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The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice decided to withdraw its support of a lawsuit this week, pushed by three high school female athletes that would block biological males (transgender females) from competing in girls’ sports in Connecticut. Former Attorney General Bill Barr supported the lawsuit because he said Connecticut’s law allowing this to happen does violate the Title IX protections in place. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in 2020, “by three high school girls and their mothers against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has p...

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Jim Euell (photo submitted) Roberta Vincent, Special to The Times Editor’s Note: As our nation celebrates Black History Month, this series in The Norwich Times looks at the accomplishments of some of the exceptional athletes from Norwich who attended NFA and were inducted into the NFA/Norwich Sports Hall of Fame. This is the third in our series.   Every small city has its share of fast runners, but how many can say they rose to national prominence? Here is the story of one with Norwich ties whose 1960s and 1970s exploits can still be found in the record books.

Vorster wins SA Stroke Play in wire-to-wire style RANDBURG, 4 February 2021 – Martin Vorster slept on the lead for three straight nights and on Thursday, South Africa’s top ranked amateur finished the job and won the South African Stroke Play Championship by four shots. Vorster once again showed he is man for big moments when he secured the national title on 23 under at Randpark Golf Club. The Mossel Bay golfer opened the tournament with a flawless eight-under-par 64. Following rounds of 65 and 66, he started the final round on the Firethorn Course seven strokes clear of fellow GolfRSA Na...

‘This will set wrestling back in our state’: Wrestling coaches react to lost season If there was one thing Ricky Shook never thought he would be in January, it is bored. But that is exactly how the 22-year head coach of Danbury wrestling would describe himself these days. Shook’s winter weekends are normally packed with wrestling tournaments, but with wrestling in Connecticut shut down, Shook has had nothing to do on the weekends except watch football and wait for the sport that is such a big part of his life to return. Next week, Danbury’s wrestling program will reconvene for the fir...