![]() I’ve been asking my friends, my lunch buddies, die-hard baseball and football fans, if they’ve been watching Caitlin Clark? To see a young woman thrust into a blinding national spotlight and handle herself with such grace and warmth off the floor and such unquenchable desire on the floor, such a brilliant player, you felt like you were seeing her sport move into a different era before your very eyes.įor Bueckers, finally back on the floor after some devastating knee injuries, she’s a silent assassin out there, leading a woefully shorthanded UConn team with almost no bench help, none that play anyway, handling almost every minute at a breakneck pace, somehow, smartly holding it all together under the careful direction of their legendary coach Geno Auriemma. ![]() You can say the same for those two brilliant women athletes who led their teams to wins last night. What I loved about Larry Bird’s game, for example, was he made everyone else around him better. I always covered women’s sports (OK, I was a bit skeptical about women’s amateur golf, I admit), and took them seriously, even catching some crap from of my colleagues for assigning them to cover women’s games, too. Happily, and proudly, I can say now, my view of women’s sports changed once I started my career in the newspaper business. When I was growing up in New Hampshire, if someone had suggested I’d insist on watching two women’s basketball games instead of the Red Sox, I would not have seen that sea change coming. I would like to think that at my advanced age that’s a sign of wisdom. “No,” came the reply from this old-time sportswriter. ![]() “Are you watching this crap?” he asked, referring to what he assumed would be my usual viewing practice - watching/suffering with the Boston Red Sox, who, at the time, were pounding the pathetic Oakland A’s (who maybe should be re-named the “F’s”). George is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth and husband Sandro Bortolon his granddaughter Olivia Bortolon, all of Canton his son Christopher and wife Josie English of Winsted and a brother James and wife Loretta English of Granby.When the phone rang last night around 10, my son had a question. He took several trips out West to do back-country horse trail riding with friends. George and Mary built their primary home in Torrington and a second home in Chatham, Mass., with the help of Mary’s parents Fred and Elsie Blandino, George’s parents James and Sarah English, George’s Uncle Tony Cannavo, Mary’s godfather Edward Buzzi, and many family friends.Īfter retirement, George bought an Appaloosa horse and enjoyed trail riding and local western riding competitions. ![]() He obtained several patents in the mechanical manufacturing industry. George went on to work for over 30 years in the engineering field at Torin Corporation, Nidec Corporation, and later at Bicron Electronics. Upon his discharge from the Navy, he began working at the Torrington Manufacturing Company while attending the University of Hartford, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering. George graduated from The Gilbert School and joined the U.S. George was born June 18, 1937, in Winsted, son of the late James and Sarah (Cannavo) English. He was the husband of the late Mary (Blandino) English. English, 86, of Torrington, passed away on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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