This in from UConn:

STORRS, Conn. (September 18, 2014) — The University of Connecticut and the University of Missouri will play a two-game football series in 2015 and ’17. The first game will be on September 19, 2015 at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri while the second game will be September 23, 2017 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.

The Tigers have been a member of the Southeastern Conference since 2012 and have played in bowl games in nine of the past 11 years, including a win over Oklahoma State in last year’s Cotton Bowl Classic. Head coach Gary Pinkel is currently in his third season at the school in 2014.

“We are very excited about playing a football series against Missouri as we continue to build a competitive non-conference schedule for our team and an exciting one for our loyal fans,” said UConn Director of Athletics Warde Manuel. “Our future football schedules have a number of games from various leagues around the country and I am happy to add Missouri and the Southeastern Conference to those contests.”

UConn has a 2-2 record against current teams in the Southeastern Conference with a win over South Carolina in the 2010 Papajohns.com Bowl and a 1-2 all-time series mark vs. Vanderbilt, including a win in 2010.

The Missouri series completes UConn’s non-conference scheduling for both 2015 and 2017. UConn will also play at series with Massachusetts on September 10, 2016 as the Huskies make their Gillette Stadium debut in Foxborough and on September 2, 2017 at Rentschler Field.

UConn will also play FCS opponent Maine on September 3, 2016.

Here is a summary of all future UConn non-conference football games under contract:

2015: September 5, Villanova; September 12, Army; September 19, at Missouri; October 2, at BYU.
2016: September 3, Maine; September 10, at UMass (Foxborough, Mass.); September 17, Virginia.
2017: September 2, UMass; September 9, Holy Cross; September 16, at Virginia; September 23, Missouri.
2018: September 8, at Boise State.
2019: September 7, Illinois; September 21, at Indiana.
2020: September 12, at Illinois; September 26, Indiana.

UConn and Tennessee have a two-game home-and-home series under contract with dates to be determined.

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Video: No Regrets For Former UConn QB Casey Cochran [sox & dawgs]

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Pruitt, Paull’s Careers Over at UConn Due To Medical Reasons [sox & dawgs]

UConn/Temple Kickoff Time For September 27 Set [sox & dawgs]

UConn in NFL: Week 2 [jim fuller – new haven register]

Monday presser: OL struggles, DL manuvering [john silver – sny uconn]

Huskies Defense Is A Reason To Get Excited [uconn huskies]

No regrets for UConn’s Cochran [ct post]

Diaco: Careers Over For Pruitt, Paull; Adeyemi To Start At DE [hartford courant]

Smart QB: UConn’s Casey Cochran Goes Out A Winner [hartford courant]

UConn’s Casey Cochran Says He Is At Peace With Decision [hartford courant]

Donald Brown Will Look To Take Advantage Of Injury To Ryan Mathews [hartford courant]

UConn’s Casey Cochran discusses decision to give up college football [new haven register]

UConn’s Cochran has no regrets [the day]

Know the foe: UConn [tampa bay times]

Tale of the Tape: UConn vs. Boise State [the uconn blog]

UConn Women’s Basketball links

Stewart set for final push to earn USA roster spot [carl adamec – sny uconn]

Nurse sees big picture of UConn tradition [carl adamec – sny uconn]

Moore Has Taken Stewart Under Her Wing [rich elliott – ct post]

Nurse Felt Right At Home In Bridgeport [rich elliott – ct post]

Special night for future UConn teammates [jim fuller – new haven register]

Former Huskies Shine In U.S. Women’s National Team Exhibition Victory over Canada [uconn huskies]

U.S. women beat Canada in Bridgeport exhibition [ct post]

ESPN makes a film on UConn Women Huskies [ct post]

Team USA Handles Canada In Bridgeport Tune-Up [hartford courant]

Future UConn teammates face off as U.S. tops Canada in exhibition in Bridgeport [new haven register]

UConn Men’s Basketball links

UConn’s Kevin Ollie To Be Honored With Ray Meyer College Coach Of Year Award [sox & dawgs]

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M. Soccer. Nerwinski, Coly Earn Weekly Conference Honors [uconn huskies]

Field Hockey. Davidson Named Conference Offensive Player of the Week [uconn huskies]

Baseball. UConn Baseball Fall Scout Day 2014 [uconn huskies youtube]

Hockey. UConn Hockey Looks ‘Crisp’ In First Practice [hartford courant]

ESPN and the American Athletic Conference announced on Monday the game time and television network for the game between the UConn Huskies and Temple Owls at Rentschler Field on Saturday, September 27, 2014.

The game will kickoff at 4 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPNews.

Head coach Kevin Ollie of the Connecticut Huskies acknowledges the crowd after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 60-54 in the NCAA Men’s Final Four Championship at AT&T Stadium on April 7, 2014 in Arlington, Texas.

This in from UConn:

UConn men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie, who guided the Huskies to the 2014 NCAA National Championship in just his second season as head coach, will be honored Wednesday as “The Ray Meyer College Coach of the Year” by the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.

It is the seventh year that the organization has honored the NCAA Champion coach at its annual induction dinner, which is set for Wednesday evening at the Gold Cup Room at Hawthorne Race Course in Chicago.

In addition to Ollie, honored at the dinner will be Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell with the Gale Sayers Award, former Miami Dolphins lineman Bob Kuechenburg with The George Connor Award, along with Hall of Fame inductees Dave Diehl, Donovan McNabb, Johnny Musso and Tom Zbikowski from the world of football. From baseball, inductees include Goose Gossage and White Sox legend Minnie Minoso will receive a lifetime achievement award.

From basketball, scheduled for induction are Bill Cartwright, Craig Hodges, Bill Wennington, Tim Hardaway and Quentin Richardson.

Ollie took the Huskies to a 32-8 record last season, coaching UConn’s to victories over Saint Joseph’s, Villanova, Iowa State, Michigan State, Florida, and Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament on its way to its fourth national title. Ollie became the fastest coach to reach 50 wins (52-18) in UConn history.

The award is named for Hall of Fame coach Ray Meyer, who coached DePaul for 42 years (1942-84) and compiled a 724-354 career record, still 17th on the all-time NCAA coaching list for total wins. Meyer’s teams won the NIT in 1945 and reached the NCAA Final Four in 1943 and 1979. He was the college coach of George Mikan, who went on to become the first of the great NBA big men. Meyer passed away in 2006.

UConn DEs #56 Angelo Pruitt and #57 Cole Ormsby along with the entire defensive line listen to instruction from DL coach Kevin Wolthausen before the Stony Brook game at Rentschler Field on Saturday, September 6, 2014.

The UConn Huskies lost a key player on offense last week in QB Casey Cochran. Now they have lost a key defensive player as well as seldom used offensive lineman.

During his weekly press conference on Monday, UConn head coach Bob Diaco announced that DE Angelo Pruitt and OL Bryan Paull are no longer with the team and their careers at UConn are over due to medical concerns.

Pruitt had missed the last two games (Stony Brook, Boise State) with what Diaco had described before as a lower leg injury. On Monday, he clarified it to be a genetic issue in the lower leg that Pruitt has decided to get taken care of.

Pruitt played in 26 career games (21 starts) and had 51 tackles, two sacks, one fumble recovery and one interception.

Diaco described Paull’s injury only as undisclosed upper body issue. Paull, who cracked the two-deep depth chart for the first time last year, saw action in four games on the offensive line in 2013.

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