We’re discovering more and more college-based support groups for gay athletes; We’ll have a great story on one next week featuring a very rare out men’s college head coach! This is an old one we missed, but thanks to Athlete Ally we got wind of Dan Woog’s piece about the Connecticut LGBT Athlete Safe Space (CLASS) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UConn’
Just how unpredictable was this Final Four? And will you be cheering for Brad Stevens?
Only two of the Final Four teams were supposed to be in the Sweet 16, and none were supposed to make it to the Elite 8. But here we are, with the most upside-down Final Four I can think of. 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth; 8-seed Butler; 4-seed Kentucky; 3-seed Connecticut. It’s such a shocking Final Four [...]
Stanford ends UConn’s win streak at 90
The last team the UConn women’s basketball team lost to before winning 90 straight games was the Stanford Cardinal. On Thursday night Stanford ended that UConn streak beating the Lady Huskies in convincing fashion, 70-59. The win avenged Stanford’s loss to UConn in the national championship game last April. A video recap of the game [...]
Stanford-UConn sets women’s basketball back
It was one of the most anticipated women’s basketball games in the last couple years: Connecticut trying to complete a perfect season, and Stanford, the last team to beat UConn, hoping to do it again. What we got was dreadful. The halftime score of 20-12 (and Stanford was up!) doesn’t begin to demonstrate the bad [...]
Quick hits: Nuggets, Penguins, lacrosse, Plax
Denver Nuggets get win in L.A., still wrestling with the Iron Sheik. UConn and South Florida beat a five-hour rain delay with a dance-off. Will straight white guys dance to anything but Soulja Boy? Pittsburgh Penguins take 2-0 lead over Hurricanes. Virginia, Syracuse, Duke and Cornell play men’s lacrosse Final Four this weekend. Jets and [...]
Footballer: Stay away from Greek baths
Former UConn defensive tackle Robert Lunn (No. 65) is now playing pro football in Portchach, Austria. He’s obviously got a sense of humor, with a blog called Thoughts From a Fat White Guy. He recently shared his European experiences with Deadspin and had this to say about a Greek bathhouse his teammates took him to: [...]
UConn: One of the greatest ever?
Now that the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team has steamrolled to another national title and a 39-0 record, the question has to be asked: Where do they rank among the greatest college basketball teams of all time? Consider these tidbits. They are only the 11th Division 1 college basketball eam (men or women) to [...]
How special is 30-0 in women’s basketball?
The UConn women’s basketball team completed a perfect regular season at 30-0. How special is it? It’s better than losing a game, I suppose. Though some may argue that losing a game in the regular season helps a team focus, given they’ve won two by winning them all already, I don’t think that applies. But [...]