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Here's A Look At Some Of The Most Loaded Campuses In Sports HistoryWith commencement ceremonies taking place in some form all over the country this weekend, we decided to look at some notable college campuses that had quite the array of athletes and personalities inside their athletic departments at the same time. From the hardwood to various playing fields, these ...

Geno Auriemma: It's A Real Shame Players Won't Let Coaches Bully Them AnymoreMan, don’t you miss the good old days when coaches could get away with whatever they wanted? Are you sick of these snowflake athletes who can’t put up with some bullying? Do you think it’s time someone stood up for verbal abuse? Guess what, Geno Auriemma’s finally the one to take that stand. Thank y...

Enjoy This Video Of The Broadcast Table During The Closing Moments Of Notre Dame's Huge UpsetThis rules. It’s footage of the broadcast table during the closing seconds of Friday’s Final Four game between Connecticut and Notre Dame, as junior Arike Ogunbowale knocked down the game-winning basket:...

Geno Auriemma Bravely Defies Silly NCAA Rule By Drinking Out Of Water Bottle

Of the many stupid NCAA rules and regulations that people tend to notice in March, the insistence that public-facing people—coaches, players, even folks in the media room—drink only from NCAA-branded cups ranks pretty far up there. During yesterday’s Final Four press conference, UConn coach Geno Aur...

Is There Any Way UConn Blows This?

Despite a handful of decent upsets in the earlier rounds (11-seeded Buffalo and Central Michigan in the Sweet 16, sixth-seed Oregon State beating Baylor to get to the Elite Eight), we’ve got an all one-seed women’s Final Four in Columbus this weekend—Louisville vs. Mississippi State on one side, and...

UConn Scored 94 Points In One Mind-Blowing Half

If a mercy rule is ever created for college basketball, it should be called the Geno Auriemma rule. Auriemma’s UConn Huskies dynasty hit new heights this afternoon, beating St. Francis, a 16 seed from Pennsylvania, 140-52 in their opening game of the NCAA Tournament. Somehow, that 88-point victory d...

Report: UConn Trick-Shot QB-Turned-Trump Valet Was Fired For Gambling Habit

Johnny McEntee—who first got our attention with his sweet tricks as a backup quarterback at UConn back in 2011 and more recently took the job of personal assistant to President Donald Trump—was reportedly fired from his White House gig because of a gambling problem....

Kevin Ollie Will Contest UConn's Dubious, Non-Specific "For Cause" Termination

That Kevin Ollie was fired after guiding the Huskies through consecutive losing seasons was not especially surprising. That he was fired as part of “disciplinary procedures” and “for just cause” registered as, well, interesting, especially without any explicit link to a reported NCAA investigation i...

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Report: UConn Fires Men's Basketball Coach Kevin Ollie "For Just Cause"

UConn men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie has reportedly been fired “with just cause,” per this ESPN report....

by Chris Thompson|

|Sat Mar 10 2018

Breanna Stewart Writes That She Was Sexually Abused As A Child

Seattle Storm forward and three-time national college player of the year Breanna Stewart said today on the Players’ Tribune that she was molested regularly by an older man when she was 9 years old....

by Lauren Theisen|

|Mon Oct 30 2017

Geno Auriemma On Decrease In Female Basketball Coaches: Ladies Just Don't Want To Coach, Duh [Updated]

The number of female coaches at women’s basketball programs has been decreasing in recent years, just as has been the case for women’s sports at large over the past several decades. While 63 percent of women’s basketball teams had female coaches in 2007-08, that figure has now fallen to 56 percent l...

by Emma Baccellieri|

|Fri Mar 31 2017

UConn Huskies Complete Another 90-Game Winning Streak

The UConn women’s basketball program is so perennially dominant that its only real competition at this point is past iterations of Geno Auriemma’s team. The current Huskies proved they’re still the best in basketball Tuesday night with their 90th-consecutive win—an NCAA record matched only by the UC...

by Hannah Keyser|

|Wed Jan 11 2017

Ex-UConn Soccer Player Sues School After Losing Scholarship Over Middle Finger

In 2014, then-UConn women’s soccer freshman Noriana Radwan flipped off the ESPNU camera in a fit of excitement after the Huskies won their conference championship. I don’t think it reveals too much bias to say the act was, however shocking (not that shocking), effectively harmless....

by Hannah Keyser|

|Wed Dec 21 2016

Geno Auriemma Thinks Men's College Basketball Is Shitty Trash

UConn women’s college basketball coach Geno Auriemma took a moment today to talk about men’s college basketball. To be more specific, he thinks it’s a boring, backwards sport....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Wed Apr 01 2015

Old pal Emma Carmichael tells you everything you need to know about UConn's Breanna Stewart, whom Geno Auriemma calls "the first Durantesque player in the women's game." [SI]...

by Tommy Craggs|

|Tue Apr 01 2014

UConn Coach Kevin Ollie Flips His Shit After Uncalled Foul

UConn coach Kevin Ollie was pissed when the officiating crew missed a rather obvious foul by Louisville's Wayne Blackshear on Niels Giffey during Saturday's game. Even though Ollie's anger was justified, he was quickly hit with two technical fouls and ejected from the game....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Sun Jan 19 2014

Why Is Geno Auriemma Tapping Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey's Ass In This Photo?

The Associated Press last night put 18 photos from the Baylor-UConn women's basketball game in its image archive. One of them is the photo you see to the right (click to enlarge), which moved on the wire with the following explanation-free caption:...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Jim Calhoun Is Gone And UCONN Basketball May Follow Him Out The Door

The state of Connecticut's highest paid employee announced his retirement on Wednesday: The press and other members of the college basketball world greeted Jim Calhoun's retirement from UCONN basketball (after 26 years and national championships in 1999, 2004 and 2011) with, mostly, a predictable wh...

by Isaac Rauch|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Jim Calhoun's retirement from UConn is reportedly "imminent." Just in time for next year's NCAA tournament ban....

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The NCAA Is Making An Example Of UConn Basketball

The NCAA needs to throw out a few numbers every once in a while to make it look like it's serious about the "student" half of the free labor it loves to describe as "student-athletes." For a while, the NCAA would publish graduation rates in accordance with financial aid-related legislation. Then the...

by Isaac Rauch|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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