Long-time Courant sportswriter Bruce Berlet passes away

Long-time Courant sportswriter Bruce Berlet passes away

Bruce Berlet, who covered the Whalers, UConn women’s basketball and, most notably, golf at all levels during a 38-year career at The Courant, has died. He was 77. Berlet, born in Baltimore, grew up in Litchfield, playing on basketball and soccer state championship teams at Litchfield High before attending UConn. After graduating college, he joined The Courant in 1970, and soon covered the New England Whalers of the WHA, and stayed on the hockey …

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Long time Hartford Courant sports writer Bruce Berlet is dead at age 77. Berlet graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1970 and immediately began work at the Courant and stayed until he retired in 2008. At the height of the Courant’s influence as a regional news power, Berlet covered thirty Masters, fifteen U.S. Opens […]