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Legacy Foundation's Greg Jones and high school senior Devin James, with Morgan State AD Dena Freeman-Patton and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison after the event.
The occasion was a Friday evening conversation, moderated by ESPN’s Michael Eaves, on “Athletics & Academics at HBCUs” with Dena Freeman-Patton, the first female athletic director at Morgan State University.
Freeman-Patton was in town for Saturday’s NAACP Harmony Classic between her Maryland-based school’s Bears and Yale’s Bulldogs. Yale would prevail 45 – 3.
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Sep 26, 2023 11:38 am
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Isiah Franklin, with Coach Alexander Baez and two Hartford baseball teammates: "Patience" is the word.
CC Sabathia: “I’ve been through so much on and off the field."
When CC Sabathia was nine years old, Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart visited Sabathia’s Boys & Girls Club — and that’s when the future Cy Young Award-winning left-hander knew what he wanted to do with his life.
Pizza lovers and cycling enthusiasts filled downtown to watch one of the last chances in the season for competitive bikers to race — and to enjoy everything from cheese to broccoli to potato pies put forward by ten pizzerias.
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Lisa Reisman |
Sep 4, 2023 7:34 pm
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Start of 5K at 2023 Faxon Law New Haven Road Race.
“Quintessential New Haven,” Ruth Koleske pronounced, as she stood near the corner of Temple and Elm awaiting her husband on a sun-drenched Monday morning.
She was referring to the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race, which played out for its 46th Labor Day. In all, 4,500 runners competed in various races, including the 20K, which Koleske was following, the 5K, a 13.1‑mile race, and a fun run for kids.
Stevenson Road resident Henry Horton: Will Yale's tree-cutting plans make a bad flooding situation even worse?
Upper Westville neighbors of the Yale University Golf Course could have been pleased with the significant news that when it reopens in 2025, after a multi-million dollar environmental restoration, the formerly private, member-only greenway will be transformed into a public one where anyone can pay for a round and play.
But, on Monday night, the neighbors weren’t happy — and were skeptical that the university would follow through on its many promises.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 10, 2023 12:38 pm
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Gorilla Lemonade's Kristen Threatt and CT Mustang owner and right guard Jose "Conie" Matos at new Hill mural.
Justen Wilson held up a finger on his right hand. It wouldn’t bend. It won’t for several months, until the off-season when he’ll have surgery. He strained the tendon making a tackle on the gridiron.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 27, 2023 4:34 pm
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Free throw contest at previous Stop the Violence, Start The Love hoops tournament.
There’s a basketball tournament this Saturday at Goffe Street Park, and it’s no ordinary one.
Along with deejays spinning lively tunes, as well as dance and drill teams adding pomp, circumstance, and style, the event will feature a kids’ free throw, layup line, and three-point contest as well as an adult dunk contest, and a host of kids’ activities like moon bounces, face painting, and a prize giveaway.
All are designed to further a goal made clear in the tournament’s name: “Stop the violence, start the love.”
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Jul 25, 2023 12:56 pm
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Shoot-off between the high school girls' and boys' teams on Monday.
After 10 rounds of hoops shoot-offs against the Lady Heat, New Haven Heat basketball players Amir Durant and Romel Holmes-Gordon took to the sidelines to reflect on the “big family” that their team has become.
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Jun 20, 2023 1:09 pm
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Jayden Alexander at batting practice at Dom Aitro Field Saturday.
Batter up!
That was the word (or two) on a half cloudy-half sunny Saturday afternoon as Jayden Alexander stepped in for travel team batting practice at Dom Aitro Field in Fair Haven Heights.
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Jun 16, 2023 12:45 pm
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Team Yale triumphant after Thursday's tournament.
Hip-hop music blasted and dozens of police officers and community members watched as Team Yale glided across the Goffe Street Park basketball courts, swiftly defeating Team True Blue 17 – 1 to win the latest annual “Cops & Ballers” tournament.
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Jun 14, 2023 11:14 am
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2019 model New England Golf Cars cart: Gas for now, electric soon?
Seventy-five gas guzzling golf carts are rolling towards another three-year deal for New Haven’s municipal green links — with green energy plans in the works to go electric when the course’s clubhouse renovations are complete.
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Jun 13, 2023 12:43 pm
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On the newly renovated and painted Goffe Street Park courts.
"Super" John Williamson's daughters Shareebah, Kali, and Raushana Williamson: Keeping dad's legacy alive.
Michael Evans-Benton watched as a trio of teenagers shot hoops on the newly renovated basketball courts at Goffe Street Park — and found himself captivated not just by the game before him, but also by the bright red and green colors and swirling eye design beneath the players’ feet.
Theo Herzog, fourth from the front, with his crew.
Theo Herzog started out playing youth soccer in New Haven, and loved it. Then a knee injury sidelined him for good. Thanks to the Crew Haven program at the Canal Dock Boathouse, he discovered rowing — and got good enough at it to rank among the top rowers in his age group; he heads to Florida next week to participate with his team in the U.S. Rowing Junior National Championships, and is scheduled to compete later this summer to represent the U.S. in an international competition. In the above video, Herzog, a 17-year-old junior at ESUMS, speaks about his journey and his dreams.
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May 25, 2023 12:10 pm
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Walter Pop Smith little leaguers play ball!
Coach Wayne Morrison to City: Please level the playing field.
City Little Leaguers pitched, slid, struck out and hit homers at the Munson Street baseball fields on which generations of baby baseball players have practiced for nearly 70 years — while attentive parents and coaches fretted about how the skewed state of those playing grounds could stymie their kids’ games and self-esteem.
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Lisa Reisman |
May 25, 2023 8:40 am
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Tyler Booker (center) with campers: “The kids got a whole lot out of it, and that’s the point, and they had a whole lot of fun."
The rain came in torrents. It kept coming. No one seemed to care. This was the long-awaited second annual Tyler Booker Football Camp, and a little rainstorm wasn’t going to get in the way.
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Apr 3, 2023 4:59 pm
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Susan Comito takes a swing as pickleball enthusiasts square off at the Floyd Little Athletic Center-hosted regional tournament (below).
“Let’s pickleball,” city youth and rec director Gwendolyn Busch Williams called out, her words carrying through the rafters of Floyd Little Athletic Center and eliciting cascades of cheers and hoots.
Thus launched a scene unprecedented in the 385-year history of New Haven: hundreds of picklers pocking, popping, and dinking across a sea of orange nets in the 100,000-square-foot athletic space.
Billy Bostic and Noel Ruiz pickle it up before press event touting this weekend's tournament.
Five hundred forty-four athletes from 16 states have registered to grab paddles and compete in America’s fastest-growing sport this weekend — and get a taste of the Elm City in the process.
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Mar 29, 2023 11:42 am
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At the Batter's Box, with coach Bob Turcio (below): A "baseball lifer" backing a "good feel for the game," not deeper dives into stats.
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“If it feels wrong, it’s right. If it feels comfortable, it’s wrong,” Bob Turcio says from behind the pitching machine.
Turcio stands on the outside of the 65-by-14-foot mesh batting cage. A net with a hole for the machine separates him from the batter.
Turcio’s student, an older teenager, tugs the back of his flowing hair, adjusts his black Yankees cap, re-Velcroes his white batting gloves, chews his gum, and steps back into the batter’s box. He stares down the machine as if he could scare it into throwing a pitch down the heart of the plate.
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Lisa Reisman |
Mar 27, 2023 1:52 pm
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Tyler Booker and his father William Booker at Whalley Ave.'s Westville Diner.
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Tyler in his current uniform.
Known for his lightning-quick reflexes and prodigious strength, Tyler Booker, the freshman All-American offensive lineman for the vaunted University of Alabama Crimson Tide, is about as close as you can get to a sure thing for NFL stardom.
But these days the New Haven native, who was indulging in a blueberry muffin on a recent afternoon at Whalley Avenue’s Westville Diner with his father William, seems just as interested in making a difference in his hometown as leveraging would-be tacklers out of the way.
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Feb 24, 2023 12:31 pm
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Cross football captain Giovanni Melendez (right) with fellow student-athletes at Friday's presser.
Wilbur Cross athletic fields and track, now under construction.
Wilbur Cross student-athletes like football captain Giovanni Melendez looked forward to firmer synthetic-turf footing and a home-field setting to be proud of next season — at a press conference marking $4.35 million in mostly state-funded renovations to the East Rock school’s athletic complex.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 22, 2023 9:06 am
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A FitLot "outdoor fitness park" in Oregon. Coming soon to the Elm City?
A New Orleans-based “outdoor fitness” company has set its sights on helping New Haven parkgoers break a sweat while exercising in one of the Elm City’s open greenspaces.
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Feb 17, 2023 2:26 pm
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Hillhouse's cheer team, led by coach Michelle Sepulveda (below).
Hillhouse High School cheerleader coach, truancy officer, and former West Rock/West Hills Alder Michelle Sepulveda opens up about her work inspiring and training young athletes — and making sure that students go to class, at a time of high chronic absenteeism across the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district.
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Feb 14, 2023 12:24 pm
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Coach Solomon Maye (back center) with New Haven fighting champs Amare Foster, Amir Foster, and Troy Moore.
Four young New Haven boxers traveled to Missouri to test out their “silver gloves” — and three came home bearing championship belts, after ending up on top at a national tournament.
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Feb 9, 2023 2:18 pm
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Learning chess at S.P.O.R.T. Academy's Fair Haven School afterschool program.
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"One, two, three... Chess!"
“If your pawn game is good, you can do so much.”
So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young students at Fair Haven School this week to reflect on the life skills they’ve learned on the chess board — and also to shoot some hoops, eat pizza, and celebrate a path towards sharper problem solving for even the humblest of chess players.
