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'False Positive' Vindicates Diana Taurasi

Diana Taurasi didn't come off as bitter or angry. But she's both wiser and warier and a little wounded for her experience over the past few months. Taurasi was cleared Wednesday when a Turkish lab retracted results that showed the women's basketball star had tested positive for the banned substance modafinil in a drug...

End of UConn's Streak Restores Competition to Women's Basketball

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- There were two minutes and change left in the life of a 90-game winning streak, and the best female player on these shores ducked her head, a move equivalent to waving a white flag. Maya Moore had been erratic all night, an obvious sign something was definitely amiss, but when she missed another...

Winning Streak on Line, UConn Steels for Fight at Stanford

If the pressure is all on top-ranked UConn in Thursday night's spotlight matchup with No. 9 Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., someone should tell the Huskies. The team with the 90-game winning streak, placing it on the line in a big way against a big, deep, experienced Cardinal team that just put a 37-point licking on the...

FanHouse Terrific 12: Freshman Salute

The FanHouse Terrific 12 makes its final appearance for the calendar year 2010 with anticipation of two games of seemingly seismic importance, as well as of the beginning of conference play next week. Just wondering: If Top-five teams face off and Connecticut's not involved, does ESPN care? To wit, Xavier's one-point...

UConn Women Get Congratulations from Barack Obama

The UConn women set the all-time Division I record for consecutive wins last night, beating Florida State for their 89th in a row. Afterward, coach Geno Auriemma was in his post-game press conference when he received a call from President Barack Obama. "No, you're not interrupting anything," Auriemma told Obama. "If I...

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06/01/12 US Women's Basketball Team Favored for London Olympics Source: Voice of America (VOA) In her first season as a professional last year, the 1.83 meter tall forward helped her team, the Minnesota Lynx, win its first WNBA championship.
05/30/12 Courtney Ekmark Commits To UConn Women Source: The Hartford Courant - Hartford CT During his discussion with reporters Tuesday at the Hartford Golf Club, Geno Auriemma said he wasn't concerned about recent decisions that sent high school phenoms Diamond DeShields, Taya Reimer and Karlie Samuelson to North Carolina , Notre Dame and Stanford.
05/30/12 UConn-Tennessee Hoops Renewal? Tennessee Says No Source: The Hartford Courant - Hartford CT Tennessee women's basketball rivalry, the idea of mending the highest impact series in women's basketball seemed appealing to the Huskies and coach Geno Auriemma.
05/29/12 Auriemma: Exposure A Big Factor In UConn's Move To SNY Source: Greenwich Time - Greenwich CT The four-year deal that UConn reached with SNY to televise its women's basketball games created quite a stir around the state.
05/29/12 Auriemma's âFore the Kids Charity Golf Tournament... Source: Greenwich Time - Greenwich CT With the type of schedule Geno Auriemma has been maintaining over the past several weeks, he looked relaxed Tuesday afternoon meeting with the media at the Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford.

Background on geno auriemma

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954 in Montella, Italy) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, which he has led to seven NCAA Division I national championships (in 1995, 2000, 2002–2004, 2009 and 2010).

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