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AMHERST -- On a post-card-perfect New England day -- sun sparkling, foliage nearing its peak -- the University of Massachusetts football team delivered a fall classic. Dominating all aspects of the game, the Minutemen rolled to a 48-7 victory over William &amp; Mary yesterday .
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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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AMHERST -- In an up-and-down season characterized by nail-biting victories and exasperating losses, the University of Massachusetts found some new territory yesterday afternoon -- winning a laugher, 74-58, over lowly St. Bonaventure. The Minutemen led wire to wire, and pushed the margin to as many as 28 points in the second half.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Boston College brought its football team into Carter-Finley Stadium last night wearing a different hat -- that of the favorite.
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AMHERST - Despite tipping off just 45 minutes before the Patriots game, the University of Massachusetts basketball contest against intrastate rival Boston University drew a season-high 4,482 fans to the Mullins Center last night.
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The game was secondary. Sure, last night's 102-63 pounding of La Salle was important to the University of Massachusetts. The win pushed UMass's record to 22-7, the most victories the Minutemen have had since their Final Four record of 35-2 in 1995-96. It kept the Minutemen in a tie for first place with Xavier, a 72-62 winner over ...
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PHILADELPHIA -- It had been seven years since the University of Massachusetts had won a basketball game in the Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, which is either intimate or claustrophobic, depending on your bias. It had been even longer since the Minutemen had so much at stake.
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With a playoff berth and a share of the Cape Ann Large title secured, the No. 9 Masconomet boys' soccer team had an opportunity to rest a few players in its final regular-season game. As a testament to the program's depth, those who played for the Chieftains yesterday excelled in a 4-0 victory over Waltham.
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When the Northeastern Conference invited 360 of the area's top student-athletes to Salem State last Friday for its first leadership gathering in close to a decade, the idea was to get students talking.
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A team fighting for its life -- in more ways than one -- plays on.
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It was a cold, drizzly night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The high school football playoff game featured Marshfield of the Atlantic Coast League against Weymouth of the Bay State League. And the best player on the field was Marshfield's cocaptain, Wendell Chipman.
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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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COHASSET -- Many of the players arrive from work still in business-casual attire. They change into their uniforms in the comfort of their cars. They engage in friendly tete-a-tete with the "enemy."
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On the heels of its 69-58 setback Sunday at Vermont that left the Catamounts alone in first place in America East, Boston University's men's team hits a much shorter road tomorrow night for a meeting of second-place teams at Matthews Arena. The BU and Northeastern women's teams open the doubleheader at 5 p.m., with the men's game scheduled for 8.
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In eight years, Baker Field could be swarming with thousands of people. Many of these spectators will not speak the same language, but they will all share one common interest: field hockey.
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The honorees for the Utah National Guard's 46th annual Minuteman Awards, to be held Friday in Salt Lake City, have been announced.  They are: Robert S. Pembroke; Kip Wadsworth; retired Brig. Gen. James G. Martin; retired Col. Paul M.
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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.