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Good morning!Speculation has begun that Don Brown will be relieved of his coaching duties in two weeks. By then UMass will have lost its final three games — to Liberty, Georgia and UConn — and Brown will have won six games in three seasons. It stands...

Good morning!My friend John Kennedy thinks I’m too hard on UMass athletic director Ryan Bamford. True, Bamford deserves credit for overseeing successful men’s and women’s soccer teams and the field hockey team that reached the NCAA Final Four and,...

Good morning!Politics is sport, and on Election Day I visited two New Hampshire voting locations for a glimpse of what to expect after the polls closed.At the entrance to Hinsdale High School a woman held a large sign that said, Roe, Roe, Roe Your...

Good morning!That sound coming from the Bronx on Wednesday night was a foggy mountain breakdown. After avoiding a sweep the previous night and outscoring the Dodgers 16-4 over parts of two games, the wheels came off the World Series Express.The...

Good morning!Twenty years ago on Saturday New England’s unrequited love affair with the local nine was consummated. The Red Sox were in St. Louis and about to win their first World Series since the end of the Great War.After Manny Ramirez put a Jeff...

Good morning!Missouri football fans had a rollicking good time in Amherst last weekend. Fresh off being walloped by Texas A&M in front of 97,049 at Kyle Field, the Tigers beat UMass, 45-3, in front of 16,102 fans at McGuirk Alumni Stadium which is the...

Good morning!The best baseball year of my life was 1975 when ticket prices were reasonable, nobody did the Wave or sang “Sweet Caroline,” and instead of having a Fenway Park code of conduct, there was an unwritten code of misconduct when the Yankees...

Good morning!The only time I met Pete Rose was in Clearwater during spring training in the early ’80s. Rose was squatting on a folding chair between the bleachers and clubhouse talking baseball with someone I didn’t recognize. Approaching slowly, I...

Good morning!The MLB playoffs are upon us and questions abound. Will Shohei Ohtani take the Dodgers to the promised land? Will Aaron Judge and Juan Soto lead the Yankees down the Canyon of Heroes?Has Baltimore regained its mojo by winning its...

Good morning!The UMass football team hosts Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) this afternoon at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, a well deserved cupcake after three weeks of gruel and horsebread playing against  Eastern Michigan, Toledo and...

Good morning!Three weeks from today upward of 150 people will arrive at Northfield Mountain from Boston and central New York to embark on the 9th annual Great River Challenge Off-Road Triathlon.The race will begin near the Quinnetukut boat launch with...

Good morning!The role sports has in communities and the kind of cohesiveness it inspires was on display last weekend in Northfield where people came from near and far to pay last respects to Tim Kachelmeyer.Vehicles were parked from the IGA to the...

Good morning!UMass opens the 2024 football campaign Saturday against Eastern Michigan at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. The season outlook is bleak. UMass plays at top-ranked Georgia and at Mississippi State, and is home against No. 10 Missouri. Already...

Good morning!The next time you’re at the curve on Rte. 5 a half-mile south of Richardson’s Candy Kitchen, look east and you’ll see a large boulder with a bronze plaque attached to it. The monument memorializes Sgt. Gregory Allen Belanger, who died...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

(Note: This is the second of two parts. Part one ran in last weekend’s Recorder.)SARATOGA, N.Y. — More apt words were never spoken than by Jennifer Durenberger after the A.P. Smithwick Memorial steeplechase was postponed.“Steeplechase and thunder are...

Good morning!There isn’t a sport on this green earth that celebrates winning a title the way hockey does. A good example of that happened at the Elbo Room the morning after Florida won the Stanley Cup. Designated wild and crazy guy Matthew Tkachuk...

Good morning!Observations from Sortino Field in Amherst, where Turners Falls High School coach Gary Mullins’ squad beat Georgetown High School, 5-0, to win the MIAA Division 5 state title on Saturday. The first pitch was at 12:01 p.m., the final out...

Good morning!Earlier this spring I was searching for a Sinatra song on YouTube when a Pioneer Valley Regional School baseball game popped up in the sidebar, broadcast live for the world to see on Bernardston-Northfield Community Television. Who...

Good morning!John Kennedy is fuming over the way UMass-Amherst’s faculty and staff have thrown Chancellor Javier Reyes under the bus. Earlier this month hundreds of anti-Israel, pro Palestinian/Hamas radicals set up an encampment outside the student...

Good morning!Today’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore was supposed to be easy pickings. Bob Baffert’s speed merchant Muth, named for his friend Aaron Muth, would jet around the oval at even money and Baffert would pocket his ninth...

Good morning!Unless there’s a hole in the fence I’ll be covering the Belmont Stakes from Union Avenue. The days of slipping ushers a five spot with a wink and a nod are gone. Ticketmaster wants $164 to simply walk through the gate and $1,000 for a...