After earning its first victory of the season, the Massachusetts basketball team will look to make it two in a row when it takes on St. Francis College tonight at the Mullins Center. The Terriers (0-3) are still seeking their first win and welcome back junior guard Ricky Cadell after a two-game suspension for violation of team rules.
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Kilted Lovers Bring Scotch (pop) to Pearl Street
Glasgow-based indie pop group Camera Obscura will bring their melodic melancholy to the Pearl Street Ballroom tonight.
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Bringing out the ‘Dead’
Northampton was alive Friday night as renowned cover band Dark Star Orchestra brought the Grateful Dead back to western Massachusetts.
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UMass breaks both school and personal records
The Massachusetts swimming and diving teams both earned third place at Boston University’s Terrier Invitational. Jason Cook led the men’s diving team with two victories, while the swim team had 22 top-five individual finishes.
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Rising Minutemen look to take down Catamounts
After defeating then-No. 9 Yale, the Massachusetts hockey team will look to continue its success against ranked opponents when it heads on the road to face Vermont tonight. The Minutemen will face a team in the Catamounts who have struggled at times this season while fighting through a tough schedule.
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Minutemen face UVM to continue road trip
On Thanksgiving week, the Massachusetts hockey team will take on Vermont at Gutterson Fieldhouse on Tuesday night in search of its fourth road win of the season. The No. 10 Minutemen will face their second-straight nationally ranked opponent in the No. 18 Black Bears.
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UMass splits a pair of overtime games
The Massachusetts men’s club hockey team split a back-and-forth weekend, which saw two overtime games against Maine and Bryant at the Mullins Center. In the first contest, the Minutemen defeated Bryant, 5-4, with a game-winning goal by Matthew Coughlin.
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Tween drama sucks the hemoglobin out of audiences’ wallets
For better or worse, Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” saga is an unavoidable phenomenon, but to get the full picture, you need to experience the winding lines of screaming tweens all clamoring for a pass into this season’s hottest cinematic attraction.
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Subversive pinko turkeys
The insidious evil of communism lurking at the heart of Thanksgiving must be stopped before it can overthrow the U.S.
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Children or e-children?
Thomas Moore has noticed a disturbing trend in parenting: letting technology raise your kids.
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