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The competition between Wahconah and Mount Greylock Nordic teams on Saturday was almost secondary, an afterthought to the competition against the elements and a pandemic that had kept winter sports in Berkshire County on ice for nearly two months.
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SHEFFIELD — Excitement can be a hard thing to get across in a virtual meeting, but if the Mount Everett girls basketball team can’t sense it i…
Mike Walsh
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For the second time this year, the University of Massachusetts has paused it’s men’s basketball activities.
Howard Herman
Sportswriter-Columnist
The decade that just ended was a pretty successful one for the Williams College men’s basketball team. Four NCAA Division III Final Four trips…
Howard Herman
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In two weeks, Division I-FBS college football teams will have wrapped up much of their recruiting for the fall 2021 season. Until Feb. 3, howe…
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The first sporting event of the year in Berkshire County officially took place and Jake Mendel and Mike Walsh of The Berkshire Eagle are back …
Mike Walsh
Sports Editor
The University of Massachusetts may have experienced two losses Sunday afternoon.
Howard Herman
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Something will have to give Sunday inside the Mullins Center. That's because two teams, the University of Massachusetts and Davidson, will tak…
Howard Herman
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This game didn’t have the buzz of those matchups that were played a decade or more ago. UConn and Tennessee may not be must-see-TV anymore. Bu…
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Mount Greylock, Wahconah open winter sports season with Nordic ski race in Dalton
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UMass men's basketball prepares for a Sunday 'statement' game against Davidson
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Williams College grad Mike Mayer named to D3hoops.com All-Decade team
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UMass men's basketball loses to Davidson at home, as star Tre Mitchell leaves with shoulder injury
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The pinging sound of baseballs meeting metal bats was finally heard in Berkshire County last summer, as youth baseball and softball emerged fr…
It may be months away from occurring, but the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Track and Field and Cross-Country committee…
As it turns out, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team will get that week off.
WESTFIELD — Pittsfield’s Mia Alfonso had a goal and two assists as her Pope Francis High School co-op girls hockey team battled back to tie Lo…
As the National Hockey League began play last week, one look at team rosters will show that the sport finds players everywhere. Junior hockey …
Two months ago, Pittsfield’s Peyton Steinman and Grace Guachione were cautiously optimistic that they would be able to play their senior seaso…
For the first time in six years, the University of Massachusetts is breathing the rarified air that comes with leading the Atlantic 10. The Mi…
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — In a season-opening boys swim meet, visiting Taconic Hills took down New Lebanon/Berlin 64-54.
Nothing is truly ever surprising any more. But when I got word this week that Steve Messina was stepping down after 28 years as the baseball c…
The views from Raycroft Lookout are some of the most dramatic inland views in the Commonwealth.
The final number for the 2020 bear season was 325, which was another record year. It broke the high of 283 bears taken in 2016. Both the Septe…
Coaches often say they know when it’s time to step aside. Mount Greylock baseball coach Steve Messina said this is the right time for him.
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The game plan is to have high school football played in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Fall 2 season. That game plan will not have a playoff component attached to it.
The pinging sound of baseballs meeting metal bats was finally heard in Berkshire County last summer, as youth baseball and softball emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Barring an unforeseen reversal in trends, the Little League Baseball programs in Berkshire County are getting …
It may be months away from occurring, but the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Track and Field and Cross-Country committee is beginning to plan for a new world of postseason play.
As it turns out, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team will get that week off.
WESTFIELD — Pittsfield’s Mia Alfonso had a goal and two assists as her Pope Francis High School co-op girls hockey team battled back to tie Longmeadow on Monday morning.
As the National Hockey League began play last week, one look at team rosters will show that the sport finds players everywhere. Junior hockey in Canada, European leagues and NCAA colleges.
Two months ago, Pittsfield’s Peyton Steinman and Grace Guachione were cautiously optimistic that they would be able to play their senior seasons with the Saint Anselm College women’s basketball team. One month later, the optimism was gone.
For the first time in six years, the University of Massachusetts is breathing the rarified air that comes with leading the Atlantic 10. The Minutemen know, however, that it is way too early to do much more than take a quick glance from the top of the conference.
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — In a season-opening boys swim meet, visiting Taconic Hills took down New Lebanon/Berlin 64-54.
Nothing is truly ever surprising any more. But when I got word this week that Steve Messina was stepping down after 28 years as the baseball coach at Mount Greylock, I have to admit, I was a little bit surprised.
The views from Raycroft Lookout are some of the most dramatic inland views in the Commonwealth.
The final number for the 2020 bear season was 325, which was another record year. It broke the high of 283 bears taken in 2016. Both the September and November seasons were also record high numbers.
Coaches often say they know when it’s time to step aside. Mount Greylock baseball coach Steve Messina said this is the right time for him.
Sundays in The Bronx could be a good thing. Taking care of business against a Fordham team that has won once in five games could be a game that the University of Massachusetts basketball team might be looking past. That would make this Sunday in The Bronx not so good.
It has been some two months since Walt Bell and the University of Massachusetts football team had taken to a stadium's turf for a game. But Bell and his staff haven't had a ton of down time.
The Salisbury Jumpfest is back for its 95th season.
There will be an Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament in 2021. There are now a couple of things known about it.
It’s mixing a sports metaphor, but University of Massachusetts coach Matt McCall thought it was going to be “Deja vu all over again.”
Jake Benzinger is getting a second chance at making a National Football League roster.
Kevan Miller may have spent nearly as much time in hospitals in the last year as he did on the ice. But, the former Berkshire School standout says he’s more than ready to hit the ice for the Boston Bruins.
There have been more than a couple of tough losses in Matt McCall's tenure as the head basketball coach at the University of Massachusetts. For UMass Nation, nothing has stuck in their collective craw more than last year's regular-season finale against Rhode Island.
It wasn’t a game that anyone would have thought might show up on a schedule. But shortly after Division III Castleton agreed to play the University at Albany, the game was canceled.
Sports aren't necessarily back, but plans are coming together as Berkshire County high schools are hopeful sports may be played in both the Winter and Fall II seasons. Jake Mendel and Mike Walsh of The Berkshire Eagle are back after some time to express thoughts and share some news surroundi…
As much as I love bombing a trail on my snowboard, and racking up runs until dehydration sets in and I’ve got goggle indentations marking my face, the individual tracks aren’t always super memorable.
It was a back-to-work Saturday for the University of Massachusetts basketball team. For a team that has only played once since before Christmas, it turned out to be a pretty good day.
Carl Pierre did not have to stop and think when he was asked about being in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night and Wednesday with his University of Massachusetts teammates. He already had almost 48 hours to think about what had happened in our nation’s capital at the same time the Minutemen had …
With cold weather forecast in our area next week, it looks like we might be able to get out ice fishing.
Joe Bazzano counted his Lenox Nordic program as one of the lucky ones last winter.
The offensive line play for the University of Massachusetts was so disappointing at times during 2020 that head coach Walt Bell made a staff change. Now, it appears that Bell will get a chance to make over his line.
In Rick Murphy’s long career in baseball management, he has been a part of two franchise moves. Those were within the same league.
While the COVID-19 pandemic will determine what high school sports are going to look like in the winter, the so-called “Fall II,” and spring seasons, one spring sport committee is starting to get the wheels in motion to plan for their season.
It might be January. Folks are still working remotely and, for the most part, not gathering. That, however, isn’t stopping the brain trust of the North Adams SteepleCats from working to put a roster together for the 2021 season.
It isn’t so much that a 2-3 record early in a season is all that bad. For the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball team, it isn’t necessarily that the Minutemen are 2-3, 1-1 in the Atlantic 10 Conference. It’s more a question of how they got here.
Some NCAA Division I basketball teams have played as many as 10 games, some as few as one or two. Even with such a great disparity, the NCAA on Monday released its first NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET. The NET is used by the D-I Basketball Committee to help pick the top 68 teams to get bids in…
There are always a few of the so-called “mid-major” college basketball programs that are teams that fans should watch out for come March Madness time. Don’t sleep on Belmont University.
Kevin App and Pat Manning, along with their current Williams College basketball players, did not, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have a 2020-21 season. That has not, however, meant that the Williams basketball coaching tree has slowed its bloom. Even in the winter, with a foot of snow on the …
COVID-19 taught us just how vulnerable we all are.
But, 2020 also taught us how resilient our bodies are. How creative our minds are. How tough and full of life we are.
It taught us how, even though we must remain distanced, we can still lean on each other to get by.
So long 2020. It can’t get any worse in 2021, can it?
You don’t always want to walk in the woods.
Did you get a deer this year? If not, sorry, no venison steaks for you this New Year’s.
1. Pandemic wipes out spring, much of fall and winter sports seasons
Liam Coen says he’s truly excited for his new challenge in football. But the former University of Massachusetts quarterback still can’t quite believe he’ll be an offensive coordinator in the SEC.
Where were you when the sports world stopped?
No loss is a good loss, but some sting more than others. Wednesday night's loss is going to leave a mark.
A week-by-week and day-by-day mentality works wonders in the sports world. Each cliché used by coaches when speaking to media is often overlooked, but they were good guidelines when trying to maneuver through 2020.
Back when sports were still sports, I had the pleasure of sourcing and writing a story about two of the winningest boys basketball players in Berkshire County history. Neither of whom were from Berkshire County.
It has been a long time since Williams College women’s basketball coach Pat Manning hasn’t been coaching.
Not much changes outside of the calendar, but it is pretty safe to say that everyone has had just about enough of 2020. Not only did people have to deal with the pandemic, but every-day life as well — which isn't always easy.
The announcements came quickly this December. When the smoke cleared, there were 120 minor league baseball teams.
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Lee celebrates after winning the Western Mass. Division 8 football championship game in 2019. If the Wildcats, and the rest of the Berkshire County football teams, take the field in the 2021 Fall 2 season, there will be no MIAA postseason tournament. The Tournament Management Committee voted…
The game plan is to have high school football played in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Fall 2 season. That game plan will not have a playoff component attached to it.
The pinging sound of baseballs meeting metal bats was finally heard in Berkshire County last summer, as youth baseball and softball emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Barring an unforeseen reversal in trends, the Little League Baseball programs in Berkshire County are getting …
It may be months away from occurring, but the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Track and Field and Cross-Country committee is beginning to plan for a new world of postseason play.
As it turns out, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team will get that week off.
WESTFIELD — Pittsfield’s Mia Alfonso had a goal and two assists as her Pope Francis High School co-op girls hockey team battled back to tie Longmeadow on Monday morning.
As the National Hockey League began play last week, one look at team rosters will show that the sport finds players everywhere. Junior hockey in Canada, European leagues and NCAA colleges.
Two months ago, Pittsfield’s Peyton Steinman and Grace Guachione were cautiously optimistic that they would be able to play their senior seasons with the Saint Anselm College women’s basketball team. One month later, the optimism was gone.
For the first time in six years, the University of Massachusetts is breathing the rarified air that comes with leading the Atlantic 10. The Minutemen know, however, that it is way too early to do much more than take a quick glance from the top of the conference.
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — In a season-opening boys swim meet, visiting Taconic Hills took down New Lebanon/Berlin 64-54.
Nothing is truly ever surprising any more. But when I got word this week that Steve Messina was stepping down after 28 years as the baseball coach at Mount Greylock, I have to admit, I was a little bit surprised.
The views from Raycroft Lookout are some of the most dramatic inland views in the Commonwealth.
The final number for the 2020 bear season was 325, which was another record year. It broke the high of 283 bears taken in 2016. Both the September and November seasons were also record high numbers.
Coaches often say they know when it’s time to step aside. Mount Greylock baseball coach Steve Messina said this is the right time for him.
Sundays in The Bronx could be a good thing. Taking care of business against a Fordham team that has won once in five games could be a game that the University of Massachusetts basketball team might be looking past. That would make this Sunday in The Bronx not so good.
It has been some two months since Walt Bell and the University of Massachusetts football team had taken to a stadium's turf for a game. But Bell and his staff haven't had a ton of down time.
The Salisbury Jumpfest is back for its 95th season.
There will be an Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament in 2021. There are now a couple of things known about it.
It’s mixing a sports metaphor, but University of Massachusetts coach Matt McCall thought it was going to be “Deja vu all over again.”
Jake Benzinger is getting a second chance at making a National Football League roster.
Kevan Miller may have spent nearly as much time in hospitals in the last year as he did on the ice. But, the former Berkshire School standout says he’s more than ready to hit the ice for the Boston Bruins.
There have been more than a couple of tough losses in Matt McCall's tenure as the head basketball coach at the University of Massachusetts. For UMass Nation, nothing has stuck in their collective craw more than last year's regular-season finale against Rhode Island.
It wasn’t a game that anyone would have thought might show up on a schedule. But shortly after Division III Castleton agreed to play the University at Albany, the game was canceled.
Sports aren't necessarily back, but plans are coming together as Berkshire County high schools are hopeful sports may be played in both the Winter and Fall II seasons. Jake Mendel and Mike Walsh of The Berkshire Eagle are back after some time to express thoughts and share some news surroundi…
As much as I love bombing a trail on my snowboard, and racking up runs until dehydration sets in and I’ve got goggle indentations marking my face, the individual tracks aren’t always super memorable.
It was a back-to-work Saturday for the University of Massachusetts basketball team. For a team that has only played once since before Christmas, it turned out to be a pretty good day.
Carl Pierre did not have to stop and think when he was asked about being in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night and Wednesday with his University of Massachusetts teammates. He already had almost 48 hours to think about what had happened in our nation’s capital at the same time the Minutemen had …
With cold weather forecast in our area next week, it looks like we might be able to get out ice fishing.
Joe Bazzano counted his Lenox Nordic program as one of the lucky ones last winter.
The offensive line play for the University of Massachusetts was so disappointing at times during 2020 that head coach Walt Bell made a staff change. Now, it appears that Bell will get a chance to make over his line.
In Rick Murphy’s long career in baseball management, he has been a part of two franchise moves. Those were within the same league.
While the COVID-19 pandemic will determine what high school sports are going to look like in the winter, the so-called “Fall II,” and spring seasons, one spring sport committee is starting to get the wheels in motion to plan for their season.
It might be January. Folks are still working remotely and, for the most part, not gathering. That, however, isn’t stopping the brain trust of the North Adams SteepleCats from working to put a roster together for the 2021 season.
It isn’t so much that a 2-3 record early in a season is all that bad. For the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball team, it isn’t necessarily that the Minutemen are 2-3, 1-1 in the Atlantic 10 Conference. It’s more a question of how they got here.
Some NCAA Division I basketball teams have played as many as 10 games, some as few as one or two. Even with such a great disparity, the NCAA on Monday released its first NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET. The NET is used by the D-I Basketball Committee to help pick the top 68 teams to get bids in…
There are always a few of the so-called “mid-major” college basketball programs that are teams that fans should watch out for come March Madness time. Don’t sleep on Belmont University.
Kevin App and Pat Manning, along with their current Williams College basketball players, did not, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have a 2020-21 season. That has not, however, meant that the Williams basketball coaching tree has slowed its bloom. Even in the winter, with a foot of snow on the …
COVID-19 taught us just how vulnerable we all are.
But, 2020 also taught us how resilient our bodies are. How creative our minds are. How tough and full of life we are.
It taught us how, even though we must remain distanced, we can still lean on each other to get by.
So long 2020. It can’t get any worse in 2021, can it?
You don’t always want to walk in the woods.
Did you get a deer this year? If not, sorry, no venison steaks for you this New Year’s.
1. Pandemic wipes out spring, much of fall and winter sports seasons
Liam Coen says he’s truly excited for his new challenge in football. But the former University of Massachusetts quarterback still can’t quite believe he’ll be an offensive coordinator in the SEC.
Where were you when the sports world stopped?
No loss is a good loss, but some sting more than others. Wednesday night's loss is going to leave a mark.
A week-by-week and day-by-day mentality works wonders in the sports world. Each cliché used by coaches when speaking to media is often overlooked, but they were good guidelines when trying to maneuver through 2020.
Back when sports were still sports, I had the pleasure of sourcing and writing a story about two of the winningest boys basketball players in Berkshire County history. Neither of whom were from Berkshire County.
It has been a long time since Williams College women’s basketball coach Pat Manning hasn’t been coaching.
Not much changes outside of the calendar, but it is pretty safe to say that everyone has had just about enough of 2020. Not only did people have to deal with the pandemic, but every-day life as well — which isn't always easy.
The announcements came quickly this December. When the smoke cleared, there were 120 minor league baseball teams.