Ater Majok News

Jerome Dyson has always been a player of blood, bandages and braces, a shooting guard of reckless abandon.

The Big East Conference retained all of its coaches for the first time in more than a decade.

Three members of the UConn men's basketball team were held out of an exhibition Wednesday night.

The beast sleeps, at least at the start of the 2009-10 college basketball season.

The UConn men's basketball team has officially practiced 10 times this season. Few, if any, of the workouts have featured the team the Huskies expect to take the court when the season hits its stride.

Steve Sobel, a Springfield-based shooting specialist and motivational speaker, has longstanding ties with Jim Calhoun and the UConn program, going back to UConn's recruitment of Kevin Freeman.

Coach: Jim Calhoun . Last season's record: 31-5 overall, 15-3 in Big East . Postseason: Lost in Final Four of NCAA tournament to Michigan State .

Q: With six years behind us with Oakafor and Thabeet who is going to block up the middle for us on defense? -robert the rug guy, Raleigh A: Rugs, I would say there is no one guy in particular, but perhaps a capable committee.

University of Connecticut students joined with the men's basketball players for their annual Husky Run, a 5K race that unofficially kicks off the team's season.

Storrs - Braving unseasonably cold temperatures, a line of UConn basketball fans snaked outside Gampel Pavilion on Friday waiting to move inside for autographs.

For the second year in a row, UConn big man Gavin Edwards was the first player on the basketball team to cross the finish line in the annual Husky Run.

Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun didn't participate in this year's Husky Run, but he sure looked like he could have.

Jim Calhoun is preparing for the season. In 11 days, he'll have a whistle around his neck while coaching at UConn 's first practice.

Connecticut is negotiating a long-term deal with Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun that could keep him at the school into his 70s.

The Connecticut basketball team had finished playing pickup for at least 30 minutes Wednesday, but Ater Majok was still on the floor working on his face-up game.

UConn coaches are referring to the 2009-10 Huskies as a "late-January team," meaning they expect their true potential to become clear about three-quarters of the way through the season.

The Huskies early offseason went about as well as could be expected for the UConn faithful.

A Kemba Walker -Jerome Dyson backcourt can matchup with just about anyone as far as quickness, defense and scoring punch is concerned, and with able to play both forward positions UConn will be able to go both big and small again as the situation warrants.

The Huskies early offseason went about as well as could be expected for the UConn faithful.

The calendar keeps turning, day by day, now month by month, allowing BYU coach Dave Rose to check the pages that he's still here -- feeling better each day, and as far as he knows, cancer-free. Thursday marks the two-month anniversary of the worst day of his life, the day he thought his life was over, when he had surgery to remove his spleen and ...