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 […]
McCARTHY: A call to the ghosts of Walter Brown
What I remember most vividly is the noise. Walter Brown seated less than 4,000 people, but on some nights, it seemed to be the loudest venue in Boston. The chatter of the consistently sold out crowds would ricochet off the hospital-white cement walls and red iron support beams, smothering everyone inside. Its underground acoustics and […]
MAZUREK: Numbers don’t lie with BU basketball attendance
Let me begin with a warning – in this column, I will be dropping hard facts to get my point across because I do not believe in sugar-coating the problems that concern Boston University athletics. The biggest issue I have seen during my tenure at BU has been below average – actually I’d go as […]
COUGHLAN: Consistent inconsistency has to come to end for men’s hockey
Let’s roll back the tape, shall we? Just three weeks ago, the Boston University men’s ice hockey team’s captain corps rattled off a few sound bites to the media about their upcoming season. The overarching theme of their comments was, in a word, excitement. Excitement for a new season, excitement for the games that lay […]
McCARTHY: True basketball fans luck out in midst of lockout
In his column last week on Grantland, Bill Simmons wrote “two weeks (and counting) of canceled NBA games. And as we’re finding out, nobody except die-hard NBA junkies care. Everyone else? They’re more than happy to keep watching pro and college football through the holidays.” This is certainly an astute and not entirely inaccurate observation. […]
