Connecticut Social Blog

Much is expected from the Connecticut Sun this season. Just about every place coach Mike Thibault turns there is a survey, a comment or a prediction that claims the Sun may not only be the best team in the WNBA’s Eastern Conference, but good enough to challenge the defending champion Minnesota Lynx for the 2012 title.

Phillies move to two games over .500 for first time this season

PHILADELPHIA — Not the 45,205 screaming fans, not seeing his former teammates in the batter’s box and not even the extended stoppage of play in the ninth inning when Bobby Valentine argued a call could rattle Jonathan Papelbon.

PHILADELPHIA — All night the Philadelphia 76ers were fighting an uphill fight.

BALTIMORE — Legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas likes to say that the best horse wins the Kentucky Derby only 20 percent of the time. There’s too much pre-race commotion, too much traffic on the track, too much mysterious racing luck that descends on that first weekend in May.

The Sports Xchange

WEST HARTFORD – Max Vogel-Freedman, who had shut out Newington earlier this season, hoped for a repeat performance for Conard.

Need 2 Wins Saturday And Another Sunday To Advance

When Trinity coach Bill Decker gathered his team Friday evening, it wasn’t to assign blame for a crushing loss or relive the sloppy details of the inning that allowed it to happen. It was to make sure players — dejected as they were at the time — left the baseball field ready to return in the right frame of mind.

Before its final game of the regular season, Simsbury hadn’t allowed nine goals in a game since April 5.

It has been a long Sunday afternoon, and to end the show Ryan Fuller reprised his role as walk-off hero.