Friday--June 20th, 2014

The BC blog "Soaring to Glory" as a post entitled "Mark Whipple melodrama".

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The UMass website reports Trey Dudley-Giles and Tajae Sharpe win preseason All-MAC honors from Athlon Sports.

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Matty Vautour speculates if hockey could join UMass football and Lax in playing a game at Gillette.

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Lancaster online says the UMass Marching Band will be at the Penn State game. Just more icing on the cake for Minutemen fans visiting Happy Valley. Mrs Blog and I are going. Hope we get a bunch of UMass fans to visit that famous stadium.

James Franklin want 107,000 fans for all five Penn State home games.

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Could the new Power Five conference poach players from non-power conferences with no transfer restrictions?

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USA Today ranks Vanderbit #74 in its preseason rankings.

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