Written by Kristine Lilly
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:17
During my twenty-three year career with the U.S. National Team, I was competing all year round. When I wasn’t competing, eating or resting, I performed what I liked to call “maintenance work” - drills that helped me maintain a good feel for the ball.
Maintenance work was all about getting back to basics. In fact, I still do these basic drills with my instructional soccer camp, the Kristine Lilly Soccer Academy, during the summer months. It’s my belief that a player who practices basic skills will eventually become a great technical player. One of my teammates on the U.S. National Team was Michele Akers, the most technically sound player I have ever seen. Her technique kicking a soccer ball was so precise, powerful, and consistent that she was deadly from anywhere on the field.
Written by John Kovach
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 15:34
Two years ago, the Southwest Connecticut Grizzlies were formed to give student-athletes a second chance.
Written by Staff
Friday, 27 January 2012 14:43
The Stratford High School Red Devils Booster Club is sponsoring its second annual Scrap Metal Fundraiser on Saturday, March 17.
Written by Jenny Klein
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- Good action with stripers
 Mikey Weick, 12, of Shelton caught an impressive 34-inch striped bass on sandworms while fishing the Housatonic River.Go Fish!Striped bass fishing continued to improve this week with good action scattered throughout all the local
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- Waiting for the big stripers to arrive
 Captain Jim Sinclair of Oxford took home first place with a beautiful 11-pound Blackfish, which was caught from his new boat, Angler Management.The Blackfishing spring season came to a close on
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- Where to find them
 Ryan Woods of Shelton with a good-sized Housatonic Schoolie Striper. The spring season for Blackfish is off to a promising start. Anglers are finding keeper-size Tautog ready and willing to hit, and Asian and Green crabs are at all the usual hot spots. An underwater
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- Blackfishing season is over, bass season begins
 With Blackfishing season now officially closed, and safe, fishible ice still quite some time away, fresh and saltwater anglers are turning toward targeting our local tributaries wintering Striped Bass populations.
These fish move into the tidal lower sections of our area rivers during the months of November and December to feed on schools of herring, shad, shiners and other small forage fish. Anglers will find large numbers of
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- Fishing red hot as water temperatures cool down
The blackfishing bite continues to be red hot and should only improve as water temperatures continue to drop. Keeper tautog are hitting Asian, green, hermit and fiddler crabs at all the usual hot spots.
Any underwater structure in 10-plus feet of water should be holding fish as the water temperature drops into the 50s. Probe the bottom with your offering, looking for drops, rock piles, caves and anywhere else where blackfish might be hiding.
Keep your line
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- Fishing is heating up as waters cool down
Autumn in Long Island Sound is not only about trophy size catches. It is also a time when anglers often catch rare and exotic species which have lost their way during the numerous maritime storms or the gulf stream’s warm northern flow during the summer months.
Some of these species, including burbots, northern kingfish, oyster toadfish, northern pufferfish, red hake and triggerfish have all been showing up in catches throughout Long Island Sound. Though these catches
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- Anglers finding a mixed bag of keeper-size fish
Blackfishing season is now open, and anglers are finding a mixed bag of keeper size and smaller fish at the New Haven Breakwall, Penfield Reef and various rock piles off Middleground Lighthouse. Green and Asian crabs are working best, but sandworms and clams will also put tautog in the boat.
Joe Eltman Sr. of Waterbury landed several nice togs while fishing near Middleground Light on Saturday. This was Joe’s first attempt at blackfishing, and he was
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