Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursday -- October 18th, 2012

UMass has its game notes for Bowling Green up. The Minutemen have not had a lot of help from the weatherman in our first season Gillette. However, the latest forecast looks like we will dodge the rain and have improving conditions for Saturday afternoon.

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The UMass specialty licence plate #1 and #1863 will be part of a special presentation at Saturday's game in Gillette. UMass alums, order yours now!

More here on the presentation.

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UMass received more bad news than good about the availability of players for Saturday's game with Bowling Green. Three starters, Alan Williams, Nick Speller and Rob Blanchflower will not be available for the trip to Gillette.

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The UMass Daily Collegian says the Minutemen special teams look to make a big contribution Saturday.

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Harry Plumer of MassLive has another story about the status of the injured/suspended players and a neat video link of a trick played on Daniel Maynes and Rob O'Conner by Coach Molnar.

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The Toledo Blade has a column on the UMass-Bowling Green game. Note that the writer says UMass most closely resembles ------ Temple.

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The MAC Blog "Hustle Belt" looks at BCS teams the league has managed to attract for home games.

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The Montreal Alouettes have announced that Brandon London has had surgery for a meniscus problem and is done for the season.

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