The arena speakers blared the opening strains of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" and the message on the jumbotron read, "Scream!" And gosh darn it, the 2,600 or so people in the stands stood up and summoned up a respectable noise. After taking somewhat dismissive notes throughout the game, now I was getting caught up in the experience. The Springfield Armor ( Read more... )

Pencil into your brackets the Loyola Greyhounds.

The Maryland college last went to the NCAA Tournament in 1994, and may not cause many people to pick them to win its first game, but the Greyhounds hunkered down on defense to beat the Fairfield stags 48-44 in the men's championship game of the MAAC Tournament last night.


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I understand that the UMass basketball team is having a good season this year. When I first visited UMass, it was the spring of 1996, and I remember barns in Hadley had messages scrawled on them supporting the basketball team during their Final Four run. "We love you, Marcus Camby" and "Go UMass." I moved to Amherst in the fall and I remember ( Read more... )

The two stories I wrote for the Western Mass Sports Journal came out this week in the February issue. I got hooked up with writing for WMSJ because my old Recorder buddy, Kyle Belanger, is the editor there, so he recruited me to write a couple of stories. Unfortunately, you can't see the stories on the web, but I'll give you a teaser.'I'm Only 21 ( Read more... )