LIVE from Beverly: No. 5 Tufts vs. Husson

5/8/09 10:37 AM

UPDATE, Thursday, 3:06 p.m. Here is a box score from today's game, courtesy of the Tufts Athletics website. Emerson knocked off host Endicott 5-1, setting up a matchup between the fifth-seeded Lions and top-seeded Jumbos tomorrow at 2 p.m. Join us again tomorrow as we bring you updates from Tufts' second-round contest. After the way they looked today, there's a whole lot of reason to believe the Jumbos are just beginning a special postseason run. UPDATE, Thursday, 12:23 p.m. A strikeout and a ground out end it after five. Two K's for Tong in that frame. Tufts wins 17-1. Tufts moves on to a matchup tomorrow against the winner of the Endicott-Emerson four-five matchup at 2 p.m. Back for more later.   UPDATE, Thursday, 12:21 p.m. Tong threw a pitch to the backstop...

Live Blog: Men's lacross @ Middlebury

4/12/09 11:11 AM

Also surprised the Jumbos didn't go to McNally's potent left hand for the final shot of the day. Today wasn't Harrigan's best in the cage, Middlebury seemed to win the majority of the draws particularly in the second half, preventing the offense from having as many chances as their opponents. Certainly strong efforts from the whole team, though. Nobody was ever slacking, maybe just some poor decision making. The game really came down to stupid errors and not taking care of the ball on Tufts' part. Too much loose ball garbage that led to Middlebury goals. The Jumbos suffer their second loss of the season and Middlebury takes sole possession of the NESCAC lead. Final score, Middlbury 11, Tufts 10. Last attempt by D.J. Hessler crushed as he was pushed into the crease and a crease...

Tonight’s the Night

3/30/09 6:04 PM

Tonight, the most important game that I will have witnessed in my young life will take place.  My beloved Gonzaga Bulldogs square off against the North Carolina Tar Heels, my least favorite entity in all of sports.  How can this be so important when it’s only a Sweet Sixteen game, you ask?  Not only does this mark the paramount good versus evil game for me, but I also feel a particular import to this year’s Zags team.  Since last year’s disappointing first-round exit against Davidson (how does the NIT taste, Steph Curry?), I’ve told myself that this would be Gonzaga’s year.  The most talented big man in the program’s history, Josh Heytvelt, is a senior, as are gritty, physical point guard Jeremy Pargo and long-range bomber Micah...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

3/30/09 6:04 PM

The first week of the NCAA basketball tournament is without a doubt, hands down, the best thing that sports has to offer.  When I tell people how much I love March Madness, most just assume that I’m being sarcastic and exaggerating to a ridiculous degree.  Nope.  I actually believe that the three best days of the year -- every year -- are (in no particular order) Selection Sunday and the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament.  16 games each day; make or break, do or die, win or go home for every single team still playing.  There are no tomorrows in March -- only today matters.  In March, you’ve got to give 110 percent; leave it all on the court.  And you know what? Every single one of these pathetically tired clichés are...

Grayson for President

3/5/09 11:51 PM

Trey Grayson is a man that all politicians should aspire to be.  Intrepid, cavalier, not afraid to speak his mind at all times; yes, Mr. Grayson certainly is a man for our troubled times.  Don’t recognize the name?  Until this past weekend, that would have put you among a vast majority of Americans, sports fans or otherwise.  Now Grayson finds himself quite the minor celebrity among college hoops fans. Grayson, for those who don’t know, is the Secretary of State of the great state of Kentucky, where Wildcat hoops takes a backseat to nothing and no one.  This week, after Kentucky’s loss to LSU in the last 10 seconds of the game off of a Tasmin Mitchell three -pointer, Grayson blasted A.J. Stewart, a junior forward for UK, saying, “Maybe A..J...