The Connecticut Sun earned a 96-77 win over the Indiana Fever Saturday afternoon, inching them one victory closer to a guaranteed playoff spot with only three regular season games remaining. But according to head coach Curt Miller and players, the focus and togetherness the team brought to the court on Saturday really started with a team dinner the night before.

Is 2020 the dawn of the Cam Newton era in New England? Or have the Patriots simply provided a low-cost audition for a player whose value plummeted amid this unprecedented offseason, a mutually beneficial union for a franchise in transition and a star on the mend?

Two weeks ago, Kevin Freeman was happily preparing for his third season at Penn State, where his daughter was enrolled as a freshman. Then a job opened at UConn, the place that has remained his true north, wherever basketball took him, for nearly 25 years.

While coronavirus pandemic restrictions have kept untold families apart this year, Jane Anderson Holmes could not wait another day after 40 years of searching for her biological siblings.

The Department of Public Health commissioner and other state officials have received threats over the department’s recommendation that Connecticut high schools refrain from football this fall, Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz said in a Facebook post Saturday.

Storytellers Cottage in Simsbury has closed its physical location as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and is going entirely online.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, after weeks of needless recalcitrance, finally took the good advice of the state Department of Public Health on Friday and announced that full-contact high school football would not take place this fall. There’s no question that the decision was the right one.

If the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference needed any more evidence that playing full-contact football during a pandemic is a bad idea, that evidence arrived gift-wrapped on Thursday.

The CIAC seems willing to put a safe and successful start to the school year at risk, not to mention the resumption of other sports for the sake of football.

Colleges and universities are asking thousands of almost-adults who are in the thrilling throes of becoming themselves, choosing career journeys and developing crucial social networks (to say nothing of romantic relationships) to gather together en masse — and live with the discipline of monks. What could possibly go wrong?