The Boston Public Health Commission has confirmed that there are two definite cases and 10 probably cases of mumps in Boston.
Of the 12 total cases, 11 patients attend Northeastern University.
According to the Health Commission, mumps illness is caused by a virus that lives in a person’s nose, mouth, and throat. It can spread to [...]

Twenty-seven brothers of the Xi-Beta chapter of the Kappa  Sigma  Fraternity  recently participated in the all-night Relay for Life, benefiting the American Cancer Society.
Traveling  to the Gordon Indoor Track at Harvard University, Xi-Beta’s team was  able  to raise  $2,000  for cancer research, and logged more than 500 hours  in  service.  Relay for Life is an [...]

The names of subjects have been changed to protect their privacy and safety.
It was mid-day. Northeastern University student Sarah Alverston was sitting in the library staring blankly into a textbook that she couldn’t seem to focus on. She just had a fight with her boyfriend, and she knew she wouldn’t get anything done until she [...]

Northeastern University football player Brian Mandeville received devastating news on Friday at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis during routine physical examinations. The star tight end, who missed a third of his senior season with knee injuries and even survived a brain tumor while in college, was told by Combine doctors that he has a heart [...]

With our sports editor hailing from Boston University so many years ago and our editor in chief graduating from Northeastern a bit more recently, Monday’s Beanpot championship game had special meaning for the Blast Magazine family.
Whether it had the intended result or not, Blast had a reporter at the TD Banknorth Garden and worked with [...]

Reported live from the TD Banknorth Garden
Fans trickled out of the Garden. They were either elated or in the dumps — justified or mortified.
A Boston University 5-2 win over Northeastern left many frustrated that the game — pitting No. 1 versus No. 3 in the country — really wasn’t even close.
At the beginning of the [...]

Reporting from the TD Banknorth Garden
The players are warming up and the fans are crowding the Garden for the 57th annual Beanpot Championship.
“Execute our game plan and come up high, there’s no more pressure than any other game,” said Albie O’Connell Northeastern assistant coach.
After a decisive win against Boston College, the third-ranked Huskies are ready to [...]

Next Monday, Boston University and Northeastern will face off in the Beanpot hockey finals.
No, that isn’t a mistake. Northeastern.
The Huskies haven’t won the Beanpot since 1988, but don’t be fooled; this is a much different NU team. Last night the Huskies pulled off a 6-1 beating of Boston College, the defending national champions, [...]

The results of a 2008 Northeastern University study of small business owners.