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Saturday, February 28, 2004
MEN'S LACROSSE: Minutemen open with heavyweight
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - There will be no easing into the 2004 men's lacrosse season for the University of Massachusetts. Coming off last year's 13-3 season, the Minutemen will lock horns with a college lacrosse heavyweight right away. UMass, which is ranked No. 7 in the preseason poll, at 1 p.m. Saturday faces No. 8 North Carolina in a neutral site game at Calvert Hall High School in Baltimore. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Bonnies next for UMass
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - There haven't been too many opportunities for Paco Kotaridis this season. The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team has rarely led by enough to allow the senior walk-on from Greece to see action. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Lappas invites fan questions
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - With his team heading toward the end of its third straight losing season, University of Massachusetts coach Steve Lappas is taking an unusual step to combat fan frustration. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass closes home show
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
What would Senior Day be without seniors? That's almost the situation the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team finds itself in today, when the Minutemen close their home season against St. Bonaventure at the Mullins Center. . .
Friday, February 27, 2004
MEN'S LACROSSE: The lacrosse legacy enters year No. 50
Daily Collegian / By Andrew Merritt
AMHERST, Mass. - It is a feeling that permeates throughout the University of Massachusetts campus. The epicenter is a small patch of land just west of the hallowed hall where legends like Julius Erving played basketball. Garber Field is the home base of the tradition of UMass lacrosse, a tradition that turns 50 years old this season. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Hoops set to face St. Bonaventure
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
AMHERST, Mass. - Still in search of its 100th overall win at the William D. Mullins Center since the building's 1992 opening, the Massachusetts men's basketball team will take to its home court for the final time this season when St. Bonaventure (6-18 2-11 Atlantic 10) comes to Amherst Saturday for an Atlantic 10 contest slated to tip off at 2 p.m. . .
Thursday, February 26, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: It falls in Lappas's lap
Boston Globe / By Mark Blaudschun
AMHERST, Mass. - The message is not so much in what is said, but rather what isn't. Game days come and go, Steve Lappas goes about his job, attempting to prepare a team that starts each game with great ambition and finishes with great disappointment. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Introducing the real Cinderella
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
This is the way it should have been for us, and the way some historical revisionists around the University of Massachusetts would like us to think it was. . .
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Hawks invade Mullins
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
When a team is 24-0, this deep into the college basketball season, the coach's opinion on anything becomes relevant. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass and URI zeroing in
Boston Globe / By Marvin Pave
UMass basketball coach Steve Lappas didn't get technical at first when analyzing his team's chances of spoiling Saint Joseph's perfect season tonight at the Mullins Center. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: St. Joe's brings act to UMass
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
AMHERST, Mass. - The Saint Joseph's University men's basketball team does miss shots, 685 this season alone. It just doesn't seem that way. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Unbeatable?
Daily Collegian / By Becky Horowitz
The only place to go is up. Tonight, the Massachusetts men's basketball team will face undefeated No. 2 St. Joseph's in a game that means more for its pride than its record. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: A crucial one for Lappas
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
February 24, 1996 - a day that will live in infamy. For Massachusetts' men's basketball fans, the memory is a painful one. . .
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
SWIMMING: Mark of excellence
Daily Collegian / By Matt Barstow
The top six swimming and diving teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference finished the season in the same order as last year - good news for the Massachusetts men, which captured their fourth consecutive A-10 title over the weekend. . .
INDOOR TRACK & FIELD: Rough road for UMass
Daily Collegian / By Brendan Hall and Leah Wyner
The Massachusetts men's and women's indoor track squads encountered some turbulence this week at the Atlantic 10 Championships. . .
Monday, February 23, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: Pock a rock on UMass blue line
Boston Herald / By John Connolly
The Pock stops here. Especially when the slippery black disk is on the stick of UMass captain Thomas Pock. The senior from Klagenfurt, Austria, has been the tempo-setter for the Minutemen this season and almost since the time he arrived in Massachusetts. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Painfully familiar scene for UMass
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
BRONX, N.Y. - It's almost eerie how similar the scripts have been For the third straight year, an unheralded player on a bad Fordham team had a career-game leading the Rams past the University of Massachusetts 75-61 Saturday at Rose Hill Gymnasium. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Minutemen hit bottom at Fordham
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
BRONX, N.Y. - The question has inevitably been asked after any ugly loss by the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team in recent years. . .
Saturday, February 21, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass seeks win
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
Today's game at Fordham may help answer some troubling questions that have cropped up lately about the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass eyes Bronx win
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
A game at Fordham for most men's basketball teams in the Atlantic 10 has represented a breather, a likely win and a chance for players to get some confidence back. . .
Friday, February 20, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: Minutemen looking for top four finish
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
Boston University is having a down season, but the goaltending of Sean Fields could turn things up for the Terriers in the final six games of the Hockey East regular season. Fields is hot, and last weekend, University of Massachusetts goaltender Gabe Winer was not as the teams enter a critical weekend set. . .
Thursday, February 19, 2004
UMASS ATHLETICS: Former star's number retired
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Throughout his coaching career, Al Skinner has earned a reputation for being genuine and sincere and, unlike many of his colleagues, not particularly long-winded. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Skinner's number raised to rafters
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
AMHERST, Mass. - George "Trigger" Burke, Julius Erving, Loe Roe and now, finally, Al Skinner. With former teammate Rick Pitino as the driving force behind it, Dr. J serving as master of ceremonies, and proud coach and mentor Jack Leaman watching proudly, the former UMass great finally had his night. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Uplifting night for Skinner
Providence Journal / By Paul Kenyon
AMHERST, Mass. - It took 30 years for the University of Massachusetts to retire Al Skinner's jersey, but when it did it, it did it right. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Skinner's number retired
Boston Globe / By Joe Burris
AMHERST, Mass. - As former Massachusetts basketball standout and Boston College coach Al Skinner had his UMass jersey No. 30 retired yesterday, Jack Leaman, Skinner's former coach, recalled that Skinner was asked at his first press conference whether he would be the school's next Julius Erving. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Skinner forever a winner at UMass
Boston Herald / By Mike Shalin
AMHERST, Mass. - Al Skinner played in both the NBA and the now-defunct American Basketball Association, winning the final title awarded in the latter as a member of the New York Nets. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Skinner feted at UMass
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
AMHERST, Mass. - He wasn't the greatest player ever to perform for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team, although he was close. The beauty of Al Skinner, though, was found in other ways. . .
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
UMASS ATHLETICS: UMass to honor Skinner
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
Everyone will be there. His family. His friends. Julius Erving. Rick Pitino. Even the old coach, Jack Leaman, will be there. They will all be present when the University of Massachusetts retires the No. 30 jersey of one of its basketball alums, Boston College coach Al Skinner. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: A night for No. 30
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
At halftime of tonight's contest between the Massachusetts men's basketball team and Atlantic 10 rival Rhode Island, former UMass great and current Boston College head coach Al Skinner's number 30 will be retired alongside George Burke and Julius Erving's number 32 and Loe Roe's number 15 on the William D. Mullins Center's south wall, marking the highest honor an academic institution can bestow upon one of it's former student-athletes. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Men's basketball: A coach is upstaging his two ex-teams
Providence Journal / By Paul Kenyon
AMHERST, Mass. - For one night, the halftime show at a URI-UMass basketall game could be as much fun as the game itself. The Rams and Minutemen meet for the 122nd time tonight at 7 o'clock at the Mullins Center. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: High time for Skinner
Boston Globe / By Michael Vega
Everyone will be there. His family. His friends. Julius Erving. Rick Pitino. Even the old coach, Jack Leaman, will be there. They will all be present when the University of Massachusetts retires the No. 30 jersey of one of its basketball alums, Boston College coach Al Skinner. . .
UMASS ATHLETICS: Skinner's number will be retired
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
At halftime of tonight's basketball game at the Mullins Center, Al Skinner and Julius Erving will be forever joined in University of Massachusetts history after never quite making it on the court together in Amherst. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: URI, ceremony tonight at Mullins, UMass eyes sweep
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
Third place in the Atlantic 10 East Division is on the line tonight when the universities of Massachusetts and Rhode Island meet at 7 p.m. in the Mullins Center. UMass (9-13, 3-7 A-10) will try to sweep the season series from URI (14-11, 3-8). . .
MEN'S SWIMMING: Chartier making a name for himself
Daily Collegian / By Matt Barstow
Greg Chartier is a product of the system. Born and raised in Amherst, Mass., the freshman swimming sensation has never drifted far from his roots. . .
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: A journey to hoop heaven
Daily Collegian / By Todd Foster
Five hours from tip, the forest green Grand Cherokee pulled up to doors outside the Kennedy Tower as Patrycja Gulak emerged from the doors. . .
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: Minutemen look good for NCAA tourney bid
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - There is far too much hockey remaining for the University of Massachusetts players and coaches to start seriously thinking about their chances of making the first NCAA Tournament in program history. . .
Monday, February 16, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Minuteman gets a real education
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
AMHERST, Mass. - Considering the season Rashaun Freeman has been having, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball center is probably entitled to a little slack after an off game. . .
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass women tumble; Bailey contributes big
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
AMHERST, Mass. - While so many people would like to shed a few pounds, Edris Bailey is fixing to fatten up. . .
Sunday, February 15, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: UMass outclassed
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
BOSTON, Mass. - It was Valentine's Day, and Cupid couldn't have been more accurate with his ar- row than the Boston College hockey team was with its first period shots last night. . .
Saturday, February 14, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Confusion is UMass goal
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
CINCINNATI, Oh. - Faced with the task of keeping Romain Sato in check, University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Steve Lappas says he basically hopes to confuse the Xavier guard and his teammates into submission. . .
ICE HOCKEY: BC mauls UMass: Stays ahead in HE
Boston Herald / By John Connolley
AMHERST, Mass. - Hosting a ``barnfull' of recruits and cheered on by the first-ever hockey sellout in the Mullins Center, UMass coach Don ``Toot'' Cahoon called it the perfect opportunity for his team to overachieve. . .
ICE HOCKEY: Top spot secure
Boston Globe / By Paul Harber
AMHERST, Mass. - Coach Don Cahoon spammed the University of Massachusetts campus with an e-mail this week. He asked the student body to make history at the Mullins Center in last night's showdown against Boston College, the No. 1-ranked team in the nation. . .
ICE HOCKEY: First Mullins hockey sellout
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Despite his disappointment over his team's performance, University of Massachusetts coach Toot Cahoon appreciated the atmosphere created by the first-ever hockey sellout at the Mullins Center. . .
FOOTBALL: Brown brings Northeastern staff
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - New University of Massachusetts football coach Don Brown has brought almost his entire staff of assistant coaches from Northeastern with him. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass faces re-energized Xavier
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Two weeks ago would have been the perfect time for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team to take on Xavier. . .
Friday, February 13, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: UMass prepares for BC
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
Freshman forward Garrett Summerfield watched the Beanpot on television Monday night, and like most of his University of Massachusetts teammates, he was hoping the game would never end. . .
ICE HOCKEY: Showdown at the Mullins Center, UMass faces top-ranked BC
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Take a deep breath before listing the ramifications of tonight's hockey game at the Mullins Center. The University of Massachusetts hockey team is playing the No. 1 team in the nation at 7 p.m. for a chance to clinch playoff home ice, improve their chances of making the NCAA Tournament, earn state bragging rights and move into first place in Hockey East for the first time ever in February in front of probably the biggest crowd ever to see a hockey game in Amherst. . .
ICE HOCKEY: Winer key for Minutemen
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Desperate to start a comeback with his team trailing by three goals, New Hampshire forward Nathan Martz fired quickly as he collected the puck skating through the slot in the third period last Friday. University of Massachusetts goalie Gabe Winer's right foot beat the shot to the corner post, but the rebound caromed right back to Martz's stick. . .
ICE HOCKEY: Clash of the Titans
Daily Collegian / By Andrew Merritt
Thousands of fans. Two of the best teams in Hockey East. National attention. Implications for the rest of the season. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Anderson keeps faith in UMass
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
AMHERST, Mass. - Anthony Anderson insists he never gets tired, rarely gets frustrated, and never stops believing in his team. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass faces Musketeers
Daily Collegian / By Becky Horowitz
With the end of an unsteady season fast approaching the Massachusetts men's basketball team will take on Xavier, Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Cintas Center. . .
TENNIS: Tennis team ready to take on the A-10
Daily Collegian / By Leah Wyner
There's no doubt about it. The Massachusetts Women's tennis team is in for an exciting season, starting this weekend in a first-ever match against Syracuse. . .
INDOOR TRACK: Trackless but prepared
Daily Collegian / By Leah Wyner
Anyone who's ever picked up a ball will agree that success in athletics is due to practice. . .
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Injuries hurt Minutewomen as losses mount
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Andy Vogt
As a disappointing season nears the end, the University of Massachusetts women's basketball team has more players clad in street clothes on its bench than those wearing the familiar maroon and white warm-ups. . .
Thursday, February 12, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: Time is now for upset-minded Minutemen
Boston Globe / By Marvin Pave
They're No. 1 in the nation and No. 1 in the Beanpot, and the Boston College Eagles' next challenge is a pair of weekend games against the University of Massachusetts, which trails first-place BC by 1 point in Hockey East. . .
FOOTBALL: New coach adds players
Springfield Republican / By Jeff Thomas
AMHERST, Mass. - Don Brown promised he wouldn't forget the recruits who were waffling on playing college football here, and he kept his word. Brown, the new head coach at the University of Massachusetts, added two more recruits to the nine signed last week to national letters of intent. . .
FOOTBALL: UMass gets QB
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
Liam Coen was getting anxious. The La Salle Academy (Providence, R.I.) quarterback had verbally committed to the University of Massachusetts, but coach Mark Whipple had left to be the quarterback coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. . .
SOFTBALL: Minutewomen set to Fiesta
Daily Collegian / By Todd Foster
The No. 30 Massachusetts softball team opens the 2004 season in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend during the three-day Fiesta Bowl Classic. Now in her 25th year as head coach, Elaine Sortino has made winning a tradition and knows the Fiesta Bowl Classic is a very challenging start to any season. . .
INDOOR TRACK: Men's track to head to Boston
Daily Collegian / By Brendan Hall
The Massachusetts men's indoor track squad will be up against some of the stiffest competition in the north this weekend as they travel to Boston University for the Fast Track Invitational on Saturday. . .
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Minutewomen to battle Rams
Daily Collegian / By Bob McGovern
As the Massachusetts women's basketball team approaches its final two weeks of the season, it will be looking to salvage some pride in a year that is all but lost. . .
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Reasons for optimism about Minutemen
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
Maybe the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team's strong effort in defeat against Dayton wasn't a sign of things to come. It could have just been a strong outing in a season of struggles for UMass. That's possible. The Minutemen are 9-12. But most people who witnessed that game and any of the four that preceded it have reasons to believe the team is at least starting to turn the corner. . .
FOOTBALL: Brown era set to begin
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
AMHERST, Mass. - Now that the smoke has cleared and the dust has settled, it's time for new Massachusetts head football coach Don Brown to get down to the business of getting the program he inherited from longtime friend, boss and rival Mark Whipple in order. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Back to earth at UMass
Boston Globe / By Michael Holley
Something remarkable is happening in Western Massachusetts. I'm not sure if it's a college basketball program's slow death or its return to reality after living a dream. . .
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
FOOTBALL: UMass gets Brown and NU sees red
Boston Globe / By Joe Burris
The University of Massachusetts yesterday named Don Brown, who has been Northeastern's football coach the last four years, to be its new coach, replacing Mark Whipple, who left to join the Pittsburgh Steelers. . .
FOOTBALL: UMass names coach
Brown returns to lead football
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - The question from the back of the room during the press conference Monday introducing Don Brown as the new head coach of the UMass football team wasn't from the media. Redshirt defensive back James Ihedigbo's inquiry was simple: ''Coach, what kind of defense are we going to play?''. . .
FOOTBALL: Fiery and emotional leader the right choice
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
When the final moments were ticking off the clock during the 1998 Division I-AA championship game, some University of Massachusetts players grabbed the cooler full of Gatorade and sneaked up on their coach in the time-honored celebration tradition. . .
FOOTBALL: Brown flees NU for UMass: Coach back in Amherst to fill Whipple's post
Boston Herald / By George Miller
AMHERST, Mass. - In its drive to replace the architect of the most successful period in UMass football history, the university turned to a former assistant coach - the head coach of a Bay State rival - to fill the void. . .
FOOTBALL: Minutemen lure Huskies' coach
Springfield Republican / By Jeff Thomas
AMHERST, Mass. - In the end, the University of Massachusetts got the head football coach it wanted from the start. Don Brown, the creator of the defense that helped the Minutemen win the Division I-AA national championship in 1998 and the Atlantic 10 title in 1999, is back at UMass as the 27th head coach in the program's 121-year history. . .
FOOTBALL: Brown takes the helm
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
AMHERST, Mass. - Don Brown, a former defensive coordinator for the Massachusetts football team, has returned to UMass as the team's head coach, in a move that has brought criticism and possible legal action from his former employer, Northeastern University. . .
FOOTBALL: Defense is hot topic for new coach
Daily Collegian / By Mike Marzelli
AMHERST, Mass. - Massachusetts freshman safety James Ihedigbo does not pretend to be a reporter, nor is he a journalism major planning to enter the media. Nonetheless, the Amherst Regional product who enjoyed a stellar rookie campaign in 2003 felt compelled to raise his hand and ask a question of his new football coach before the introductory press conference announcing his arrival had concluded. . .
Monday, February 9, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Brown new UMass football coach
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts Monday named Don Brown as its 27th head football coach. Brown, 48, who is currently the head coach at Northeastern University, was the defensive coordinator on the Minutemen's Division I-AA national championship team in 1998 and Atlantic 10 championship team in 1999. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass big man coming into his own
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - There were moments as recently as three weeks ago when it was fair to wonder if University of Massachusetts backup big man Stephane Lasme would improve enough this season to provide any consistent help to the Minutemen. . .
Sunday, February 8, 2004
MEN'S BASKETBALL: UMass faces tall order in Dayton
Springfield Republican / By Ron Chimelis
AMHERST, Mass. - Its credibility restored, and its confidence soaring, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team now confronts the biggest challenge since its four-game winning streak began. Literally. . .
Saturday, February 7, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: UMass clips UNH
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
AMHERST, Mass. - It was Mullet Night at the Mullins Center, and the long and short of it was that the University of Massachusetts hockey team had one of the best nights in the history of the program. . .
ICE HOCKEY: UMass no cupcake for UNH
Boston Herald / By George Miller
AMHERST, Mass. - The national rankings and the Hockey East positions didn't exactly jive with one another, but UMass managed to solidify its hold on second place in the conference last night and pushed around an opponent that's given the Minutemen all kinds of trouble over the past few seasons. . .
ICE HOCKEY: Fine Winer - Goalie leads UMass domination of UNH
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts hockey team's struggles against New Hampshire seemed like a distant memory Friday as the Minutemen dismantled the No. 10-ranked Wildcats 4-1 before 6,613 fans at the Mullins Center. . .
MEN'S BASKETBALL: A tall task for UMass
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team out of necessity turned to a one-in, four-out lineup last month. But it may have turned the season around as the Minutemen have won four straight since they began starting just one big man. . .
Friday, February 6, 2004
ICE HOCKEY: Weekend Hockey East series crucial
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - With fewer than 10 games remaining for most teams in Hockey East, every league series will be critical as teams fight for positioning in next month's conference tournament. . .
ICE HOCKEY: A fine 'do' at Mullins
Daily Hampshire Gazette / By Matt Vautour
AMHERST, Mass. - Call it whatever nickname you want - the Camaro Cut, the Mississippi Mud Flap, the Skirted Egg Shell, Achy Breaky Hair - they all work fine. But the mullet wig on UMass Daily Collegian sports writer Andy Merritt's head looked at least a little ridiculous outside hockey practice Thursday. . .
ICE HOCKEY: UMass makes line change
Springfield Republican / By Dick Baker
AMHERST, Mass. - Junior forward Tim Vitek's specialty has been speed and defense, but now the University of Massachusetts center is looking to put some more points on the board. . .
ICE HOCKEY: UMass to face UNH
Daily Collegian / By Andrew Merritt
AMHERST, Mass. - Business in front, party in back. Any pseudo-nostalgic college student worth his or her salt knows that the above is the street definition for the mullet. . .