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Basketball Gets Political, and It Seems Politicians Don't Like Maryland

First it was President Obama, who picked Maryland to lose to Michigan State in the Round of 32. I can understand that - I mean, Michigan State is good, and saying they'll win isn't a crime or any...

Chael Sonnen on Fox & Friends (Update)

Chael Sonnen will be on Fox and Friends Thursday morning at 7:45am ET/ 4:45pm ET. Chael recently launched his campaign for State Representative in Oregon. Sonnen, a Republican (who hates Jiu-Jitsu be...

Aleksander Emelianenko vs. Tengiz Tedoradze or is it Russia vs. Georgia?

We linked to this news yesterday but there is whole other aspect to the potential fight between Aleksander Emelianenko and Tengiz Tedoradze that deserves its own post: Tengiz's nationality lends an ...

Brock Lesnar: Internet troll or just uninformed?

  It's worth noting something that's being overlooked about Brock Lesnar's socialism/Canadian health care/whatever comments: Canada is not Great Britain.  The doctors aren't working for the...

Tebow, His Commercial And The NFL

Tim Tebow has made three decisions that will impact his future as an NFL player; playing in the Senior Bowl, working with a full time quarterback coach, and participating in a commercial with Foc...

How did Mansfield vote? The answer may suprise you, but it probably won't.

As you may have heard by now, there was an election yesterday, and as predicted, Barack Obama won handily. But really, all those national results mean nothing next to the real question: how did Mansf...

UConn Votes.

As first reported on TheUConnBlog.com, today is election day. UConn students registered in town are gathering at the Mansfield Community Center to vote and there is quite a line. As of noon, the line...

The Wall Street bailout, Joe Courtney and you.

As a rule, we at TheUConnBlog.com do not spend much time covering national politics. However, seeing as economic news is currently unavoidable, we'll make an exception. As you have almost certainly h...

And Congrats to Sarah Hughes

Olympic Gold Medalist Sarah Hughes has also graduated from college. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in U.S. politics and communities, per People magazine. The 2002 Olympic champ has no p...

What Does Figure Skating Have to do with Obama?

This Time article, which was touted by the magazine’s editor on"Morning Joe" yesterday in a discussion of whether experience matters in the context of the presidential candidates (specifically re: O...


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