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Despite a promising start and continued efforts throughout the contest, the women’s volleyball team fell to Boston College last night 3-1 in Chestnut Hill. In a game characterized by constant back-and-forth action, the Crimson (1-4) edged out the Eagles (5-5) in the first set before dropping the ensuing three. Despite the loss, the squad was able to take away some positives from the game. “You have to look at the points in a game,” senior Katherine McKinley said. “A win or a loss...
...Like more established sports, competitive eating has its own body of myth (skinny competitors do better, supposedly because their stomachs have more room to expand), strategy (dunking food into juice or lemonade helps it dissolve) and controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch...
...Ancient Eight play. In the space of a week, the Crimson fought to wins at Northeastern and home against Boston University—the second of which ended in dramatic fashion with a Wideroff game-winner in double overtime—and nearly upset No. 10 Boston College in Chestnut Hill. “Those three games really stick out to me,” Leone said. “They were all very exciting, and helped us gain confidence as we moved through the rest of the year.”As Harvard’s Ivy slate began...
...chestnut superhorse remains the yardstick by which all others are measured. He still holds the records for the Derby and the Belmont, and a clock controversy may have robbed him of a Preakness record...
When Boston College submitted a bid to purchase a state-owned pumping station near the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, the college’s vice president for government and community relations, Thomas J. Keady, said that his institution informed the community before the story hit the presses. Although BC eventually lost the bid, Keady said that it was important to keep the college’s neighbors abreast of its activities...