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Getting inspiration from an unexpected source on a special day

 June 20, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

There are those who have never gleaned inspiration from the sports world and that's OK.

For me, I would say it happens about 12 times per day, from the travails of the Boston Red Sox to the high school and college athletes we cover at The...

There's always someone watching ... just ask Colin O'Keefe

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 12:08 am

Admittedly, the opening line, "It was May 8, 2013 in Blacksburg, Va." just doesn't have the same swagger as "Call me Ishmael" or "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." But this is where the story begins.

It was May 8, 2013...

Join me for a tour of Dodd

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 12:05 am

Norwich
There comes a time when consumers of the world must unite. And have their Peter Finch moment. You know. Where you go to the window, as he did in "Network," and yell you're mad...

Signs of a cruel, cruel summer

 June 17, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Mohegan

Surely, there's plenty of season left, thus making the Connecticut Sun's 2-5 record more of an annoyance than a sign of the apocalypse.

But who would have blamed the fans, especially the loyal 7,000 or so who have come...

Blaney: A man of dignity

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

It has been suggested that there's a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

That's George Blaney.

Dignity.

Dignity in every act of life.

And now the dignified man who...

Don't you dare bet on sports ... or else

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

If a group of men were told not to shave while listing the various institutional, governmental and political hypocrisies, they'd look like something between Castro and Ayatollah Khomeini by the end of the conversation.

And yet there's one...

Sun fans being left in dark

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

A friend who works for the Connecticut Sun calls the WNBA a "secret society." Translation: The league's levels of competition, entertainment and accessibility grow in direct proportion to your willingness to give it a try.

And say this much...

Dear CIAC: Help us to help you

 June 11, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Imagine if during an episode of Law & Order, Jack McCoy is rolling through a pithy cross examination when Carl the Custodian barges in and says, "wrap it up, Counselor. The courtroom closes in five minutes."

Or if a teacher gets an abrupt...

Teacher, coach, mom ... champion

 June 10, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

West Haven

This is an excerpt from the poem that Liz Sutman read occasionally to the kids who would become champs:

"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate, I am...

Thibault saluted by fans, not Sun

 June 8, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Mohegan

He walked on the floor at a little before 7 Friday night, Mike Thibault did, the floor he had exited so many times a winner. A winner in more than 200 regular season games. A winner in the playoffs. The architect of the...

Growing pains a thing of the past

 June 7, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Waterford

It would be an exaggeration to suggest that teenagers' preferred mode of communication with adults today are word spasms yelled over whatever's jackhammering from their iPods.

Just not much of an exaggeration...

Calhoun's guys keep on proving that it's never too late to learn

 June 6, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Storrs

Taliek Brown, 30 years old now, is a Johnny Cash lyric. He's been everywhere, man, pursuing a basketball career in Bulgaria and Croatia, Macedonia and Canada, Venezuela and Turkey.

And he could have been anywhere, man,...

This was one for a good guy

 June 4, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

In the pantheon of Stonington institutions past and present, there are, in no particular order: Stonington Point, CC's, Dave Erskine, the COMO, the McGugans, Sea Swirl, Whit Davis and Maple Breeze, give or take some others unintentionally...

Mr. I feels pain of the Irish

 June 2, 2013; Updated: 12:06 am

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Coach T's return to Mohegan Sun (Friday night), The Captain's return to shortstop and for SNY to resist turning every pitch from Matt Harvey into a Tolstoy novel:

Is this heaven? No, it's the Vikings' new turf

 May 31, 2013; Updated: 8:09 am

East Lyme - Full disclosure: What I know about lacrosse is right up there with Gothic Architecture, knitting and Buddhism. Even such limited acumen, however, doesn't preclude us from knowing that East Lyme High is the...

Recent events prove ECC needs just one voice ... and quickly

 May 30, 2013; Updated: 10:01 am

That paragon of dysfunction, otherwise known as the Eastern Connecticut Conference, was in midseason form over the weekend, when the league softball tournament masqueraded as the ECC's first foray into reality television: "Real Softball...

Peluso has a new perspective on the game thanks to Jackson

 May 29, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Waterford

It was one night last week that little Jackson Peluso, 21 months old, wore this look of complete contentment, firmly entrenched in daddy's arms after the ballgame. There's no bigger hero to a little boy than daddy in a...

Matt Harvey or the Yankees? I'm going to the movies

 May 28, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Dr. Joyce Brothers' recent passing leaves one less option for such a dilemma. Dr. Phil seems busy. Frankly, we'd take Dr. Zhivago at this point.

Yankee fans in this corner of the world: unite. We have a problem. What are we do tonight when...

Donovan quietly goes about her way

 May 26, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Mohegan
Kara Lawson took the microphone Saturday night moments before the Connecticut Sun began their 11th summer here, giving the crowd brevity and levity before she gave them 23...

Run the New England Relay and you can visit all six states

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 12:18 am

While multi-day relays have exploded in popularity, there's one nearby relay next month that tops all the rest - at least in distance over 24 hours.
The second annual New England Relay on June 22 and...

A chance to do the right thing

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Occasionally, readers, bystanders and even friends will ask about my "New London bias." I don't get angry. Because they're right. I have a New London bias. Here's why: What the kids of the high school have done for me over the last 22 years...

World Series or bust: Pointers take the long way

 May 21, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

The wheels on the bus will go round and round - round and round, round and round - sometime Wednesday, delivering the baseball team from UConn-Avery Point from the enchanting shores of campus to Enid, Okla., where the deer and the antelope...

Dear Diary: Does ECC need to play five finals on same night?

 May 17, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Dear Diary:

You probably think it's a little weird, Dear Diary, that I spend time thinking about my epitaph. But we all have our hobbies. And mine is going to read, "Here lies Mikey D. He just didn't understand."

For instance,...

For Deeb it's not the wins, it's the people

 May 15, 2013; Updated: 11:56 pm

East Lyme

Here we are in Connecticut, the home office for the women's sports revolution, and even here, not enough of us comprehend the spirit of Title IX. As in: It makes no specific mention of sports. It requires equal opportunity...

Ivies come calling on NL's finest

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Inevitably, the residual effect of what follows would place some public pressure on Hunter Roman and Clayton Potter to attend the Ivy League schools pursuing them.

Note to Clayton and Hunter: Sorry, fellas. That's not the intent.

It's...

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