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By GARRETT COTE

Believe it or not, the spring season begins this weekend for the UMass athletic department, and it’s a busy time of year with the overlap of the winter and spring sport teams all in action. Even with weather warming up this weekend, the temperatures...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Anticipation built as teams across Division 3 waited to hear their name called on selection Sunday. Smith College was coming off its best season (at the time) under head coach Lynn Hersey, going 16-2 in the NEWMAC, but the Pioneers came...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The Amherst College women’s hockey team finds itself in a familiar position entering the final stretch of the regular season.If the No. 3-ranked Mammoths are to take care of business over their last three games, all against teams with losing...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — All night long, the Amherst College women’s hockey team kept the puck in the attacking zone for huge chunks of time, tiring out Western New England skaters with long shifts. But it hadn’t really paid off as the two teams were deadlocked at...

By GARRETT COTE

The UMass men’s basketball team is coming off arguably its most important win of the season, as the Minutemen finally found themselves on the plus side of a thrilling finish when they beat George Mason 66-65 on Saturday at the Mullins Center.For the...

I watched a lot of college football this year and am happy it’s over. Next year will be longer as eight teams are added to the playoffs. Baseball in November, basketball and ice hockey in June, football in February — will seasons ever...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Hanging on desperately to a two-point lead in the final minute against George Mason, the UMass men’s basketball team needed one stop to secure its second consecutive Atlantic 10 victory for the first time this season.The Minutemen forced the...

By GARRETT COTE

Lynne-Ann Kokoski is built to be leader. That statement was true long before she took over as head coach for the Bryant University women’s basketball team this season, and her unbridled passion for winning has only proven to be even more correct.This...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Heartbreak struck the UMass men’s basketball team for the second time in three games on Tuesday night at the Mullins Center.Clinging to a one-point lead with 12.5 seconds left after Rahsool Diggins’ acrobatic layup put the Minutemen ahead,...

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College guard Ally Yamada battled for a steal, poked the ball to Hannah Martin and took off running up the sideline. Martin swung it up to Yamada as time ticked down in the third quarter.Yamada had no time to think, she just had to...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — There are significant gaps in the expectations parents have for their children’s futures after high school, divided sharply by race and income demographics, according to poll results released earlier this month.The statewide poll of...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SPRINGFIELD — John Calipari wrapped an arm around Dave Hixon as he introduced the longtime Amherst College men’s basketball coach to Michigan State coach Tom Izzo.Their time in Amherst overlapped when Calipari was at UMass. Hixon coached at Amherst...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UNCASVILLE, Connecticut — Being on a poster with Manu Ginobli gave Dave Hixon a kick.The longtime Amherst College men’s basketball coach was nominated for induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last year. Even with his 826 career...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

HOLYOKE – The last two regular season games between the Bristol Blues and the Valley Blue Sox both ended in ties. It would have been folly to believe their first postseason matchup could have been anything different. The No. 3 Blue Sox and No. 6...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Destiney Philoxy repaid Rwanda’s faith immediately.After making the country’s AfroBasket 2023 roster following a tryout, the UMass graduate lit up Cote d’Ivoire in the tournament opener on home soil Friday. She scored a game-high 18 points to go along...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The emotion in The Commonwealth’s locker room resembled those after an NCAA Tournament loss.UMass’ alumni team fell 79-73 against Virginia Dream in the opening round of The Basketball Tournament on Monday in Syracuse, New York. The squad had only been...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – An introduction, or likely reintroduction, to the roster of The Commonwealth, UMass’ alumni team competing in The Basketball tournament. The (mostly) Minutemen will face The Virginia Dream at 9 p.m. in Syracuse on ESPNU.Most of the players...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The Commonwealth invoked John Calipari when the news came out Friday morning.UMass’ alumni team will no longer face The Rhody Way, a group of Rhode Island alums, in the first round of The Basketball Tournament after Rhody withdrew “due to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Two New England basketball coaching legends will welcome one of their own to the hall of fame.Three-time national champion longtime UConn coach Jim Calhoun and former UMass coach John Calipari, now at Kentucky, will present Amherst College’s Dave...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

UMass hockey alum Steve Mastalerz is returning to the Minutemen to impart his near decade of coaching experience.He’ll serve as the program’s Director of Player of Development, the team announced Tuesday. After four years in the Mullins Center crease,...