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'This is what you get down here': Geno Auriemma fumes in wild ESPN interview

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma was furious over the officiating in Thursday's game at Tennessee. 🎃

UConn back in national championship for first time in six y🐟ears

 Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies are back in the NCAA title game fo꧅r the first time in six years after getting through one of the most difficult seasons of...

UConn is 'in a bad way right now'

𒆙 The Huskies' current issues seem to be serious.

Candace Parker still has Geno Auriemma beef: 'We don't like each other'

🐷Candace Parker and Geno Auriemma, rivals since 2004, still do not like each other.

UConn's season comes to stunning end

SAN ANTONI🍃O — Aari McDonald and Adia Barnes have marched Arizona out of the basketball desert to the doorst𒉰ep of a national championship. McDonald scored 26 points and led a...

UConn hoops coach tꦡests positive for COVID-19 

STORRS,ಞ Conn. — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home, the school announced Monday, hours before it was expected to be...

L🧸egendary UConn coach reaches another milestone

🔥 STORRS, Conn. — UConn coach Geno Auriemma says he would rath📖er still be coaching against the late Pat Summitt than moving past her on the all-time wins list. The Huskies...

Legendary women's hoops coach slams coronavirus handshake policy

UConn women’s basketball head coach Gene Auriemma i𒁏sn’t buying into the American Athletic Conference’s new coronavirus precaution. Auriemma took issue with what he said was a conference request to skip...

The Big East is getting a reenergized UConn ✃

Connecticut returning to the Big East may ⛄give the conference more of its old-school feel. In the least, it should help the Huskies return to national relevance. No longer will...

Geno Auriemma: Most coaches 'afraid' of their players

Geno Auriemma said he believes his fellow coaches have become "afraid" of upsetting their players because they will either transfer and/or report 🌞on them for being abusive. 𒆙"The majority of...

UConn loses in regular season for 1st time in more than 4 yea🐼rs  ༒

WACO, Texas — Geno Auriemma knew that top-rank꧅ed UConn couldn't keep winning every regular-season game it♒ played, even though the Huskies had won 126 in a row. That winning streak...

Poisoned Ivy League: Harvard-Yale game was uncivil disgrace 🍰

Creeping insecurity comes with job longevity. This week🦄, an email from Isaac Rose꧂n: “I never miss any of your columns.” Hmmm. When did he quit reading them? It’s a see-saw...

UConn stunned again in women's Final Four

CO𝄹LUMBUS, Ohio — Arike Ogunbowale's jumper from the corner with a second left lifted Notre Dame to a 91-89 overtime victory over UConn on Friday night in the national semifinals....

Geno Auriemma is a bad winner an🦩d a bully

🦹 I don’t like bullies. Never did. Doesn’t matter if they’re Mike Francesa, Rex Ryan, LaVar Ball, Chris Christie, Bobby Knight or Popeye’s nemesis, Bluto. Blame my parents. That’s how they...

 NCAA is barely⛄ trying to hide stu✱dent-athlete con anymore

Was it always like this? As a kid, I can’t recall snowstorms that were 🌌loaded with TV reporters, dispatched by panic-promoting bosses, to stand outdoors to report, all 🧜day and...

 Geno Auriemma fas﷽test to 1,000 wins in college hoops his💙tory

ꦍ UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Geno Auriemma won his 1000th game as top-ranked UConn beat Oklahoma 88-64 on Tuesday night in the Hall of Fame women's Holiday Showcase. Auriemma became the fou꧋rth...

 What it takes to be𝄹come the greatest scorer in WNBA history

Diana Taurasi became the WNBA's all-time leading scorer not with a 3, not with any dazzle, but with a simple scoop. It happened on June 17 in Los Angeles, w💟her😼e...

Geno Auriemma stands out in gender talk: Women don't want to coach

DALLAS — UConn's Geno Auriemma and Stanford's Tara VanDerveer have differing theories for why the number of female coaches for Division I women's 𝓀teams has declined over nearly a decade....

How does one of sports' greatest achievements ever get slighted?

It only took a minute of the third quarter Saturday afternoon before the Connecticut Huskies’ w🔯omen’s basketball team had doubled up Albany in the first round of the NCAA Tourꦚnament...

Knicks-♕Nets Ne⛎w York rivalry went from boom to bust

🐭 The Knicks visit the Nets on Wednesday night at Barclays Center, and if you didn’t have that 🐻game circled on your calendar … well, it’s hard to blame you. The...