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Test your Orlando sports knowledge: How many teams can you name?
With the return of the Orlando Solar Bears this week -- taking to the ice here Saturday for the first time in 11 years -- it's a good time to look back at some of the many professional teams that once called Orlando home. Central Florida isn't just...
Tags: Baseball, United Football League, Tribune Company, UAB Blazers, Orlando Predators
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Marlins Give Adam Greenberg Of Guilford A Chance
The Hartford CourantAdam Greenberg found out late on Sunday. That's when Marlins general manager David Samson offered him the chance to play against the Mets Tuesday in Miami. That's when Greenberg knew he would get the one official at-bat that had eluded him since he was...Tags: Sports, Kansas City Royals, Michael Strahan, Politics, Baseball
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About John Altavilla
John Altavilla was reincarnated as UConn women's basketball beat writer by The Courant before the 2007-08 season. He originally spent three seasons on the beat in the late 1990s, presiding over nothing more consequential than one trip to the Elite Elite...Tags: University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Program, College Sports, New York Mets, Arts and Culture, Baseball Injuries
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Baby Steps: Five Women's Freshmen Who Made A Difference
The Hartford CourantFive players who showed up in Storrs and made an impact on the UConn women's basketball team as freshmen: Maya Moore (2007-08) Started 30 games in 2007-08 and averaged 17.8 points and 7.6 rebounds to become the first freshman in Big East history, men or...Tags: Svetlana Abrosimova, College Basketball, Big East Conference, Maya Moore, College Sports
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Maya Moore: Top Of The Charts
The Hartford CourantMaya Moore leads or is in the top five of many significant UConn program records even before she plays the first game of her senior season. Among them: Points (career) Tina Charles: 2,346 Nykesha Sales: 2,178 Kerry Bascom: 2,177 Moore: 2,168 Diana...Tags: Svetlana Abrosimova, Ann Strother, Athletes, Jamelle Elliott, Maya Moore
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Moore Scores 41 In Record 89th Straight Win
The Hartford CourantPerhaps it's true that only a scant percentage of the world cares about women's basketball. Maybe even less than that — or so we've heard from the dissenting crowd insulted by the long assault on a legendary men's coach and his team's iconic winning...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Geno Auriemma, Local Elections, John Wooden, University of California, Los Angeles
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UConn Women Clinch Big East Regular Season Championship With Win Over Georgetown
The Hartford CourantThe day began with tears and ended with cheers, another perfect day for what has been the perfect team for almost two consecutive seasons. The torrent of emotion that greeted UConn's five departing seniors eventually gave way to the calm approach that...Tags: Sports, Tina Charles, Geno Auriemma, Maya Moore, University of Connecticut
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Charles Sets Two Records; Huskies Finish Regular Season Unbeaten
The Hartford CourantIn this city on this campus, below this roof under similar circumstances, the longest winning streak in NCAA Division I men's basketball ended. That moment in history was brought to you by Notre Dame's men's basketball team in January 1974. • Pictures:...Tags: Sports, Tina Charles, Geno Auriemma, University of California, Los Angeles, John Wooden
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Feb. 25, 1998: What A Farce. This Does Not Trivialize Sales' Career, But It Does Trivialize The Record
The Hartford CourantNykesha Sales didn't set the all-time UConn women's scoring record. Soupy Sales did. Geno Auriemma and his old Philly pal, Harry Perretta, connived to put Sales in the history books. But all they did was succeed in putting themselves -- and their...Tags: Svetlana Abrosimova, Sports, Chris Dailey, Geno Auriemma, Awards and Prizes
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Dwight Howard to participate in Basketball without Borders Africa again
Orlando Magic BasketBlog - Orlando SentinelDwight Howard will participate in the NBA's and FIBA's Basketball without Borders Africa program once again -- this time in Dakar, Senegal, from Aug. 5-8.... -
Bio: Hall Of Fame Coach Geno Auriemma
Courant Staff WriterIt hardly seems possible UConn could have realized what was in store in 1985 when it hired an Italian immigrant, just 31 years old, with a college coaching resume just five-years thick, to lead its women's basketball team into the 1990s. Geno Auriemma?...Tags: Svetlana Abrosimova, College Basketball, Sports, High School Sports, Colleges and Universities
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UConn Women's Big East Awards
The Hartford CourantBig East Player of the Year Maya Moore 2009 Maya Moore 2008 Diana Taurasi - 2004, 2003 Sue Bird 2002 Shea Ralph 2000 Svetlana Abrosimova 1999 Nykesha Sales 1998 Kara Wolters 1997 Jennifer Rizzotti 1996 Rebecca Lobo 1995, 1994 Kerry Bascom 1991,...Tags: Svetlana Abrosimova, Tina Charles, Ann Strother, Geno Auriemma, Jennifer Rizzotti
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