Late two-point stop gives Windsor title at 18th Tri-State Grip It & Rip It tournament

July 12, 2025

By Craig Boland NEFJ Correspondent NEW CANAAN – Windsor High School defeated Fairfield Ludlowe 24-23, after Ludlowe unsuccessfully tried a two-point conversion with time running out to capture the 18th annual Tri-State Grip It & Rip It title on Saturday. Windsor went 7-1 on the weekend, going undefeated in Friday’s pool play and defeating Darien in the first round of Saturday’s bracket, before losing to Greenwich Country Day. After the……

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Fairfield Prep wins 17th annual high school Linemen Challenge

July 12, 2025

By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent SOUTHINGTON — On Saturday, offensive linemen across the state of Connecticut got their chance to shine at the 17th annual Southington Linemen Challenge at Southington High School. Centers, guards, tackles, tight ends and defensive linemen competed in a three-plus hour long competition over nine different events. Tug of War Battle, Agility Obstacle Course, Crab Sled Relay, Bench Press, Heavy Bag, Move the Mountain, Truck Push,…

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Family affair at Windsor as Quinn Fleeting takes over for father Rob

July 12, 2025

Image courtesy of Scott Sulkazi By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent WINDSOR — For the last 16 years, Rob Fleeting led the Windsor Warriors football team to a 144-29 record while appearing in five state championships and winning a state title in 2014. After accepting an assistant principal position at Windsor High School on July 1, it required him to step down as the team’s head coach. It was a decision…

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Defending CAA champ URI officially announces addition of 15 portal transfers

July 11, 2025

Image courtesy of URI Athletics In just a few short weeks, the URI Rams will begin training camp as defending CAA champions for the first time in 40 years. The only way to truly continue competing in the most competitive conference in all of FCS is to add as much talent as possible, both from the high school level and from the portal. With that in mind, on Friday, the…

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Tabor 4-star DE Carter Gooden commits to UCLA

July 10, 2025

Carter Gooden is California-bound. The four-star defensive end from Tabor Academy officially committed to UCLA on Thursday afternoon, joining teammate and line-mate  Marcus Almada, who also committed to the Bruins right around 4:00 p.m. Both guys were highly sought after, with Gooden holding 20 offers according to On3/Rivals, including schools like BC, Michigan State, Penn State, UNC, Cal, Minnesota, Stanford and Texas A&M. “It checked every box for me both…

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BC names representatives for ACC Media Kickoff Week

July 10, 2025

The ACC unveiled the athletes that will be representing each school at the ACC Media Kickoff across three days starting July 22. BC will be going on day three July 24th and joining Bill O’Brien will be Logan Taylor, Lewis Bond, Daveon ‘Bam’ Crouch and KP Price. Usually, this is just some fluff news that gets fans a little bit more excited for the upcoming season. But, for BC, this…

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Full 2025 New England CFB schedule

July 6, 2025

  It’s almost football season. Finally. We’re one month from training camp and many programs will be having Media Days this month. That also means that it’s time to start planning those tailgates and road trips. With that in mind, we’ve done some of the hard work for you already. Below is the full schedule for each of the 17 programs here in New England. We will be updating this…

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3 bold Patriots predictions with training camp 3 weeks away

July 2, 2025

Just three weeks from right about now, the gates to the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium will open and the annual running of the jorts will commence. Fans will flock to the metal bleachers trying to get the best view of Drake Maye, Stefon Diggs, Milton Williams, Will Campbell, Mike Vrabel and the rest of the 2025 New England Patriots for the first training camp practice. It’s always an exciting…

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Former Xavier & UConn quarterback Tim Boyle back for 5th summer camp

June 29, 2025

By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent MIDDLETOWN — Summer is a good time for people to enjoy the outdoors and for youth football players across the state of Connecticut to get better. With school out, the end of June is a time where they can absorb football knowledge from players like NFL quarterback Tim Boyle. On Saturday, Boyle – a 2013 graduate of Xavier High School – hosted his fifth quarterback…

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UConn announces the addition of more future games with Duke

June 26, 2025

You don’t think rivalry when you hear UConn and Duke – at least not on the gridiron – but the two have developed a nice little competitive animosity over the last couple of seasons. This is going to be a regular occurrence going forward too. On Wednesday, the Huskies announced that the two schools have agreed to additional games on September 11, 2027 in Durham and then October 14, 2028…

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