Paul Pasqualoni

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The struggling Big East Conference came up short again in the latest round of expansion. The conference lost its fifth member in the past 18 months with Rutgers bolting for the Big Ten Tuesday. Now the league could lose...

Two years ago, with Dave Teggart holding his hands aloft in the grandest of poses, this had been the scene of the greatest moment in the history of UConn football. Randy Edsall led his program to the threshold of a BCS bowl and Teggart punched the ticket...

Holy cow: single-malt scotch, cigars and Carbone's food? Mind blown. For the ninth year running, the Hartford Italian food mainstay has hosted a special evening for a great cause — the Petit Family Foundation — and featuring interesting hosts;...

After all the missed opportunities and miscues, UConn still had a chance to beat South Florida. It didn't matter. This team is better at trying to find ways to lose than it is at trying to find ways to win. Having just dodged a game-ending bullet when...

It doesn't matter if Pittsburgh had its heart broken in a three-overtime loss last weekend at Notre Dame. It doesn't matter if initially it looked as if the Panthers forgot to pack their hearts for the flight to Connecticut. Not to UConn anyway. What...

This weekend is the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning for UConn. Across the Atlantic Ocean on a military base in Germany on Friday night, Kevin Ollie stops being the practice coach and starts being the game coach for one of the proudest...

Three Things on the Miami Dolphins' wildly successful, remarkably easy 30-9 win over the New York Jets: Thing 1: Monday I posted a blog looking at the Dolphins' special teams under Darren Rizzi and suggesting that could be the difference in this...

This one was worse than any bar stool argument over play-calling. This one was worse even than the offensive line's inability to block anyone with a pulse. UConn got beat on offense Friday night. UConn got beat on defense. And by the time Syracuse was...

The UConn football season was already intriguing enough through six games. On Saturday, Murphy's Law got thrown in: Whatever can go wrong will go wrong — and it did. The Huskies had to absorb a 17-14 overtime loss to Temple before 37,279 at...

Wow. Just … wow. Who knew Syracuse was this good? Who knew the UConn defense could be this bad? The answers aren't nearly as important as the bottom line: Syracuse crushed UConn 40-10 before 36,715 at the Carrier Dome on Friday night. "I felt...

MADISON — He scored five touchdowns last week in the most-anticipated Connecticut high school football game in years. His Hand-Madison Tigers beat the No. 1 team in the state hands down in the second half, ending Xavier-Middletown's 30-game...

EAST HARTFORD — He had worn pink socks pulled up almost to his knees during this afternoon. And now those pink socks, reminders of the fight against breast cancer, seemed pale next to Chad Christen's cheeks. His cheeks were flaming pink, flush with...