Quinnipiac students chose to celebrate this Valentine’s Day by giving back to the Hamden community.
Members of QTHON, Quinnipiac’s annual dance marathon to raise money for Connecticut Children’s Medical Hospital, began the week by selling chocolate covered strawberries with proceeds going towards the cause.
Chocolate covered strawberries sold to raise money for the upcoming QTHON dance marathon
“It’s all about love the kids that are going through this hard time,” said QTHON dancer Olivia Hally, “ and what we can do to show our love and support for them, for this school, and for this community.”
QTHON is one of many student organizations that want to give back on the day of love. Alpha Chi Omega, Bobcats in the Community, and the Muslim Student Association all joined to celebrate the day of love.
“Making their day and making them happy… it’s just the cutest thing” said Irsa Awan, Public Relations Chair of the Muslim Student Association.
The students will continue to raise money for their causes after the holiday concludes, and will graciously accept all future donations.
ATLANTA – The New England Patriots’ 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII on Sunday was a record-breaking night, but it won’t go down in history as a very memorable one.
Among the Super Bowl records set: fewest points by both teams (16), fewest points by winning team (13), most consecutive drives ending with a punt (8 by the Rams) and longest punt (65 yards).
The story of this game, however, wasn’t defined by what did happen, but what didn’t.
The defense-dominated game started off slow, with the Patriots settling for two field goal attempts for a 3-0 lead going into the half.
“Yeah, it was tough,” Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said, of going into halftime. “We just couldn’t make the big play, we just couldn’t stay on the field on third down. We just knew we had a whole half to go, defense set the tone.”
Photo courtesy of David J. Phillip, AP.
Maroon 5’s halftime show offered fans no relief: from a shirtless Adam Levine to Big Boi’s brief appearance to Spongebob Squarepants’ cameo, fans took to social media to express their disappointment in what used to be one of the biggest nights in music.
SpongeBob tribute was the best part of the Super Bowl so far.
Wait a damn minute!! Janet Jackson show’s a tiny bit of nipple, and all hell breaks loose. He takes off his shirt and nothing?!! What??!!!! I’m outraged! #SuperBowl#PepsiHalftime
“The halftime show was super boring,” Quinnipiac senior Urushi Madani said. “And the game didn’t get exciting until the end.”
When the Rams finally got some points on the board in the third quarter, Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yard field goal, falling just one yard short of the longest ever in a Super Bowl.
Though the Patriots found some scoring opportunities, they couldn’t close out until the fourth quarter.
Pats rookie Sony Michel finally broke through the end zone with seven minutes left in regulation, scoring the game-winning touchdown.
“Finally we kind of broke through in the fourth quarter,” Brady said. “We kind of needed that.”
After 21 years of hosting the Connecticut Open, New Haven is forced to say goodbye to professional tennis.
Former WTA world number one Simona Halep at the Connecticut Open in 2014.
The WTA Premier tournament, which took place annually at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, is now moving across the globe to its new home in China.
Since the conclusion of the final tournament in 2018, the Tennis Foundation of Connecticut (TFC) board conducted an analysis of the financial model of the Connecticut Open and deemed it is no longer viable without a title sponsor.
The TFC Board decided after an extensive sponsor search to sell the Premier WTA sanction to APG, a leading Sports and Entertainment company prominent in Asia. The tournament will now take place in September in Zhengzhou City.
The Connecticut Open was the third best attended women’s-only WTA tournament in 2018 and has generated more than $10 million annually in economic impact for the City of New Haven and State of Connecticut.
Taking place every August, the tournament has long served a warmup for the US Open, attracting top female players from around the world, such as former champions Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Petra Kvitova.
“It has been an amazing 21-year run for women’s professional tennis in New Haven and we are truly grateful to all the fans, volunteers, players, media and sponsors involved,” Tournament Director Anne Worcester in a statement. “While we remember our great champions, we are most proud of the benefits the tournament has brought to the local community.”
Worcester never could find the help she needed to continue funding the tournament, approaching 88 companies about becoming the title sponsor before 2012.
Under Gov. Dannel Malloy, the state eventually purchased the event for $618,000 and turned it into a 501(C)(3) nonprofit, guaranteeing it would remain in Connecticut.
The goal was for the event to become self-sufficient, but instead time and money expired.
Ian Leichter, a senior at Quinnipiac University, is one of many feeling nostalgic about the end of an era, as the Connecticut Open provided him with his first internship experience.
“I met some great people and learned a lot about the real world,” Leichter said.
Despite the event’s conclusion, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp added a glimmer of hope for tennis fans across the state.
“The Connecticut Open has had an undeniably positive impact on New Haven over the past 21 years,” Harp said. “We remain hopeful that professional tennis will return to New Haven in the very near future.”
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