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Thursday, May 16, 2024
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Thursday, May 16, 2024
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High school notes: Waterford’s Madison LaForte plans to follow her dad’s footsteps into coaching
Madison LaForte’s older brothers played lacrosse in college, Michael for Grove City College and later Babson and Mason at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where their father...
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Katonah, N.Y. — Baker Katko scored five goals, Tyler Gagliardi had three goals and an assist and The Williams School boys’ lacrosse team avenged two regular-season losse...
New London – Music blared from the speakers at Alumni Field on a recent warm spring day as the Mitchell College baseball team took batting practice.
The Mariners soaked i...
Mohegan — The audience, the opponent, none of that mattered to Alyssa Thomas on opening night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
The Connecticut Sun’s Thomas was runner-up as the WNBA...
Louisville, Ky. — Xander Schauffele is playing some of his best golf without a trophy to show for it. He at least put his name in the PGA Championship record book Thursda...
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Indianapolis — Breanna Stewart ruined Caitlin Clark's regular season home debut by scoring 31 points to lead the New York Liberty to a 102-66 win in front of a sellout cr...
Minneapolis — Clarke Schmidt cruised to a career-long eight shutout innings after Anthony Volpe led off the game with a home run that sparked a three-run first inning, an...
Rome — Unlike most Americans who can’t find their footing on clay when they come to Europe, Tommy Paul feels right at home on the red dirt.
That’s because he grew up play...
Foxborough, Mass. — Jacoby Brissett had no expectations the first time he walked into the New England Patriots’ training facility in 2016 as a wide-eyed, 23-year-old rook...
Boston — Opposing fans have been begging for matchups with the Celtics this postseason.
And they are all now wishing that they hadn’t.
Miami Heat fans chanted, “We Want...
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London — Several hundred thousand Irish viewers got a tutorial from Charlie Smyth on the difference between lining up a kick in Gaelic football versus a field goal in Ame...
When the NFL schedule gets released, fans and commentators obsess over how many prime-time appearances teams will make.
However, the biggest competition and most attenti...
Baltimore — D. Wayne Lukas sat in his corner of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course earlier this week and pointed several stalls down.
“Thank God the Derby horse came,...
New York — Bad Bunny's sports representation firm sued the baseball players' association Thursday, asking for a restraining order against the union that would allow it to...
Emma Marelli figured her competitive softball days were over after graduating from Waterford High School.
She didn’t receive any interest from college softball programs.
...
Boston — Al Horford wanted to savor the moment.
With play stopped and the Celtics' victory no longer in doubt, Horford turned in the direction of the sideline, walked a ...
Colchester — Sammi D’Atri was 3-for-4 with a double and scored three runs as Bacon Academy beat Valley Regional 12-1 in a nonleague softball game on Wednesday.
Jazlyn Sm...
Stonington — Alyssa Blanchette won three events as Bacon Academy beat Stonington 117-31 in an Eastern Connecticut Conferenced Division II girls’ track meet on Wednesday. ...
Mohegan — A day earlier, another question from the media was posed to the Perturbed Professional about the Fledgling Phenom. The Perturbed Professional, remaining profess...
Three hours before tipoff and the line to enter Mohegan Sun Arena snaked into the retail area of the casino, well beyond the box office lobby and nearly to the waterfall bar Tuesday night.
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5:30 a.m., FS2 — AFL: Geelong Cats at Gold Coast Suns.
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1 p.m., YES, WFAN (660-AM) — MLB: New York Yankees at Minnesot...
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