Massachusetts Court Sides with Boston College in Financial Dispute

A Massachusetts state court has delivered a compelling victory to Boston College, finding that the school must pay only $1 million as an exit fee when it departs the Big East Conference for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2005.   The Big East, already jilted by other ACC converts -- University of Miami and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University -- had sought to hold BC and other school's feet to the fire and make it pay a $5 million exit fee. To do that, it had to convince the