Paula Hernandez, who moved to Connecticut after her home was destroyed in Hurricane Maria, is Gatorade’s CT Volleyball Player of the Year.

With six months to go until the summer games, the city of Tokyo lit up the Olympic rings and celebrated the occasion with fireworks. 

“It’s an honor to have played here, and only here, for 16 years.” That was the central theme New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning wanted to get across during the press conference he held Friday to formally announce his retirement after 16 years with the Super Bowl-winning team. The event kicked off with a video highlighting Manning’s career and accomplishments — both...

Help make a splash to benefit Special Olympics Connecticut! 2020 Penguin Plunge events are taking place all across the state from February to April.

It was essentially a foregone conclusion that the longtime Yankees captain would be elected, with the only debate being if he would be unanimous or not. Jeter fell just one vote shy of that honor. NBC New York’s Bruce Beck reports.

Disappointed Red Sox fans reacted to the news that team manager, Alex Cora, has been fired Wednesday. “I think it was a huge shock to all Red Sox fans,” said Katelyn Tremblay of Manchester. “I think he’s had a great impact on the team so everyone was probably taken back a little bit.” Cora, who led the Red Sox...

When you think about the history of women’s basketball in Connecticut, you think UConn and Geno Auriemma, but on the court at Bacon Academy, there’s a name that spans three generations, over 50 years, and is still going strong. It’s been more than 50 years since Dave Shea first took on a coaching role at Bacon Academy in Colchester....

When you think about the history of women’s basketball in Connecticut, you think UConn and Geno Auriemma, but on court at Bacon Academy, there’s a name that spans three generations, nearly 50 years and is still going strong.

Taylor worked on her basketball skills at Revolution Basketball Training in Manchester.

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has died three weeks after he was hospitalized due to a “sudden brain hemorrhage,” according to the NBA. He was 77.

UConn finished off the decade in the same spot where it began — No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll. The Huskies received 19 first-place votes on Monday, beating No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Oregon State, which both got five first-place votes. South Carolina and Stanford round out the top five. With few games this week…

Check out Connecticut’s only professional lacrosse team play at Mohegan Sun.

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics in his hometown, Burlington. Defending low-profile ball clubs in far-flung places more fervently than anyone in the…

The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power” and were televised during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia on Saturday, school officials said. Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two...

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has been hospitalized in Manhattan after suffering a “sudden brain hemorrhage,” according to the league. The league put out a statement Thursday night saying that Stern suffered the hemorrhage “earlier today for which he underwent emergency surgery. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.” Stern was at a Manhattan restaurant when he collapsed, and…

Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees have agreed to a record $324 million, nine-year deal, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.

A local cheerleading team is about to compete on the national stage. The Hamden Hurricanes Jr. Pee Wee team will be representing Connecticut at the Pop Warner Nationals in cheer and dance this December. “It’s like a big, big deal,” said Hamden’s Janiyah Tolson. Not only are they going, but they earned a spot by winning regionals. “I didn’t...

The track at UCLA’s Drake Stadium will be formally unveiled Friday as the Betsy and Rafer Johnson Track in honor of the 1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist and his wife, a fellow alumnus.

St. Joseph defeated Wolcott 6-3 to claim the CIAC Class M baseball state championship on Saturday.

Hundreds of high school football players gathered at Bulkeley High School in Hartford for Eric Mangini’s annual fundamentals football camp. The former NFL head coach is an alumnus of Bulkeley High School.