By Ian Katan The January transfer window and its ludicrous spending slammed shut earlier this week, and Premier League teams are seeing varying degrees of transfer success. Leeds and Nottingham Forest met at City Ground this weekend, two clubs exiting the window with very different outlooks for the rest of the season. Leeds United, sitting […]
By Ian Katan The Premier League has not disappointed since its return from the World Cup in December. Arsenal continue their fight to stay ahead of Manchester City; Liverpool and Chelsea have slipped to embarrassing ninth and 10th positions, respectively; and Fulham and Newcastle maintain their strong runs in the top half of the table. […]
By Ian Katan Two of the best teams in the world took to the field at Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday for the right to play in back-to-back World Cup semifinals. Sadly, only one could advance. England’s dream of bringing home the trophy was dashed in their 2-1 defeat to France, the defending champions. In […]
By Ian Katan The first knockout test for the Three Lions after finishing top of their group was Senegal’s Lions of Teranga. While Senegal proved to be a challenging adversary in this World Cup, England dismantled the opposing Lions with relative ease and secured a spot in the quarterfinals after a 3-0 triumph. Senegal was […]
By Ian Katan The 2022 World Cup is underway, and England has big expectations to live up to. They’ve been heartbreakingly close to success in recent major tournaments, finishing second at last year’s Euros and being eliminated in the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup. Throughout history too, they have been a story of never […]
Both the Boston University Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving teams competed this weekend at the 2022 Terrier Invitational. The Men’s team placed 3rd of 5 and the Women’s team placed 4th of 6. Freshman Tony Ponomarev earned his second win of the weekend with a 1:46.19 in the 200 back. He previously tied for […]
By Ian Katan In the final round of games until it returns on Boxing Day, the Premier League delivered big results. Newcastle downed Chelsea, who now sit eighth; Leeds fell on the wrong side of another 4-3 scoreline; and Nottingham Forest moved off the bottom of the table. At the top of the table, Arsenal […]
By Ian Katan Leicester City visited Everton’s Goodison Park on Saturday and earned an important 2-0 win that brought them up to 14th, with one more week to go until the global pause for the World Cup. After a very poor start to the season that seriously threatened manager Brendan Rogers’ job, and saw them […]
By Ian Katan Just two weeks ago, I wrote a column titled “Back on Track” focusing on Mohamed Salah’s stunning goal that lifted Liverpool to a 1-0 win over Manchester City, and how it could have been exactly what they needed to get their poor season moving in the right direction. Instead, their last two […]
The Boston University’s Women’s Hockey team broke their four game losing streak and defeated Merrimack College by a score of 5-2 on Saturday at Walter Brown Arena. Senior forward Julia Nearis scored her third and fourth goals of the season, which leads the team. Graduate forward Jesse DeVito, junior defenseman Andi Calderone, and freshman forward […]