By Kailyn Smith, Sports Editor
• February 12, 2025
This year’s NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco is sure to make Valentine’s Day even more sweet. The weekend is so much bigger than Sunday night’s big game, and it truly is a showcase of the best of basketball.
Mikaela Shiffrin has finally returned to the World Cup circuit following a traumatic injury during a run in November. The fall during her giant slalom run at Killington left her with a punctured oblique and severe muscle trauma in her abdomen.
The Boston University women’s lacrosse team fell 21-6 to local rival and reigning National Champion Boston College as Eagle attack Rachel Clark netted five goals.
The Boston University women’s basketball team lost to local rivals Holy Cross 60-47, falling to ninth in the Patriot League with a 2-9 conference record.
The Boston University swimming and diving teams competed in the seventh-annual Boston Winter Open held at the FitRec Competition Pool over the weekend.
In the 91st meeting between the Boston University men’s basketball team and College of the Holy Cross, the Crusaders cruised to victory in front of their home crowd, 72-52.
Jimmy Butler’s campaign to garner the most attention this season has failed, and not just because it was overshadowed by the blockbuster trade that sent Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks and Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Case Gymnasium has been good to the Boston University men’s basketball team this season. The Terriers (12-12, 6-5 PL) secured an eighth-consecutive home victory led by graduate student guard Miles Brewster's career-high 25 points, defeating Navy 87-65 on Wednesday night.
With the Pro Bowl behind us, the NFL train has departed for its final destination in the 2024-2025 season — the Super Bowl. The two remaining teams are no strangers to success.
To start the weekend, third-place Nottingham Forest hosted mid-table Brighton & Hove Albion. Both teams entered the match off losses — Forest was coming off a 5-0 thrashing from AFC Bournemouth, while Brighton lost 1-0 on a penalty to Everton.
Utah Hockey Club is finally getting a name. Smith Entertainment Group, owners of the Utah Jazz, acquired majority ownership rights to the NHL team back in April 2024. The news came after a few months of speculation that Ryan Smith, SEG chairman, wanted a team in Utah, and that team would be the now-defunct Arizona Coyotes.
This season, women’s lacrosse is looking to bounce back. After going 5-11 last year and just 1-8 in conference play, they took a step back from improvement seen in 2023, a year in which they saw their best record since head coach Lauren Morton’s first season in 2019.
