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Big East suffering through messy divorce
As in all divorces, this one has been messy. The football and basketball-only members of the Big East Conference have been at odds for quite some time and no amount of counseling was going to bring these two parties back together again. It was...
Tags: Media Industry, Houston Cougars, Arizona Wildcats, Steve Addazio, DePaul Blue Demons
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UConn Was There From The Start
The Hartford CourantRepresentatives of seven schools gathered at a hotel near Logan International Airport in Boston on May 29, 1979, to announce the formation of a new, yet to be named college men's basketball league. Big deal? There were but a smattering of reporters...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Houston Cougars, Christianity, Providence Friars, Larry Bird
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Big East Basketball Schools Meet, Discuss Dissolving Conference
The Hartford CourantAs one member after another announced its intention to leave the Big East amid relentless conference realignment, seven schools sat on the sidelines and contemplated their futures. For months, there have been rumors that non-FBS members Providence, St....Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Bowl Championship Series, Atlantic 10 Conference, Villanova Wildcats, Football
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UConn Women Starting To Think About New Opponents As Big East Shrinks
The Hartford CourantThe first game ever between the UConn women and Oregon on Monday will be followed by the second game ever next season in Connecticut. These types of relationships, most times resulting in one-sided wins for the Huskies, are the fuel that fires the...Tags: Seton Hall Pirates, Roman Catholicism, Southeastern Conference, Geno Auriemma, Tennessee Volunteers
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Herbst Battles To Get UConn Into Big East Tournament
The Hartford CourantNEW YORK — Susan Herbst says she isn't giving up. As the UConn basketball team made final preparations Tuesday night for the second half of the Jimmy V Classic doubleheader against No. 25 North Carolina State, the school's president had another...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports, Sports, Madison Square Garden, Connecticut Huskies
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UConn Has A Chance To Showcase Season On Grandest Stage
The Hartford CourantFor so long, UConn basketball players could count on the opportunity to work The Big Room, to put themselves and their season to the test on the grandest stage. This coming March will be without that experience, because their postseason ineligibility...Tags: North Carolina State Wolfpack, Pittsburgh Panthers, College Sports, National Basketball Association, Sports
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Geno Says Good Riddance To Schools Fleeing Big East
The Hartford Courant— Geno Auriemma has watched the erosion of the Big East from the sidelines, just another innocent bystander knowing that there really was nothing he could do to stop it or influence it. As Pittsburgh, Syracuse, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Rutgers...Tags: Geno Auriemma, Parochial Schools, Christianity, DePaul Blue Demons , Providence Friars
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Boise State Makes It Official, Pulling Out Of Big East Deal
The Hartford CourantThe hits keep coming, not that they are unexpected. Boise State will not be playing football in the Big East next season. Boise State President Dr. Robert Kustra announced Monday that football and the majority of Boise State's athletic programs would...Tags: Houston Cougars, Providence Friars, DePaul Blue Demons , Villanova Wildcats, Big East Conference
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UConn Is Down, But Jim And Geno Still Fighting
The Hartford CourantThe UConn women had routed Oakland by 72 points Wednesday night, and now here was Geno Auriemma talking about how he had planned to teach at the school's international branch campus in Florence, Italy, this spring. Auriemma was preparing for a three-week...Tags: Geno Auriemma, Parochial Schools, Christianity, Steve Addazio, Interior Policy
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Big East Must Regroup From Latest Blow
The Hartford CourantIn 2011, the Big East Conference powers took a calculated risk. Rather than accept a nearly $1 billion deal with ESPN, the league hierarchy decided that the changing media landscape would produce an even better offer. But a few months later, Syracuse...Tags: Houston Cougars, DePaul Blue Demons , Providence Friars, Fox Broadcasting Company, Conference USA
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UConn Women Sick Of Living Out Of Suitcases
The Hartford Courant— The UConn women have never been averse to traveling in order to bulk up their nonconference schedule. In fact, if the Big East stays together, they will be traveling more next season just to play conference games in Texas, Florida and Tennessee,...Tags: Geno Auriemma, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Stefanie Dolson, Kelly Faris, Providence Friars
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Past, Present, Future of Big East
Past, Present, Future of Big East: Still in Big East: UConn, Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple Still in Big East, but reportedly leaving: DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Villanova, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's Still in Big East, but...Tags: Seton Hall Pirates, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Pittsburgh Panthers, Houston Cougars, College Sports
Dec 16, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Dec 13, 2012
|Story| Hartford Courant
Dec 12, 2012
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Jan 1, 2013
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Dec 4, 2012
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Dec 3, 2012
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Dec 18, 2012
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Dec 31, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012
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Nov 29, 2012
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Jan 13, 2013
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Jan 8, 2013
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