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Kaidon Salter threw for 225 yards, rushed for 118 and accounted for four touchdowns Saturday as No. 25 Liberty defeated UMass 49-25. Salter averaged better than 20 yards per pass while completing 11 of 16. The Flames (11-0) struck early, scoring on four straight first-half drives to take a 28-0 lead. ....
KEY MATCHUP UMass RB Greg Desrosiers Jr. against the Liberty defense and special teams. He's coming off a 162-yard rushing day with touchdown runs of 8, 46 and 57 yards in a 31-21 win against Merrimack and touches the ball in many ways. He has 31 rushes for 285 yards and four touchdowns, 12 catches for 148 yards and two touchdowns and 466 kickoff return yards, 15th in FBS. ....
A Jewish student was assaulted in an antisemitic attack at the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (my parents taught there in the 1980s and 90s, and it is in contention for the uglie. ....
The arrest is the latest at a college campus, following the arrest of a Cornell student for allegedly posting threatening antisemitic rhetoric online. ....
The local demonstrations are planned at multiple institutions including Harvard Divinity School, Smith College, UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, and Tufts University. ....