Sports

NAUGATUCK — Every year there are high school soccer programs that have to pick up the pieces and try to replace their graduating senior...

BEACON FALLS — Thanksgiving football is one of those traditions that binds families together through generations. Like every year, there were plenty of games...

NAUGATUCK — There was no time left on the scoreboard clock as Ansonia raced off the field, heading to the locker room at the...

SEYMOUR — Finally. In one of the most incredible showings of offensive production in Woodland history, the Hawks ended a five-game losing streak to Seymour...

The fire everyone knows about, the one that’s the flaming hub of a spirited Thanksgiving Eve pep rally, will take place Wednesday night, just hours before the Greyhounds host rival Ansonia. The one that players and alumni know about, the one that’s the flickering center of a pensive gathering, will take place just a few hours before the other. It’s called The Burning of the Shoe, a tradition Naugatuck head coach Rob Plasky brought with him from Springfield College when he took the reigns of this already tradition-rich program in 2001. And it’s just what it sounds like: The Hounds gather around a burning cleat and just talk … and listen.

Lou Poeta and Paul Brennan are lifelong residents of Beacon Falls. They remember the days when Woodland Regional High School didn’t...

People remember the beginning and the end but not the middle. If that old nugget of wisdom actually contains a nugget of truth, the...

Here’s something Woodland football fans don’t need to be reminded of: The last time the Hawks beat Seymour, the Red Sox had just won...