At St. John's, Turning Away From Season to Forget
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For Norm Roberts, the basketball coach at St. John's, one of his first rules was a simple one: Don't talk about the past.
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In the grand scheme of a season that is only a third of the way finished, Boston College's 37-17 victory over Army yesterday at Alumni Stadium will be merely a footnote.
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The worst memory, he says, wasn't the 34-7 flogging they took from the Ravens in Tampa seven years ago. "It was right after the game," Amani Toomer recalls. "All the confetti's going off, all the people are celebrating, and you know it's not for you. That's the worst feeling you can have."
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Try to forget the basketball brawl and this year's other disturbing moments in sports. It's time to say thanks to some of the people who have made sports a better place.
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Greeba Barlow scored 19 points and St. John's posted its first win over a ranked team in 12 years, beating No. 16 Boston College 69-52 Saturday.
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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As we head down the stretch of the season, the significance of each game will be amplified. While it is difficult to envision any team looking past an opponent at this juncture of the season
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Itâs not surprising the Notre Dame players and coaches were using words like âdevastating,â âheartbreakingâ and âunbelievableâ following Saturdayâs 24-23 home loss to Boston College.
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Matt Janning had a performance to remember Sunday, albeit in a Northeastern loss, but he'll want to forget about last night's effort as soon as possible.
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St. John's imposed two years of penalties on its men's basketball team Friday after an investigation revealed a former player was given cash by an athletic department employee.
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Colin Riley has gone obediently to Mass since boyhood, but he was mumbling apologies for raw words the other day to a statue of Jesus in the quiet sanctuary of St. Albert the Great. He was seething over efforts to close his church and others around Boston.
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SOMETIMES home-team fans become so caught up in the crisis of the week that they lose track of the big picture of a game or season.
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A year ago, St. John&#39;s kicked Maryland out of the men&#39;s College Cup, soccer&#39;s version of the basketball Final Four. On Saturday, Maryland exacted its revenge.
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he problem with playing a series that feels like October when it is only September comes the day after. When Boston and the playoff-like fervor cleared out of Yankee Stadium, the Toronto Blue Jays and the late-season torpor moved in.
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St. John's will not participate in the Big East postseason tournament because of the penalties the basketball program imposed on itself earlier this season.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.
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Sacred Heart was the team that showed up for last night&#39;s basketball game at Edmundson Pavilion. Broken Heart was the one that left.