UConn coach Jim Calhoun is sponsoring “CardioRaisers” for Autism Speaks in Manchester and Southington, Connecticut on February 26th. Join Coach Jim Calhoun on Sunday, February 26, 2012 for the inaugural Jim Calhoun CardioRaiser – and workout for Autism Speaks. Test your endurance at Cardio Express in Manchester or Southington as we raise money for this [...]
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UConn’s 59-44 win over Notre Dame in the Big East semifinals last night was the team’s 71st in a row — breaking the all-time record set by Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and this same University of Connecticut between November 2001 and March 2003. Connecticut hasn’t lost a game since they fell to Stanford in the [...]
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This time last week, the Connecticut Huskies were reeling — riding a three-game losing streak and about to lose hall-of-fame coach Jim Calhoun, who left the team to deal with an as-yet-unspecified medical problem, with games against St. John’s and top-ranked Texas looming. After a dominating win at Madison Square Garden and an impressive come-from-behind [...]
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We’ve had three different number one teams in last four men’s top 25 polls. Kansas was tops until they ran into the shorthanded Tennessee Volunteers. Texas took over, but week two of their reign included consecutive losses to K-State and UConn. Kentucky – the last undefeated team in Division I – took over the top [...]
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Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has left his team and taken a medical leave. We don’t know what’s ailing the coach, but we know what isn’t. Sources told ESPN.com that the illness is not cancer or heart-related. The 67-year-old hall-of-famer is a three-time cancer survivor, having beaten prostate cancer in 2003 and skin cancer in 2007 [...]
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Madison Square Garden was packed for the second game of last night’s SEC/Big East Challenge Doubleheader between #4 Kentucky and #12 UConn. By my — admittedly unofficial — count, about three-quarters of those in attendance were NBA scouts, hoping to get a look at Wildcat guard John Wall. Wall didn’t disappoint. The freshman scored a [...]
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After losing players like Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet and A.J. Price, Pitt’s Sam Young, DeJuan Blair and LeVance Fields, Syracuse’s Jonny Flynn, Louisville’s Terrence Williams and Villanova’s Dante Cunningham to graduation and the NBA Draft, this was supposed to be a “down” year for the Big East. Hasn’t really worked out that way. The conference boasts [...]
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