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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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The only team in the region who Northampton Post 28 hasn’t beaten this season is the only one standing between it and a Western Massachusetts Championship.Northampton will face East Springfield in a best of three series beginning Tuesday at 5:30 p.m....

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Adam Breneman could see himself in the kids he was speaking to. A younger, more naive version of himself.Just over a week ago, UMass’ rising senior tight end spent four days working as a counselor at The Opening, in Beaverton, Oregon, at Nike’s...

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Chris Baldwin was probably in line for more playing time in 2017-18 anyway.He finished his freshman year strong and likely would have played a larger role as a sophomore even if UMass hadn’t changed coaching staffs. But after former coach Derek...

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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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The Amherst College softball team hasn’t looked like a team filled with players who’d never been to the NCAA Tournament before. Amherst hasn’t been to the tournament since 2012, but the Mammoths have played like veterans and have a chance to turn...

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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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AMHERST — As he prepares for year No. 3, UMass running back Marquis Young said the first two years have been valuable for him in different ways.His true freshman season in 2015 gathered momentum as the year went on, capped by 240 yards and three...

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Baylor didn’t get a vote in the preseason poll. None in the first regular season poll either. Heck, it was picked fifth in the Big 12’s preseason poll.But with the season around it’s midpoint, not only do all 66 voters have the Bears ranked, but 55 of...

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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...

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Neal Brown’s life-changing decision came somewhere on the 5-hour bus ride between Lexington, Kentucky, and Wheeling, West Virginia, in early 2003.Back then, the recently graduated UMass wide receiver had just finished the season for the Lexington...