Tina Charles

Chris Sienko has been as much a part of professional women's basketball in Connecticut as the multicolored ball. He was a founding executive of the ABL's New England Blizzard two decades ago. But his experience, most recently over the past decade as...

Kentucky women’s basketball junior DeNesha Stallworth is one of 31 top student-athletes in the country who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 USA Basketball Women’s World University Games Team trials. Trials will take place...

Although her days as the consummate UConn student-athlete are done, Kelly Faris still had some homework to do Tuesday at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Faris answered questions from reporters while filling out the generic questionnaire the WNBA's Connecticut Sun...

If there is a rung to climb with more altitude than being named the 2012 WNBA Most Valuable Player, center Tina Charles is ready to work as hard as she can to find it. "The championship is what she is after," Sun coach Anne Donovan said. "The WNBA...

The Connecticut Sun open training camp Monday, so coach Anne Donovan has had a lot of time to think about what she will tell her team. In the end, though, she tries not to outthink herself. "The night before camp, there likely will be a lot of thought...

The praise washing over NBA center Jason Collins for admitting to Sports Illustrated that he is gay — the first active male professional athlete to come out — is a welcome complement to the courage and convictions of the former Stanford star....

– Nancy Stevens, the longtime UConn field hockey coach, was having a good time at the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance 72nd Gold Key Dinner. So much so that when it came time for her talk to the crowd she did her best to keep them laughing....

Throughout her heralded UConn career, Kelly Faris was called a "glue" player by those who admired the way she kept things together for the Huskies, this season helping them to their eighth national championship. Appropriately enough, the characterization...

NEW ORLEANS — We heard greatness was coming, as sure as the distant whistle of an oncoming train. As sure as Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore, we all knew it was coming. We just didn't know exactly when. Today, we do. Greatness arrived in the City...

If you thought you knew everything there was to know about the UConn-Notre Dame rivalry, now tops in the world of women's college basketball, you still might want to take this short refresher course on their history before Sunday's national semifinal game...

If she had played at UConn, Elena Delle Donne would have been a rock star, not only in Delaware, but everywhere. If she had stayed at UConn for more than two days, she not only would have had won two national championships, she could have run the table....

The line circled steadily through a room off the atrium at the XL Center during the 90 minutes or so before the UConn women's basketball team tipped off against DePaul in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament Sunday night. One after another,...