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By GARRETT COTE

Beau Elson couldn’t feel a thing.

By ALEXA LEWIS

NORTHAMPTON — In a recent survey, Smith College found that 82% of its student athletes feel disconnected from their “Pioneers” moniker. Now, the school is searching for a new mascot for the community to rally behind.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s UMass football spring game, Team Maroon worked the ball inside the Team White 10-yard line trailing 17-10. Team Maroon quarterback Grant Jordan received a shotgun snap from the 4-yard line, faked the ball to his running back and scrambled right.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The 15th and final practice of the spring took place at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Thursday morning, as for the first time in 2025, the UMass football team practiced outside of The Bubble thanks to 50 degree and sunny weather. Head coach Joe Harasymiak met with members of the media following practice and had a mix of emotions when asked about the spring.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass men’s basketball head coach Frank Martin landed a pair of commitments on Wednesday, as forwards Dimitri Clerc and Charles Outlaw – former junior college players – transferred to UMass out of the portal. That now makes four Minutemen transfers coming in (joining K’Jei Parker and Donovan Brown), and all four have either been from JUCO or Division 2.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There are now a total of 11 players in the transfer portal from last year’s UMass men’s basketball team, as forward Daniel Rivera added to the laundry list this week.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — Framed prints from Godey’s Ladies Fashion magazine hanging on the wall, what-not shelves with novels and books of poetry, a table with dishes, vases and other fine china and a sewing chest next to an upholstered chair, reflect what Sophia Smith’s 19th century parlor might have looked like.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It looks like Frank Martin is going to have quite the roster overhaul, as two more UMass men’s basketball players entered the transfer portal on Tuesday. Akil Watson and Marqui Worthy both decided to depart from Amherst, making it six total players from last year’s team now in the portal.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There are times when a head coach does everything they can to put their team in the best possible position to win throughout a season and for whatever reason things still don’t work out. It can be recruiting prior to the year, preparation, in-game adjustments, tweaking substitution patterns based on matchups and anything in between.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Frank Martin has landed his first transfer of the offseason. On Monday morning, Donovan Brown committed to play basketball for the Minutemen next season. Brown played for Division 2 Florida Tech, where he averaged 20.7 points per game and shot just above 36 percent from beyond the arc.

By RYAN AMES

Bailey Olson’s goal and two assists lifted the Wisconsin-River Falls women’s hockey team past Amherst College, 3-1, in the NCAA Division III national championship game on Sunday afternoon in River Falls, Wisconsin.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Well, it didn’t take long for Division 1 men’s basketball players to take advantage of the transfer portal opening on Monday. As of Friday morning, there are already more than 1,000 total D1 men’s players in the portal. Some of them are still playing in the NCAA Tournament right now. Three of them have departed from UMass.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Chris Haynes, longtime accordionist for the Young@Heart Chorus and associate professor emeritus of music at Springfield College, died on Wednesday, March 12.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — For nearly 30 years of his life, UMass offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian has been a football coach. He’s had stints at the high school, collegiate and professional levels, his most recent gig being at Utah – where he was the program’s offensive analyst and quarterbacks coach.

By Staff Report

SOUTH HADLEY — Gov. Maura Healey will give the commencement speech to Mount Holyoke College’s Class of 2025 at the 188th graduation ceremonies in May.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Tied 2-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, a dormant UMass baseball offense needed a spark – its only two runs coming from Albany miscues.

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — After watching for just 10 minutes, I reached for my phone, picked it up and texted as many of my friends who love the game of basketball as I could.

The UMass women’s basketball team was in the driver’s seat entering the fourth quarter of its WNIT second round game with Buffalo on Sunday afternoon. Playing its future MAC foe, the Minutewomen led by 16 (61-45) entering the fourth quarter and looked as if they had another postseason win in the bag.

By GARRETT COTE

Not even three minutes into the NCAA Division 3 women’s basketball national championship game, it was clear Smith College had its hands full with undefeated NYU — the reigning Div. 3 champions which held a 61-game winning streak entering Saturday. The Pioneers were well aware of just how dominant the Violets are considering they lost to them in last year’s title game, but after NYU ripped off the game’s first nine points, the journey to the top of the mountain became even steeper.

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

It’ll be a rematch in the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Championship game. 

NORTHAMPTON— Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice and innovation will be recognized with honorary degrees from Smith College during commencement on Sunday, May 18.