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...never a question as to who would be picked first on the proverbial playground that is college sports. Now, people will surely be confused, and as anyone with a brother or sister can tell you, nobody likes to be confused with their (admittedly less good) sibling.Fans rioted at UMass after their team lost in the championship game, and rightly so. Maybe it was because they were upset about the game’s outcome, or maybe it was because the alcohol was flowing a bit too freely last Friday night. Or maybe, just maybe, losing in such a ridiculously named...
...fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of Massachusetts-based electric and gas utility NStar and UMass-Amherst footballer—800 evacuated, and at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer when it exploded...
Even more aptly, the UMass mascot is a Minuteman. Were all Revolutionary-era Massachusetts residents soldiers, violent dispensers of rebel justice with rifles drawn and bayonets affixed? Of course not. Yet no one complains in these cases, because the subjects belong to the culturally-dominant ethnic group...
...think they are legacies of stereotypes and really portray native peoples in caricatures. It’s part of an American myth that we need to rectify.” Kind of like how George Washington’s mascot portrays colonial people in caricature and UMass promulgates the myth of the Minutemen? Where’s the rectification brigade on that...
...more exciting as a basketball game between the Ivy’s best ballers and the Big East powerhouse, but it’s not shabby with a pigskin either. Nova, despite its winless record, is a solid squad out of the Atlantic-10 that gave Lehigh and UMass a run for their money. Senior ball carrier Joe Sandberg exploded for 166 yards and two touchdowns that propelled the Quakers to a season-opening win, but the Wildcats counter with bullying fullback DeQuese May. My gut tells me Penn won’t let the Brown-Harvard winner get comfortable.Prediction...