* True story from last Monday’s Beanpot championship extravaganza: A Northeastern fan is sitting in Section 14 of the FleetCenter when the second intermission comes around with the Huskies leading BU, 3-2. The women gets on her cell phone and says, “Hey, you by a TV? … Well, get to one now! End of the second, Northeastern 3, BU 2! It’s ours!” Well, after Beanpot MVP Justin Maiser’s sweet goal with 1:12 left to play, the Husky fan spins around and motors out of the Fleet, damned if you were in her path.
* Some Northeastern kids have been complaining that Maiser’s winning goal Monday never actually went into the net, sneaking under the crossbar and into the netting before bouncing out. Well, the TV footage does make it seem real close and the angle the puck bounced out at would lend some credence the argument. HOWEVER, since they have video replay abilities at the Fleet, the referees could have called upstairs if they thought the goal to be questionable. NU captain Jim Fahey said he wouldn’t cry about it, and I wish the fans and media would not as well.
* I’m sorry Sox fans, but it looks like Teddy Ballgame may not be around the see the Sox throw Commonwealth Avenue into a frenzy the way they Patriots did a few weeks ago. Seeing the footage of him showing up at Fort Myers in a wheelchair, unable to move his hands completely, was heartbreaking even to non-Sox devotee like myself.
* If everyone wants to rave about the hockey team’s freshman class, then how about the men’s basketball team’s frosh? After losing arguably the team’s best player, Matt Turner, and another integral component, Jerome Graham, to season-ending injuries, the preseason favorite Terriers seemed destined to befall to the SI Jinx (albeit not on the cover, the printed pages of SI picked BU to win a weak America East conference). However, players like Rashad Bell and Chaz Carr are leading the Terriers to what could be a No. 2 seed in the conference tourney (sorry, but Vermont looks too tough, though the two clubs are tied atop the standings).
* What a week for BU over Northeastern. First the Beanpot on Monday night, then the men’s hoop team and the women’s hoop team on Thursday night. Proves to everyone once again that a Terrier is superior to a Husky (though if I’m marooned on a mountaintop in Vermont, I could be forced to amend my view).
* The men’s swimming and diving team is victorious in the America East championship in Orono, Maine, and the Lady Terriers (as we are NOT supposed to call them) were victorious at the Armory in the America East Indoor Track and Field Championships. It was the men’s first crown since 1994, and the women won their third title in four years as Katie Ireland, took two individual events for top honors.
* Not to be forgotten in all the hoopla of the last few weeks are the women’s basketball and wrestling teams. The women’s hoopers are third in the America East conference and playing their best roundball in years. The grapplers are ranked third in New England, with Ali Abri a force to be reckoned, and freshman Joey Rivera, who wrestled for my high school’s rival and was nasty most every varsity year.
* In case you haven’t noticed, the BU Olympians are making some serious noise for the men’s hockey team. All five — Scott Young, Tony Amonte, Keith Tkachuk, Tom Poti and Chris Drury — are playing integral roles for coach Herb “Miracle Man” Brooks and the 2-0-1 Americans. Just yesterday in the Yanks’ 8-1 thrashing of Belarus, Young scored his second and third goals of the Olympics and Amonte assisted on the Bruins’ Bill Guerin’s third-period score. Yes, it’s not the same as in 1980 with rag-tag college guys like Silk, O’Callahan, Craig and Eruzione, but it still fun to watch the hometown guys take it to the world puck powers.
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