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Horsebrnhil said:
At one time, the Norwich Bulletin with Peter Abraham, and Gavin Keefe at the Day were top flight reporters, on the UCONN beat, but that was decades ago.
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Wasn't Abraham a BCU fan and always blasted UConn whenever he had the opportunity?
 
MTHusky said:
Wasn't Abraham a BCU fan and always blasted UConn whenever he had the opportunity?
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No. Abraham, Woj, Chardis (my MAN!) were all there and battled like it was to the death. Koonz, The Courant horde, I forgot who Register was but Jacobs, Smith, Solomon, Elsberry, DiMauro were fighting for the word edge wise everyday. It was amazing.

5 columnists, at a minimum, for games.
 
HooperScooper said:
I read both and I'd say Hearst Media (New Haven Register) does a much better job covering UConn than the Courant.

My parents still get the Hartford Courant delivered to their house. I was over their house recently and picked up the Courant and there's nothing in there any more. It was very light. Looked like mostly AP articles. Besides their UConn coverage is there anything else in there worth reading?
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This week is a good example of why I said the Hearst Media coverage of the Huskies is much better than the Hartford Courant. Since the media was invited to the first official practice on Tuesday here is the coverage of that event by both papers.

Hartford Courant:
1 article from Joe Arruda with quotes from Hurley's media availability after Tuesday's practice about why he decided not to stop coaching. Not much about the team. Nothing from Dom Amore this week. Maybe he's on vacation. But kind of a lame effort from Arruda who was at the first practice on Tuesday.


Hearst Media (New Haven Register, etc.):
1). Article from Mike Anthony about the team and trying to win a national championship this season. All quotes from Hurley.


2). Article from David Borges about Malachi Smith.


3). Article from David Borges about the new "Big 3" (Karaban, Ball and Reed).


4). Article from Mike Anthony about Solo Ball.


It's usually not this one sided but much better coverage from Hearst Media.
 
MTHusky said:
Wasn't Abraham a BCU fan and always blasted UConn whenever he had the opportunity?
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No way... I always felt like Abraham had all the info before anyone else. I remember sitting in front of him at a T-More game watching Ajou. The next day's headline, "The Future of UConn Basketball is Ajou Deng"

Obviously, his career here was a total bust, but he was insane to watch at T-More.
 
HooperScooper said:
This week is a good example of why I said the Hearst Media coverage of the Huskies is much better than the Hartford Courant. Since the media was invited to the first official practice on Tuesday here is the coverage of that event by both papers.

Hartford Courant:
1 article from Joe Arruda with quotes from Hurley's media availability after Tuesday's practice about why he decided not to stop coaching. Not much about the team. Nothing from Dom Amore this week. Maybe he's on vacation. But kind of a lame effort from Arruda who was at the first practice on Tuesday.


Hearst Media (New Haven Register, etc.):
1). Article from Mike Anthony about the team and trying to win a national championship this season. All quotes from Hurley.


2). Article from David Borges about Malachi Smith.


3). Article from David Borges about the new "Big 3" (Karaban, Ball and Reed).


4). Article from Mike Anthony about Solo Ball.


It's usually not this one sided but much better coverage from Hearst Media.
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I think you missed an Arruda article because it was similar to the Borges Big 3 one.

But also the Courant has Arruda on both basketball and football, and it's football season. You're right that Hearst has better coverage, but I don't think it's on Arruda as much as his paper stretching him thinner.
 
auror said:
I think you missed an Arruda article because it was similar to the Borges Big 3 one.

But also the Courant has Arruda on both basketball and football, and it's football season. You're right that Hearst has better coverage, but I don't think it's on Arruda as much as his paper stretching him thinner.
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Thanks very much for the article. I always check the UConn men's basketball page of the Courant (link below) where they put all the articles and this article wasn't on there. I was wondering why Arruda would go up to Storrs and just write the one Hurley article without talking about the team. You're right that the Courant's coverage is on the owner of the Courant and not really Arruda's fault. Between that and seeing the article you linked I take back the "lame" comment.

 
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Not only the newsprint, but the great cbb magazines of the era.
Street & Smith WAS the cbb magazine of choice. Loaded with recruiting, updates, and in depth information. Lindy's, Athlon, The Sporting News were good as well. Sports Illustrated was fair, but couldn't compare to the southern heavyweights
 
auror said:
I think you missed an Arruda article because it was similar to the Borges Big 3 one.

But also the Courant has Arruda on both basketball and football, and it's football season. You're right that Hearst has better coverage, but I don't think it's on Arruda as much as his paper stretching him thinner.
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Today I found this one from Amore from the last media availability.


Today they updated the UConn Men's Basketball Page with all the articles. Not sure where they got buried for the last week.


So now I need to take back everything I said! Lol. Except the part about Hearst Media having better coverage of the men's basketball team. I'm sticking with that.
 
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Hunt for 7 said:
In another thread I talked about being a fill in for my friend when he could not do his afternoon paper route. I just remember before starting to deliver I would sit on the ground next to my bike and read the sports section. The afternoon edition had all the player quotes from the night before so it always made me feel like I was the first on the block to know something important about one of our local teams.

That was roughly 45 years ago I wonder what it will be like 45 years from today. Everyone will have a chip implanted in their head and can connect to any website they want by thinking about it and then the content is fed to the them in their preferred method.

And people will live to be 150 years old.
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Probably not, due to brain chip related illnesses.
 
Another data point why Hearst Media has much better coverage of UConn men's basketball than the Courant. The annual Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast with the head coach of the men's basketball team was yesterday. Dave Borges went and covered the event for Hearst Media. The Courant had no coverage of the event.

HooperScooper

Thread 'Article from Hurley's appearance at Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce breakfast this morning'

Anyone go who wants to give us their own run down of what Hurley spoke about? Here's Dave Borges's run down.

"Can the Huskies go with a 10-man rotation throughout the entire season?"

"In theory, you can," Hurley replied. "As long as there's not a separation that happens. If there becomes a big separation from eight to nine, from nine to 10 ..."

That's nine. Jacob Furphy, a freshman from Tasmania who didn't play much against BC, is fighting for a spot in the rotation.

"He's got some Cam Spencer attributes," Hurley noted. "I think he's got a chance to have a great career...
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HooperScooper said:
You're probably thinking of Mike DiMauro of the New London Day. He is a smug BC guy. Abraham is now a Red Sox beat writer for The Boston Globe (Peter Abraham - Reporter - The Boston Globe).
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A friend of mine sent me this article. So is this what DiMauro is doing now? He's lamenting that the BC football program is in tatters. I always wonder whether the ACC would admit that taking BC was a mistake. Besides women's lax, has the school added anything to the ACC?

I got a chuckle out of this line.

The last of UConn’s many touchdowns all but cleared the building. Me included. I was leaving the carnage next to an old friend who said, “Maybe we should just be a basketball school. At least they only lose in two hours.”

eaglesdaily.com

DiMAURO: BC sports are a parasite, feeding off other people’s money

By MIKE DiMAURO The most pathetic display in the history of Alumni Stadium – the de facto home office for pathetic displays in recent years – had exceeded three hours Saturday, when finally the LBTTS (Little Brother To The South) ended the misery. The last of UConn’s many touchdowns all but...
eaglesdaily.com eaglesdaily.com
 
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Might not be a bad time to announce I’m launching a Big East basketball-focused blog relatively soon.

I used to write for this site, UConnBall, and worked at the Record Journal when it was legitimate. Call it a side project, but I’ll share my unbiased Big East opinions with you all here when they’re published.
 
Hunt for 7 said:
In another thread I talked about being a fill in for my friend when he could not do his afternoon paper route. I just remember before starting to deliver I would sit on the ground next to my bike and read the sports section. The afternoon edition had all the player quotes from the night before so it always made me feel like I was the first on the block to know something important about one of our local teams.

That was roughly 45 years ago I wonder what it will be like 45 years from today. Everyone will have a chip implanted in their head and can connect to any website they want by thinking about it and then the content is fed to the them in their preferred method.

And people will live to be 150 years old.
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Agree except that it won’t be 45 years…..prob more like 10-15
 
HooperScooper said:
A friend of mine sent me this article. So is this what DiMauro is doing now? He's lamenting that the BC football program is in tatters. I always wonder whether the ACC would admit that taking BC was a mistake. Besides women's lax, has the school added anything to the ACC?

I got a chuckle out of this line.

The last of UConn’s many touchdowns all but cleared the building. Me included. I was leaving the carnage next to an old friend who said, “Maybe we should just be a basketball school. At least they only lose in two hours.”

eaglesdaily.com

DiMAURO: BC sports are a parasite, feeding off other people’s money

By MIKE DiMAURO The most pathetic display in the history of Alumni Stadium – the de facto home office for pathetic displays in recent years – had exceeded three hours Saturday, when finally the LBTTS (Little Brother To The South) ended the misery. The last of UConn’s many touchdowns all but...
eaglesdaily.com eaglesdaily.com
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Many years ago, when BC, the Cuse, etc jumped from The "Original" Big East to ACC, I remarked, in a post, that BC would be a nothing move, on their part. They would add nothing to the ACC product. BC, is now finding out that they are nothing than a 5th wheel. The fan base of BC is still low on the sport's importance list of Boston fans. It has always been Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Patriots, college hockey. BC is finding out, that they are irelavant, and I'm laughing my off. Their arrogance and actions, in working against UC, when they tried to get into ACC, has come back and bit them in the butt. Whose more relevant now, BC?
 

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