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By GARRETT COTE
Saturday was one of the those games that the UMass men’s basketball team had to win – regardless of by how much or how pretty it looked.The biggest Mullins Center crowd (7,016) since 2015 was on hand as were a ton of alumni sitting courtside. The...
CONNOR PIGNATELLO
UMass basketball great George “Trigger” Burke died at his home in Quincy on Feb. 14. He was 91. The namesake for the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame, Burke played point guard for the Minutemen from 1954-1956 and shares a No. 32 with Julius Erving in the...
By STEVE PFARRER
Joe Farnsworth was 10 or 11 when he got the chance to meet a drumming legend: Max Roach.It was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1979, where Roach taught. Farnsworth, who grew up in South Hadley, remembers how one of his older brothers,...
By HANNAH BEVIS
Friday dawned bright and hot without a cloud in the sky, and UMass football coach Don Brown was ecstatic to see the weather forecast. With the first game of the season at New Mexico State, Brown wants his team used to playing in high temps. “It was a...
By HANNAH BEVIS
WILMINGTON, Del. – For 33 minutes, George Mason had the UMass women’s basketball team exactly where it wanted. The Patriots’ physicality, their defensive prowess, their ability to position themselves perfectly in the post to grab rebounds – Mason was...
By HANNAH BEVIS
You know it’s been a good season of basketball when everything comes down to the final game of the regular season. The No. 1 seed at the Atlantic 10 tournament is still up for grabs, something UMass women’s basketball fans should be grateful. The...
By BERA DUNAU
CUMMINGTON — When Steve Magargal was 12-years-old, he caddied for George Shultz for the first time at the Worthington Golf Club, now The Links At Worthington. The pair would become good friends and years later Magargal, the owner and operator of...
By Steve Pfarrer
In 1968, America appeared to be coming apart at the seams.Assassins had taken the lives of charismatic leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. The Vietnam War had bitterly divided the country, with antiwar protests increasingly pitting...
By LUIS FIELDMAN and M.J. TIDWELL
NORTHAMPTON — Retired Maj. Gen. George W. Keefe, 79, of Northampton, died Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital after a life brimming with close-knit Northampton family and friends and dedication to serving his country. After 49 years of service,...
By STEVE PFARRER
By day, he’s in the classroom, leading discussions on ethics, value, knowledge and other philosophical questions, as well as the ideas of specific philosophers themselves.By night, he leads a different kind of discussion — a performance, really — that...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...
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