Justin Poirier got his ninth goal of the season during a 5-on-3 power play, and Sully Scholle and Miguel Marques also scored for the sixth-ranked Black Bears (6-2-1, 3-0 Hockey East), who outshot 13th-ranked UMass (6-4, 0-2) by a 54-16 margin. Owen Fowler had three assists. Maine has won four in a row. The teams meet again Friday night in Amherst.

The No. 13 Massachusetts hockey team’s backup goaltender, Jackson Irving, got his first start of the season against No. 6 Maine in a deflating 6-2 loss. Despite the lopsided scoreline, Irving stood out for the Minutemen (6-2-1,

In a shocking turn of events, Rhode Island athletic director Thorr Bjorn, who had recently signed a five-year extension in June, has reportedly been hired to join the UMass athletic department as a “senior deputy athletic director” and “chief of business administration.”

Less than 24 hours after the UMass football team fell to 0-9 on the season after its 44-10 loss to Akron, Ryan Bamford, the school’s Director of Athletics, announced the hiring of Thorr Bjorn as Senior Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Administrative Officer,

For a winless team with seemingly nowhere to go but up, the Massachusetts football team still fell further down on Tuesday night. The Minutemen’s (0-9, 0-5 Mid-American) introduction to “MACtion” was unkind,

UMass enters the contest carrying the weight of an 0-8 record (0-4 in MAC play), while Akron stands at 3-6 overall and 2-3 in conference action.

Over the course of a college hockey season, teams are bound to turn in a stinker of a performance every now and then. Under the tutelage of head coach Greg Carvel, those instances are few and far between for the UMass hockey team.

In the wake of LaMar Cook's arrest, a vaunted "teaching hotel" in the heart of campus is drawing attention as one setting in an elaborate cocaine sting.