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Comment on Fairfield to play Louisville in the Hall of Fame tipoff by Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:57:14 +0000

That is exciting news for you guys!

Comment on Thinking about Newtown by Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:42:27 +0000

I wish I had as well.

Comment on Craig Breslow’s “First Pitch Gala” set for Nov. 17 by Keith

Keith — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:32:47 +0000

We were thrilled to be a part of this great annual event and would like to thank everyone who came to be a part of supporting this great cause.

Thank you for helping to get the word out.

Comment on Anyone remember Harding’s Ron Davis? by Mike Ambrose

Mike Ambrose — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:16:32 +0000

Thanks Chris- good point on the historical perspective. By the way, I enjoy your articles. You’ve been doing this a long time, but you still always come up with refreshing and unique perspectives. I also appreciate that you took the time to write an article about an old-time track runner. If you look at the record books, with a few exceptions, Bridgeport really hasn’t produced many dominating track athletes since the early 1980′s, particularly in middle and long distance. It’s a shame, because I’m sure the talent is out there.
Any time we can raise awareness to the sport it can only help.
Thanks
Mike

Comment on Anyone remember Harding’s Ron Davis? by Chris Elsberry

Chris Elsberry — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:21:56 +0000

Mike, congrats on the great time. I have to point out that in 1959, Davis ran his 4:20.8 (or 4:20.1, that’s what he told me). 20 years later, you were only able to beat that time by 1-100th of a second, 4:20.7. Yes, its a great time but if Davis had been running in 1979, i’m guessing that his times might have been close to 4:00 or even under.

Comment on Anyone remember Harding’s Ron Davis? by Mike Ambrose

Mike Ambrose — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:14:16 +0000

Hi Chris- I very much enjoyed your article on Ron Davis. I had heard of him as a young runner and it is always nice to see sports articles on track athletes, especially from the Bridgeport area. I am a 1979 graduate of Central HS where I was the CT State LL mile champion that year. I ran a time of 4:20.7 (http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=9579). When I ran that time, I was told it was the fastest HS time ever run by a BPT native. In your article about Ron, it listed a time of 4:20.1, so I researched his times. The attached website listed his best HS mile time as 4:20.8 (http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/2011/08/athletics-rondavishiring-083011.html). Still very, very good, but 1/10 of sec off the time I ran.
For background, I went to college at the University of New Haven where I ran track and majored in engineering. After UNH I got my masters in engineering at MIT. I am currently a Vice-President in Engineering at Sikorsky and I owe much of what I accomplished in my life and career to my experiences at Central and my track coach Nick Giaquinto. He was mentor and coach for several generations of track athletes in the Bridgeport area and was a great runner himself.
Mike Ambrose

Comment on Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach talk about Kristine Lilly by MILINDA RATNASURIYA

MILINDA RATNASURIYA — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:52:57 +0000

VERY SUPERB ARTICLE !!!

Comment on UConn responds to my APR column, and I respond right back by ponderous

ponderous — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:59:31 +0000

Not sure what difference it makes if I leave my name or not. Either respond to what I posted, or ignore it. Besides, my name could be considered a fact, and we have all seen your disdain for those!!

Comment on UConn responds to my APR column, and I respond right back by Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:23:17 +0000

This is me responding to your response to UConn’s response to your article about UConn and the APR. And yes. I am going to “hide” behind an e-mail address. Not sure why that matters, but whatever.

Point 1: What is your definition of “vast majority”? Because the likelihood of an NCAA player making into the NBA is 1.2% (http://bit.ly/J8a2IB). I doubt that the number of players going overseas make up that remaining 49% to get that number just barely above 50. And since conjecture about what all NCAA players are thinking is apparently fact, I say that a vast majority are in fact student-athletes using the opportunity provided them to earn a degree while on scholarship.

Also, why are you limiting the players to the four-year eligibility window? Furthermore, the answer to that question is useless without providing the graduation precentage for the rest of the UConn student body as an appropriate basis of comparison. “Nationally, four-year colleges graduated an average of just 53% of entering students within six years, and “rates below 50%, 40% and even 30% are distressingly easy to find” (http://usat.ly/UgXLe)

Point 2: Semantics argument. All good there for me.

Point 3: You conceded the first two sentences of their response. How about the rest? I’d be interested to know what you think about the rest of Mr. Enright’s response. I like how you leave off the words “after winning an appeal” in your rebuttal about conceding Louisiana-Monroe’s eligibility.

Point 4: I think the main issue was the tone of “appeal after appeal”. The school has only sent in an appeal twice. And both times it was the exact same document. You make it sound as if UConn has been pestering the NCAA with more than two appeals.

Lousiana-Monroe men’s basketball appealed and won…so not sure what Ohio State and UNC football have to do with this.

Point 5: I am still baffled that you don’t seem to understand Mr. Enright’s issue with this ban. The “rule” UConn broke was passed in October 2011. It utilizes APR data from prior to that time period. Furthermore, UConn had already been docked scholarships as a result of that poor period of academic performance. Now they are being ret…Actually, why am I trying to explain this. Mr. Enright explained what the issue is in his response to you. TWICE. Yet both times you just gloss it over.

Point 6: Since you feel slighted by Mr. Enright for not acknowledging you being “nice”, I’ll do it. Thanks for actually saying something nice about Calhoun.

Comment on UConn responds to my APR column, and I respond right back by Russ Miller

Russ Miller — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:30:21 +0000

Chris,

It appears that Mr. Enright has factually corrected you on your article to which you are so slanted anti-Uconn you probably don’t wanna hear about the “truth” which is what Uconn is showing you.

I am a proud Alumnus of the University of Connecticut and am thrilled that our student-athletes are doing much better in the classroom.

Now that only took me 1 minute to type. I am a Uconn grad after all.

Russ