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What's the state of your famously rocky relationship with University of Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma, your chief rival...
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has won four Naismith National Coach of the Year awards in his 19 years with the Huskies, a run that has included five straight national championships...
...When it was time to really win the game--there was no tentativeness about them," said UConn coach Geno Auriemma. "Some of our young guys were a little unsure...
...women's sports "don't need gifts from men," they probably don't need opinions from Joel Stein in his condescending article about basketball star Nykesha Sales, "Shooting Like a Girl?" [SPORT, March 9]. Geno Auriemma's UConn teams are made up of scholar-athletes who excel both in the classroom and on the court. Since all of Auriemma's players can do math, they know that salaries in the ABL and the WNBA are infinitesimal compared with men's salaries in the NBA. Auriemma's own salary is subterranean compared with that of the coach of a comparable...
...Auriemma's arrangement hurt women's college basketball, or was it just a moving gesture from coach to player? Many of us have accepted the view of Rebecca Lobo, former UConn co-captain and Olympian, that the record was an in-house arrangement to which the team's family of players, coaches, fans and the previous record holder had all supported, and that therefore no one else should be concerned. Before her career-ending injury, Sales was a great player and, more importantly, an unselfish player who had sat out large portions of games to give her teammates more opportunity...