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07/15/11 The expansion that added Virginia Tech, Boston College and Miami to the ACC in 2003 was all about football. Commissioner John Swofford has never made a secret of that fact.
07/14/11 Malik Golden, a 6-1, 185-pound three-star receiver, running back, cornerback, safety, punt returner and kickoff returner - OK an athlete - from Newington playing at Cheshire Academy has narrowed his list of schools to four you may know: Boston College , Connecticut , Iowa and Penn State . Golden, who will likely play receiver, defensive back or both in college, had said he was focusing on making ...
07/14/11 Former Irish offensive coordinator to return to ND Stadium as Boston College s new offensive leader.
07/09/11 Eastern League Former pitcher Hassan a potent bat for Portland Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map): hassanaction 071011 Hassan1 071011 MANCHESTER - When he was being recruited out of Boston College High School, most of the college coaches had Alex Hassan pegged as a pitcher. But the Milton, Mass., native wanted a chance to pitch and play the outfield, so he chose Duke, which ...
07/09/11 The Oklahoma City Thunder surprised a number of people who follow the NBA when they took Boston College product Reggie Jackson with the 24 th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Jackson is a 6-foot-3 combo guard prospect who has elite scoring ability but did show the vision or passing skills to be a top-flight point guard at the next level. The Thunder already have a player like this on their roster in ...
07/06/11 Erin Toft-Dupuy of Sturgeon Bay graduated cum laude from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the universitys College of Arts and Sciences. Toft-Dupuy majored in political science.
07/03/11 Nancy Holler stood in front of a group of parents at Fontbonne Academy recently and talked about her son, Brendan. There was pride: Brendan had been an honor student at Boston College High School, a pitcher on the baseball team, had lots of friends, and was bound for college.
07/02/11 The Easton native, who was fired as head coach of the New York Islanders after two-plus seasons last November, has been hired as an assistant head coach by Ron Wilson in Toronto. The former Boston College goaltender will be on the same staff with former Northeastern University head coach Greg Cronin.
06/30/11 Since their last losing season in 1998, Boston College has produced wins, draft picks, loyalty, human interest stories, more wins, more draft picks and a fantastic, frosted cereal. They've also fought failing attendance and some serious offensive doldrums. With a host of precocious sophomores, is 2011 the year the turn into something more than a steady, eight-game winner? Probably not. NOTE ...
06/30/11 courting coke Andover coach E.J. Perry reports that All-Scholastic running back Andy Coke has improved his speed considerably as evidenced by his 4.62 40 at the Boston College camp. Perry said he expects UNH, URI and Elon to offer scholarships.
06/29/11 ( Boston College ) The abstract expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock reveal that the American artist was an intuitive master of the laws that govern the flow of liquids under gravity, according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Boston College and Harvard.
06/29/11 J. Conor Harrity of Weston, a sophomore at Boston College High School, was one of the eight-man team to take first place in the 7 th Annual Lowell Invitational Rowing Competition.
06/28/11 Boston College is finally leaving the Big East behind. The Eagles defected to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2005, but they brought along with them the bruising style of play long a tradition in their former conference. Even as new ACC rivals like Duke and North Carolina ran their way to NCAA titles, BC clogged the lane with big bodies like Craig Smith and still barged into the tournament ...
06/27/11 Brady Hoke and Michigan Football Get Another Recruit The Michigan Wolverines are making headlines again. They got a verbal commit from Blake Bars, a three-star offensive lineman from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Bars is a 6'5", 260-pound offensive tackle. He was highly sought after by a number of big time schools. ESPN reports that Bars had offers from Boston College ...
06/27/11 Temple's football program has received its ninth verbal commitment for the recruiting class of 2012, tight end Jameson McShea. The 6-4, 240-pound senior at Boston College High School had drawn interest from, not surprisingly, Boston College and also Connecticut.
06/26/11 Lauren Bernard, Colchester: Unquestionably the best girls soccer player in the state, the technical, talented junior has already earned a scholarship to play at Boston College.
06/26/11 It was May 2001 when Sister Olga Yaqob arrived in Boston. She had graduated top of the class in seminary in her native Iraq and was offered a scholarship to study ministry and spirituality at Boston College. First, she had to learn how to speak English. She studied for two years in an intensive program at Boston University.
06/25/11 Nick Mangieri will be a Hoosier. The Dunlap linebacker last week gave a verbal commitment to play football at Indiana University, beginning in 2012. He said Illinois, Northwestern and Boston College also had offered scholarships.
06/24/11 HOOVER, Alabama -- Terry Doyle has an offseason job because of dermatitis. Well, in a sense. The disease, which causes skin to peel, appeared on the index and middle fingers on his right hand in 2007 during his junior season at Boston College.
06/24/11 One of the most frequent questions I get from Maryland fans is whether or not first-year coach Randy Edsall can make their Terps a contender in the Atlantic Division. My answer is always the same: Sure, as long as he can recruit similar talent to Florida State and Clemson. The same can be said for Boston College. And NC State. And Wake Forest. Clemson beat writer Travis Sawchik made a great ...
06/23/11 19, vs. McGill (exhibition), 6 p.m.; 21, at Colgate, 1 p.m.; 23, vs. Rhode Island, 3 p.m.; 28, vs. American, 1p.m. September 2, vs. Iona, 4 p.m.; 4, at Boston College, 1 p.m.; 8, at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.; 10, at Brown, 4 p.m.; 16, at Yale, 7 p.m.; 20, at Siena, 4 p.m.; 23, at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.; 25, vs. Stony Brook*, 1 p.m.; 29, at Boston U.*, 7 p.m. | 
