By KEN DAVIS There is frustration in Bill Self’s voice. He is not in panic mode. There’s just an uncertainty about the future of college athletics that leaves him concerned and a bit perplexed. It’s the feeling of not knowing what is next. Three months have passed since Self coached the Kansas Jayhawks to the […]
After 50 years, another Chiefs title would be sweet music
February 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
By KEN DAVIS Super Bowl Sunday has arrived. Finally. The wait has been excruciating. The past two weeks, since the Chiefs and 49ers won their conference championships, have crawled along with all the speed of a tortoise racing a snail. The last week alone seemed to take 50 years. Yes, I’m a Chiefs fan. I […]
Big East welcomes home UConn, but football may go independent
June 28, 2019 by Leave a Comment
BY KEN DAVIS A week of rumors, speculation, breaking news, sourced confirmations, presidential votes, and trustee meetings ended with a press conference Thursday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst tied it all together with one brief and rather memorable statement. “We feel like we’re home,” Herbst said. Home meaning […]
Irma wipes home game off UConn’s football schedule
September 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Hurricane Irma is an enormous storm bearing down on Florida, with landfall expected late Saturday or Sunday. But the first mainland victim of the Category 5 hurricane came on Thursday – miles away from the eye and in New England. Irma’s powerful winds blew a game off the University of Connecticut’s football schedule when it […]
Hurricane Irma forces change in UConn-USF kickoff
September 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Kickoff time for Saturday’s American Athletic Conference football game between Connecticut and USF has been moved to 10:30 a.m.in anticipation of any travel plans South Florida may encounter in relation to Hurricane Irma. The game at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field was scheduled for noon. Officials from UConn, USF and the AAC reviewed […]
UConn receives signed letters from 20 football recruits
February 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Wednesday was National Signing Day, a day that everyone in college football anticipates. The UConn Huskies received 20 signed letters of intent in coach Randy Edsall’s first signing day since returning to Storrs. Some of the recruits came on under previous coach Bob Diaco and the remainder were recruited under a short flourish since Edsall […]
UConn makes bold statement with hiring of Auburn OC
January 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
It has been written that Rhett Lashlee and Gus Malzahn have been “nearly inseparable” since 1996 when Malzahn was hired as head coach at Shiloh Christian High School in Arkansas. And when Malzahn hired Lashlee as Auburn’s offensive coordinator in December 2012, he called Lashlee his “right-hand man.” As of Wednesday night, they are now […]
Huskies head back to future with re-hiring of Edsall
December 31, 2016 by Leave a Comment
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – Six years between visits to the Connecticut football family, Randy Edsall began his day Friday the way a grown child would start a trip home for the holidays. He checked out the old neighborhood. Edsall and his wife, Eileen, drove around Rentschler Field, noticing one subtle change, the renaming that has […]
UConn welcomes Edsall back with open press conference
December 30, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Connecticut will welcome Randy Edsall back as head coach of the Huskies football program Friday morning at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. It is free and open to the public. It has been a surprising and eventful week in Storrs. With everyone assuming that Bob Diaco would […]
Auburn’s David Benedict named AD at UConn
March 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Univeristy of Connecticut issued a statement just after 7 p.m. Monday announcing that David Benedict, current Chief Operating Officer of the athletic department at Auburn University, has been named to replace Warde Manuel as AD at UConn. Manuel was hired last month as athletic director at his alma mater, Michigan, and will complete his […]