Twenty-two years ago, as the hype around the upcoming election season grew, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in Connecticut’s fourth district couldn’t escape the aura of the President. The candidate, a little-known Fairfield politics professor named John Orman, was up against a popular incumbent — U.

The headline on the sports page of the Mirror on March 9 was no understatement when it read ‘The End of an Era.” In an unforeseen move by the Fairfield Athletic Department, Tim O’Toole announced that he would not be returning to coach the men’s basketball team the following season.

When I found out I was going to Iowa to broadcast the Stags’ men’s basketball games last weekend in the Hawkeye Challenge, in which the Stags went 1-1, finishing third out of four teams, I couldn’t help but recall one of the finest dialogues in sports cinema, from “Field of Dreams”: Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is this heaven? Ray Kinsella: No.

Remember that campaign cliché that John Edwards kept rattling off last year about the two Americas that exist? One for those who can afford adequate healthcare and enough food to get by, and one for those who can’t? Think it was all a bunch of nonsense? Then you’ve never been to Leland, Mississippi.

By Ben Doody It was an atmosphere almost exclusively reserved for basketball games. As the final minutes ticked down on the Lessing Field scoreboard Saturday night, the home crowd chanted “Overrated!” as they watched the biggest upset in Fairfield soccer history.

by Bryan Mahoney The Fairfield University club track team is hoping to re-establish itself as one of the university’s more popular clubs, thanks in most part to its new faculty advisor, Mike Owens. Owens, who recently finished his inaugural season as the assistant coach of the men and women’s cross-country teams, is hoping that his coaching experience and interest in the sport will invite members of the university community to come out and join the club.