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Fast Facts About New Orleans Saints Interim Head Coach With Local Ties Fast Facts About New Orleans Saints Interim Head Coach With Local Ties
Fast Facts About New Orleans Saints Interim Head Coach With Local Ties The New Orleans Saints' new interim head coach may be familiar to football fans in the Northeast. Darren Rizzi, who has served as the Saints special teams coach since 2022, was named interim head coach on Monday, Nov. 4, after the team fired Head Coach Dennis Allen.  The 54-year-old Hillsdale, NJ, native was one of Bergen Catholic's most widely recognized receivers, bringing the school's football team to the State Championship Game twice. The team won a title in 1986, and Rizzi held a BC career record of 69 receptions — a title that he held for 22 years, for 1,239 yards and 1…

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by Josh Lanier
Sports
Look Who's Coming Back: Dan Hurley Spurns Lucrative LA Lakers' Offer To Stay With UConn Look Who's Coming Back: Dan Hurley Spurns Lucrative LA Lakers' Offer To Stay With UConn
Look Who's Coming Back: Dan Hurley Spurns Lucrative LA Lakers' Offer To Stay With UConn UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley has turned down a jaw-dropping offer from the Los Angeles Lakers and will stay to pursue a third straight national title, according to multiple news reports. Related: UConn's Dan Hurley Could Be LA Lakers' Next Coach The Lakers had dangled a $70 million offer in front of the 51-year-old Hurley, which sent him to Los Angeles last week to meet with team brass, news sources reported. The offer would have made Hurley one of the NBA's highest-paid coaches, said Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN on X.  It would have also allowed him to work with the …

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by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Fairfield Native Elliot Herman Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History Fairfield Native Elliot Herman Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History
Fairfield Native Elliot Herman Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History The UConn women's basketball team will make history with an NCAA record 12th consecutive Final Four appearance when it faces Notre Dame on Friday night, April 5. That’s two more than John Wooden’s UCLA men's teams managed.  So many people share in this moment and hope for an unprecedented 12th title in a span of only 25 years. Among them is Fairfield native Elliot Herman. The Fairfield Ludlowe grad (Class of ’15), who is now a senior at UConn majoring in Communications with a Marketing minor, has served as one of several student managers for the team over the past two years. Herman h…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz