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The article examines the 2012 Travelers Championship golf tournament in Connecticut. The event's scheduling as the PGA Tour tournament the week following the U.S. Open and the appearance of 2012 Open champion Webb Simpson in the tournament are used to consider the question of time management by golfers winners of what are known as major tournaments following those victories.

The article focuses on the final holes of play at the 2007 Travelers Championship golf tournament, at the TPC Rivers Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, and the shoot-out between 25-year-old rising star Hunter Mahan, and a 40-year-old journeyman, Jay Williamson. Williamson trailed Mahan by two shots through 14 holes, but they came into the 18th with Williamson leading by a shot. Mahan then birdied the 18th and a playoff hole to win.

Focuses on Larry Kelley, a former football player at Yale University, who died on June 27, 2000 from a self-inflicted gunshot. Biographical information, including how he won the Heisman Memorial Trophy in 1936, presented annually to the top college football player in the nation; How Kelley presented himself with confidence, which allowed him to hide his depression; Questions of his widow, Ruth, who never foresaw her husband's suicide.

The article reports on the Trinity College squash team that has established the longest winning streak in college sports history by not losing in ten years. Led by coach Paul Assaiante who finds recruits in squash-playing countries like Pakistan, India and Sweden, the Trinity Bantams will go to the U.S. national championships on February 15 attempting to complete their tenth undefeated season.

Discusses the recent success of the University of Connecticut sports program, with specific focus on the men and women's basketball team. Description of other sports events and teams that are based in Connecticut; Background of the sports program, including four NCAA championships since 1995; Increasing applicants to the school by out-of-state students; Preseason ranking of the men and women's basketball team this year; Details of the Hartford Civic Center where the basketball teams play, and the impact that it has had on the program and the state of Connecticut; Television coverage of the college sports teams.

Profiles University of Connecticut women's basketball player Diana Taruasi. Comments from others that she plays like a man; Shots that Taruasi made to lead the Lady Huskies to a win over the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers; Taurasi's jump shot technique; Upbringing that she had in California; Games that the Lady Huskies have in the remainder of the season; Statistical information.