–Dan Rubin– Vince Lombardi once said that he hated being quoted on his famous axiom, “If it’s not about who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” He hated the fact that he was portrayed as obsessed by winning.  He talked at length about giving it everything on the field of battle, leaving […]

–Dan Rubin– Last summer, Penn State mired itself in what is considered by most to be the worst scandal in the history of sports.  Jerry Sandusky was on his way to prison for molestation, and Joe Paterno was long passed away.  Officials in the school’s front office faced trial, as did its athletic administrators.  The […]

It’s only fitting that the year goes out the way that it does on Chestnut Hill. It’s only fitting that the only high spot in the Boston College athletics department for 2012, men’s ice hockey, rewards its coach, Jerry York, with the record for all-time wins in hockey.  It’s fitting that the last remaining image […]

–Dan Rubin– The Big East is dead. People are lamenting about how it got to this point, how the best college basketball league in the nation collapsed, a league that once sent three teams to a single Final Four and a league that once sent 11 teams to the 64-team national tournament.  The league whose […]

–Dan Rubin– I hate comparing things to Batman because I feel like it’s extremely juvenile.  But I can’t help but think of Harvey Dent whenever someone mentions the announcement and introduction of Brad Bates as the new athletic director at Boston College. I think of a line when Dent stood at a press conference and […]