The 2010 National Championship Ice Hockey team has been busy enjoying their win on the big stage. They visited Washington D.C. on September 13 for Champions Day at the White House, where over 32 NCAA Championship teams listened to Barack Obama address them on how proud he was that they were student-athletes, emphasis on the [...]

The basketball season hasn’t yet begun, but there is already news to report. Boston College senior forward Joe Trapani has been named one of 50 preseason candidates for the 2010-2011 John R. Wooden Award. The award is given to the most outstanding men’s and women’s college basketball players and is basketball’s most coveted trophy. The [...]

This is an extended interview with Scott Wright, president of www.draftcountdown.com  The original article can be found here. The Observer: Your site, draftcountdown.com, lists the 332 senior prospects. What process do you go through to get this list of rankings? Scott Wright: During the college football season I take notes on all of the games [...]

President and NFL analyst of www.draftcountdown.com, Scott Wright spends his time evaluating the nation’s top senior prospects. He watches college game after college game, taking notes, and compiling a list of the top 332 draft prospects. He’s been doing this since 1997 and is relatively accurate. His long-term record is just as good as anyone’s [...]

There was a lot to be thankful for today, as Mark Herzlich made his much anticipated return to the football field and the Eagles beat Weber State 38-20 in the season opener. There was also a lot of room for improvement. A 10-year-old Ewing’s Sarcoma survivor, the same cancer Herzlich battled last year that kept [...]

The Jay McGillis Spring Football Game was played last Saturday, and the Jay McGilis scholarship is annually awarded to a deserving defensive player. While everyone knows the name of the spring game, not everyone knows who Jay McGilis was. Jay McGilis was a sophomore safety for Boston College in 1991 when Tom Coughlin took over [...]

Congratulations to the 2010 NCAA Hockey Champions, the Boston College Eagles! The 2010 hockey trifecta has been completed. They won the Beanpot, they won the Hockey East title, and now they have won the NCAA Championship. This is the 4th national title for BC (1949, 2001, 2008, 2010), who made Wisconsin look like RIT in [...]

Ivy, Ivy, Ivy. It seems Boston College is looking to the Ivy Leagues to usher in this new era of BC men’s basketball. It has been reported by ESPN, not yet announced or confirmed by Boston College, that Joe Jones, who has been the head coach of the Columbia men’s basketball team for the last [...]

Although BC’s athletic director, Gene D, has been busy with our new basketball coach, Steve Donahue, I sat down with him on Friday to discuss the men’s hockey team. The Observer: BC has dominated Miami of Ohio. Four out of the last five years, they have bounced them from the NCAA tournament. Even though Miami [...]

If you get Eagle Mail, BC athletics sent out a mass e-mail around 4:15 today (4/6) letting SuperFans know there is a new era in BC Men’s Basketball. The e-mail was also an invitation to welcome our new coach to the Heights tomorrow (4/7) at 5 p.m. on the Campus Green (in front of McElroy.) [...]