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I donāt think people really understand the true dominance of @UConnWBB and @UConnMBB in college basketball over the last 30 years. Itās really quite staggering.
We are proud to present our 2026 UConn Athletics Annual Report.
This provides a review of another extraordinary year, detailing our latest points of pride, budgetary data, fan engagement statistics and ongoing facilities growth.
View the report here: uconnhuskies.com/2026annualrā¦
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Lindsay Clancy did not plan her childrenās murders the day she did it.
She started laying the groundwork for a trial 5 months prior. How do I know? The evidence is clear if you look through a nurseās eyes.
As an RN, the first thing weāre taught is that āif you didnāt document it, it didnāt happenā in regards to patient care. Lindsay was an L&D nurse. She heard that line in school and on every unit she ever worked.
Callan was only a few months old when she began āseeking treatmentā. She told doctors she was depressed and anxious. She did not tell them she was suicidal or homicidal. She knew exactly what those words do. One statement of intent to harm herself or the kids and she is in a locked unit. If they even suspected she wanted to hurt anyone, it would have unleashed a chain reaction that would prevent her from completing her plan. She wanted freedom and she knew just what lines not to cross to reach that goal.
What she did do was write it down. Diary entries. Texts. Conversations with her husband and her mother. Thoughts of harming herself and the children. That paper trail exists for a reason. It is the documentation she knew a future jury would see.
For months the pattern held: disclose the dark thoughts to family and to a journal. Minimize or deny them to the people who could actually help.
Cycle through providers. We call that ādoctor shoppingā in the medical world and itās a clear indicator of someone who wants specific medicines or is trying to avoid coordination between doctors. She KNEW the system and exactly how to use it.
Collect prescriptions. Zoloft, Prozac, Seroquel, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Lamictal, amitriptylineāthirteen medications, more than thirty prescriptions. A nurse knows which side effects to report to get a med changed or dose adjusted. The list itself became the evidence she wanted. We donāt know if she ever took any of them except on the day of the crime.
As a mom, if I were having actual thoughts of hurting my kids, Iād be the first one screaming it to every doctor, every nurse. Iād make sure I was locked away where I couldnāt actually hurt them. But not Lindsay. She did all she could to not be locked away.
When the Women & Infants postpartum program discharged her after one day because she didnāt fit the criteria, the calendar was not on her side. Callan was eight months old. The cleanest āpostpartum psychosisā window was already gone. She had to execute sooner rather than later.
She planned it to the minute. As a nurse, she knew exactly how long it would take to strangle each childāabout six minutes. She sent her husband on errands that would keep him out of the house long enough to kill all three and stage what was supposed to look like a suicide attempt.
Her medical education ensured she knew EXACTLY how deep and what direction to cut her wrists to ensure she wouldnāt bleed out. She knew EXACTLY how deep and where to cut her neck to avoid hitting the carotid arteries, the jugular veins, or compromise her airway. She even knew jumping out a 2nd story window wouldnāt be fatal but would look dramatic to a future jury. Every cut, every decision was calculated, cold, and with the medical training to execute the plan flawlessly (the injuries she sustained were a miscalculation from landing wrong, not the fall itself).
Lindsay Clancy is not a woman who āsnapped with no warning.ā or even one who was failed by her family and the healthcare system. She is a woman who spent months building a file and setting the stage so she could blame her crime on those very people while she could live out the childless life she dreamed of living.
As a nurse, Iāve been around thousands of psychotic people and none of them would have had the mental capacity to carry out one murder like this, much less 3. Think about what happened in those final moments.
Lindsay Clancy calmly wrapped her rubber exercise band around 8 month old Callanās chubby neck as her two other children looked on.
As she pulled the band tighter and tighter, he couldnāt understand what was happening. For about 15 seconds, the pain was localized to his neck as his airway was crushed and his skin painfully pinched. 15 seconds later, his little lungs felt intense burning due to the build up of carbon dioxide. As he gasped for air and struggled to escape, the blood trapped in his skull started pounding, causing excruciating pressure and his eyes began to bulge. She continued to squeeze while he endured unimaginable pain and terror until he finally lost consciousness after 3 tortured minutes. Once he finally stopped fighting, his mother kept the pressure on his neck for 2-3 more minutes until she thought sheād finished the job. One body down in 6 minutes.
Little Dawson, 3, mustāve sensed what was about to happen to him because he ran to his fatherās office, likely seeking a safe space. Thatās where Lindsay caught him and wrapped an exercise band around his neck. A three year old is stronger than an infant and sheād have had to use much greater force to subdue him even though the timeline would have remained similar. Three minutes of horrific pain and terror until a loss of consciousness then 3 more minutes of pressure to finish the job. Two kids down in 12 minutes.
It would have been even more difficult to with her only daughter, Cora, 5. The little girl would have witnessed one, if not both of her brothers, being systematically strangled by her mother. But fight as she might, she was no match for her mother. Lindsey Clancy caught her, held her down, and began the killing ritual. As the band went around her neck and the life was squeezed out of her over the next 6 minutes, sheād wondered why her mommy was hurting her. Imagine the pain, the confusion, the horror the little one endured in her final moments.
It took Lindsay 18 minutes to kill all three of her children.
Death by strangulation isnāt a fast or painless death, as she well knew since she was an RN. It is an up close and personal killing and sheād have witnessed every moment of pain and terror in their helpless eyes as the life faded from their bodies. She CHOSE how her children would die.
Notice how she didnāt try to hang herself because she knew what a horrific death that would be. She tried to give herself the easy death she denied her children.
Whatever her mental state, she is a cold blooded killer who wiped out her family with less mercy than a serial killer.
Lindsay Clancy is a monster who deserves to die exactly as her children did- afraid and in pain.
God can have mercy on her soul because I certainly wonāt.
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Will players commit to LIV Golf 2.0?
LIV Golf CEO Scott OāNeil met with the media yesterday in Indianapolis to give an update on the future of the league.
It came under a backdrop of the investor whoās spent more than $5 billion set to walk away, huge numbers of unpaid vendors and contractors, staff given notice, multiple million dollar lawsuits, the feeder system disappearing, question marks over star players commitment, a smoke and mirrors campaign around the non-playing of the Team Championship in Michigan, and the looming threat of bankruptcy.
That didnāt stop Scott trying to convince the media and fans that LIV Golf 2.0 is full steam ahead, even if actual details were once again absent. In reality though, it doesnāt matter what anyone thinks or says, it only matters what the players do.
LIV Golf 2.0 will likely fail before a transaction is completed without player support. This is a difficult task when the league is expected to file for bankruptcy in the coming weeks, leaving these same players as the largest creditors, which could lead to high profile lawsuits.
It becomes even harder when players have to be convinced to take equity in a new entity after theyāve just witnessed contractors and vendors theyāve built personal relationships with left unpaid for months of hard work, likely adding to the lawsuit mountain.
All of this is before even looking at the challenges in convincing players to stay for the actual golf.
CEO Scott OāNeil said in his press conference that āguardians and stewards of the game of golfā have an āappetite to put the parochial friction of the past behind us.ā He also mentioned multiple times that he wanted LIV Golf to ācomplete, not competeā. Unfortunately for Scott, LIV Golf is now ācompletelyā isolated in the professional golf landscape and without the support of the sovereign wealth fund investing billions of dollars thereās no way it can realistically ācompeteā even if it wanted to.
The PGA Tour in partnership with the DP World Tour has moved to sign multi year deals to strengthen the national opens Scott was originally pitching in LIV Golf 2.0. They also formed a partnership with the Asian Tour to close the feeder system LIV Golf invested $300 million into just 5 years ago. There are also significant doubts over whether the league can maintain OWGR approval and the major access they worked so hard to obtain.
Add to that the uncertainty of whether LIV Golf players will face reinstated fines and suspensions from the DP World Tour, the still active year long suspension from PGA Tour events, and the loss of The International Series on the Asian Tour. Itās very difficult to see how players will be able to build their schedules out from the proposed 10 events in LIV Golf 2.0 to fill their seasons.
For many, this is just too big of a risk to take with the future of their careers. Several weeks ago, I reported 7 players had told me directly they were going to leave, and that number has grown significantly. In the words of one player, who will remain anonymous due to the nature of the situation:
āI grew up making putts on the practice green to win Ryder Cups and majors. There was always a hope I could still do it on LIV if I played well enough. Now, that hope is gone.ā
There is no argument to be made against the PGA Tour being the most competitive tour in the world, and it will be for many years to come under the new Championship and Challenger Series launching in 2028. If LIV Golf players wish to test themselves at the very top of the sport, the only way they can do that now is to begin serving their PGA Tour suspensions once LIV Golf Indianapolis concludes, which many have indicated to me they intend to do.
Scott OāNeil said during his opening monologue in yesterdayās press conference, āWe're not asking anyone to choose between LIV Golf and the rest of the game.ā But for the star players and those who wish to be competitive, there really is no real choice anyway.
Multiple LIV Golf insiders are expecting the company to file for bankruptcy in the coming weeks to restructure contracts and the extensive debt burden.
Players with outstanding contract payments, whether multi year or rolling, have already been approached with equity offers for LIV Golf 2.0. These offers vary significantly depending on their stature and the value of their existing contract. Sources indicate the total value of equity offered would potentially make the players the majority owners of LIV Golf 2.0 if funding is secured.
Jon Rahm is the biggest factor in this. It is estimated he is still owed 9 figures for his deal signed ahead of the 2024 season that still has multiple years left. This would likely make Jon the biggest creditor should LIV Golf file for bankruptcy. Jon refused to guarantee he will play on LIV Golf in 2027 when asked directly in a press conference at LIV Golf UK and he has an enormous role in deciding the future of the league both on and off the course.
Players have also been given Indication of Interest documents to sign. Sources with knowledge of the situation indicate reaction has been mixed. Some players are committed to whatever the future holds, but others have not signed or even returned the documents despite them being non binding.
Multiple vendors and contractors are owed money and were told earlier this week that the Team Championship in Michigan has been cancelled. Travel and accommodation for contractors and vendors has also been cancelled and the build out at the venue is yet to begin. However, in an email sent to LIV Golf players and staff yesterday, CEO Scott OāNeil referenced āplanning for the Team Championshipā. Itās unclear what the intentions are and if and where it will be played, but players currently have no clarity from the leadership despite the event being scheduled in just 4 weeks.
LIV Golf officials are still talking positively, as they always do, and a report yesterday from Mark Cannizzaro of the New York Post says LIV Golf are close to a deal to secure funding. However, any deal would need to be agreed by the Saudi Arabian PIF who still own the company and then the real challenge begins, keeping hold of the players.
After leaving Valderrama, LIV Golf players and staff suggested to me that the following break in the schedule was imperative for the future of the league. 8 weeks later and there is still no clarity or substantial information and time is running out fast.
LIV Golf would not offer an official comment for this post and all sourcing has to remain anonymous due to the nature of the situation.
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The Dodgers already have Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, among more. Jeff Passan says they are the favorites to add Tarik Skubal, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner. Four months later, the CBA expires. This trade might be the last piece of evidence the owners need to shut the sport down.
On pure baseball logic the move is inevitable. Passan reported the Tigers will trade Skubal and named the Dodgers the favorite. Los Angeles has the best record in baseball and arguably the best farm system in baseball at the same time, which is not supposed to be possible. They can absorb the roughly $10 million Skubal is owed without blinking. Bob Nightengale reports the Dodgers are also Skubal's preferred free agency destination this winter, so this is not even a rental. It is a pre-acquisition.
Now the calendar. The collective bargaining agreement expires December 1. The owners have proposed the first salary cap since 1994. Multiple owners have told Passan the only real path to a cap runs through missing the 2027 season. One official said they are ready to burn the house down.
The mechanism connecting the trade to the lockout is simple. The Dodgers are the owners' entire case.
Buster Olney wrote it plainly. The spending of the top teams has reinforced to the other 28 that change is necessary, and they believe that change is a cap. Every argument the owners will make across the table this winter is a picture of the Dodgers roster. Ohtani's $700 million. Deferred money. A rotation of aces. And now, potentially, the reigning two-time Cy Young winner added at the deadline for prospects, because they have so much talent they can buy the best pitcher alive with their surplus.
The Dodgers adding Skubal does not just improve the Dodgers. It hands the owners their closing exhibit, timed four months before the negotiation.
The competitive balance argument is empirically wrong. Baseball has produced 16 different champions since 2000, more than any capped league. The Dodgers are not breaking a rule. They are excelling within all of them, drafting, developing and spending at once. The punishment for running the best organization in the sport is that the other 29 owners get to point at you and demand a system that makes you impossible.
But being wrong does not make the argument weak. It makes it convenient. Small market owners do not want to outspend the Dodgers. They want cost certainty, because cost certainty raises franchise values, and the Dodgers roster is the best sales brochure a cap has ever had. Every superteam headline between now and December 1 is worth more to the owners' negotiating position than it is to the Dodgers' World Series odds.
Follow the incentives to the uncomfortable place. The 29 other owners benefit from the Dodgers getting Skubal. Not on the field. At the table.
The Tigers get prospects. The Dodgers get the best pitcher in baseball. The owners get their exhibit.
And the sport might get a season-long lockout, argued on the back of a roster that did nothing except win too well.
The Dodgers can survive a salary cap. What baseball might not survive is the year without games it takes to get one.
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Can UConn land Cayden Daughtry, the hottest recruit in the country? A look at who Huskies are targeting. ctinsider.com/sports/uconn-mā¦
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The last time Spain won the World Cup, UConn won the national championship the following spring.
The last time Argentina won the World Cup, UConn won the national championship the following spring.
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Iād like to apologize in advance to Lefty Grandpa:
I have one ticket for the Open for today, Friday and Saturday.
Kids under 16 in free. So letās make some kids dream of going to a Major come true.
Reply below.
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A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.
Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.
She said "it feels like a completely different app."
He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."
Here's every setting he changed š§µ
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My new book, UConn Menās Basketball: An Illustrated Timeline, is now available in stores and online. I know @UConnMBB fans will enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed putting it together..
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On Saturday there was:
a cycle (Harper)
a 3-HR game (Schwarber)
a 2-HR inning (Schwarber)
a walkoff HR (Albies)
a leadoff inside-the-park HR (McCarthy)
a grand slam (Buxton)
a 10-run inning (Twins)
Never in MLB history had more than 4 of those 7 feats occurred on the same day.
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Golfās worst kept secret is out thanks to the difficult and extensive reporting from @JoelMBeall and the @GolfDigest team.
Exclusive: Phil Mickelson accused of nonconsensual, inappropriate contact with a female employee at his home course. Following the allegation, he is no longer a member of the club. Our Golf Digest investigation: golfdigest.com/story/phil-miā¦
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A PARENTāS JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:
Age 5: āHeās got a cannon.ā
Age 6: āHeās the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.ā
Age 7: āRec ball isnāt challenging him anymore.ā
Age 8: āWe tried out for select. Obviously made it.ā
Age 9: ā$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.ā
Age 10: āCooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?ā
Age 11: āHe needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.ā
Age 12: āIām not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.ā
Age 13: āWe changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)ā
Age 14: āShowcases are a requirement at this age.ā
Age 15: āYa his ranking just ticked up. Weāre cooking.ā
Age 16: āHe just needs to get seen by the right school.ā
Age 17: āThe D1 schools want him to walk on. Heāll earn a spot by sophomore year.ā
Age 18: āOkay, D2 is actually really competitive.ā
Age 19: āHeās redshirting. Strategic.ā
Age 20: āHeās focusing on school now.ā
Age 21: āYou know what? Heās so much happier.ā
Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.
About 1.5% of those get drafted.
Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.
The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between āstruck by lightningā and āfind a $100 in old shorts.ā
I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. āļø
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BreakingāA huge new event is in the works involving a majority of CBB's blue bloods, sources tell @CBSSports. It's called the Diamond Cup. The debut is planned for 2027. It's a major, unprecedented scheduling idea. Can it all come together? Let's hope so. cbssports.com/college-basketā¦
