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Eagles to face former coach Tom O'Brien

By Charles Moore
As the Boston College football team enters its match-up against North Carolina State this Saturday, players are trying to focus on the task at hand, not the fact that they are facing a former coach. The real story of the game should be how BC can exploit the weak pass defense of the Wolfpack, not that the Eagles are facing former coach Tom O'Brien for the second time since he left the school.

Moving beyond old scars

By David Amstutz / Sports Editor
One year, nine months, and 26 days. Believe it or not, it's been that long since the fateful afternoon of Dec. 6, 2006, when the ESPN Bottom Line announced to the world that "Boston College's Tom O'Brien has been hired as North Carolina State's new football coach.

Columbus never got a national champ banner

By Chris Poulos
Columbus Day weekend is approaching, and students are enthusiastic to travel. With the spirit of the explorer in hand, Boston College undergraduates take up their steering wheels and hit the road. But, Columbus is more than an adventurer with an outstanding first name.

Eagles upset Wake Forest on the road

By Robbie Swanson
By Robbie Swanson For The Heights The No. 14 women's Boston College soccer team beat No. 13 Wake Forest, 1-0, Sunday afternoon in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the Eagles' second ACC match-up of the season. With the win, the Eagles improve to 7-1-2 overall and 1-0-1 in the ACC, their only loss at the hands of Stanford on Aug.

Never Shea goodbye: Another stadium bites the dust

By Giovanni D'Onza
As soon as I learned that 2008 would be the last season in which the New York Mets would play in Shea Stadium, I wanted to write the ultimate tribute to the building, a culmination of my 20-year history with the ballpark-turned-second-home. Even though I was sure that no writer would ever be capable of doing Shea justice, I wanted a crack at giving back to the site of my first encounter with America's pastime, the setting in which my interest in the Mets became a full-blown obsession, and the place that made, "I was there when .

The force that is killing the football world as we know it

By Joseph DeMaio
America loves football. If baseball is America's pastime, then football is the mistress that America runs off with every time baseball isn't looking. In fact, if it weren't for a few blemishes, America would divorce baseball and run away to Tahiti with football.

This week in Euro-soccer

By Philip Frazer
By Philip Frazer For The Heights In a week packed full of action from around the continent, Europe was a veritable feeding frenzy for the soccer-starved. One of the Milan teams toppling the other, Chelsea going top in England, and match Day 2 from the Champions League's commencement are among the feast this week.