Skip to Main Content
The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University

The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Terriers at the Olympics: Mennigen highlights week one in London with gold

By Daily Free Press Admin August 2, 2012

It has been a busy week in London for the Olympics, a week that included competition from six different former Boston University athletes. Here is a look at how each of the former Terriers have done so...

Teller named to U.S. national Quidditch team

By Daily Free Press Admin May 19, 2012

Early Wednesday evening, Boston University senior Kedzie Teller received an unexpected phone call that would send him overseas as a member of the first U.S. National Quidditch Team. “I was a little...

Barwise caps off stellar season with U.S. Olympic Trial qualification

By Daily Free Press Admin May 17, 2012

When Allison Barwise hit on the mats during the East Coast Athletic Conference Championship at Princeton University on May 13, she was overwhelmed with emotion. A member of the Boston University women’s...

Track and field junior qualifies for U.S. Olympic trials

By Daily Free Press Admin May 13, 2012

Boston University women’s track and field junior Allison Barwise qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in the high jump on Sunday. Barwise qualified for the trials during the East Coast Athletic Conference...

Seau family considering brain donation to BU, still undecided

By Daily Free Press Admin May 9, 2012

Junior Seau’s family is determining whether or not they will donate his brain for research, which could shed light on the cause of the retired National Football League player’s May 2 death. “The...

BU quidditch nominates three for possible Olympic spot

By Daily Free Press Admin April 9, 2012

Crouched in a huddle, the members of the Boston University quidditch team prepare for the upcoming game as captain Kedzie Teller explains the strategy for taking on its next opponent. After a loud chant,...

Weekly Roundup: Matthews, Page break BU track records

By Daily Free Press Admin January 31, 2012

Track records are not broken every day, but senior distance runner Katie Matthews and junior sprinter R.J. Page both set Boston University marks on Saturday at the Terrier Invitational indoor track meet. Matthews,...

MAZUREK: Dog Pound needs more bite

By Daily Free Press Admin October 3, 2011

There are moments in college that you will never forget.  One such event for me was my first Boston University men’s hockey game. I, like any freshman who attended Saturday’s game, was ignorant of...

MEYER: 9/11 and sports: What it all means

By Daily Free Press Admin September 12, 2011

Just as the Kennedy assassination was for my parents and as Pearl Harbor was for my grandparents, Sept. 11, 2001 was for me and my generation. It stood as a seminal moment, one of incomprehensible terror...

Two BU graduates working tirelessly to house Ochocinco

By Daily Free Press Admin September 6, 2011

When it was finalized that Chad Ochocinco would be a member of the New England Patriots, it became known that his arrival to Boston also meant the presence of his elite pass-catching skills, speed and...

Former NFL player had CTE before death, BU MED says

By Daily Free Press Admin May 4, 2011

The Boston University School of Medicine announced on Monday that Dave Duerson, a former National Football League safety who committed suicide last February, had “moderately advanced” brain damage...

Five BU student-athletes earn strength and conditioning all-American honors

By Daily Free Press Admin April 14, 2011

Five Boston University student-athletes have been named All-American Strength and Conditioning Athletes of the Year, the National Strength and Conditioning Association announced Tuesday in Colorado Springs,...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
Other