The Day's All-Area Baseball Player of the Year: Ledyard's Ken Turner
Everything about Ken Turner’s youth and high school baseball career — the accomplishments, the command of pitches that belies his age — suggests he’s never played another sport. He’s too refined to dabble with...
The Day's All-Area Softball Player of the Year: NFA's Bailey Comeau
The softball coach at Norwich Free Academy, Bryan Burdick, long defined his all-state pitcher, Bailey Comeau, with a word which outlined her unfaltering composure: equanimity.
The Day's All-Area Boys' Lacrosse Player of the Year: Waterford's Caleb Holdridge
Caleb Holdridge, who led Waterford to its first Eastern Connecticut Conference tournament championship, finished his career on Rope Ferry Road with 242 goals and 230 assists, earning Class M all-state and National High School Coaches' Association...
The Day's All-Area Girls' Lacrosse Player of the Year: Stonington's Kate Johnson
A senior midfielder, Kate Johnson set Stonington's all-time record for points in a season with 128 (84 goals, 44 assists) and earned first team Class S all-state honors.
The Day’s All-Area Boys’ Track & Field Athlete of the Year: NFA's Jahiem Spruill
Jahiem Spruill leads by action. And words. The NFA senior helped the Wildcats win their fourth consecutive ECC outdoor track and field championship this season by both winning in jumping events and prodding his teammates to do their best.
COLUMNS
Strecker's trying to drum up interest in football and dispel some myths
Example: A concussion is inevitable, if one decides to partake of high school football.
PHOTO GALLERIES
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The Day's All-Area Girls' Track & Field Athlete of the Year: NFA's Allyson Lewis
The achievements she’s already had shine so brightly, it’s hard to imagine there are even more to come for recent Norwich Free Academy graduate Allyson Lewis.
The Day's All-Area Boys' Tennis Player of the Year: Old Lyme's George Danes
Old Lyme High School sophomore George Danes, who won the Shoreline Conference singles title this season and reached the semifinals of the Class S state tournament following a 16-0 regular season, was named The Day's 2019 All-Area Boys' Tennis Player...
The Day's All-Area Girls' Tennis Player of the Year: Stonington's Maddie Hamm
ECC tournament champion Maddie Hamm started out with a simple goal entering her freshman season. Earn a spot on the Stonington High School girls' tennis team.
The Day's All-Area Golfer of the Year: Waterford's Ryan Sadosky
Golf used to barely register on Ryan Sadosky's radar. Now the recent Waterford High School graduate, named The Day's All-Area Golfer of the Year, plans on making a career in the sport.
UCONN
UConn men's basketball team gets probation for NCAA violations under Ollie
UConn's men's basketball program has been placed on probation for two years and former coach Kevin Ollie has been sanctioned individually for violations of NCAA rules during his tenure.
Hurley says recruiting getting a bump from Big East move
Men's basketball coach Dan Hurley says he's already seen benefits on the recruiting trail from UConn's decision to move back to the Big East
Return to the Big East a game changer for UConn men's basketball
No sport at UConn will benefit more from the move than men's basketball.
COLLEGES
Florida's Mullen hoping for sizable leap in second season
Dan Mullen made a big leap in his second season at Mississippi State, but his Florida team doesn't have quite so much room to grow
Big 12 opposites: Oklahoma at top, Kansas' Miles returns with ring
Oklahoma's streak of four consecutive Big 12 titles coincides with Kansas finishing last each of those years
National champ Vanderbilt set to continue its roll in 2020
National champion Vanderbilt appears set to continue its roll in 2020 with roster loaded with elite talent
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LOCAL ROUNDUP
Local roundup: Ledyard wins Senior League softball state title
Ledyard rolled to the Senior League (ages 13-16) softball state title with a 15-5 win over Bristol on Sunday night, winning the mercy-rule game in five innings.
Newest Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame inductees announced
Coast Guard Academy will add five members to its Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 3 at the annual Hall of Fame Banquet held in the Otto Graham Hall of Athletic Excellence as part of Homecoming Weekend.
Mystic gets all the pitching it needs and then some, captures District 10 Little League title
Dylan Joyce, throwing darts for fastballs along with a sweeping curve, pitched a three-hitter Sunday as Mystic won the district Little League baseball (ages 10-12) title 7-1 over East Lyme.
PROFESSIONAL
Molinari returns claret jug, faces long odds getting it back
Fifty-one weeks after he won the British Open and gazed at his name etched on the silver claret jug, he had to return it.
Old Nets think Durant, Irving can succeed where they didn't
Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving gave the Brooklyn Nets two big victories in one night
ON THE AIR
Baseball
7 p.m., NESN, WTIC (1080-AM), WEEI (103.7-FM) — MLB: Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox.
7 p.m., YES, WFAN (660-AM) — MLB: Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees.
8 p.m., SNY, WCBS (880-AM) — MLB: New York Mets at Minnesota Twins.
Bowling
7 p.m., FS1 — PBA Summer League quarterfinals from Portland, Maine.
Soccer
9 p.m., ESPN2 — International Champions Cup: Fiorentina vs. Guadalajara from Bridgeview, Ill.
Tennis
6 a.m., Tennis Channel — ATP Swedish Open from Bastad, Sweden; WTA Bucharest Open from Romania; ATP Croatia Open from Umag.
11 a.m., Tennis Channel — ATP Hall of Fame Open from Newport, R.I.
7 p.m., CBSSN — WTT: Orlando Storm at Springfield Lasers.