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.
Local Calendar
BASKETBALLEighth City Wide Basketball Tournament — Saturday, July 27, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Toby May Field, New London. The free event, organized by Abounding Grace Ministries, will feature 5-on-5 games in three age divisions: Youth...
Local roundup: New London/Mystic wins Intermediate baseball state title
New London/Mystic won the Intermediate League (50-70) baseball state title on Sunday with an 11-0 win over Coventry.
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.
MORE LOCAL SPORTS
Weaver, LeClair win Sailfest Race titles
Gregory Weaver of West Hartford won the Kelley's Pace Sailfest 5K race on Sunday in New London.
Local roundup: Groton/Mystic/Pawcatuck Junior League stays unbeaten
Sydney Lyon doubled to drive in Sophia Cabral with the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh inning and the Groton/Mystic/Pawcatuck Junior League softball team (ages 13-14) defeated Coginchaug/Killingworth 4-2 Saturday in the winners' bracket of...
Local roundup: Waterford softball keeps winning as it hits the state tournament
Lexi Collins pitched a complete game, striking out 11, as Waterford Little League softball (ages 10-12) won the first game of its state championshiop series — one night after capturing the Section 3 title — with a 3-0 victory over...
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
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
CT SUN
Jones, Thomas of Sun receive honors from WNBA
Connecticut Sun Alyssa Thomas was chosen to be a reserve for the WNBA All-Star game on Monday, while teammate Jonquel Jones earned her fourth Eastern Conference Player of the Week honor of the season.
Jones leads Sun past Fever
Jonquel Jones had 26 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and three steals as the Connecticut Sun pulled away in the third quarter for a 76-63 win over the Indiana Fever on Sunday.
PROFESSIONAL
Major League Baseball roundup
Cody Bellinger hit his 32nd and 33rd homers, Clayton Kershaw struck out seven in six innings and the major league-leading Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Philadelphia Phillies 16-2 on Monday night
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
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.
Clarke's double-double leads Grizzlies to Summer League title
Brandon Clarke had 15 points and 16 rebounds to lead the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies to a 95-92 victory over the third-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves in the championship game of the NBA Summer League on Monday
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.