Maurice Eastwood, revisited

Maurice Eastwood is a CCSU senior who organized a basketball tournament in Hartford recently that was interrupted by gun fire in which a man who’d come to watch basketball, James “Jay” Headen, was killed. I wrote about it here. Now Eastwood has set up a Go Fund Me account for the family of the man, …

ICYMI: A story behind some gunfire in Hartford

A young man plans a neighborhood event, some yahoos shoot it up, the city turns to blame the young man, for not getting the proper permit to host the event. I wrote this for Mother Courant. And that photo? That’s just a basketball hoop in Hartford. It’s been busted for months.

How UConn’s women basketball team could change the world

See if you can follow: 1. Indiana passes a discriminatory law. 2. Connecticut’s Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announces that state employees cannot travel to the state using state funds. 3. UConn women qualifies for the Final Four in 2016. 4. UConn coaching staff can’t travel to Indiana. 5. Basketball changes the world. This isn’t original …