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For reasons out of our control (death in the famiy) my wife and I find ourselves in Quebec for the next few days. We'd love to watch the Duke game or listen to it.we have no idea how to accomplish this. Any technologically adept BYers have any thoughts on this. As always, thank you.

Just saw a very satisfying game featuring the other Connecticut team,. Niagara seemed to lead forever, and Fairfield stormed back to win goiing away. Won with a great deal of emotion as well. A very nice showing and enjoyable to watch. I'm not going to say the teams in this league are the...

Thought I might offer some observations, having seen the game in person. Saw the post-game thread is locked, so I guess not.

One of the team's earliest games is the one against Minnesota on Sunday, Nov. 19. It's Paige Bueckers' homecoming game. If anyone is considering going to the game, it's important to know that it will begin at 4 p.m. Unlike many teams, Minnesota seems to have no problem booking Sunday games in...

I don't think I have heard a worse job of announcing since I've been watching WCBB. It was less the play-by-play person than the alleged color commentator, whose windy stories (seemingly told only to prove she'd researched the teams) cut into time when we should have been hearing the...

I'm sure many (if not most) of you have had this feeling. It's getting closer to the time when, after a long, long time, we will get to see the UConn women's basketball team live and in person. In years past, we usually got to see them one or two times a year -- not nearly enough, but it was the...

I've watched with a certain amount of envy as certain BYers talked about taking in the Atlantis tournament this year. I've checked the prices and OMG, it's certainly pricey, isn't it? So, over the last two years we've missed seeing the Huskies play, just like all of you, and we've looked around...

Just saying'...... The Creighton-Seton Hall game was really entertaining. Didn't think Creighton could hang with Seton Hall, but they did. Their freshmen came up with great shooting and they won at the end. It was an upset, but more importantly, it was a really fun game to watch. Lots of...

If this is already posted somewhere I apologize up front. Does anyone know if the Arkansas game is being televised and if yes, where?

The way I understand it from all of you BYers who are better at understanding the TC providers than I am, Flosports will have the first game and SNY the second (and a bunch more, too). I went to the Flosports website, got to the basketball section, and looked for the game and it is nowhere to...

Everyone was worried about whether the announcers would be typical ESPN types. Well, these two were just fine, thank you very much! They called the game, provided analysis, and did not bore us with endless promotion of what-comes-next. We can only hope for more of the same.

Last night at UCF was my first time this year seeing the team in person. As most of us know, seeing them in person is often nothing like seeing them on TV and boy, was that ever true in this case. So, for whatever they are worth, here are a few observations. Having a center: When ONO is in and...

Just a little piece of trivia, but USF has opened sale of individual seats, if anyone's interested. I recommend going to their tickets-by-phone service, which is what we did. The guy we dealt with could not have been more helpful (and we had a complex order involving a wheelchair accommodation)...

Okay, folks, it's my turn. If only I had paid attention when other people had asked this question a couple of years ago, I might not have to bother you now, but that's never how life is, is it? We are dropping Comcast/Xfinity because of cost and arrogance (theirs, not ours). We found a decent...

Just getting around to this now, because Hurricane Dorian -- or the threat thereof -- intervened. A while back I posted that my wife and I were headed to Philly, where we lived for a few years \back around 2000, for a long weekend and were looking for sightseeing suggestions. The BY responded...

I don't know how many Byers live on the Florida coast, as I do, but we are in a constant state of uncertainty because of this dangerous and unpredictable storm. Would appreciate your sending some good thoughts our way, and save a few for people in the Carolinas as well, because the storm, which...

We're planning an all-too-brief visit to Philly, my favorite city. Lived there for 5 years, but haven't been back for more than 10. The primary reason for going is a concert (our favorite, Mark Knopfler, at The Met), and we will, as always, visit Independence Hall and spend an afternoon at the...

If you're interested in what used to be the art of covering sports and news and other things for newspapers, coinsider this article in the Atlantic and consider reading the book it reviews. The Lost Art of Deadline Writing I was never a sports writer but was a reporter for more than a decade...

Just saw her post-win comments about looking forward to Connecticut (Is it legal to kidnap players?"). Seldom (except for Geno and a few others) does a coach come across as sharp, respectful funny,professional and authentic, all at the same time, to the degree that she does. I'm a fan.

OKay, I get that we cannot watch the game. I'm sitting through CFU and AZ State and enjoying ASU's play, even though both are offensively challenged. Who, exactly, has the Uconn game? Not ESPN Plus, which I trial-joined just for this purpose. I went to the UConn Huskies site (gets my vote for...

So last night, from what I hear, ESPN mistakenly posted the women's brackets on ESPNU before they could reveal them on their "reveal"show. Now granted, mistakes happen.We're all human. But I wonder if such a thing would ever, ever happen on the men's side. Just wonderin'.

Given the BY preoccupation with all things UConn WCBB, I thought it interesting that there is no thread here relating to the coach's illness, serious enough to keep him home from the Tulsa game. Anyone know if he's ok?

I just want to get this off my chest. Maybe it will be allowed and maybe it won't. I honestly don't care much., The writing of it is what's important, not the publishing of it. I don't know if anyone else on the BY will understand that, but there it is. We had a skirmish on the board early this...

I thought UCOnn would be on the down side of a 5-10 point game. I am so pleasantly surprised by what I saw. One of the best games, by the way, that I've seen in a couple of years. Some observations, for whatever they are worth: 1. ONO is not the same kid that did the deer-in-the-headlights...

Yeah, UCOnn's freshmien are pretty good. We'll see how good later in the season, but they both look like they belong and, as someone in chat said, no yips. WIlliams is the real deal, ONO needs muscle and has this annoying tendency to hesitate before shooting, but she's not afraid to rebound...

We bought ours this weekend. Tampa is only 3 1/2 hours away, so it's an easy and cheap trip, though no one would say the tickets were cheap. Did a little happy dance to get this chore out of the way.:p.

On the same day when Barbara Bush died, and a day after Harry Anderson (Night Court) died, it would be easy to miss the death of Carl Kasell, so I'd like to see that this does not happen. Kasell was a broadcaster's broadcaster, blessed with a great set of pipes and a wonderful, absolutely...

I usually don't react to grammatical errors because let's face it, we all, can make mistakes. But this one was so completely original and so, well, wrong, that I had to speak up. In a previous (now closed) thread, two BYers went back and forth about who has the Gaul to say thus-and-such. Well...

Yeah, it's the wave of the future and there certainly are cases when it's necessary, but I don't like it much. In the first place, the foundational principle of WCBB, in my humble opinion, is that you have players together for four years. They learn to work together as a team, achieving the...

Open for debate, comment, or whatever: I have a friend who I introduced to WCBB this year. We drove up to UCF and saw the UConn game. It was his first exposure to basketball of any kind in maybe 30 years. He enjoyed the game and started occasionally checking UConn scores, partly because he was...

Passing. One word says it all. I cannot recall a game when there were more dumb, soft passes by UConn players. Give Notre Dame credit. They were as tough as nails, and I would not want to be Mississippi State Sunday,

A really good and up to date article on why women's basketball is treated poorly by the media can be found here: We’re having the wrong conversation about what’s wrong with women’s basketball Yes, this website has a political agenda, but the article seems (to me at least) to be politics-free...

DePaul lost a heartbreaker to TA&M. DePaul led for most of the game, at one point by as much as 17. As A&M got closer and closer (and Chennedy Carter is the real deal, folks) it occurred to me that DePaul was playing to not lose, not to win. A&M had an inside game and three pointers. At the end...

Well, duh. It's one thing to win by an average of what? 36 points? and to view such wins as performance art. I do that, too, and I buy into that theory. I also buy into the concept that UConn has helped other teams improve their game, and that they nd their dominance are good for the sport. But...

Congrats to Quinnipiac for a really fine game. They ,may not have been real underdogs, but they were a 9 vs an 8 and they handled themselves well, playing their own game and waiting for the 3s to start to fall, which they did. No good deed goes urewarded: They get to play UConn next. The...