GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 8 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 148 — Intro 1:49 - 4:42 — Hall (2-4) at Southington (2-4) 4:43 - 6:30 — Prince Tech (1-5) at Thames River (0-5) 6:31 - 8:01 — Montv…

Haddam-Killingworth football coach Tyler Wilcox joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga in the Coach's Corner for the seventh episode of the Meat Grinder spin off podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's 5-1 start to the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

WELCOME to another edition of THE MEAT GRINGER, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut with hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga, and — welp — guess we can no longer ignore New Britain. The Hurricanes, who have been screaming all year long for our love and attention as they racked up win after win, week after week, finally go…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 7 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:33 — Intro 2:34 - 5:28 — Maloney (2-3) at New Britain (5-0) 5:29 - 6:01 — ATI (3-2) at Wilcox Tech/Kaynor (2-2) 6:02 - 7:16 — Kil…

WELCOME back to another edition of THE MEAT GRINDER podcast, your weekly dose of High School Football in Connecticut with hosts Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. We’ve reached the midpoint of the 2024 season and — WELP! — throw out the scouting reports! That’s what we did — onto a pyre — after a topsy-turvy Week 6, one that saw yet another unbe…

Longtime radio host "The Coach" George DeMaio joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga in the Coach's Corner for the sixth episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's the midseason Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv GameTimeCT

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 6 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:48 — Intro 2:49 - 4:05 — Bristol Eastern (3-1) at Newington (4-0) 4:06 - 5:49 — Thames River (0-4) at Platt Tech (1-3) 5:50 - 6:3…

New Britain football coach Brian White joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga in the Coach's Corner for the fifth episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's strong start to the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

WELCOME BACK to another exciting episode of The Meat Grinder Connecticut High School Football Podcast, brought to you GameTimeCT and the Hearst Connecticut Media Group and hosted by Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. With a majority of the state — especially those in the GametimeCT Top 10 — resting up on their midseason bye weeks, we took the op…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 5 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 5:20 — Intro 5:21 - 6:47 — Quinebaug Valley (0-3) at VGW Titans (1-2) 6:48 - 8:35 — Ledyard (4-0) at Waterford (4-0) 8:36 - 10:27 —…

Guilford coach Brian White joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga for the fourth episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's season and upcoming game against Killingly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv GameTimeCT

WELCOME BACK to another exciting edition of The Meat Grinder, your weekly look back at everything that happened in Connecticut high school football, hosted by Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. It was back to good ol' league play in Week 4, the last full week before teams start taking their byes, and …

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 3 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 3:33 — Intro 3:34 - 4:50 — Tolland (3-0) at East Catholic (3-0) 4:51 - 6:35 — Wilcox Tech/Kaynor Tech (2-0) at Cheney Tech (3-0) 6:…

Capital Prep coach Garrick Milledge joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga for the third episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's season and upcoming game against Valley Regional/Old Lyme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

WELCOME BACK to another exciting edition of The Meat Grinder, your weekly look back at everything that happened in Connecticut high school football, hosted by Sean Patrick Bowley and brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. And, between Masuk's stunning defensive takedown of No. 1 New Canaanand Windsor's heart-pounding, 41-35 double-overtime st…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 3 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:30 — Intro 2:31 - 5:48 — Watertown (2-0) at Ansonia (2-0) 5:49 - 7:05 — Hand (2-0) at Berlin (1-1) 7:06 - 9:05 — Sheehan (2-0) at…

Welcome back to the latest episode of 'The Meat Grinder' Connecticut high school football podcast with Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley, brought to you by GameTimeCT.com. Stop us if you've heard this before: Showdown? Showcase. Yes, the "Game of the Week" turned into the "Catch of the Day" at the Surf Club in Madison as GameTimeCT No. 6-ranked …

Watertown coach Shawn Stanco joined Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga for the second episode of the spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's start to the season and its upcoming game against Ansonia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv GameTimeCT

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 2 of the staff pick'ems for the 2024 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:45 — Intro 2:46 - 4:14 — New Britain (1-0) at East Hartford (0-1) 4:15 - 5:29 — Thames Rivers (0-1) at Northwest United (1-0) 5:3…

Amity coach George French joined Sean Patrick and Pete Paguaga for the first episode of the new spin off Meat Grinder podcast, the Coach's Corner, to talk about his team's opening season win over Shelton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAv GameTimeCT

And we’re off! Week 1 is in the books, including a massive slate of enticing Alliance matchups between the major conferences. What happened? What did we learn? Well, if anything, we learned that the FCIAC, out of the starting gate, has taken a massive lead on everybody else — especially the SCC. Thanks to dominant efforts by New Canaan, Darien, Gre…

The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 1 of the 2024 football season. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:33 — Intro 2:34 - 5:03 — Holy Cross at Woodland 5:03 - 8:11 — Southington at Fairfield Prep 8:12 - 13:23 — Greenwich at West Haven 13:24 - 17:48 — New Canaan at Maloney 17:49 - 20:43 — Berlin at Branford 20:44 - 23:13 — Cheshire at Dar…

Kickoff, at last! Hello again and welcome to the Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut brought to you by the gang at GameTimeCT.com and hosted by Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga. In this first episode of Season 7, we look back at everything that's happened this past offseason, starting with the deaths of two of …

Welcome to 16th and final Season 6 episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. After six great championship bouts ad CCSU and UConn’s Rentschler Field, we’ve crowned our 2023 champions and voted in the final GameTimeCT Top 10 poll and the STAPLES WRECKERS are No.…

Welcome to another thrilling edition of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut with GameTimeCT's Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga, and the weekly GameTimeCT Pick'ems Podcas: CIAC quarterfinal edition. And what a Thanksgiving week it was as we completed the CIAC state playoff field. There were upsets galore in …

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of High School Football in Connecticut and because we live in Connecticut, and we're fast approaching the last Thursday in November, everybody should know what that means. Yes, turkeys, it's Thanksgiving Football Week in Connecticut, the final regular season game of the…

The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 11 of the 2023 football season. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:34 — Opener 2:35 - 4:15 — Conard (1-8) at Hall (6-3) 4:16 - 5:20 — ATI (7-1) at Bullard Havens (7-2) 5:20 - 6:07 — Waterford (2-6) at Weaver (1-7) 6:08 - 7:19 — Granby/Canton (8-1) at SMSA co-op (8-1) 7:20 - 8:47 — Fairfield Prep (2-6…

We’ve reached the penultimate week of the 2023 regular season, the week where we set the Thanksgiving table and learn, definitively, who is in and who needs what to qualify for the CIAC playoffs. And, yes, your crack staff at GameTimeCT hunkered down with our slide rules and abacuses this weekend so that we may give you our best estimates on the la…

Welcome to back to another episode of the Meat Grinder, your weekly dose of high school football in Connecticut. Do not adjust your YouTube or Spotify. It is Friday and it is a very special episode of the Meat Grinder. Last week’s drop of the Alliance playoff proposal got our gears going, we discussed it amongst ourselves, and then had a lengthy di…

The GameTimeCT Pick'Em podcast and board has returned for Week 10 of the 2023 football season. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 2:54 — Intro 2:55 - 4:17 — Windsor (7-1) at Berlin (6-2) 4:18 - 5:02 — Wilcox Tech (3-4) at Platt Tech (5-3) 5:03 - 6:42 — Killingly (5-3) at New London (5-3) 6:43 - 7:44 — Ludlowe (6-2) at Wilton (6-2) 7:45 - 9:07 — Oxford (8-0) at Ans…

We knew it was coming and here it is. The Alliance brass has interrupted the season with their latest call to remove Thanksgiving Day as Connecticut's crown jewel of sporting events. The idea: Dump a century's worth tradition in favor of a balanaced schedule based on class, 50% more (whyyy??) playoff teams, the ending the season before the wrestlin…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 9 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 4:10 — Intro 4:10 - 6:02 — CCC: Maloney (6-1) at Southington (5-2) 6:03 - 7:05 — Bullard Havens (5-2) at Wilcox Tech (3-3) 7:06 - 8…

It was a weekend of firsts across the state as October drew to a close. Notre Dame-Fairfield is 7-0 after beating Masuk for the first time since 2005. Coming off its first loss of the season, No. 7 West Haven handed No. 4 Newtown its first loss. Shelton, meanwhile, handed No. 6 North Haven its first on-field loss of the season while returning to th…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 8 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 3:07 — Intro 3:08 - 4:46 — Maloney at Hall 4:47 - 5:41 — Thames River at Cheney Tech 5:42 - 7:34 — Stonington at Windham 7:35 - 9:4…

Triumph and sadness ruled yet another rainy week of football. First, at the opening of the new Ken Strong Stadium turf, North Haven — ranked in the preseason, but dropped following its forfeit to Darien Week 1 — completed its march back to the top 10 with a near-perfect 21-13 upset victory over No. 2 West Haven. The following night, Windsor, in its…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 7 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:21 — Intro 2:22 - 3:45 — Enfield at Berlin 3:46 - 5:03 — Wilcox Tech/Kaynor Tech at ATI 5:04 - 6:35 — Fitch at Killingly 6:36 - 8…

Welcome back to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's award-winning high school podcast brought to you by GameTimeCT. We've reached the midpoint of the 2023 season, and what better way to celebrate than diving into a very special Meat Grinder midseason double album. Yes, like the rock legends of old — The Beatles, Floyd, The Stones, Ze…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 6 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 4:11 — Intro 4:12 - 6:18 — Waterford at Ledyard 6:19 - 9:09 — Staples at Wilton 9:10 - 10:33 — Windsor Locks co-op at Haddam-Killin…

Welcome to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's only award winning high school football podcast, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. It was a bye week for half the state, yet somehow we have jam-packed show because plenty happened. With everybody focused on Camren Kemp's Hamden homecoming on his birthday, it was junior quarte…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 5 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 2:51 — Intro 2:52 - 4:38 — Maloney at Glastonbury 4:39 - 6:31 — O'Brien Tech at VGW Tech 6:32 - 8:49 — New Canaan at St. Joseph 8:5…

Thanks to another round of nasty weather — this time a wave of torrential rain that drenched much of Connecticut and made playing football a slippery endeavor — it was a chaotic Week 4 of high school football. For those who played Friday night, the rain disrupted just about every football team's delicate offensive choreography, which scripted some …

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 4 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 4:01 — Intro 4:02 - 6:14 — Wethersfield at Berlin 6:15 - 9:25 — Bullard Havens/Kolbe at Northwest United 9:26 - 11:50 — ATI at Tham…

After a rough showing in the Alliance’s first week, the FCIAC roared back with three Top 10 Alliance victories in Week 3, including No. 1 Greenwich’s thrilling 30-28 win over No. 3 Maloney, unranked Staples' 34-27 takedown of No. 2 Southington, and New Canaan’s reaffirming 33-12 win over No. 10 Windsor. Though Newtown dampened league spirits when i…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 3 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. THE RUNDOWN 0:00 - 5:00 — Intro 5:01 - 7:22 — Oxford at Seymour 7:23 - 8:46 — Bullard Havens/Kolbe at Cheney Tech 8:47 - 12:11 — Capital Prep/First Ac…

Welcome to another edition of The Meat Grinder, Connecticut's only award winning high school football podcast, brought to you by GameTimeCT and CT Insider. A supposed off-week was anything but as several big results rocked the early 2023 season — Cheshire topped Shelton in overtime, Darien rallied to beat McMahon and Hand bested Fairfield Prep in o…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for Week 2 of the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 3:41 — Intro 3:42 - 4:57 — Avon at East Catholic 4:58 - 6:23 — Prince Tech/Innovation at ATI 6:24 - 8:25 — Fitch at New London 8:26…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley are back for the staff pick'ems for the 2023 football season. Each and every week the duo will be selecting 10 games from across the state. The Rundown 0:00 - 0:53 — Intro 0:54 - 2:47 — Woodland at Holy Cross 2:48 - 3:58 — Trumbull at Hamden 3:59 - 5:13 — Wilton at Berlin 5:14 - 6:48 — Rockville at …

The SCC’s big dogs, West Haven, Shelton, Hamden and Cheshire knocked off the FCIAC’s big dogs in a stormy (figurative and literal) start to the 2023 Connecticut High School Football season. Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley return to break down the Top 10 carnage and hit on some of the big performances of Week 1. While Masuk’s coaching situation…

Sean Patrick Bowley and Pete Paguaga return with a full hour of 2023 Connecticut High School football season previews in the Season SIX premiere episode of the Meat Grinder. The guys look over what's new, who's who and what's what; go on some rants, run down the GameTimeCT preseason Top 10 football poll and, finally, make their state championship p…

GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga and Scott Ericson are back with the ninth and final episode of the High and Tight high school baseball podcast for the 2023 season. The champions were crowned this weekend at Palmer Field and all four champions joined the show this week. Class S champion: Haddam-Killingworth coach Mark Brookes joined the show with Joseph G…