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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 4508605, member: 2504"] I mentioned earlier that I first started going to UConn women's basketball games starting during the 1982-83 season while I was a graduate student at UConn. After we graduated, my wife and I consistently started going to the games again during the 1991-92 season. At the same time, if we couldn't make it to a game, we would listen to the women's games on WHUS. There were at least a couple seasons that WHUS carried every women's basketball game before the commercial stations started carrying their games. While I was a student at UConn, I also got into the habit of listening to men's soccer on WHUS. At some point during the early to mid 2000's I got into the habit of listening to almost every UConn sporting event that WHUS carried if I had the time. For quite a while, WHUS carried a goodly number of UConn games in many different sports. It is where I first listened to Adam Giardino and Chris Jones broadcasting UConn games, including UConn baseball. I have to partly credit WHUS for my interest in UConn women's basketball, as they carried games when no commercial station was doing so. And WHUS is a big reason why I became such a fan of UConn baseball when I started listening to baseball games carried by WHUS around 2005 or so (a big credit to Giardino and Jones there, as they both helped increase the coverage of UConn baseball games on WHUS. Sad to say, in the few years prior to the pandemic, WHUS did not carry as many games as they once did. That declined even further when the pandemic hit. It has gotten to the point where WHUS has not carried any UConn sporting events at all so far during the 2022-23 academic year. I was told in the fall that WHUS was looking at hiring a sports director for the station, but to this day they have not done so. To me this is a very sad state of affairs, to say the least. [/QUOTE]

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