WILI's Wayne Norman broadcast Lyman Memorial's 2007 Class "S" state championship game win over Coginchaug. To hear the broadcast, click here.
Wayne Norman at Deluca Field after Lyman's 2007 state championship. Yes, that's fog, which settled in after the game!
On September 30, 2004,
Wayne Norman broadcast his 1000th UConn Network game, as the Husky Football team played Pittsburgh in a Big East game. His first UConn Network broadcast was September 22, 1979 when UConn Football played at Navy. His 1000 game total included 255 UConn Football games, 717 UConn Men's Basketball games (including two NCAA Titles), and 28 UConn Women's basketball games (including the 2001 and 2003 Final Fours). To read more, click here.
Wayne Norman and Joe D'Ambrosio interview UConn football coach Randy Edsall before UConn's Blue-White Spring Game in April
-- Bob Stowell photo, courtesy UConn Division of Athletics
UConn basketball All-American Svetlana Abrosimova with WILI's Wayne Norman
WILI's Wayne Norman and John Tuite broadcast live play-by-play on WILI of the Boston Red Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles game from Fenway Park on August 10, 2003. WILI was the only radio station in New England offered this unique privilege. For details on that special day, click here.
Wayne Norman wins two AP Broadcast awards: In November 1999, WILI's Wayne Norman won the Associated Press Broadcasters Association award for "Best Sports Story." For details,
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WILI's Wayne Norman with Los Angeles Angels manager Bill Rigney at L. A.'s Wrigley Field in 1962
Shawn Holliday broadcasts Connecticut Defenders AA baseball on WILI
Former UConn star Rebecca Lobo was in New York City on September 11th, 2001 and offered some insights. For details, click here.
Wayne Norman interviews Rebecca Lobo (top) and Nykesha Sales--members of UConn's first NCAA women's basketball champions--at the tenth anniversary tribute during the Big East Tournament in Hartford, March 1995
-- Rich Walton photos
The late Marty Glickman (l.) and Wayne Norman broadcasting a UConn basketball game in the '80s. To learn more about the life and times of Marty Glickman,
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The UConn Football team now plays its home games at 40,000 seat Rentschler Field in East Hartford. To see pictures of The Rent and take a virtual tour
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A different look at Joe and Wayne, courtesy of cartoonist Brad Gilchrist. To see more of Brad's work,
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Former Windham High standout and UConn women's basketball player Colleen Healy did color commentary for WILI's broadcasts of UConn women's games during the 2004-2005 season. To read a Chronicle story by T. C. Karmel
about Healy,
click here
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Wayne Norman was signing copies his UConn Basketball book before the August 19, 2005 Norwich Navigators game at Dodd Stadium. He was sitting next to Navigators pitcher Scott Chiasson, who was a member of ECSU's 1998 NCAA championship team. Wayne broadcast Scott's ECSU games on WILI.
WILI's Wayne Norman and Chuck Banning broadcasting ECSU baseball's first NCAA Championship in 1982 from Marietta, Ohio.
Wayne and Chuck also broadcast from the College World Series in 1983 and 1987. It was blistering hot at the 1987 national tournament, with temperatures on this day reaching 100 at 10 AM!
ECSU's games in the 2006 NCAA baseball regionals in Auburn, NY were delayed by rain, but this rainbow signalled better weather ahead. The Warriors won the regional and returned to the College World Series in Appleton, WI --
Wayne Norman photo
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