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Just weeks before many people expected Adam Breneman to hear his name called in the NFL draft, UMass’ star tight end announced his retirement from football.Citing the return of the knee injury that caused him to stop playing at Penn State, Breneman...

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AMHERST — There wasn’t much time to settle in initially.Rasheen Davis and Peter Gash were hired as Matt McCall’s first UMass assistant men’s basketball coaches and very quickly had to hit the road recruiting to fill the holes left by the seven players...

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Jaret Pallotta wanted to make his college choice early and UMass felt like a fit right away.The 6-foot-5, 200-pound quarterback from Canton, Ohio, visited Amherst last month on his way to the spring game at Dartmouth, where his brother Jake is the...

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If the UMass women’s tennis team extends its season beyond Saturday, the story will no longer be about Judy Dixon’s magical farewell run.The Minutewomen, who face Florida, Saturday at 1 p.m., will try to pull off a potentially epic upset that would...

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AMHERST – For the better part of a quarter century, the UMass softball program was either at or near the top of the Atlantic 10 standings.But for the past four seasons, as the Minutewomen coped, first with legendary coach Elaine Sortino’s cancer and...

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UMass got a potential starting guard, and Jaylen Brantley got a homecoming.Brantley, a graduate transfer from Maryland, told both ESPN and CBS that he plans to complete his career at UMass.The 5-foot-11 point guard from Springfield will have his...

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New UMass coach Matt McCall said he knew when he was hired that there was a good possibility players would transfer, so he said he wasn’t fazed by the five players who have already departed.“Anytime there’s change and there’s turnover. 99.9 percent of...

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As was expected, Seth Berger is following his fellow juniors out of UMass.The Seattle native is transferring to Oregon State for his final season. Berger will have his degree at the end of the semester, allowing him to take advantage of the NCAA’s...

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So far, the 2016-17 season has been rightfully hailed as the year of the blue blood in college basketball. The sports traditional powers like UCLA, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Indiana have all played like championship contenders. Those...

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AMHERST — On a night when the UMass starters never got into rhythm, the bench picked up the slack.C.J. Anderson and Malik Hines led the second unit, which scored 40 points in a 62-55 win over Wagner, Wednesday at the Mullins Center.With just under 5...