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(10/16/20 5:02am)
In 2005, a 19-year-old Rafael Nadal won his first French Open title. This past Sunday he won his 13th, defeating Novak Djokovic 6–0, 6–2, 7–5. It was Nadal’s 20th career Grand Slam title, moving him into a tie with Roger Federer for the all-time record.
(10/05/21 4:01am)
Our generation is the most well informed and technologically advanced in human history. We’re also the softest. Maybe it was the over-praising helicopter parents (thanks Generation X), or the participation trophies or the fact that social media can make a person’s actions when they’re 15 cost them a job when they’re 30.
(05/05/21 4:05am)
The Tufts University women’s lacrosse team won its first NESCAC Championship with a dominant 14–3 victory over Wesleyan this past weekend. With the win, the Jumbos earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Div. III tournament. They will begin NCAA tournament play on Sunday, May 9, against Cabrini University at Colby. The scheduled start time is 2:30 p.m.
(04/26/21 5:03am)
On Sunday the Tufts men’s and women’s lacrosse teams hopped on Interstate 93 North to the Everett Turnpike before getting on Interstate 89 and shooting up to Hanover, N.H. for a pair of games against Div. I Dartmouth College.
(03/16/21 5:33am)
Tufts’ advising deans recently sent an email outlining steps students should take if they’re feeling ill this semester. One message was very clear: Students feeling sick should “Stay home!” The email, which also directed students to fill out a short-term illness form on SIS if missing class, came just in time. This is because I have had an illness scheduled for Friday, March 19, and Monday, March 22, for quite awhile now. If ever there is a time to feel a faint scratch in the back of your throat, a slight spike in temperature or a very mild stomach ache, it’s during the first and second rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament. And of course, during a pandemic, taking a symptom induced day off from class to watch twelve straight hours of basketball isn’t lazy or selfish, it’s noble.
(03/10/21 6:35am)
Varsity sports may finally be returning to Tufts. On Tuesday at 5 p.m. the NESCAC presidents released a statement clearing the way for spring sports competition. The announcement comes almost exactly a year after the NESCAC shut down all athletic competition on March 11, 2020. The entirety of the spring 2020, fall 2020 and winter 2020–21 seasons were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(02/25/21 7:03am)
Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial department acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Daily Week 2021 that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices. Additionally, this interview has been edited lightly for length and clarity.
(02/22/21 6:02am)
In an email with the subject line “Easing some COVID restrictions on campus,” Tufts University Infection Control Health Director Michael Jordan announced that the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center will reopen, while also noting that varsity team practices and games, as well as club and intramural sports, will remain on pause.
(11/16/20 7:01am)
In the divisional round of the 2017 NFL playoffs, the Green Bay Packers were tied with the Dallas Cowboys, facing a third-and-20 with 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers took the snap, rolled to his left, ran towards the sideline to buy time, and flung a 35-yard dart across his body. The ball narrowly avoided a Cowboys defender and landed in the hands of Packers tight end Jared Cook, who was pressed against the sideline. Joe Buck, Fox Sports' play-by-play announcer,said “the pass is incomplete, out of bounds.” Seconds later, both he and color commentator Troy Aikman exclaimed, “That is unbelievable!” The pass set up a game-winning field goal as time expired. It was one of the greatest throws in NFL history, but you wouldn’t know it from the muted reactions of Jared Cook and the rest of the Packers. That’s because it was just another day at the office for Aaron Rodgers, the man who makes the impossible seem probable.
(11/09/20 6:01am)
In a week when sports have largely taken a backseat to politics, with much of the country intently following the results of the Nov. 3 elections, there was one case in which the two worlds collided. Former college football coachTommy Tuberville, a Republican, defeated Doug Jones, a Democrat, in Alabama for a seat in the United States Senate.
(11/03/20 7:02am)
Months after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, two sprinters wearing Team USA navy blue singlets rounded the far turn of Mexico City’s Olympic track and burst onto the home stretch on Oct. 16, 1968.Tommie Smith won the 200-meter race and his teammate John Carlos finished third. Smith finished in 19.83 seconds, a world record and the first legal sub-20-second 200-meter performance in history. However, the race isn’t remembered for the impressive time or the two American medals, it’s remembered for the medal ceremony.
(10/26/20 6:04am)
Theheadline was enough to make a grown man cry: “Fitzpatrick’s heart was broken after benching.” Ryan Fitzpatrick, the 37-year-old journeyman quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, lost his job this week.
(10/19/20 6:02am)
The men's basketball team at Massachusetts’ flagship university wasput on probation, forced to vacate wins, and fined on Friday for ever so slightly overpaying some of their players’ financial aid between 2014 and 2017.
(10/12/20 5:02am)
On Thursday, baseball fans outside Harris County, Texas watched in disgust as the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 11–6 to advance to their fourth straight American League Championship Series. The Astros’ playoff run comes almost a year after the news broke that the team had beenstealing opposing teams’ signsduring their 2017 World Series run. The Astros had a camera in center field sending a live video of the opposing team’s catcher to a monitor in their dugout. When they saw the catcher signal for an off-speed pitch, someone in the dugout would bang on a trash can to let the hitter know the pitch would be a breaking ball.
(10/07/20 11:00am)
On Oct. 22, 2011, the undefeated Wisconsin Badgers football team rolled into East Lansing for an 8 p.m. nationally televised matchup against the Michigan State Spartans. After defeating their first six opponents by an average of 38 points, the Badgers were ranked sixth in the Bowl Championship Series rankings and had legitimate national championship aspirations. Coming off consecutive wins over Big Ten powers Ohio State and Michigan, Michigan State entered the game against Wisconsin as the 16th ranked team in the country.
(10/02/20 5:03am)
Anthony Davis scored 34 points and the Los Angeles Lakers easily defeated the Miami Heat 118–116 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
(09/28/20 5:01am)
Jordan Davis has the best beard in country music (apologies to Chris Stapleton). Davis released a song earlier in the year called “Church in a Chevy,” (2020) about going for a drive in his truck.
(09/25/20 5:03am)
Tyler Herro is younger than many undergraduate students at Tufts but that doesn’t mean he can’t hang with the best basketball players in the world. The 20-year-old rookie scored 37 points on 14 for 21 shooting in the Miami Heat’s 112–109 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday. Herro scored 17 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, showing off a polished offensive skill set that features a lethal 3-point shot, smooth midrange game and great touch around the rim.
(09/21/20 6:01am)
Major League Baseball’s most historic rivals met at Fenway Park on Friday night. The Boston Red Sox led the New York Yankees 4–3 before Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez tied the game with a solo homer in the top of the ninth inning. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Yankees reliever Chad Greene faced JD Martinez. Greene struck Martinez out looking, sending the game to extras. So why in the world was Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier putting on a helmet between innings and jogging out to second base? Anyone who hasn’t tuned into MLB this season may be unaware of the atrocious new extra inning rule in which each team starts off every extra inning with a runner on second base. The rule was established as part of MLB’s effort to cut down on innings played during their full sprint 60 games in 67 days season. Putting a runner on second before an inning has even begun is wildly unfair to pitchers who find themselves in a jam before they even toe the rubber. I imagine the frustration I would have felt in little league watching the kid on the other team who hadn’t made contact with a ball all year trot out to second base with a big grin on his face, after doing absolutely nothing but chew his double bubble-sunflower seed concoction for three hours. If it would be an injustice in little league, it’s an injustice in MLB. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw is one of many players to voice their displeasure with the rule, telling reporters “It’s not real baseball. But it’s fine for this year, and I hope we never do it again.”
(09/16/20 6:03am)
Chiefs offense looks scary in opener vs Texans