"This world is something that I never dreamed of and I am just forever, forever, forever grateful to be able to wear that UConn on my chest."
Nika -- UConn nation is grateful you put yourself in this position to wear it too.
I'm so TIRED of this.
ESPN is 24/7/365 programming. There's 1000+ channels on TV. There's space for both. I don't watch women's sports to see them play like men. I watch because they're incredible athletes in their own right.
Why are men so mad about women's sports?
ESPN SportsCenter just led tonight's episode with 2 stories on women's college basketball. The first 6 minutes, a regular season Big Ten and SEC game. Who is paying for this? What percentage of sports fans does this serve?
Seeing a lot of headlines for Olympic athletes who don’t medal as “fails to…”
Okay I get it. Word counts matter. But word choice matters too.
Not a single one of these athletes is a failure and I will die on that hill.
Appreciate this answer from Geno:
When you recruit players who want the weight of representing UConn, what do you say when they feel like they've let the program down?
Screaming in our newsroom about Paige but less for UConn WBB and more for a girl who just loves basketball and keeps getting hit with these heartbreakers.
Paige Bueckers’ mom Amy helping out at the pop up grocery market in Minneapolis.
Paige always says it’s bigger than basketball—words to actions today, starting in her hometown ➡️ story tonight on
@NBCConnecticut
@Chegg
@UConnWBB
This is *just* the Azzi Fudd cheering section - Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, idk maybe the mailman? Lots of love for no. 35 💙 (excuse me while I shout about the huskies mid photo)
just chatted with Coach Calhoun: says he would have understood if Hurley decided to leave but "this isn't a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him" & "as I watched Dan over the last 6 years in Storrs the more I could tell this is home for him."
Also quick note about Coach Hurley: in the on court chaos, when everyone wanted an interview & he was pulled in a million directions, I caught his eye, waved my mic flag and he made time to come over and answer a few quick questions for the day 1 locals. Big blue collar move 💪🏼
New
#UConn
basketball head coach has the Jim Calhoun seal of approval:
"I've known Danny since he was a high school kid... He's a good man, a really good coach. He's a good get for UConn."
Good morning from a world where in the past 24 hours former UConn WBB players have:
▪️freed an innocent man from prison (
@MooreMaya
)
▪️published a children’s book for girls of all colors and abilities to try basketball (
@BatoulyCamara
)
no coincidence, just greatness.
👋 👋 I’m heading to Beijing!
There’s a LOT that has to go right between now and when I land (in 4 days…) but I mean, obviously I’m going to try. Follow along & see you on
@NBCConnecticut
Love this from Geno after the South Carolina loss today.
Been feeling all season like finally, this UConn team isn't afraid to be behind. The program hadn't lost in so long its like they'd forgotten how to battle back. Now, every day is a battle and that feels good for March.
Super proud of our sports team 💫✨officially more Emmy noms than people in our department
& in a year where the definition of “sports” was pretty loose some days
@newenglandemmy
|
@MattFinkelNBCCT
"We first learned his name in July... finally being able to put my arms around him..."
@BeTheMatch
making miracles for this little girl thanks to
@CCSUBlueDevils
Mike Mushaw's decision to join the registry
📺tonight on
@NBCConnecticut
UHart MBB coach John Gallagher took his team to the NCAA tournament in 2021. Then he got job offers.
He declined them all.
Even when DIII rumors started to swirl. Why? Bc he says a board member told him it wasn't going to happen. One month later it did.
In a day full of Moments, this one stands out.
"He was with us man," Killingly's Chad Neal to Chase Wood's father.
In 2019 when Killingly lost the title, Wood told the team to win it next year. The freshmen coach passed away in 2020. They won it this year.
@KillinglyFBall
Paige Bueckers adding 15lbs of muscle since her freshman year & saying she feels "more confident" in her body than she ever has and that she's ready to be bodied give us a cage match we're ready 💪😤
@NBCConnecticut
Running into Daniela when there’s a crowd of 1000s heading into the game.. that’s feeling like some good luck.
Why can UConn do it tonight?
“Because they’re my Huskies”… can’t argue with that 💙
@teamIMPACT
@UConnWBB
"you can't put this on the air."
Sorry
@coachbellucci
, you never said anything about social media. Congratulations on your final home game at Hartford Public!
➡️Why am I a jerk who makes football coaches cry?
📺
@NBCConnecticut
@ 6 & 11 but also, bring some tissues for yourself.
Paige Bueckers adding 15lbs of muscle since her freshman year & saying she feels "more confident" in her body than she ever has and that she's ready to be bodied give us a cage match we're ready 💪😤
@NBCConnecticut
To the scout who walked by me and said “don’t get hit” directed at only me and not the 4 other men standing in a similar spot:
The only thing that makes me more succeptiable to getting hit by a ball is bad luck, not my gender.
NBC CT sports is about to be way more than 6ft apart + we’re bummed...
But we’re also stoked because that
#WorkFromHome
life means we get to bring you awesome sports stories ‼️*from our couches*‼️
(So see u @ 6&11 every night!)
Celebrating my 1 year newsiversary
@NBCConnecticut
by inhaling my dinner at my desk.... and remembering why I’m actually really v lucky to have this desk to eat at
💛🧡❤️💜💙💚
Logging off at 3:28am still so flabbergasted by that offensive foul call.
but it's also 3:28am after the Final Four which not just hours but days later than most folks thought these Huskies would be playing at all 🔹🔹🔹
Love the Travis Jones shoutout in the
#BUFvsBAL
broadcast. Said Harbaugh feeling like he got 1st rnd talent in the 3rd.
@UConnFootball
& the city of New Haven would agree.
Small big thing today: seeing Mamadou Diarra walk into the room. Stuck through the losing years, injury cut career short, started coaching, still ended up where he’d hoped he’d be as a player.
Athletes have many lives, they don’t always go as planned but persistence pays off.
I am all for harboring 25 years of anger but y’all have got to show up for the hockey team in town if you still want to complain about the Whalers (if you ARE at this game, please, carry on)
omw//still a few days away from CT
🚌 30 min bus to the airport
⏱4 hr wait for flight
#1
✈️15 hr flight
#1
⏱5 hr layover
✈️ 1.5 hr flight
#2
🚗 rent a car
🍷 Wine Country
Welcome to Donovan Clingan’s signing day at Bristol Central where they have printed programs bc it’s not every day that you have a 7’1 four-star recruit commit to THE local college team
#BleedBlue
@NBCConnecticut
Waking up with this same dumb look on my face bc a) lol what was that game even, b) I’m exhausted c) how am I lucky enough to cover these amazing players every day
#NCAAWBB
Hey Connecticut - you know her!!!
Westport native Julia Marino bringing Team USA their FIRST MEDAL of the Games. I’ll take you through her run tonight after the Olympics🥈
Today the class learned about:
-Binghamton, NY
-the importance of mental health
-some sports journalism
Dom learned: what happens when I’m allowed to speak unchecked for 1.5 hours 💁🏻♀️
Update: immediately handed a mimosa upon boarding, they gave us slippers and no one is sitting next to me. This is literally my typical day off just in the air.
omw//still a few days away from CT
🚌 30 min bus to the airport
⏱4 hr wait for flight
#1
✈️15 hr flight
#1
⏱5 hr layover
✈️ 1.5 hr flight
#2
🚗 rent a car
🍷 Wine Country
If there's one argument I've seen the most in the high school football debacle....
Let's get into it: how can guidelines from one single source lead to two completely different outcomes?
📺tonight @ 11 on
@NBCConnecticut
I still much prefer Dunkin Donuts Park for baseball but… Swapping out the sports hat tonight to support our colleagues in their Super Bowl: Election Night 🗳
At 10 on
@boston25
: After re-opening for ONE day, an ice cream shop on Cape Cod is now closing back down and regrouping after the owner says his employees were verbally harassed by angry customers who weren't following their new safety protocols. He says his best employee quit.
The thing about flying 17 hours to Beijing is that driving 6 hours to Buffalo on game day seems normal.
📍KeyBank Center | 6:50p
🏀
@UConnMBB
v New Mexico State
📺 5, 6 & 11
@NBCConnecticut
I’m sorry $8.50 for a 1lb of butter at CVS in Hartford. We can drive to a grocery store but that area is 3-4 bus stops away from the nearest… that’s some BS.
Worked right through my two year anniversary at the Peacock yesterday//
But in honor of two years and a
#NewYear
let’s all count down my three favorite stories of 2019
Let us play.
The scope of things at the state capitol right now: hundreds of athletes want contact football.
CIAC cancelled full contact games on Friday|
@NBCConnecticut
at 5,6&11
In which Nathan Chen graciously listened to an entire play by play of my 2004 New England Regionals Novice ladies skate*
*not really
Tune in to
@NBCConnecticut
tomorrow for a Harvard/Yale Olympics quiz tho
Bless a photog who you can travel with, eat every meal with, spend every waking moment working with and still want to spend a day together at the Mall of America with at the end of it all 👯♀️
Just got off the phone with Jim Calhoun:
"I'll do anything to help UConn going forward."
Take that for what it is. More from him tonight
@NBCConnecticut
Hurley: I understand the standards at UConn basketball... I’m excited to get back to building this thing back into the championship program that everyone deserves.”
On a flight CT➡️GA
Seat neighbor: where you heading?
Me: Beijing by way of LA…I’m a reporter
S.N: no way! My daughter is a news anchor in Albany!
Who? Oh just
@JoDeeKenney
, the anchor kindly worked with me every morning when I was a baby reporter in Binghamton 🥰
Trying not to get too sappy but this is my favorite assignment yet:
Lindsey Jacobellis has done what few American women have: qualified for 5 Winter Olympics and beat my brother in Monopoly//can’t wait to share her story on
@NBCConnecticut