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ST. LOUIS - Less than four minutes into yesterday's game, with the first television stoppage looming, Massachusetts coach Travis Ford called a timeout.
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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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Technically, UMass is the home team for tonight's Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision final against Appalachian State at Finley Stadium (ESPN2, 8 p.m.). However, the Minutemen won't have home-field advantage.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Catholic Memorial coach Alex Campea had to calm his players. Their exuberance boiled over after they upset No. 4 Cambridge on the road last night, and they began the CM fight song in the end zone after their 17-14 last-second win.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- After his team's dramatic victory over No. 7 Connecticut last week, Minuteman Anthony Anderson said, &quot;We've been saying this is our year.&quot;
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As the charter roared off the runway in Missoula, Mont., just past midnight last Friday, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen let loose. They had done it again. They had just posted their toughest and best victory of an unforgettable season, a 19-17 gut-churner against No. 2-ranked Montana, right there in Grizzly country, the toughest environment they had known. As the ...
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SOMETIMES home-team fans become so caught up in the crisis of the week that they lose track of the big picture of a game or season.
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, but yesterday&#39;s intersection of politics and sports at Beacon and Park streets produced an amiably awkward pairing, even by Massachusetts standards.
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COM. If a coach has ever gotten a big win in the preconference schedule, it was Steve Lappas of Massachusetts on Thursday night. His Minutemen stunned top-10 Connecticut, the defending national champion.
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Duxbury's field hockey team controlled the game, outshooting Patriot League opponent Hanover, 12-1, yesterday. But with six minutes left, the game was still tied at 1 and Duxbury had to be wondering what more it could do.
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BROOKLINE -- There was some fine football played at Parsons Field yesterday, as the University of Massachusetts defeated Northeastern, 26-22. UMass junior running back Steve Baylark took over the game in the second half, finishing with 181 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries, as he went over 1,000 yards for the second straight year. And NU senior linebacker Liam ...
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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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While the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team didn't qualify for the tournament it had hoped for, the senior-led Minutemen will play on, hosting Alabama in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament tomorrow night at 9:30 (ESPN).
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AMHERST -- A lot of bits were being champed very hard. For the University of Massachusetts football team, this past offseason seemed to last for years. The Minutemen didn't need much reminding about how they lost the last two games of 2005, falling short of the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs after starting out with a 7-2 record and a No. ...
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FOXBOROUGH -- Eight faux Minutemen, complete with tricornered hats, stand sentry by the field at Gillette Stadium, ready to fire their muskets after each Revolution goal. They served as an appropriate backdrop, last night, for the Revolution's three-goal assault in the first half.
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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.