UCONN Officials Are Preparing for Championship Headaches

On Saturday (3/20/24) UCONN stepped on another throat eliminating Illinois in a 77-52 thumping. The victory carried the University of Connecticut men's basketball team into the Final Four and a Saturday (4/6/24) showdown with #4 Alabama.

UCONN officials are getting prepped for any potential hangover that may come from winning yet another championship. It appears the school is trying to avoid a repeat of last year's riot-like fiesta by bolting their lampposts to the ground.

In case you don't recall, last year's National Championship celebration got ultra-wild with students/fans using the lamp posts as ramming devices and destroying windows on campus.

Forgive my ignorance but shouldn't lamp posts ALREADY be bolted down? How are they typically secured to the ground? Are they not bolted down? Can any handful of people grab a lamppost and wander off?

I guess I best not think too deeply on this one but I will say I don't like counting chickens before the eggs are hatched. We've seen a million times in sports, we have heard the nightmare stories. One team thinks they have it locked up and begins to bring the champagne in the locker room before the game ends and then things don't go their way.

Let's not jinx this thing please.

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Let Clingan close this thing out before we start buying party hats and streamers.

5 Famous Connecticut Locations Many People Think Are Haunted

Connecticut is steeped in rich history from border to border. Real-world stories here are often stranger than fiction, leading many to believe that the Constitution State has a thin veil between the living and the dead. There is no shortage of ghost tales or ghost hunters in Connecticut, with numerous locations across the state thought to be haunted. Here are just five of the many places in Connecticut believed by some to be haunted.

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Top 10 States Connecticut People Are Moving To

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7 Worst Prisons in the State of Connecticut

If I was going to prison, I'd be worrying about everything. I'd want to know what I was in for and there are not a ton of resources available, I certainly would not have anyone I could ask for their experience. You need to know what danger level you're facing, what your day-to-day will consist of and what conditions are like. Most of all, you want to know if the place you're going to has a bad reputation.

My recent TV binge of 60 Days In made me want to seek answers to these questions, I needed to know. I was able to find some helpful information from The Connecticut Bail Bonds Group.

Here are the 7 Worst Prisons in Connecticut

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