Covering the Intersection of Sports and the Law
The past two nights have brought two fresh events to the Connecticut sports scene. On one end of the spectrum, professional football visited Hartford in the form of the United Football League (UFL). At the opposite end, six college basketball teams kicked off a showcase of Division I teams not named UConn. Inspired by the fifty-five year old “Philadelphia [...]
A brand new, seasoning-opening college basketball tournament is coming to Connecticut this fall. The Connecticut 6 Classic was announced yesterday, and is drawing attention as much for the six involved schools – Quinnipiac, Fairfield, Yale, Hartford, Central Connecticut and Sacred Heart – as the school that has been left out – UConn. The exclusion of UConn [...]
The NCAA levied penalties against the Quinnipiac and Central Connecticut men’s basketball programs for failing to meet academic performance measures last season, according to a recently released NCAA report. Quinnipiac lost two basketball scholarships, while Central Connecticut lost one. The NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) is the measure by which colleges and universities are judged. The [...]
