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Good morning!The only time I met Pete Rose was in Clearwater during spring training in the early ’80s. Rose was squatting on a folding chair between the bleachers and clubhouse talking baseball with someone I didn’t recognize. Approaching slowly, I...

Good morning!The MLB playoffs are upon us and questions abound. Will Shohei Ohtani take the Dodgers to the promised land? Will Aaron Judge and Juan Soto lead the Yankees down the Canyon of Heroes?Has Baltimore regained its mojo by winning its...

Good morning!The UMass football team hosts Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) this afternoon at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, a well deserved cupcake after three weeks of gruel and horsebread playing against  Eastern Michigan, Toledo and...

Good morning!Three weeks from today upward of 150 people will arrive at Northfield Mountain from Boston and central New York to embark on the 9th annual Great River Challenge Off-Road Triathlon.The race will begin near the Quinnetukut boat launch with...

Good morning!The role sports has in communities and the kind of cohesiveness it inspires was on display last weekend in Northfield where people came from near and far to pay last respects to Tim Kachelmeyer.Vehicles were parked from the IGA to the...

Good morning!UMass opens the 2024 football campaign Saturday against Eastern Michigan at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. The season outlook is bleak. UMass plays at top-ranked Georgia and at Mississippi State, and is home against No. 10 Missouri. Already...

Good morning!The next time you’re at the curve on Rte. 5 a half-mile south of Richardson’s Candy Kitchen, look east and you’ll see a large boulder with a bronze plaque attached to it. The monument memorializes Sgt. Gregory Allen Belanger, who died...

By CHIP AINSWORTH

(Note: This is the second of two parts. Part one ran in last weekend’s Recorder.)SARATOGA, N.Y. — More apt words were never spoken than by Jennifer Durenberger after the A.P. Smithwick Memorial steeplechase was postponed.“Steeplechase and thunder are...

Good morning!There isn’t a sport on this green earth that celebrates winning a title the way hockey does. A good example of that happened at the Elbo Room the morning after Florida won the Stanley Cup. Designated wild and crazy guy Matthew Tkachuk...

Good morning!Observations from Sortino Field in Amherst, where Turners Falls High School coach Gary Mullins’ squad beat Georgetown High School, 5-0, to win the MIAA Division 5 state title on Saturday. The first pitch was at 12:01 p.m., the final out...

Good morning!Earlier this spring I was searching for a Sinatra song on YouTube when a Pioneer Valley Regional School baseball game popped up in the sidebar, broadcast live for the world to see on Bernardston-Northfield Community Television. Who...

Good morning!John Kennedy is fuming over the way UMass-Amherst’s faculty and staff have thrown Chancellor Javier Reyes under the bus. Earlier this month hundreds of anti-Israel, pro Palestinian/Hamas radicals set up an encampment outside the student...

Good morning!Today’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore was supposed to be easy pickings. Bob Baffert’s speed merchant Muth, named for his friend Aaron Muth, would jet around the oval at even money and Baffert would pocket his ninth...

Good morning!Unless there’s a hole in the fence I’ll be covering the Belmont Stakes from Union Avenue. The days of slipping ushers a five spot with a wink and a nod are gone. Ticketmaster wants $164 to simply walk through the gate and $1,000 for a...

Good morning!Close to $200 million will be wagered on the 150th Kentucky Derby this evening, so let’s take a look at the contenders and which horse or horses Recorder handicapper John Dobrydnio thinks will win.The 5-2 morning line favorite is...

Good morning!During Denver’s four-game run to its 10th national title, Pioneers goalie Matt Davis allowed three goals. The first was by Liam Gorman, his only goal in a UMass uniform, the second by Cornell’s Nick DeSantis, and the last was by BU’s Luke...

Good morning!Fresh off good reviews in Peoria, the Boston Red Sox returned home this week and got smacked around by their division nemesis the Baltimore Orioles who rolled sevens to beat them in back-to-back games, 7-1 and 7-5.While Boston fretted,...

Good morning!The New York Mets broke training camp this week but left their newest free agent J.D. Martinez behind at Clover Park in St. Lucie West to get ready for the Braves series a week from Monday.Clover Park is the stadium’s fifth name change....

Good morning!Baseball season begins at alternate times for everyone, and for me it began last month on a breezy cool evening in Gainesville, Florida, where the University of Florida Gators hosted the University of North Florida Ospreys.There was some...

Good morning!The traffic jams up early on Fridays in Lowell, and the Tsongas Center is four miles and countless stoplights off Interstate 495. It was dark, wet and cold, the canals were half frozen and railroad tracks criss-crossed through the city’s...

Good morning!Nobody researches local high school sports like Turners Falls’ Mike Cadran, aka The Tabulator. Cadran’s latest effort reveals the top five winningest schoolboy basketball coaches. The all-time wins leader according to Cadran is South...