Boston University takes on Northeastern on BU’s senior night at Agganis Arena. Close game, but the defending National Champs came out on top 5-3.

The next night, on Northeastern’s (16-16-2) ice and senior night, BU (16-15-3) did it again, winning 4-3.

By: Dave Cheng, YawkeyTalkies Staff Writer
Try telling the teams playing in the Beanpot tournament that the games really don’t mean anything in the grand scheme of the NCAA hockey season.  Just try and you may end up face down on the ground, or ice, depending on where you choose to do so.
Four local teams will square off in the 58th year of the college hockey tournament known as the Beanpot in order to win bragging rights for another year.  Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and Northeastern will lace up their skates and hit the ice (and probably each other) in a one and done style tournament beginning Monday, February 1.
For the Boston University Terriers, who are not only defending Beanpot champions but also defending national champions, the team has the opportunity to make up for what has been a lost season so far.  With high hopes for a repeat championship at the beginning of the year, the team is now sitting three games under .500 at 6-9-2 and are long shots for another national title this season.  The team will look forward to taking some of their frustrations out on their local rivals as some call the tournament the “Boston [...]

By: Jess Lander, YawkeyTalkies Editor.
If there is one sport in Boston that is lacking championship trophies, it is college football. For a city with more than a hundred colleges and universities, college football is an unusually small deal.
Today, it was announced that Northeastern is cutting its 74-year old football program after a 3-8 losing season, making it the 6th losing season in a row for the Huskies. These six unsatisfactory seasons come after the Huskies first Atlantic-10 title in 2002. However, this year, the 3 million dollar program was deemed too expensive considering its lack of success. Northeastern home games averaged 1600 fans a game. To put this in perspective, Women’s Professional Soccer team the Boston Breakers, drew more fans in their inaugural 2009 season.
That’s right. Women’s soccer.
Northeastern follows Boston University, who cut their losing football program in 1997.
The only successful college football team in Boston is the Boston College Eagles, now the only remaining Division 1 football team in the area. This season, they are 7-4 with one game remaining. They still aren’t even ranked in the top 25.
But why is one of the best sport’s towns in America one of the worst for college football?
One obvious reason is [...]