In its worst offensive showing of the season, the Massachusetts football team can point to many causes. UMass had its opportunities in its 17-7 loss to Old Dominion Saturday, but a lack of consistency in the blocking game prevented the Minutemen from securing their first win. UMass couldn’t slow the pressure from the Monarchs, allowing eight sacks in the defeat.

It has not been an ideal start for the Massachusetts football team. No game is ever supposed to be considered easy, but given the strength of the Minutemen’s schedule, their first three games against Hawaii, Coastal Carolina and Old Dominion were supposed to be the most winnable. But instead of the hoped for 1-1 or even 2-0 start to the season, the University of Massachusetts finds itself in all too familiar territory at 0-2.

The Massachusetts football team is no stranger to late game drama – usually at the peril of the Minutemen. So when the University of Massachusetts’ defense let up a 56-yard passing touchdown to Hawaii inside five minutes of the fourth quarter to close out the 2016 season, it became – at the time – just the latest disappointing loss in a season that already had nine of them.

The effort from the Massachusetts football team was admirable, but the ending was much of the same. The Minutemen fell victim to another last-minute Hawaii touchdown drive to lose their home opener 38-35. With 5:23 left in the game, UMass (0-1) just needed to run down the clock. Hawaii (1-0) had just inched closer with a field goal, cutting the Minutemen’s one touchdown lead down to four points.

Just a day after Donte Clark announced that he would be transferring to Coastal Carolina, the Massachusetts basketball team added Kieran Hayward, a transfer from Louisiana State, to its roster. Hayward, who is from Australia, tweeted out early Thursday morning that he decided to make the move up north to Amherst.

Another day and another transfer for the Massachusetts basketball team. According to a tweet he sent out around 1 p.m. Monday, Keon Clergeot has decided to transfer from Memphis to UMass. He joins Jonathan Laurent as latest players to transfer to UMass this offseason. A 6-foot-1 guard out of Memphis, Clergeot spent his freshman season with the Tigers and averaged 3.8 points in 26 games.

A little over a year after he was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the NFL Draft, former Massachusetts football wide receiver Tajae Sharpe is being accused of assault by a Nashville man according to The Tennessean. An open investigation of Sharpe and Titans teammate, Sebastian Tretola is taking place after Dante R.

When asked what the most successful sports team at the University of Massachusetts has been over the past decade, few would respond the women's rowing team. But over the past 12 years, the rowing team has set a record for most consecutive Atlantic 10 Championships, and look to extend that…. The Massachusetts rowing team has started strong early in the early season.

Looking to win back-to-back series against Atlantic 10 opponents, the Massachusetts baseball team was set up to break a 1-1 tie with Dayton in the seventh inning when Brett Evangelista stepped to the plate. After scoring a run in the first inning, the Minutemen (11-23, 5-8 A-10) bats had gone silent against Dayton (13-28, 3-10 A-10) starting pitcher Kevin Piersol.

Sunday’s first game of a doubleheader against La Salle was not the finest outing for starting pitcher Brooks Knapek’s. After only an inning, Massachusetts baseball coach Mike Stone pulled the freshman, in favor of Casey Aubin, out of the bullpen. Four days removed from his start against Northeastern at Fenway Park, Aubin gave the Minutemen six innings of work in relief.

BOSTON – Next to “UMass” on the Fenway scoreboard were five zeroes and one big six. A six-run fourth inning was enough for the Massachusetts baseball team to secure a 6-5 win over Northeastern in seven innings at Fenway Park Wednesday afternoon in the Beanpot consolation game. Runs can be manufactured in all sorts of ways.

If the Massachusetts baseball team wanted to repeat its walk-off performance from Easter Sunday, it would have had to overcome a much larger deficit. The Minutemen fell to Connecticut 11-3 Tuesday afternoon in Storrs, Connecticut. For the first six innings of the game, UMass (8-21, 3-6 Atlantic 10) was not in too bad of shape.

With little turnover of active players at the wide receiver position from 2016 to 2017 for the Massachusetts football team, quarterback Andrew Ford and wide receiver Andy Isabella are tasked with getting the new receivers ready for the upcoming season. There are still roughly three and a half months until the Minutemen and Hawaii kickoff at McGuirk Stadium to begin their 2017 college football season.

For seven innings, Justin Lasko was pitching a gem for the Massachusetts baseball team. Virginia Commonwealth’s starting pitcher Sean Thompson just happened to be better. The first five innings of the Minutemen’s 8-0 loss to VCU (17-13, 6-1 Atlantic 10) Friday were a modern baseball fan’s dream. By the time Dylan Robinson grounded out to second to end the fifth inning, not even 60 minutes had passed since the first pitch and only a total of three hits were recorded.

A five-run third inning for Harvard propelled the Crimson to a 7-3 win over the Massachusetts baseball team in the first round of the Beanpot tournament. Left-handed freshman pitcher Brooks Knapek has been one of Minutmen coach Mike Stone’s go-to starters since the first series of the season against Elon.

Newly introduced Matt McCall will reportedly have to coach the Massachusetts men’s basketball team next season without Zach Lewis and Zach Coleman, as both have elected to transfer as graduate students. Lewis’ decision to transfer was reported by New England Recruiting Report Friday afternoon. Shortly after, Mark Chiarelli of MassLive tweeted that Coleman would also be leaving UMass.