Snap judgment: Miller keeps UMass in line
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The charge was simple, and slightly embarrassing. A young teammate with a boyish face but a body large by sumo wrestling standards accused Alex Miller of caking his chinstrap with Vaseline.
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A team starting four sophomores, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen have played with a certain playground style all year. They climb the ladder, then go down the slide. They spend many hours on the seesaw. The big wins have been followed by big losses.
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HAMILTON, N.Y. - The University of Massachusetts has the chance to pull off a mini version of Appalachian State's upset over Michigan when it travels to Boston College Sept. 29. And the Minutemen have the chance to return to the NCAA playoff division title game, given their talent.
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AMHERST -- There is no out of bounds. When a deflected pass flew over the scorer's table at practice Tuesday, three Minutemen raced after it, wrestling for the ball in the Mullins Center seats. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford would have it no other way. Ferocity: That's one thing he's looking for.
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AMHERST -- Carrying out a longstanding tradition of doing a push-up for every point scored by the UMass football team, the Minutemen cheerleaders got quite the workout yesterday afternoon.
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AMHERST -- Their NCAA dreams might have clanged off the front rim, but the University of Massachusetts Minutemen can still take some pride in their 2006-07 season. UMass won 23 regular-season games, claimed a share of the Atlantic 10 regular-season title, and made it to the postseason for the first time in seven years.
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Maybe it's the stylized lighthouse and the bridge where fans gather and gossip before kickoff. Maybe it's the Minutemen standing behind the end zone, muskets in hand. Maybe it's the knowledge that 68,756 fans will still be in their seats after 11 p.m.
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In a season in which the University of Massachusetts has flirted with the possibility of an NCAA Tournament appearance, the Minutemen continue to look ahead to their seeding in the Atlantic 10 tournament as the opportunity for an at-large bid dwindles.
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AMHERST - All season long, University of Massachusetts basketball coach Travis Ford has encouraged his players to be "strong with the ball." Early in the second half yesterday against 23d-ranked Xavier, Ford got his chance to demonstrate.
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It's been more than 70 years since the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team has had a homestand as long as the six-game stretch it is currently enjoying. Way back in 1930-31, UMass parlayed seven straight on the home hardwood into an 11-4 record. That included what must have been a memorable defensive effort in a 25-9 rout ...
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It wasn't pretty, but UMass will take it. The Minutemen and Rhode Island Rams put on an ugly display of basketball last night, but UMass persevered in spite of shooting 29.4 percent in the first half to post a 49-44 victory over its Atlantic 10 foe.
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The menâs soccer team at the University of Massachusetts is two victories away from a national championship, sixteen years after it was supposed to be dismantled.
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It's unlikely anyone would argue that UMass-Lowell is the best Cinderella story in local college hockey this season. The program was in disarray last spring when financial problems threatened the River Hawks' very existence. Its happy ending wasn't without consequences. The team lost players because of the program's uncertainty and recruiting efforts took a serious hit.
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UMass athletics has flown under the radar since the men's basketball team reached the Final Four in 1996, but there's been plenty to shout about the last seven months.
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AMHERST -- University of Massachusetts coach Don Cahoon is being cautiously optimistic after guiding the Minutemen to their first 20-win season. UMass took a 5-2 victory over Maine last night, sweeping the best-of-three Hockey East playoff series, but a semifinal berth in the tournament does not satisfy Cahoon.
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Jacob Micflikier had a hat trick to highlight the University of New Hampshire's most decisive victory of the season, an 8-1 whitewashing of UMass last night at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.
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New Hampshire's scoring struggles continued yesterday. Thanks to Kevin Regan, its losing streak didn't. The senior from South Boston stopped 33 shots en route to his seventh career shutout as the 10th-ranked Wildcats held on for a 2-0 victory over Maine in Durham, N.H.