Four years ago, a controversial Mario Balotelli goal derailed Spurs’ momentum. Last weekend, they banished those memories and are marching on. I was holding back on this column until they beat Manchester City. Their victory at the Etihad Stadiumlast weekend required a bit of luck, but they were very ...
Quarterbacks are shackled with the unsavory task of toeing the line between being too cautious and too reckless and aggressive with their attempted passes. A quarterback that checks down too often, such as Alex Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs, is derided as a “game manager” — someone who is ...
As our loyal readers know, the Daily put out a Super Bowl preview on Friday where we (not so boldly) sided with the favorites. We predicted that the Denver defense would not be able to slow down what had been a seemingly unstoppable Carolina offense enough to allow their own offense to pull them ahead, ...
The Philadelphia Eagles are an exploding train wreck drenched in failure. If Detroit can drop 45 points on them, it is scary to imagine what damage the Patriots will do. Start Brandon Bolden and LeGarrette Blount with confidence.The Broncos appear ready and willing to roll with Brock Osweiler at QB ...
With just one week remaining in the regular season, the 5-2 Jumbos will look to achieve their best record since 2001 with a win over the 5-2 Middlebury Panthers at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
With just two weeks remaining in the season, the Jumbos are looking to finish with a winning record for the first time since 2007. The 4-2 Tufts football team will travel to face 1-5 Colby on Saturday. Despite Colby’s record, Tufts coach Jay Civetti wants to be sure his team does not get complacent in the season's final weeks.
In their upcoming game against the 2-2 Williams Ephs, the 3-1 Jumbos hope to rebound from their Oct. 17 loss to the Trinity Bantams, the Jumbos' first of the season.
This column will not focus on what goes right. In fact, it will not even focus on what goes fairly well. It will focus solely on what goes terribly, horribly, laughably, miserably and disturbingly wrong the National Football League. Without further ado:
Aside from intramural flag football last year, I have never played a down of football. However, I study fantasy football more than most of my classes and I promise this column will be honest above all. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. For example, I was high on Rueben Randle, the New York Giants' ...
Had Chris Borland been a marquee player, his retirement -- premature, perhaps, at 24 -- would have been a thunderclap. Parents would have unenrolled their children in Pop Warner in legion, desiccating collegiate pipelines and thereby bringing the NFL to its knees. But Chris Borland, though dependable ...
Tufts traveled to Middlebury on Saturday for its last game of the season, but the visiting Jumbos were unable to defeat the Panthers and their high-powered offense.“We had some injuries early in the second half,” coach Jay Civetti said. "[Defensive backs sophomore Mike] Stearns and [sophomore ...
Saturday will mark the end of the season for the Tufts football team. The upcoming game against Middlebury will be a bittersweet affair for the Jumbos, especially for the seniors, who may never have another opportunity to play organized tackle football.“Senior leadership [has been crucial all year]," ...
Saturday was senior day for the Jumbos, who managed to earn their most complete victory of the season despite playing the game in a heavy rain. The wind was blowing 20-30 miles per hour throughout the game, and the three-and-a-half quarters' worth of rain nearly flooded Ellis Oval. Despite the ...
The Tufts football team will be playing its final home game of the season on Saturday against the Colby Mules who are currently 1-5. The Jumbos have yet to lose a game at Zimman Field this year, and statistically speaking, the team has been consistently much better than its upcoming opponents. “We ...
Coming off of an important home win over Williams, Tufts traveled to Pratt Field to take on the undefeated Amherst Lord Jeffs. Searching for its first road win, the Jumbos' offense struggled throughout and the team fell by a score of 30-3.It was family weekend at Amherst, and the team was able ...
The Tufts football team continued to prove its skeptics wrong with its seven point win over Williams on Saturday. This weekend, the Jumbos will face perhaps the best team in the NESCAC, the 5-0 Amherst Lord Jeffs.One of the keys to Saturday’s game will be the success of the Tufts run defense. Prior ...
Tufts opened its season with two impressive home victories over Hamilton and Bates, but after back-to-back road losses the team was in danger of falling below .500 in its Week 5 matchup against the Williams Ephs.After the first quarter of this weekend's game the visiting team was ahead 13-7, but ...
This Saturday the Jumbos will return to Medford following their losses to Bowdoin and Trinity. Their opponents, the 1-3 Williams Ephs, will travel to the Ellis Oval in an attempt to inch their record closer to .500.As with Tufts’ previous two rivals, Williams' team has a lot of success running ...
Katie Hnida, the first woman to ever play and score points in Division I-A college football, visited Tufts last night to discuss her experience with sexual harassment and rape in college athletics. Hnida, who was hosted by the Tufts Athletics Department’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), ...
