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September 13, 2012 – Kevin Burke Everything comes to an end. Nothing is forever. Nothing. The writing has been on the wall for a while, and it was finally announced Wednesday that hall of famer Jim Calhoun will retire as UConn head basketball coach. I spent four of the greatest years of my life roaming the [...]

January 25, 2012 – Allen Moll In 2012, Gordon is once again lighting up the scoreboard to the tune of 14.3 ppg and shooting more than 45% from behind the arc, mostly as the starting 2 guard for coach Lawrence Frank. Perhaps because he’s slightly undersized(6’3) to play against bigger shooting guards, I’ve always been amazed [...]

October 27, 2011 – Allen Moll With the Big East Conference as we know it all but disintegrating before our eyes, now that Pitt and Syracuse have applied and been granted admission to the ACC Conference, and potentially UConn and Rutgers set to follow suit in coming years, who is to blame for the mass [...]

October 13, 2011 – Allen Moll With the University of Connecticut currently short on scholarships because of some prior recruiting violations and failing to meet the NCAA’s Academic Performance Rating, [...]

Here lies the Big East Conference... [...]

September 19, 2011 – Allen Moll With the NBA Lockout potentially lasting all season long, surely college basketball will get a big boost in viewership.  That’s a good thing since with a number of the nation’s top underclassmen choosing to return to their respective teams rather than declare for the NBA Draft, competition for the [...]

May 24, 2011 – Allen Moll Give them credit. Coach Jim Calhoun and the University of Connecticut staff have had to go through quite a few obstacles in winning the 2011 NCAA Championship. In addition to mowing down the competition during an unblemished NCAA post-season, including a nearly unheard of 5 wins-in-5 nights Big East [...]

UConn won their 3rd national championship by defeating Butler last night. Jim Calhoun, Kemba Walker and parity are now all interesting topics... [...]

March 11, 2011 – Allen Moll Who says Notre Dame’s Ben Hansborough is the Big East’s Player of the Year?  St. John’s Dwight Hardy, Syracuse’s Rick Jackson, and UConn’s Kemba Walker all deserved mention for the award. But only Walker took matters into his own hands Thursday as he nailed yet another game-winning shot to [...]