UConn Football links

Here’s Reuben Frank [Desmond Conner – Hartford Courant]

How Does UConn Stack Up At QB Vs. Rest Of BE? [Desmond Conner – Hartford Courant]

UConn Football Receives Second Oral Commitment [Hartford Courant]

Doherty standout selects Huskies [Worcester Telegram]

UConn Men’s Basketball links

Looking Back: UConn Highlights of 2009 Final Four [UConn Huskies Basketball]

Gordon, Villanueva Join Forces With Hamilton In Detroit [Hartford Courant]

UConn’s conference opponents released [New Haven Register]

Friday, July 3^rd @ 7:10 PM

Felix Hernandez (R) (8-3, 2.54) vs Tim Wakefield (R) (10-3, 4.18)

TV: NESN, MLB.tv

Radio: Red Sox Radio Network, MLB Game Day Audio

Saturday, July 4^th @ 1:05 PM

Garrett Olson (L) (3-2, 4.81) vs Brad Penny (R) (6-3, 4.79)

TV: NESN, MLB.tv

Radio: Red Sox Radio Network, MLB Game Day Audio

Sunday, July 5^th @ 1:35 PM

Brandon Morrow (R) (0-3, 5.14) vs Jon Lester (L) (7-6, 4.35)

TV: NESN, MLB.tv

Radio: Red Sox Radio Network, MLB Game Day Audio

As we had learned earlier in the week, Boston Red Sox outfielder Jason Bay was set to become a United States citizen after passing his citizenship test.

On Thursday morning at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Bay, along with 359 others, were sworn in as citizens of the United States. Bay will now carry dual citizenship as he was born in Canada.

“It’s exciting,” Bay said recently. “My wife is American and both my girls are American as well. This is where I spend most of my time. Although it is a big deal, it doesn’t mean I cease being Canadian. I’ll always be Canadian. I understand, for a lot of people, this is a very big deal, and I’m pretty excited.”

Designated hitter David Ortiz became a citizen of the United States last season. Former Red Sox and current Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez became a United States citizen back in 2004.

Bay officially becomes US citizen [RedSox.com]

The Big East Conference announced this afternoon that two of the UConn Huskies football games will be part of the Big East Game of the Week on the Big East Network.

Those two games are the homecoming game against the Louisville Cardinals on October 17th and the game against the Syracuse Orange on November 28th. Both games will kickoff at 12:00 p.m. and will be televised locally here in Connecticut on MyTV9/WCTX.

Ohio University announced that their opening game against the Huskies will kickoff at 7 p.m. on September 5th. Baylor also announced that their game against UConn on September 19th will start at 5:00 p.m. (EDT).

With the announcement of the games today by the Big East, 6 of the 12 games on UConn’s 2009 schedule now have game times.

2009 UConn Huskies Football Schedule [SOX & Dawgs]

Clay Buchholz may not be getting any love from the Boston Red Sox right now but the Pawtucket Red Sox fans have been showing him the love all season long. Now he’ll get a chance to represent Pawtucket and the Red Sox in the Triple-A All-Star Game.

Buchholz and PawSox closer Fernando Cabrera were named to the International League All-Star Team today. They will be part of the International League team that will take on the Pacific Coast League All-Star Team on July 15th in Portland, Oregon.

Buchholz received the most fan votes of all Triple-A players. He’s having a stellar season down in Pawtucket as he is 5-1 with a 1.90 ERA. If the weather holds up tonight, he’ll be on the mound for the PawSox at McCoy Stadium.

Cabrera is tied for the International League lead in saves with 16 with Norfolk’s Jim Miller.

IL sends well-balanced group to All-Star Game [MILB.com]

The Team USA Women’s Basketball University World Games had no problems once again as they easily took care of business with a 93-59 win over Great Britain on Wednesday afternoon in Belgrade, Serbia.

UConn Huskies sophomore Tiffany Hayes had 9 points and 5 rebounds in 19 minutes of action. UConn senior Tina Charles had 6 points, 3 rebounds and a blocked shot in 13 minutes.

UConn junior Maya Moore sat out again due to a sore knee and is listed as day-to-day.

Team USA has one more game in the preliminary round as they will take on the host nation Serbia tomorrow.

Here are some quotes from Hayes courtesy of USA Basketball:

Do you think the team continued to improve in your second game?
I think we improve every time we play, just getting better as a team and coming together. The little things get better as time goes by.

What did Coach Tuner Thorne have you focused on before the game?
She basically told us to work on our rebounding and to out-hustle the other team and don’t give in because they came back on Serbia late and won.

Do you think you accomplished those goals?
I think we did. We slacked off a little bit in the third quarter, but we got it back together. We had a bad little stretch and they had a little run, so we had to get it back together and keep our heads together.

USA Women’s World University Games Team Downs Great Britain 93-59 [USA Basketball]

The Big East Conference announced this afternoon the matchups for the conference games for the 2009-10 season. It’s once again an 18-game schedule, playing 12 opponents once and 3 opponents twice.

The UConn Huskies will play the Louisville Cardinals, Notre Dame Fightin’ Irish and Cincinnati Bearcats at home and on the road.

Here’s the home and away matchups for the Huskies during the 2009-10 Big East Men’s Basketball season.

• Home: Cincinnati, DePaul, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, St. John’s, Seton Hall, West Virginia
• Away: Cincinnati, Georgetown, Louisville, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, USF, Syracuse, Villanova

The actual schedule of games will be announced at a later date by the Big East Conference.

For a full look at the entire schedule, head over to the Big East website.

BIG EAST Announces 2009-10 Men’s Basketball Schedule Matchups [Big East Conference]

Sorry for the lateness of this post. Thursday’s are always tough to get things done early with errands that have to be taken care of.

After having their bullpen fail on Tuesday night, the Boston Red Sox beat up on the Baltimore Orioles bullpen to comeback for a 6-5 win in 11 innings on Wednesday afternoon.

The Red Sox bats had been stymied by Orioles starter Brad Bergesen who may have thrown the best game against the Red Sox all season. Josh Beckett wasn’t himself but got stronger as he went on shutting down the last 12 hitters he faced. As a matter of fact, three Sox relievers combined with Beckett to retire the final 24 Orioles batters.

Jonathan Papelbon also made a little Red Sox history yesterday when he picked up his 20th save of the season. The save allowed him to move out of a tie with Bob Stanley and take over the Red Sox all-time saves lead at 133. It was also the first time this season, Paps had pitched three consecutive days.

I said this yesterday that the Red Sox are a very resilient bunch and they showed that yesterday by coming back for the win. It was good to see the bullpen respond after Tuesday night’s debacle. The comeback should give them confidence heading into a 10-game homestand that starts on Friday night leading into the All-Star Break.

Speaking of All-Stars, there’s just 12 hours left to help out Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis in the AL All-Star voting. Youk currently leads Mark Teixeira by 35,000 votes while Pedroia is just 6,830 votes behind Ian Kinsler. Let’s help them out and get them to the All-Star Game. Vote Red Sox. You can see what I said about the race between Youk and Teixeira over at the Hartford Courant.

And because I don’t want to see your National League votes wasted, please help out Ryan Zimmerman (3B) and Adam Dunn (OF) of the Washington Nationals. My friend Kristen would really appreciate it if you did that.

The Red Sox also announced that they have signed their No. 1 draft pick, Reymond Fuentes. Alex Speier of WEEI.com reports that he got a signing bonus of $1.13 million. Fuentes was assigned to the GCL Red Sox. They also announced the signings of OF Jeremy Hazelbaker (4th round), OF Shannon Wilkerson (8th), C Michael Thomas (12th), and 1B Chris McGuiness (13th).

Links after the jump.

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