Sunday, May 19, 2013
The University of Massachusetts baseball team closed its season with a three-game sweep of Temple, Saturday in Ambler, Pa. UMass beat the Owls 11-9, following a doubleheader sweep Friday. The Minutemen finished 14-31 overall, 7-17 in the Atlantic 10. UMass, which took a 2-0 lead in the first …
Friday, May 17, 2013
AUBURN, N.Y. — Jasper Adams and Fred Shepard had to wait seven years for a rematch. For Adams and his Ithaca College Bombers, the wait was well worth it. Adams and Shepard, former teammates at Amherst Regional High …
Friday, May 17, 2013
A pair of sophomores and hot bats carried the University of Massachusetts baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of Temple in Ambler, Pa. Friday. Conor LeBlanc earned the win in Game 1, which the Minutemen won 4-3. LeBlanc struck out three and worked around six hits over seven …
Friday, May 17, 2013
The University of Massachusetts hockey team, which had trouble scoring at times last year, officially added a player who did plenty of it in juniors. Brandon Wahlin, a 5-foot-9 forward from White Bear Lake, Minn., signed with the Minutemen Thursday and will be a freshman in the fall. …
Friday, May 17, 2013
The New England Basketball Hall of Fame’s annual army of inductees includes several people with University of Massachusetts ties. Former men’s coaches John Calipari, Bruiser Flint and Ray Wilson will be joined by former players Lou Roe, Mike Pyatt and Peter Trow. Derek Kellogg, the current coach, and …
Friday, May 17, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The pending arrival of eight heralded newcomers has allowed Kentucky coach John Calipari to quickly move on after losing out on top recruit Andrew Wiggins. Calipari is confident his large recruiting class will mesh and …
Friday, May 17, 2013
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers named Julie Hermann its new athletic director Wednesday, and the former No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville promised a restart for the scandal-scarred program following the ouster of its men’s basketball coach and the …
Friday, May 17, 2013
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Bill Self knew after witnessing an emotional senior day that Andrew Wiggins was considering Kansas, even if the Jayhawks’ coach was in the dark like everyone else while the superstar recruit made certain of his …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
University of Massachusetts rising senior basketball players Chaz Williams and Raphiael Putney will join Athletes in Action and head to Spain this weekend for a two-week tour that will take them to Madrid and the Canary Islands. “It’s …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
After falling behind early, the University of Massachusetts women’s lacrosse team played evenly with Penn State in their second-round NCAA tournament game Sunday. But the Minutewomen could not make up the early deficit and lost 12-9 in University Park, Pa. The No. 7 Nittany Lions (14-6) advance to …