Fun fact: Allen coached Yale to the CWS in 1948, when GHW Bush played first base.

Dom Amore: This former CT college player hopes to be a pro football trailblazer Aditya Singh, whose football development got a kick-start in Connecticut, is looking to be the first Indian-American to impact in NFL.

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Dom Amore: This former CT college player hopes to be a pro football trailblazer Aditya Singh, whose football development got a kick-start in Connecticut, is looking to be the first Indian-American to impact in NFL.

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Unpacking an awkward week for WNBA, CT Sun, Azzi Fudd, and more At a time when the WNBA should be basking in the spotlight, it continues to turn the ball over. CT losing gifts of Gabby. Your Sunday Read.

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Unpacking an awkward week for WNBA, CT Sun, Azzi Fudd, and more At a time when the WNBA should be basking in the spotlight, it continues to turn the ball over. CT losing gifts of Gabby. Your Sunday Read.

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Fun fact: Sims hit the last home run in the original Yankee Stadium, 1973.

Fun fact: Lonborg struck out 246 during his Cy season in 1967, but never more than 140 in any other of his 15 seasons.

HISTORIC JOURNEY After a long day of baseball in St. Petersburg, Jackie Robinson was sitting in his Pullman coach, playing cards with a teammate. And if a black man was playing cards with a white man in Florida in Mar...

Wrote this for a special tribute section in The Courant 4/15/97

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Hurricanes' Felix Unger Sorum: Promoted from AHL Hurricanes' Felix Unger Sorum: Promoted from AHL

Don’t know if he can play but I bet he’ll have the neatest locker in the league.

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Dom Amore: When perseverance pays off, UConn quarterback Tucker McDonald is holding a large IOU After years of work behind the scenes, recovering from injuries, learning, QB Tucker McDonald got a chance to showcase his skills for UConn fans.

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Former ‘Bad News Bear’ spreads good word in CT; new Dan Hurley, and more Rev. Dave Stambaugh of Essex’s First Congregational Church played a mean first base 50 years ago in iconic “Bad News Bears.” The Sunday Read

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Former ‘Bad News Bear’ spreads good word in CT; new Dan Hurley, and more Rev. Dave Stambaugh of Essex’s First Congregational Church played a mean first base 50 years ago in iconic “Bad News Bears.” The Sunday Read

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Fun fact: at least three of these players are not in the HOF that should be

Fun fact. In Ball Four, Jim Bouton was miffed when Bates was called up to Seattle instead of him in April 1969. Bates pitched in only one MLB game.

Fun facts: Carmen Berra was pregnant as she watched end of Don Larsen’s perfect game and vowed to name her child after the player who made the last out. Dale Berra was born 9 weeks later. Mitchell, remembered chiefly for that at-bat, his last mlb, had a .312 average across 11 years with Cleveland.

Fun facts: Koback was a “bonus baby” who went straight from Hartford Public High to the Pirates in 1953 … Blowers once made four errors in the last three innings of a game.

Dom Amore: In preparing for championship games, Dan Hurley is UConn’s not-so-secret weapon UConn’s Dan Hurley has demonstrated mastery of quick-turnaround prep in the NCAA Tournament. He’s 17-1 entering Monday’s final vs. Michigan.

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Dan Hurley, Alex Karaban and UConn men are at the threshold of college basketball ‘dynasty’ status The UConn men are playing for their third national championship in a four-year span, an achievement that would constitute a sports dynasty.

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: This Husky was cub reporter at last Final Four; not-so-lovely Sunset, more Alex Millender, a student reporter at the 2025 Final Four, suits up this year for UConn. …Sun-set celebration? Are you joking? Sunday Read

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Fun fact: Called up in August 1975, Vail had a rookie-record 23-game hitting streak for the Mets.

Dom Amore: Braylon Mullins’ shot shook the world, from UConn to all the way back home in Indiana Braylon Mullins’ game-winning shot Sunday will live in college basketball history. And it will never be forgotten in his hometown.

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Fun facts: Denehy, from Middletown, CT, appeared on Tom Seaver’s rookie card in 1967. Dick Young wrote that spring that Denehy was more promising prospect! Mets later sent Bill to Senators as compensation for poaching manager Gil Hodges. Seaver (311), Denehy (1) went on to win 312 MLB games.

Fun fact: Vince DiMaggio (1943) and brother Joe (1939) both homered in All-Star Games.

Fun fact: in 14 seasons, 1903 games, 8333 PAs, Sewell struck out 114 times, one K per 73 times up. Several times in single digits over a full season.

Dom Amore: For Final Four-bound UConn men, Braylon Mullins’ miracle moment was 2 years in the making UConn promised Braylon Mullins a chance to play a Final Four in his hometown. The moment arrived, he punched Huskies’ ticket to Indianapolis

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Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Are basketball blue bloods becoming extinct? … Turmoil at Yale, and more Are basketball blue bloods becoming irrelevent? .. Luke Murray and BC made wise decisions … What’s going on at Yale? … Sunday Read.

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Fun fact: Denied a raise after the 1929 season, Durocher cussed out NYY GM Ed Barrow. The next day he read in the newspaper he had been sold to the last place Reds.

Fun fact: The Mets traded Amos Otis to KC for Foy in one of their many attempts to find longterm solution at 3B.