Hope to see a lot of the UMass Die-Hards at the Spring game Friday.
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Matty Vautour reports the Coach Whipple's contract extension is almost completed. He also reports A.D. Bamford is working on an indoor practice facility. The options range from an inflatable bubble to a high-end permanent structure. Bamford mentions a mid $20s million structure. That should allow a hard-sided building, but without some bells and whistles.
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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" reports Chris Berman will again be a guest coach at the Spring Game.
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OT, but after beating its second #1 team, UMBC trash talks about Alabama. When I heard UMBC's mascot "The Retrievers" during the hoops tourney, I thought "Man, that's a dumb nickname!". It turns out UMBC is actually the "Chesapeake Bay Retrievers". I can understand the school wanting to have some local connection, but they could have done better.
How about the UMBC oysters?
Ya got to admit "The Fightin' Mollusks" would be a great sports name.
