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Emily Sweeney, a three-time Olympian from Suffield, won a bronze medal in the Eberspaecher World Cup in Sigulda, a small town in Latvia, according to USA Luge. She won the bronze medal in the women’s sprint race and placed second in sprint for the season.  2024 Sprint World Champion Julia Taubitz, of Germany, took gold in Sprint Women’s Single...

Richard “Rip” Hamilton’s number 32 will forever hang in the rafters at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies held a special retirement ceremony at halftime of their 78-54 victory over Villanova. Hamilton was surrounded by family, former teammates and his former head coach Jim Calhoun as the #32 banner was revealed. Hamilton, who hit a half...

UConn coach Dan Hurley believes he has the best backcourt in the Big East and was confident his guards would not let the Huskies lose two games in a row. Cam Spencer tied his season high with 25 points, Tristen Newton recorded his fourth career triple-double and top-ranked Connecticut bounced back from its first defeat since December with a 78-54&#...

Fairfield head coach Carly Thibault has her Stags on the cusp of entering the AP Top 25 for the first time in program history.

Steven Ashworth scored 16 of his 20 points in the first half as Creighton built a double-digit lead, and the No. 15 Bluejays knocked off UConn 85-66 Tuesday night for the program’s first win over a No. 1-ranked team. Creighton (20-7, 10-6 Big East) led by 23 points with 10 minutes left but saw its lead cut to 10 before…

Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks hasn’t given up on his team making the playoffs this season, and now Kevin Ollie will be tasked with leading it there. Ollie was named Tuesday as Brooklyn’s interim coach, replacing Jacque Vaughn, who was fired a day earlier. The Nets are 11th in the Eastern Conference standings, 2 1/2 games behi...

Paige Bueckers scored 24 points, Aaliyah Edwards added 20 and No. 15 UConn beat No. 21 Creighton 73-53 on Monday afternoon to secure at least a share of the Big East regular-season championship and the top seed in the conference tournament. Ashlynn Shade added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Huskies (23-5, 15-0), who gave coach Geno Auriemma wi...

UConn became the first unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll this season, while Washington State jumped into the rankings Monday at No. 21 to end a 302-week drought stretching back to the 2007-08 season. The Huskies remained atop the poll for the sixth consecutive week after a blowout of DePaul and an impressiv...

UConn is the No.1 team in the nation and the defending national champions, yet the Huskies went into Saturday’s matchup with No. 4 Marquette coveting something the Golden Eagles won a year ago: a Big East championship. Donovan Clingan had 17 points and 10 rebounds to help the Huskies to an 81-53 rout of Marquette and control of the conference...

The New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes needed double overtime in Game 2 of their second-round series, but where it does rank among the longest NHL games ever?

A lot of thought goes into naming a racehorse. Some take inspiration from the horse’s pedigree, while some make it more personal, naming the horse after something special to the owner: a favorite boat, a treasured memory or the nickname of a close relative.