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The Daily Free Press

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CUMMINGS: Collegiate athletes lead hard lives

By Daily Free Press Admin April 12, 2011

Over the weekend while most of us fixed our sports gaze onto the Red Sox/Yankees clash, I was busy noticing how many BU athletes either achieved some notable accomplishment or were honored for excellence...

FLAGLER: Parker must establish program where top players want to stay

By Daily Free Press Admin April 7, 2011

For the last two seasons, the Boston University men’s hockey team has fallen short of expectations. It failed to win a Beanpot, it failed to win a Hockey East title, and it failed to make the NCAA...

HAYES: Mid-majors should follow Butler’s lead

By Daily Free Press Admin April 6, 2011

Let’s say, minutes after Gordon Hayward’s long, last-second 3-point shot misses falling into the hoop at the 2010 national championship game by mere inches you are asked a simple question: “Which...

CUMMINGS: Baseball fans should turn to BU softball

By Daily Free Press Admin April 5, 2011

While I wait for the weather to warm up and watch as the semester draws to a close and summer gradually approaches, my mind has already automatically switched into baseball mode, meaning that the part...

FLAGLER: BU fans should find underdog to root for in Butler

By Daily Free Press Admin March 31, 2011

It’s almost April. Baseball is back. You can walk outside without looking like an overstuffed penguin, and, less importantly to you, I have to go get a job in less than two months. More importantly...

HAYES: Approaches to hockey at BU, BC diverging

By Daily Free Press Admin March 30, 2011

Before the puck dropped in St. Louis last Friday for an NCAA Tournament west regional semifinal, Boston College appeared prepared to walk away with a win. The top-ranked Eagles were facing fourth-ranked...

CUMMINGS: More obscure spring sports can still entertain fans

By Daily Free Press Admin March 29, 2011

Now that spring is here and hockey and basketball seasons are officially over, I assumed that I would have nothing to write about for the remainder of the year and that my columns would just rehash old...

Holland's final games confirm his status as all-time BU great

By Daily Free Press Admin March 24, 2011

If the Boston University basketball season had ended two weeks ago, senior forward John Holland would have hung up his jersey as one of the program’s best players of the last decade. He finished second...

HAYES: Watching BU keep up with Kansas through first half was something special

By Daily Free Press Admin March 23, 2011

As the clock struck seven in Tulsa, Okla., on Friday, the sun set over the Arkansas River. Slowly, quietly and without protest, the great ball of fire slid under the horizon and darkness began to fall...

CUMMINGS: Lack of new banners at Agganis nothing to cry about

By Daily Free Press Admin March 22, 2011

Welcome back, all you anxious Terriers! I hope your spring break was as inactive and mind-numbing as mine was, filled with plenty of nights staying up until 5 a.m. and sleeping until 1 p.m. And hopefully...

Playoff weekend broken up by spring break

By Daily Free Press Admin March 10, 2011

This is the most important sports weekend at Boston University that I have ever experienced. After Saturday, all four of BU’s major men’s and women’s winter sports teams could be competing in postseason...

HAYES: Chambers just what BU program needed

By Daily Free Press Admin March 9, 2011

Two years ago, Boston University Athletic Director Mike Lynch had a vision. Former men’s basketball coach Dennis Wolff was not part of it. Wolff, who had been coaching the BU men’s basketball team...

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