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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Maybe like many college students, the UMass men’s basketball team lost its home over holiday break.The Minutemen allowed just 65.7 points per game in 12 games before the 11-day hiatus after non conference play. Only two opponents cracked 70 points,...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Winning elicits a different level of intensity from opponents. After a 9-3 start in nonconference play, the UMass men’s basketball team hasn’t always matched what its first three Atlantic 10 foes have brought.“When you lose games, it's easy...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Saint Louis point guard Yuri Collins stepped backward to avoid a Dyondre Dominguez screen. He followed the scouting report on UMass freshman point guard Keon Thompson, who had missed the first nine triples of his career.Thompson rose without...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel can’t even pull a Norman Dale, the Hickory high basketball coach who told his team the rims in massive state tournament gym are just as tall as the ones at home in Hoosiers, when the Minutemen play at Fenway Park. The...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Baseball has always held a special place in UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel’s heart. It might ruffle Minutemen or Red Sox fans that come to see UMass play Boston College at Fenway Park on Saturday (6 p.m. NESN), but his greatest baseball memory...

By EMILY THURLOW

AMHERST — After an eight-year hiatus, a former annual fundraising event by the University of Massachusetts Hillel that helped support local, national and international service projects, will be making its return.Through a partnership with UMass...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

While not much changed for the UMass women’s basketball team from last season to this year, the same can’t be said for the rest of the teams in the Atlantic-10 Conference.The A-10 landscape looks much different today than it did a year ago. Between...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The lights in Derek Kellogg’s Amherst house flickered on when he flipped the switch after five years. The family kept the home in Western Massachusetts even after UMass fired him in 2017 and he took over Long Island University.It was like...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A longtime restaurant operating from Amherst’s oldest building, primarily serving faculty on the University of Massachusetts campus but also open to the public and students, is permanently closed.The University Club and Restaurant, or the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — An anti-war group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst called the Dissenters is demanding that the university’s business school sever its ties with the defense and aerospace company Raytheon Technologies.The university, however, says...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The arrest of a University of Massachusetts student during an altercation with a campus police officer is being reviewed by the campus leadership team after witnesses expressed concern for the person taken into custody, according to a...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — Justin Moore laughed to himself standing in the paint.He and the rest of his DeMatha Catholic teammates hadn’t had to play much defense yet during the 2018 WCAC basketball semifinal because Josh Wallace hounded the opposing point guard 94...

By EMILY THURLOW

SPRINGFIELD — The life and legacy of the late artist and educator Nelson Stevens was celebrated Saturday afternoon with commemorations at recreations of two of his historic murals.Stevens, who spent more than three decades teaching in the art...

By MAUREEN MILLIKEN

New Hampshire State Police and state Fish and Game Department personnel were conducting a ground search Wednesday in connection with missing Massachusetts woman Maura Murray.The search is in Landaff and Easton off Route 112, a sprawling area north of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — On the day that the University of Massachusetts holds its 2023 commencement, many off-campus students with yearlong leases may already be out of their local homes.That is expected to be the case for junior Hailey Roseman, whose lease for an...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Thomas W. Cole Jr., who came out of retirement to lead the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus as its chancellor for the 2007-2008 academic year and established Founders Day, died last week.An Atlanta resident at the time of his death...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – The UMass defensive backs group would spend a lot of time in the principal’s office, because they have bullied the Minutemen’s offense this spring.Few catches occur uncontested, and those that do require a perfect route from the receiver....

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts is pushing back its commencement ceremony to late May beginning next year, the result of a revised academic calendar that features a new six-week winter session.But the decision by the Faculty Senate, causing...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Even when he was UMass’ acting head coach at the end of last season, Alex Miller never stopped coaching offensive linemen.The former UMass center took the helm of the program after Walt Bell’s firing in early November. He was head coach Don...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — An in-depth study of traffic on the University of Massachusetts campus is underway after recent crashes that killed one pedestrian and seriously injured another.Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., with a local office in Springfield, was recently...