ATLANTA — To add another championship to the greatest dynasty college football has ever seen, Alabama turned to its quarterback of the future, and Tua Tagovailoa proved that his time is now. The freshman quarterback, who had played mostly mop-up…

No. 1 UConn vs. Central Florida When: 7 p.m. Where:  Gampel Pavilion, Storrs TV, radio: SNY, WTIC-AM (1080) Records, rankings: No. 1 UConn, 13-0, 3-0; Central Florida, 11-5, 3-0 Series: UConn leads, 6-0. Last meeting: UConn won, 78-56, on March…

Auburn men’s basketball player Mustapha Heron was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. The sophomore averaged 16.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game during a 2-0 week, with wins wins at No. 23 Tennessee…

Recharged and rekindled are the New England Patriots, who await a visit from the Tennessee Titans in the AFC divisional playoffs next weekend. The Titans (10-7) are coming off their first playoff win in 14 seasons, a 22-21 thriller at…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Keita Bates-Diop had a career-high 32 points, and Ohio State stunned No. 1 Michigan State 80-64 on Sunday. The overachieving Buckeyes put together an electrifying 12-0 run to finish the first half and kept their foot on…

Paul Bourdeau wrote the book, literally. He drafted the first publication. It is the manual on how to referee a soccer match with a two-man crew. That was 50 years ago. He wrote it. It would be difficult to find…

Go figure, my best week of the year as the regular season ends. What it did was just about cement a full year above water, which is not bad at the end of the day. All four home teams were…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Napheesa Collier had 25 points and 11 rebounds and No. 1 UConn remained unbeaten with a 100-49 rout of South Florida in women’s college basketball Saturday night. The Huskies (13-0, 3-0 American Athletic Conference) never trailed,…

HARTFORD – Kevin Ollie threw things into the way-back machine Saturday, invoking names revered by UConn fans, but no doubt wholly unfamiliar to his Huskies. UConn didn’t provide any blast-from-the-past play, having to fight like crazy to dispatch ECU, 70-65,…

If you judged UConn’s Napheesa Collier solely on her statistics through the first 12 games of her junior year, you would say she is having a really good season. She ranks in the top 10 of the American Athletic Conference…

Fran Marrello, Plymouth resident and golf professional at the Canaan Country Club, won his first national PGA golf championship on Friday when he captured the Quarter Century Championship on the Wanamaker course at the PGA Golf Club in Port St….

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No. 1 UConn vs. South Florida When: 7 p.m. Where: SunDome, Tampa, Fla. TV, radio: SNY, WTIC-AM (1080) Records, rankings: No. 1 UConn, 12-0, 2-0; South Florida, 12-3, 2-0 Series: UConn leads, 23-0. Last meeting: UConn won, 100-44, on March…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots dismissed as “flat-out inaccurate” a report suggesting a rift involving owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The three released a joint statement Friday hours after an ESPN report, citing…

Let’s see: write a story, shovel, write a story, shovel. Story it is. It’s early, yes, but we have learned a thing or two about the 2017-18 basketball season. Here’s what we knew, but now know better: Sacred Heart’s Isiah…

So you woke up Thursday morning, saw all that white garbage falling from the sky, moved sideways by winds strong enough to provide a consistent humming soundtrack, and thought you merely had to digest another brutal loss by the UConn…

After just one season with the UConn football program, offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee announced Thursday he is leaving to take the same job at SMU. Lashlee completely turned around a long-moribund UConn offense in his lone season, but decided to…

NEW HAVEN (AP) — Longtime Yale football coach Carmen “Carm” Cozza has died at 87. The university says he died Thursday. Cozza led Yale to a share of 10 Ivy League titles during 32 years as coach. He was inducted…

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Corey Henderson scored a career-high 30 points, including two 3-pointers in the last 37 seconds of regulation, as Tulsa eked out a 90-88 double overtime victory over UConn to remain unbeaten in the American Conference. Tulsa…