With the NBA season barely underway and last year's postseason offering up an entertaining and dramatic finish, you'd think there would be more anticipation for the upcoming year.
With a new gubernatorial election on the horizon, Mitt Romney's term at the helm of the state is drawing to a close.
The No. 3 University of Southern California Trojans' surefire path to the national championship game took a devastating setback on Saturday, as the Oregon State Beavers shocked the Trojans by building a 23-point lead late in the third quarter and eventually holding on to vanquish the Trojans, 33-31.
Several NESCAC volleyball teams made the most of their last regular-season weekend, and once the dust cleared, shuffling in the middle of the league rankings made for some surprising tournament seeds.
I walk to ECO meetings alone, because most people in my dorm are in for the night by 9:30 - working or fooling around - and definitely have no desire to walk uphill in the cold. I got lost finding the first meeting because I didn't know that the main floor in Eaton is actually the second floor. My fingers were numb, I was late, and I didn't recognize anyone. It was frightening to be outside of the freshman world, but I stayed through the meeting and walked out with a handful of posters on "Do it in the Dark," the club's residence hall energy initiative.
For winter athletes, today is more than just a chance to flip the page on the calendar to November - it is the culmination of weeks of offseason training, an end to pickup games and captains' practices, and one of the most highly anticipated days of the year.
On Saturday, the man who built the Boston Celtics passed away.
What happened in Oakland on Sunday was beyond comprehension. It wasn't just that the Oakland Raiders defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, 20-13. It was how they did it.
Being 21 brings a lot of advantages. OK, mainly one advantage. And that is being able to go to bars. But amidst all of the drunken debauchery and good times, there are far more awkward moments to contend with.
How much do you want to bet that your salmon filet was dyed to that shade of pink? If the salmon was farm-raised, you can bet your Dining Dollars that it had to be dyed, or else buyers would have taken one look at the pale pink flesh of farmed salmon and looked elsewhere.
It's been just over 40 years since Lenny Bruce died. This is significant, because it means that stand-up comedy in its present form has been around for about 50 years. And in this past half century, there have been very few people who have been able to reinvent the form in a lasting way.
The volleyball team ended its regular season with a road trip to Hamilton, N.Y., this weekend, where the Jumbos played back-to-back NESCAC games against the host Continentals and Williams. The team ended up splitting, burying Hamilton in three straight games on Friday but dropping the match to Williams on Saturday. The Jumbos returned home with a No. 4 playoff seed, their lowest since 2003 and a disappointing drop from the two-spot they occupied heading into the weekend, but a sparkling 23-7 overall record nevertheless.
For the second straight week, and the league-leading third time this year, the NESCAC player in the spotlight is a Jumbo.
As the Nov. 7 gubernatorial election approaches, Republican candidate and current Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey has taken great care to lay out a very specific agenda for the state.
Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals, the 2006 World Series champions.
On Oct. 13, the Tufts Daily printed an article by David Pomerantz summing up the previous night's "Community Conversation on Social Life." That night, the conversation focused on two topics as Pomerantz noted: "a perceived increase in aggressive tactics by the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) [and] the recent Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate proposal of capitalizing on a planned renovation of Hotung Caf?© to convert the space into a pub."
Like every other college student who would much rather do just about anything other than his homework, I am much enamored with the phenomenon that is YouTube. Through YouTube, I learned a great amount of usefully useless crap. Not as much as from Wikipedia or IMDB (both great procrastination tools), but a significant amount nonetheless.
It may be the day after Halloween, but the Concert Board has one more treat in store for the campus: Tonight, at 9 p.m. in Dewick, rappers Method Man and Saigon will come to Tufts. Headliner Method Man has a long history in the rap industry, while opener Saigon is an accomplished rapper who has just recently gained mainstream notoriety after his stint on the popular HBO series "Entourage."
Pretty decent Halloween at Tufts University. We got lucky with the weather on Saturday night.
