After just the opening weekend of the 2009 NBA playoffs, a few great storylines throughout the league are building, and glimmers of what promise to be a spectacular two months of basketball are finally emerging.    ...

Senior pitcher Lauren Gelmetti, who earned her second NESCAC Pitcher of the Week award on the season yesterday, was virtually unhittable in three appearances this week for the undefeated Tufts softball team. Gelmetti pitched a total of 12.2 innings during...

John Madden retired last week. Madden began his career as a pro football player, then became a coach who won a Super Bowl and went 103-32-7 by the time he was 42. For the last 30 years, he worked in the role for which he is best known: a commentator and c...

Over 190 Tufts runners completed the 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton to Copley Square in downtown Boston as members of the Tufts President’s Marathon Challenge Team....

    The women’s lacrosse team came into Sunday’s tilt with Conn. College looking to avenge a loss to the Camels from last season. And while the nationally ranked No. 6 Jumbos eventually got it done, extending their winning strea...

    The men’s lacrosse team is back on track and beginning to round into postseason form at exactly the right time.     On Alumni Weekend at Bello Field, the nationally ranked No. 8 Jumbos (11-2, 6-2 NESCAC) defeated Co...

    In the most pivotal series of the season to date, the baseball team came out guns blazing, taking the first two of a three-game set against NESCAC East rival Bowdoin, including a 15-3 romp in the opener.     Having won th...

    Early in the fall, the softball team established a list of goals designed to keep it motivated throughout preseason training and to stay continually focused during the season itself. After this weekend’s sweep of conference rival ...

The Mets opened up their new digs yesterday while the Yankees will hold their home opener on Thursday. Citi Field and the new Yankee Stadium are state-of-the-art stadiums that will serve to relieve the somewhat dilapidated Shea and old Yankee Stadium. Nev...

    2007 was a great year for the Cleveland Indians. They rode CC Sabathia, that year’s Cy Young Award winner, and Fausto Carmona, who went 19-8 with a 3.06 ERA, to a major league-best 96 wins and, with some help from gnats, made it a...

    Last April, the Arizona Diamondbacks were the best team in baseball, racing out to a remarkable 20-8 start and giving themselves an early five-game cushion on their NL West rivals. With their aces Brandon Webb and Dan Haren dealing and ...

Sophomore shortstop David Leresche of the baseball team earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors for leading the Jumbos’ offensive charge over their recent 4-1 run, starting with an April 7 contest against Brandeis.     Leresche starte...

    There is no substitute for a solid goalie. Great offense and stifling defense can carry a team so far, but in the end, great goaltending, above all else, can win a championship. So far this season, women’s lacrosse’s Sara Bl...

    In most sports, wins and losses determine whether a given team makes the playoffs. In men’s track, that’s not the case; you can win all the races or dual meets you want, but if you don’t meet the qualifying standards f...

    In her first time competing in the triple jump during the indoor season, freshman Nakeisha Jones of the women’s track and field team qualified provisionally for Nationals. At the Bernard Solomon Invitational in Dedham, Mass. on Th...

                For the third weekend in a row, the nationally ranked No. 30 men’s tennis team saw mixed results, recording both a win over non-conference foe Vassar and a loss to NESCAC ri...

    The women’s tennis team might have come out of its matchups with Amherst and Williams last week with losses, but one thing is clear: The gap between the Jumbos and two of the elite programs in the country isn’t all that wide...

In a game that matched two teams on a mission, North Carolina found itself fulfilling the wishes of four players who returned after a disappointing Final Four last year to cut down the nets at Ford Field....

I don’t do personal. The last introspective essay I wrote was probably for my college application. The subject was why I can’t write about myself. My old man — who I call the old man — didn’t think a college would accept me b...

    In the late stages of the Western Conference battle for playoff position, one team that may have gone under the radar thus far this season, despite currently holding the second seed, are the surging Denver Nuggets. Although they are onl...