By Sam Robb O’Hagan Cover Photo Credit: Eliza Nuestro Half an hour before tip at the Patriot League Women’s Basketball Championship Game, Victoria Paspalas addresses her band. On this day, March 12, before BU takes on Holy Cross with a trip to the NCAA Tournament on the line, the pep band appears twice as strong […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan If Aaron Rodgers’ return to civilization from his dystopian darkness retreat is a move to the New York Jets, it would be difficult to argue that the light is again shining on either quarterback or franchise. Both parties will certainly brand their joining of forces, once a pipe-dream rumor that is […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Cover Photo Credit: Eliza Nuestro Boston University Women’s Basketball (24-8, 17-1 PL) couldn’t complete a 16-0 fourth quarter run in the Patriot League Championship Game, running out of clock against the Holy Cross Crusaders (24-8, 13-5 PL) and falling 66-61. With two-and-a-half minutes left in the fourth quarter, Sydney Johnson’s sudden […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Cover Photo Credit: Eliza Nuestro In front of a rocking Case Gymnasium crowd, Boston University Women’s Basketball shutout the Army West Point Black Knights in overtime to win 84-68, moving within one win of the NCAA Tournament. Army’s Lauren Lithgow made all three free-throws with 0:24 left in regulation to send […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Cover Photo Credit: Jacob Ireland Boston University Men’s Basketball (15-16, 8-10 PL) couldn’t outlast Jalen Rucker and the Army West Point Black Knights (16-15, 10-8 PL), falling 71-69 in overtime of the Patriot League Quarterfinals to end their 2022-23 season. With 25 seconds left in regulation, graduate wing Walter Whyte couldn’t […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan 20 turnovers, only seven fourth-quarter points and five missed free throws down the stretch undid Boston University Women’s Basketball’s undefeated conference record (22-7, 17-1 PL) as the Terriers fell to the Holy Cross Crusaders (21-8, 13-5 PL) 57-53 at Hart Center in Worcester. Trailing by two with 11 seconds left, Sydney […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Imagining Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson in a Carolina Panthers uniform just feels right. Cam Newton, perhaps the most iconic player to ever wear Carolina’s uniform, makes regular appearances throughout Richardson’s redshirt sophomore season tape in Gainesville. The comparisons are too easy. Newton was extraordinarily big (6-foot-5, 245 pounds), and everything that […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Cover Photo Credit: Stevie Potter BU Head Coach Joe Jones won his 200th game with Boston University Men’s Basketball (13-16, 6-10 PL), defeating the Bucknell Bison (11-18, 4-12 PL) 77-61 at Case Gym after a 46-point second half performance. Down four points at halftime, the Terriers made six 3-pointers and shot […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Every year, 30 NFL teams keep the same tweet up their sleeves as they watch the two teams competing in the Super Bowl; importantly, two teams that are not them. They watch the Super Bowl and they wait, and they wait, to empty the chamber of their Twitter drafts when the […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Patrick Mahomes is great at everything. Five AFC Championships, two Super Bowl appearances, two MVPs and one Super Bowl speak for themselves, of course, but the ubiquitousness of Mahomes’ greatness is the first of its kind. His superpower — if there has to be just one — is that there isn’t […]