven inches. The basketball coach at Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, N.   Read More »

WILTON — Most mornings, if she wants to do so, Kristine Lilly can roll over, give the snooze button a tap and go back to sleep. How sweet is that?   Read More »

FAIRFIELD — Several trophies sit on a coffee table in the lobby of the athletic director's office on the second floor of the Pitt Center. On a nearby end table in that same office, more   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — While Internet-surfing the Fairfield basketball message board the other day, I came across this interesting thread. There was a brief questionnaire posted — apparently from   Read More »

WHAT — Olympic boxing exhibition featuring the United States, China and Brazil WHEN — Tonight, 8 p.m. WHERE — Arena at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport TICKETS — $30 upper level, $50   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — The drug test came back positive. Sadam Ali was stunned. Positive? It couldn't be. The news hammered Ali harder than any punch ever could.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — This could be something huge. Huge for the city. Huge for continuing to sell the positive vibe that we're not just an urban negative but a place filled with positives.   Read More »

CROMWELL — The plans had been drawn up, but a year ago, that's all they were plans. Blueprints of a dream. Adjacent to the ninth green, that's where the dream would come to life.   Read More »

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BRIDGEPORT — In the very beginning, when Carey Paige was pitching his heart out to keep the Bluefish alive in the 1998 Atlantic League championship series, Bill Gonillo was there, his TV camera   Read More »

FAIRFIELD — There is a grand vision still to be realized. Ever so slowly, that vision is coming into focus. You can already see subtle changes taking place, little things to whet the appetite   Read More »

FAIRFIELD  The letters came to Michael Van Schaicks house at least once a week. Nice handwritten ones, too. Not some silly pre-printed form letter that so many of the other schools that wanted him to play basketball were sending out. No, these letters were personal.   Read More »

"You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout, I'm telling you why, Santa Chris is coming to town." Yes, once again, it's Santa Chris, that jolly fella (who does bear a strong   Read More »

Nathan Grube and Andy Bessette have decided to go fishing. Fishing for golfers. But these aren't a couple of little bluegills that Grube, the tournament director for the Travelers Championship, and   Read More »

EAST HARTFORD — His home career ended with nothing more than a slight whimper, not the big bang that Terry Caulley had so dearly wanted his final game at Rentschler Field to be.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — There were 31 kids working out in the pouring rain Thursday morning. Thirty-one kids who could have been home, warm and comfortable, waiting to eat Thanksgiving turkey and watch   Read More »

EAST HARTFORD — He stumbled, and Rentschler gasped. He stumbled again, and Rentschler gasped again. But somehow, D.J. Hernandez didn't fall down. Somehow, D.J. Hernandez stayed on his feet. Somehow, D.J. Hernandez found the end zone. And maybe found himself in the process. The Huskies live.   Read More »

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FAIRFIELD — Every time Dylan and Ryan Pape went outside to play with their buddies, Amanda Pape went too. Football. Kickball. Basketball. She wasn't about to be left out. Growing up as the only girl living on a block full of boys? Didn't matter.   Read More »

NEW YORK — Maybe it was a bold statement. Maybe it wasn't. As the first couple of coaches stood up and offered their assessments of the Big East Conference, it was the same old, same old.   Read More »

NEW YORK — The first exhibition game is just a week away. The first game will come just 10 days after that. In the snap of the fingers, the honeymoon between Ed Cooley and Fairfield is over.   Read More »

Quick, someone on the University of Miami administrative board, hurry up and go buy your president Donna Shalala a wide-brimmed hat. Or better yet, find her a nice, quiet place in the shade with a   Read More »

EAST RUTHERFORD, N. J. — His Sunday afternoons for now, and the foreseeable future, will continue to involve wearing a headset and not a helmet.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — The two men had started talking. They were not friends, not even casual acquaintances, just a couple of fathers shooting the breeze while their boys played Little League.   Read More »

FAIRFIELD — The guy couldn't hit a lick. That was the label and it stuck right to Jim Leyland. He could field his position, had a decent arm and could call a pretty good game, but hit? Forget   Read More »

NEW YORK — The expression on Cliff Floyd's face said it all. He didn't have to tell the media crowded around his locker how he felt as he slowly peeled off his warm-up top after finishing his   Read More »

In a perfect world, Dave Baseggio would be standing behind the Sound Tigers bench today in Binghamton, N.Y., for its season opener against the Senators.   Read More »

NEW YORK — As he took a few steps back toward first base, his fourth hit of the day safely jotted down in the scorebooks, Carlos Delgado let a   Read More »

NEW YORK — One inning after another, from the first through the sixth, the zeros went up on the scoreboard. Once again, Tom Glavine was back in   Read More »

LANCASTER, Pa. — The season rested in his hands. It was that simple for T.J. Mathews. Pitch like a man possessed and hopefully, allow your team to live for another day.   Read More »

And she never stopped. Cohen, once a standout player on the Norwalk High School girls' soccer team, fought the sarcoma cancer that infected her   Read More »

NEW YORK — When Jesse Orosco threw his glove high into the night sky on Oct. 27, 1986, at Shea Stadium, it was supposed to be the start of a   Read More »