MAZUREK: The wonderful weekend that was

With basketball having begun on Friday, Boston University athletics are now in full swing. For any fan of BU sports, the winter months are probably the best time of the year – when hockey and basketball compete for students’ attention over midterms, papers and eventually finals. While it might not feel like winter outside, winter [...]

COUGHLAN: Time to break out the weekend planners

Big weekend coming up. Biggest one yet, really. The days are getting shorter, the midterms are getting longer, and you’ve finally slept off that Halloween hangover. Walks to class are getting colder and what was once excitement for the beginning of hockey season has faded into the rhythmic cycle of weekly bouts with Hockey East [...]

McCARTHY: The shame of Happy Valley

Well, we now know the depths of despair in college athletics today. For years, the standard bearer of programs misbehaving has been the cash laden antics of Southern Methodist University football in the 1980s. SMU boldly turned their noses up at the very idea of discretion, and in turn received the program decimating “death penalty.” [...]

MAZUREK: The maddening absence of Madness

Last week I attempted to bring to light the attendance problem that plagues the Boston University basketball program by providing you with numbers and statistics. While the statistics can speak for themselves, what really is important is trying to understand the causes of poor attendance and possible solutions to this problem. BU’s urban setting is [...]

COUGHLAN: Era of conference dominance continues for women’s soccer

It is one thing for a sports team to get into the habit of winning. That would be like the Boston University men’s basketball team and their 11-game win streak en route to the America East Conference Championship last year or the Green Bay Packers and their string of wins through their first seven games [...]