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Hartforb ourant COCHRAN SITS UConn coach Bob Diaco says quarterback Casey Cochran is hurt and won't play Saturday. C6 CLASSIFIED, C8 SPORTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 COURANT.COM SPORTS UCONN VS. STONY BROOK UCONN Priore Can Go Home Again victories and UP NEXT In Memoriam four NESCAC titles in a row. There would be a change in leadership from one personality to another, but NCAA: Call Broke Rules Auriemma Talk With Teen Cited UConn hopes to unveil a memorial for former football player Stony Brook at UConn, noon.SNY Coach Retains Strong State Ties By PAUL DOYLE pdoylecourant.com When Jeff Devanney inherited the Trinity football program as a 35-year-old, first-time head coach, he thought about his predecessor and decided that some things would remain the same. Chuck Priore, after all, was at the helm for 30 consecutive didn't change much of our staff calendar or the way we practiced.

That's something that I kind of copied from Chuck." The truth is, Priore never ventured far from his old Broad Street digs. The Long Island native went home when he became Stony Brook's coach after the 2005 season, but he never sold his Wethersfield home and he has been a steady visitor to Greater Hartford. On Saturday, he'll be back coaching in the area UConn PRIORE, C4 Howard Devanney wouldn't abandon the skeleton of Priore's program. Nine years later, Priore's fingerprints remain. "I still copy and paste practice plans and things like that," Devanney said this week.

"I Jasper Howard, killed on campus in 2009, in November at Rentschler Field. Story, Page C6 NFL SEASON OPENER By JOHN ALTAVILLA jaltavillacourant.com The NCAA has cited UConn for a secondary violation of rules after reviewing Geno Auriemma's congratulatory phone call to Little League star Mo'ne Davis last month. Secondary violations do not typically result in NCAA penalties. Instead, corrective action is usually taken that includes rules education. A letter of admonishment is usually included and in some cases contact with the specific recruit is banned for a set period of time.

UConn athletic director Warde Manuel was not pleased. "Over the last 24 hours, the Univer- UCONN, C4 YANKEES 5, RED SOX 4 Teixeira, Headley Shut Door Another Collapse By Uehara In 9th By ERIK BOLAND Newsday KYLE TERADA USA TODAY NOW THEY COUNT BRAD CARTER, left, Steve Tate, center, and "Paintedhawk" get into game mode before Thursday night's NFL opener between the Green Bay Packers and the 2013 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. The Seahawks hammered the Packers, 36-16. Story, Page C3. NEW YORK Was this the kind of victory that can turn things around for the Yankees? They're a long way from that, but the way the club celebrated a walk-off 5-4 victory against the Red Sox Thursday night made it seem as if the players believe, even if no one else does.

Mark Teixeira hit a tying homer into the second deck in right field with none out in the ninth inning off YANKEES, C4 Mt'i Rossomando Changes Culture Jim Calhoun will be joining ESPN's college basketball coverage team this season, where he will get the chance to do what he does best and seems to enjoy most talk basketball. Most of his work will be in the studio in Bristol, and we know one word that is not in the Calhoun vocabulary: boring. He'll be worth watching. Here's the OTF translation of what transpired regarding the NCAA and Geno Auriemma: It burned somebody's backside that when Mo'ne Davis became a household name, she immediately identified UConn as her dream destination as, one imagines, many female athletes her age would do. Her connection with UConn got national attention, so someone complained.

And that's life when you have the strongest brand in your sport. The rest of the world is Jan Brady. UConn is no doubt he'll play in the Patriots season opener. Oh yeah, by the way, the NFL season is underway. At ease? New coach Derek Fisher and the Knicks will train for a week at West Point, Sept.

30 to Oct. 6, which last served as their training camp in 1966. Team USA is still on a roll at the FIBA World Cup, completing pool play at 5-0 with a 95-71 victory over Ukraine. Next up: Mexico in the round of 16 on Saturday. In the kind of pitching duel that could make this an epic October, Seattle's "King" Felix Hernandez outdid Oakland's Jon Lester 2-1 on Wednesday.

Imagine that as a one-game, wild-card playoff. UConn's Mike Olt, who regained his stroke at Triple A then injured his hamstring, could return to the major leagues with the Cubs this weekend. You know, Mo'ne Davis threw out the first pitch at a Dodgers game. Maybe MLB should investigate for "tampering." damorecourant.com Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. While Johnny Manziel is waiting for a trademark on the name "Johnny Football," he has also, being a forward thinker, filed for a trademark on "Johnny Cleveland." Perhaps there's a historical lesson in this: Grover Cleveland didn't realize what a cool name he had.

The Browns' Josh Gordon, who led the NFL in receiving yards but is suspended for 2014 since failing a test for marijuana, has signed on to work for a group of auto dealerships in Ohio. There's some question about whether Gordon will actually be selling cars but in any event Jeff Sarchione, one of the owners, said Gordon will "learn the car business from the ground up." Guessing he'll prefer a career in football. The NFL and its players association are "ramping up" long overdue talks to establish a testing policy for human growth hormone. Tom Brady missed practice with a calf injury, but there appears Saturday night was a five-hour bus ride home. "It was great for the first hour, everybody was laughing and joking," Pete Rossomando said Thursday.

"Then total exhaustion set in. Everybody just fell asleep." Behind Rossomando was a coaching debut that brought immediate attention to his school, a debut any coach would covet. Ahead for this son of controlled emotion and considerable detail, this proud brother of a fallen New York firefighter, is a challenge to rebuild a program that lost 23 of 33 games over three seasons. Yet as he glanced JACOBS, C4 JEFF JACOBS jjacobscourant.com NEW BRITAIN -Behind them was a wild 31-27 victory over No. 7 Towson, arguably the greatest victory in the history of the football program.

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