Category: Boston College Athletics

It's March again and you know what that means.

March Madness

Frozen Four

Fantasy Baseball

The sports trifecta.

It's sad to know that I've reached a point and career in my life where no one bothers to invite me to fill out a bracket unless I beg.  So I just created a league and cajoled my colleagues to join.  As

Every season has a defining game.  The victory over Florida State Seminoles was it for the Boston College Golden Eagles' 2009 season regardless of what happens for the remainder of the season.

To a Future Eagle,

Congratulations on your acceptance to Boston College!

The odds are that in the past year and a half, you carefully researched BC's academic program, spoke with the students already attending, and toured the school to get a feel for the campus so your choice to attend the school is a result of thoughtful

James Bond is a cool name because it's short, crisp and balanced.  The last is important.  You can't suavely pull off a "Bond, James Bond" if it's "Bondessville, Jim Bondessville."

My name, on the other hand, is long and unbalanced, with a one syllable first name and a four syllable last name.

I discussed my bracket with some people (okay, one person, mainly) and reviewed my "real" bracket and realized I have an all-Big East Final Four.  Separate and apart from the unlikeliness of that happening, I just hate the Big East and upon further reflection, I realized that I think Pitt, a team that went as

It's that wonderful time of the year again, when America's economy loses an estimated $4 billion in productivity with no help from a recession because employees obsess about college games to which they have little to no connection.

And it's not just at work either.  I remember when I was in high school, classmates brought in

I received this week's issue of Sports Illustrated yesterday.  I read SI on my commute, always in the same order:  the back page column, the front page photos, and then the "Players" section, which is increasingly becoming my favorite after the departure of columnist Rick Reilly.

For the first time that I can recall, the topic

While I was in Japan, I read a story along these lines about Australian sailors' efforts to stop Japanese whaling practices and an editorial in a newspaper by an European objecting to how Japan is raping their seas.

I can think of no issue that pisses me off more than the Western objection to Japanese whaling,

Oh good, BC basketball team got beat by the hapless Harvard team a game after they beat #1 UNC.

You can't make this stuff up.

Boston College football's head coach Jeff Jagodzinski, affectionately known as Jags, will be fired by Boston College after proceeding to interview for the New York Jets' vacant head coach position even after Athletic Director Gene DeFelippo warned him doing so would lead to his termination.

This bizarre turn of events came

$10 million for each ACC team?  Wow that's a lot of cash.  And I know exactly where that $10 million went.  A million bucks on a staircase and now $10 million on a building that's already standing...  Hmmm...  All kidding aside, $10 million on restoration of Gasson Hall is a money well spent.  The building

This one was just painful to watch.

I knew the Eagles were in trouble when V-Tech marched right down the field with little resistance on its first drive.  The BC offense just isn't built to come back from big deficits, and the first drive was just too easy.

It was an impressive win.  It wasn't miraculous, like last week at Wake Forest.  It wasn't dominating, like the week before at Florida State.  But the victory sure was methodical, the defense dominating, the offense sufficient, converting two turnovers while committing none, and the coach making aggressive calls.  It wasn't an easy win, but it

24-21, BC over Wake Forest.

Yesterday, I would've told you this is as expected.  After how the game transpired today, this is another "Holy Shit I Can't Believe They Pulled It Off" game.

Which victory was more unlikely?  BC's come from behind victory at Virginia Tech last year that required two touchdowns and an onside kick in

My dad sent a random e-mail yesterday, reminding me  of the series of unfortunate events that have been taking place:

1) The Yankess did not make the playoffs; 2) The Patriots, sans Brady, is mediocre at best ten months after blowing the Super Bowl; and 3) The GOP got whacked earlier this month.

I also reminded him that the

"Well done" best summarizes what I want to say about BC's 27-17 victory over the Florida State Seminoles, the team that ended BC's unbeaten streak last year and the team that seems to perennially underperform.

Against a team that wins on the running game, the defense's performance was extraordinary.  FSU's leading rusher of the game was

I didn't watch the game.  I tried.  I went to the bar, asked for the BC at North Carolina game, and the guy flipped through the channel before finally saying, "You sure it's on today?" and giving up.

Whether you call the ACC mediocre or competitive, the result is the same: BC has a shot of making something happen despite Crane at QB because anyone can beat anyone in the conference (and yes, that includes Duke).

To say that I was pleasantly surprised by the game's result is an understatement. I made the four