UConn's national championship baton-twirler, and another dual basketball championship

If you've been to a UConn football game, you know Alyssa Kane, one of the Twirling Alyssas - which is the name I invented to showcase the amusing fact that, during my four years at UConn, one or both of the marching band's baton twirlers were named Alyssa.

Anyway, you can see Alyssa do her thing above. And if you read this user-provided story over at the Hartford Courant's website, you can find out that Kane won the National Collegiate Baton-Twirling championship at Notre Dame last week. Huzzah and kudos, Ms. Kane.

For the purposes of a blog that is dedicated to the proposition that all football teams are beaten equally by UConn, this can only be a good sign. Ms. Kane is an underrated part of the halftime entertainment who is getting her due, much like how UConn football is underrated and set to dominate the Big East for millenia to come.

In other "it must be an omen!" news, both the freshmen boys and girls champions in the Basketball League of Southwest Broward County were called "UConn". Given how last year's men's basketball season went, I think I'm just desperate enough to count this as UConn's second dual basketball championship.

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