Sunday, February 19, 2012

Sunday--February 19th, 2012

First of all, check out an update on Ryan Carter in the comments section of last Wednesday's blog post.

I think it's interesting that anytime there is something negative about UMass, dozens of news outlets pick it up. Ryan Carter does something heroic and, as far as I know, the sole article about his story has been in the Gazette.

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UMass legend Marcel Shipp was at the UMass hoops game last night being honored as one of this year's UMass Athletics Hall-of-Fame class.


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An NFL Draft report on Emil Igwenagu from a Jacksonville Jaguars blogger. He projects Emil as a 5th to 7th round pick.

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Victor Cruz will not get performance pay for his 2011 efforts with the Giants.

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The Penn State has two former UMass assistant coaches John Strollo (1992-95) and Ted Roof (1994-96) on the new coaching staff. The Nittany Lions also grabbed a QB coach from Miami of Ohio.

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