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Sports Columns

COMMENTARY: In the darkest hours, ‘better angels’ reawaken

I hemmed and hawed about writing this column.Not because I lack the courage of my convictions. I just sometimes trick myself into ...
 
“STOP, THIEF!” You are not going to believe this one. In fact, I still have a hard time believing it myself.Last week, I fried up ...
Hanover Pond and Mirror Lake are two area locations known to harbor ‘lunker’ carp. Michael Probst, Associated Press
“Lunker.” The dictionary simply says it means “big fish.” Catching a lunker in any species is the dream of most anglers.In some ...
“Finders keepers, losers weepers.” Have you ever wondered if that was really true or not?Over my years on this place we call Earth ...
Calling all bowhunters and target archers! With all of the sorrow and anguish brought on by the COVID-19 virus, many worthwhile ev ...
Rick Kaplan, Tom Long and Tim Louis all wore personal flotation devices in the Quinnipiac Downriver Classic Race last May.
This past week, May 16 to today, May 22, has been National Safe Boating Week.However, this does not mean that safe boating practic ...
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R-J outdoors writer Mike Roberts passes along a cooking tip for trout from his rugged buddy, Paul “The Mountain Man” Cichowski. Associated Press
How about cooking up some trout, Mountain Man style?It sort of makes you envision a campfire with a bed of hot coals and a black c ...
Record-Journal sports writer and columnist Ted Moynihan passed away on Friday at age 81.
Alfred “Ted” Moynihan, the retired veteran Record-Journal sports writer and columnist, passed away Friday. He was 81.His son Mark ...
Flocks of wild turkey are hardly a rare sight in Connecticut thanks to a restoration project started by the state back in the mid-1970s. Harold Hanka, The Westerly Sun
Quite a number of years ago I was making one of my weekend runs up into the northwestern part of Connecticut during the early morn ...
Thomas Leffingwell of Wallingford hit Black Pond via kayak to fish for trout. The 2020 trout season was opened several weeks early by Gov. Ned Lamont. | Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
I guess “surprised” would be the best way to put it.I’m surprised there are not more fishermen taking advantage of the early openi ...
This 11-inch trout was caught at Black Pond in Meriden on Wednesday, March 25, the day Gov. Ned Lamont opened trout fishing in Connecticut 2½ weeks early. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
“April Fool!” At least that’s what I thought the TV and radio were playing on me when I heard that the 2020 opening day of trout ...
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