Sports/UMass
Goalie Henry Graham seizing chance to impact UMass hockey on ice the way he has off it
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – A pair of Henrik Lundqvist New York Rangers replica pads seduced Henry Graham.Graham’s parents had finally allowed the UMass junior goalie and his brothers to play hockey. His mother Victoria eventually convinced his father Mark, and they...
UMass athletics officially endorse two local NIL collectives – GoMassNIL and The Massachusetts Collective
By HANNAH BEVIS
Since the NCAA removed the ban for student-athlete compensation in July 2021, the NIL era has quickly blossomed in college athletics. Student-athletes have now been afforded avenues to receive compensation for the use of their name, image or...
UMass hockey notebook: Seniors need to step up scoring for Minutemen
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – The pillars of the UMass hockey program – its experienced seniors and graduate students – haven’t been providing any stability lately. Senior captain Eric Faith, assistant captains Reed Lebster and Jerry Harding and four-year player Cal...
Defensive stand delivers UMass women’s basketball tight win over Saint Joseph’s
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Ber’Nyah Mayo brought UMass back scoring at will.She put the Minutewomen over the edge with a perfectly placed pass.UMass trailed Atlantic 10-leading Saint Joseph’s by a point with 1 minute, 29 seconds left after Hawks guard Olivia Mullins...
UMass Hockey Notebook: Minutemen look to correct mistakes
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – A mirror holds most of the UMass hockey team’s problems of late.The Minutemen are just 2-4-2 in their last eight games and haven’t won a Hockey East game since beating UMass Lowell in Northern Ireland on Nov. 25. They’re allowing 2.75 goals...
UMass basketball defense has slipped to start A10 play
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,...
UMass basketball notebook: Winning start demands more effort from Minutemen
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...
UMass basketball freshman Keon Thompson stays ready for his moments
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...
‘It’s a hockey game, but it’s a little more than that’: UMass hockey focusing on business ahead of Frozen Fenway matchup against Boston College
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...
Baseball’s always held a special place in UMass hockey coach Greg Carvel’s heart
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...
Differently-looking Rhode Island team comes to town to face UMass women’s basketball
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...
UMass’ Ryan Ufko dishes out 5 assists as US beats Germany 11-1 in junior hockey quarterfinals
MONCTON, New Brunswick (AP) — Minnesota freshman Logan Cooley had three goals and an assist and UMass sophomore Ryan Ufko set up five goals to lead the Americans over Germany 11-1 on Monday in the world junior hockey championship quarterfinals.Red...
Unwavering love for UMass basketball brought Derek Kellogg back home
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...
Before his role as a key member of the UMass football team, Josh Wallace stood out for DeMatha Catholic basketball
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...
Defensive backs dominating early at UMass spring practice
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....
UMass football spring notebook: Alex Miller honing finer points with large returning O-line group
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...
Tony Bergeron no longer a UMass basketball assistant coach
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Tony Bergeron will no longer be a member of the UMass basketball coaching staff moving forward, the school confirmed Saturday.He’s the latest member of the program to exit after Tre Mitchell and Carl Pierre entered the transfer portal last week.The...
Moran: Retirement suits Toot Cahoon just fine
By MIKE MORAN
Next month will mark eight years since Toot Cahoon and UMass agreed to go in different directions.The hockey program found a new coach, fired a coach then found a coach who brought it to national prominence.Cahoon went into retirement. Not having...
A look back: UM refuses to lose till the end
By MARTY DOBROW
Editor’s note: With the NCAA Tournament canceled, the Gazette looks back to when UMass made its run to the 1996 Final Four. Here is the game story from UMass’ loss to Kentucky on March 30, 1996. This story appeared in the Gazette on April 1, 1996....
Citing injuries, UMass TE Adam Breneman, an NFL prospect, retires from football
By MATT VAUTOUR
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...
Your Daily Puzzles
An approachable redesign to a classic. Explore our "hints."
A quick daily flip. Finally, someone cracked the code on digital jigsaw puzzles.
Chess but with chaos: Every day is a unique, wacky board.
Word search but as a strategy game. Clearing the board feels really good.
Align the letters in just the right way to spell a word. And then more words.