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Bob Diaco's Tenure At UConn Deserves A Meaningless Trophy
Bob Diaco, UConn head football coach and a man of many ideas, has been fired, the school announced today. It’s unclear why UConn waited a month after the team closed its 3-9 season, because the timing reduces Diaco’s job prospects and the Huskies’ candidates for a new coach, but regardless, the era ...
Bob Diaco Fails To Keep His Cool As He Defends UConn's Manufactured Football Rivalry
The Central Florida Knights beat the Connecticut Huskies Saturday in the college football rivalry game known as the Civil ConFLiCT, and earned the right to take home the trophy. UCF passed, instead leaving the prize on a bench. On Tuesday, UConn head coach Bob Diaco, who established the artificial e...
Somebody Save Kevin Ollie
The American Athletic Conference held its men’s basketball media day this morning; Cincinnati was picked by the beat writers as the favorites to win the conference, edging out UConn by a single first-place vote. Also, Kevin Ollie—former NBA player, current Huskies head coach, 2014 NCAA champion—had ...
UCF Beats UConn In Forced Rivalry Game, Leaves Dumb Trophy On Field
Central Florida defeated UConn, 24-16, Saturday in the fourth installment of the greatest artificial college football rivalry ever: The Civil Conflict. My mistake—it’s actually the Civil ConFLiCT....
Breanna Stewart Is A Woman Of Her Word
To nobody’s surprise, the UConn women’s basketball team finished its perfect season with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse in last night’s national championship game. If you’re the kind of jerkass who is constantly looking for reasons to slag women’s college basketball, you could point to UConn’s wire-...
If You Don't Much Care About UConn Women's Hoops, The Feeling Is Mutual
Connecticut is about to win its fourth straight women’s basketball title (heretofore unprecedented in all of college hoops) and all the questions facing coach Geno Auriemma seem to amount to: Why doesn’t anyone care?...
UConn Forces Fourth Overtime With Three-Quarter-Court Buzzer-Beater
When Cincinnati’s Kevin Johnson hit a three-pointer with two seconds remaining in the third overtime of the Bearcats’ American quarterfinal against UConn, it looked like the Huskies were toast. But Jalen Adams drilled a shot off the inbounds pass that came with less than a second remaining to force ...
UConn's Bacon Jalapeño Mac And Cheese: A Sober Student's Review
This week, we met a drunken (and possibly former!) University of Connecticut student named Luke Gatti whose hunger for the bacon jalapeño mac and cheese served by the school’s Union Street Market was so great that he got himself arrested (and publicly humiliated) trying to get some. Was this foodstu...
UConn Kid Refuses To Leave Cafeteria Until He Gets Mac And Cheese, Gets Arrested
What happens when a college student’s desire for bacon jalapeño mac and cheese inhibits his mind and overwhelms his rationale? Justice rains down upon him....
UConn's Bob Diaco Has A New Name For That Rivalry That Doesn't Exist
UConn football coach Bob Diaco introduced the world to a new rivalry, unilaterally dubbed the Civil Conflict, between the Huskies and the Central Florida Knights in June. It had a trophy and everything, and yet, no one bothered to tell UCF, or head coach George O’Leary. In fact, it wasn’t clear that...
UConn Football Coach Bob Diaco Might Not Understand How A Rivalry Works
Did the UCF Knights want a new college football rival? Probably not, but UConn head coach Bob Diaco started one anyway....
Stanford Ends UConn's 47-Game Winning Streak In OT
UConn versus Stanford has been one of women's college basketball's best rivalries over the past decade, and tonight's contest was no exception. Down ten at home with just six-and-a-half minutes remaining, Amber Orrange had nine of the Cardinal final 22 points—including a game-tying three with just t...
UConn Wins Conference Soccer Championship, Flips America The Bird
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Army Beats UConn After Pick-Six On Would-Be Tying Touchdown Pass
Tonight's UConn-Army game from Yankee Stadium gave fans an especially unique experience: watching the first West Point win in the Bronx since 1960....
UConn's Starting Quarterback Retires Due To Concussions
Casey Cochran, the UConn quarterback who won the starting job—and our hearts—before the college football season, has stepped away from the game due to concussions....
NCAA: Geno Auriemma's Phone Call To Mo'ne Davis Was A Violation
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma called little league pitcher Mo'ne Davis last month to congratulate her success with the Taney Dragons. Someone anonymously reported the call to the NCAA as a recruiting violation, because Davis, who is 13 years old, also plays basketball. The NCAA actual...
UConn's Starting Quarterback Has A Fantastic Mullet
UConn Huskies football coach Bob Diaco named Casey Cochran his starting quarterback for the season. The interesting part of this story is that Cochran, a redshirt sophomore, has a beautiful mullet....
What UConn's Breanna Stewart Means To Women's Basketball
Last night, sophomore forward Breanna Stewart led her UConn Huskies to their second-straight NCAA title and ninth overall. Her stat line offered a little of everything: 21 points, nine rebounds, four assists, two blocks. "The first Durantesque player in the women's game," her coach, Geno Auriemma, c...
Derek The Joyless RA Responds, Says We Didn't Get His Sarcasm
Derek, the UConn RA who sent his residents the electronic manifestation of a wet blanket before last night's NCAA championship game, has resurfaced. He's got a message for all of us who made fun of him for being such a schoolmarm: We just didn't get his sarcasm, man....