Keeping Score: Trying times for Marty Tirrell
Published: 1/15/2021 6:28:41 PM
Modified: 1/15/2021 6:28:38 PM
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Around the time Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, former Greenfield resident Marty Tirrell will be standing before the Honorable Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. After several delays and continuances, the 61-year-old Tirrell will be sentenced for one count of mail fraud.
Small potatoes you might think, but Tirrell’s case was pled down from a 10-count indictment to save the court both time and expense.
The Greenfield native used cons to wine and dine on other peoples’ dimes for decades until the FBI caught up with him. “I still walk into stores and people ask, ‘Where’s my Super Bowl tickets?’” said Dan Guin, the general manager at WHAI.
No. 10 UMass powers past New Hampshire
Modified: 12/30/2020 8:57:24 PM
Three New Hampshire power plays and a slow start set the UMass hockey team back in the first period Wednesday.
But the Minutemen killed each man advantage and built on that momentum over the second and third periods to put the Wildcats away, 4-0, at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire.
“I thought our kills gave us life and I thought we were really good on the kill tonight,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said. “Watching (UNH) on our pre-scout, we were really concerned about them, one of the better power plays in the league. . Once we got a couple kills, and at the end of one of the kills we got a hit, and once our team starts hitting and we get physically involved, we’re a much better team.”
No. 10 UMass powers past New Hampshire
Published: 12/30/2020 8:57:01 PM
Three New Hampshire power plays and a slow start set the UMass hockey team back in the first period Wednesday.
But the Minutemen killed each man advantage and built on that momentum over the second and third periods to put the Wildcats away, 4-0, at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire.
“I thought our kills gave us life and I thought we were really good on the kill tonight,” UMass coach Greg Carvel said. “Watching (UNH) on our pre-scout, we were really concerned about them, one of the better power plays in the league. . Once we got a couple kills, and at the end of one of the kills we got a hit, and once our team starts hitting and we get physically involved, we’re a much better team.”
Keeping Score: What’s my line?
Published: 11/13/2020 6:10:45 PM
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The UMass football team is 0-2 and has been outscored 92-10. The running backs are averaging under three yards a carry, and the quarterbacks have been sacked five times.
A good offensive lineman is hard to find, yet last season Ray Thomas-Ishman was let go as part of coach Walt Bell’s “we only want character guys” purge.
Any quarterback will tell you that a 6-5, 350-pound lineman has plenty of character. Bell, however, didn’t like Thomas-Ishman’s unresolved anger issues. Television viewers got a glimpse of those issues in 2017 when he went after teammate Jessie Britt during an injury timeout against Mississippi State.
Keeping Score: Where’s Brock?
Published: 12/11/2020 6:29:56 PM
Modified: 12/11/2020 6:29:43 PM
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Hockey scheduling like everything else has been a challenge in the COVID-19 era. Broadcasters want to work and fans want to listen but most schools won’t allow visiting media into their rinks and UMass hockey analyst Brock Hines and play-by-play partner Donnie Moorhouse have adjusted accordingly.
“Every week, the deck of cards gets thrown on the floor and we see where we’ll be going,” said Hines.
The season was slated to begin at Maine three weeks ago, but visiting media wouldn’t be allowed in Alfond Arena and so, said Hines, “I was going to go down to Donnie’s, plug the broadcasting unit into the TV and we’d call the game from a raw video feed. From here to Westfield beats from here to Orono, but then the game was canceled.”