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Mike Babul, the 1996 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year who starred for the UMass men’s basketball team in the late 1990s as a lockdown defender, died on Monday at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack, according to The Sun...

Four players secured double-digit point totals for the Frontier girls basketball team in its 82-28 win against Franklin Tech on Friday.Skyler Steele (18 points), Jazzy Hayes (13 points), Olivia Machon (11 points) and Whitney Campbell (10 points) led...

By GARRETT COTE

SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes when a team loses, self-inflicted wounds or a poor performance stand as the reasons why. Other times, however, the opposing team is simply better.Both were the case on Saturday evening at the MassMutual Center in Springfield,...

Sport fandom is all about building community in the professional sport industry, but most sport takes place within our communities. From a financial perspective, participatory sports accounted for 63.5% of the global sport market in 2023 and in the...

By RYAN AMES

SOUTH HADLEY — The Northampton girls basketball team powered past South Hadley, 60-47, in an independent tilt on Wednesday night.Bri Heafey had 19 points to pace the visitors, including a team-high three 3-pointers, while Liv Joensen (15 points) and...

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST – Four points from Matt Garvin pushed the Greenfield boys hockey team past Amherst Regional, 7-1, in an independent contest Tuesday night at Orr Rink.Garvin recorded a hat trick and added an assist as the Green Wave cruised to their second win...

By GARRETT COTE

Maximilian Kissel scored a thrilling goal in sudden-death overtime to lift the Vermont men’s soccer team over Marshall, 2-1, in the NCAA Division 1 national championship in Cary, N.C. on Monday night.It was the ninth championship game decided by...

Joshua Cole and Domineq Sanchez each had 16 points in the Smith Vocational boys basketball team’s 58-34 road victory over St. Mary’s on Monday in Westfield.Smith Voc scored 35 points in the first half, including a game-high 19 in the second quarter,...

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Malek Abdelgowad scored 26 points as UMass beat Division III UMass-Boston, 86-52, on Saturday at the Mullins CenterAbdelgowad also contributed 14 rebounds for the Minutemen (4-7). Daniel Rivera added 11 points while going 4 of 6 and 3 of 7 from the...

By RYAN AMES

BOSTON – History was made on Saturday night – in more ways than one.For the first time ever, the UMass hockey team shut out Boston University in a 4-0 win over the 11th-ranked Terriers at Agganis Arena.For the first time this season, the Minutemen...

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST — “Coach Joe” is now on the job.Joe Harasymiak was officially introduced as UMass’ new head football coach Friday morning with a press conference at the Martin Jacobson Football Performance Center.The 38-year-old Harasymiak becomes the...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There may be plenty of reasons for UMass fans to lament the athletic department over the past two weeks – a third-straight disappointing football season and a subpar men’s basketball start (3-5 record) among the results-based reasons outside...

The recent death of Pete Rose, baseball’s inveterate gambler, provided opportunity for an unofficial referendum on his penalty (a lifetime ban from the game) and exclusion from the Hall of Fame in light of Major League Baseball’s current embrace of...

By JEFF LAJOIE

PALMER – A season of close calls and near-misses thwarted the Belchertown football team.Thursday’s Thanksgiving game against Pathfinder was essentially a microcosm of the Orioles’ 2024 campaign.The host Pioneers completed just two passes all day, but...

By JEFF LAJOIE

It’s certainly been one of the more chaotic weeks in UMass football history.Less than a week removed from the firing of former head coach Don Brown, the Minutemen will somehow try and turn the page to play against one of the top programs in the...

By RYAN AMES

The No. 20 UMass hockey team will look to build upon its definitive win against Providence last weekend when it hosts Harvard and Vermont this Friday and Sunday at the Mullins Center.The Minutemen downed the 10th-ranked Friars, 5-1, after failing to...

It was a dominant start to the NCAA Division 3 Tournament for the Smith College volleyball team.The Pioneers scored a convincing 25-18, 25-17, 25-21 sweep of Endicott College in the opening round of the tournament in a match played at Goldfarb...

For the first time in 32 years, the Minutewomen are Final Four-bound.UMass claimed a historic 1-0 shutout victory over No. 10 Harvard in the NCAA Elite Eight on Sunday at Nancy Stevens Field in Storrs, Conn. With the win, the Minutewomen advanced to...

By HOWARD HERMAN

AMHERST — The finish wasn't what Frank Martin and the UMass men’s basketball team might have hoped for.The Minutemen dropped a 75-71 overtime thriller to undefeated Hofstra Saturday night at the Mullins Center. But it wasn't the final five minutes,...

By HANNAH BEVIS

EASTHAMPTON — The Cheshire Academy football rumbled into Sawyer Field ready to prove something against Williston Northampton School in the annual NEPSAC Danny Smith Bowl. The two teams had clashed earlier in the season and the Wildcats had snagged a...