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The good, the bad, the ugly of the transfer window
By Jeremy Goldstein | September 29Jeremy Goldstein breaks down the winners and losers of the transfer window.
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Off the Crossbar: Upending the status quo
By Arjun Balaraman | March 3English soccer in the 21st century has been largely dominated by a so-called "Big Six" — Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City. In England, the top four teams in the league qualify for the prestigious UEFA Champions League and, over the last 15 years, ...
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Men's soccer Homecoming game preview: Tufts vs. Conn. College
By Henry Gorelik | October 17The Jumbos will look to get back on track this Saturday with their Homecoming game against the Conn. College Camels at 2:30 p.m. on Bello Field. The team comes into this match with an overall record of 8–2–2 and 4–1–2 in conference play. Tufts currently sits in second place of the NESCAC standings, ...
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'Diego Maradona' blends legend, truth
By Daniel Klain | October 15Every modern football fan has heard the stories of Diego Maradona:coming out of poverty in Argentina, the incredible goals, the controversy on the field, the insane life off it. Never before, though, besides maybe a clip or two from YouTube or archives, has the public seen much of the truth behind ...
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No. 13 women's soccer earns back-to-back NESCAC shutouts
By Ananda Kao | October 9Sophomore midfielder Callie Scala tallied her first three career points off a goal and an assist in the No. 13 women’s soccer NESCAC doubleheader this past weekend. Scala scored on Sunday in a 2–0 win over Wesleyan by heading the ball into the net off a crossfrom first-year midfielder Margaux Ameer.Against ...
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The Equalizer: Italy welcomes Romelu Lukaku
By Arlo Moore-Bloom | September 20He probably saw it coming. It had happened last year, too. But not to him. In an away match to Cagliari, Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku stepped up for a penalty at the death. The Belgian international paused. He lost focus of the ball, distracted by a noise all too familiar to black players in Europe: ...
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Fall and winter sports season reviews
By Tufts Daily Sports Staff | May 19Men's cross country Led by coach Joel Williams, the men’s cross country team finished 25th out of 32 teams after a two-year hiatus from national competition. The team competed at the Lake Breeze Golf Course, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, in Winneconne, Wis., on Nov. 17, 2018.After ...
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Off the Crossbar: The intangibles
By Arjun Balaraman | February 21In recent years, professional sports have shifted towards favoring the more skillful, quicker players as opposed to the stronger, grittier stars of the past. In the NBA, seven-foot-tall gargantuan centers, who would spend the entirety of the game toiling in the paint within five feet of the basket, ...
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Off the Crossbar: 3 teams, 1 champion
By Arjun Balaraman | February 7Saints head coach Sean Payton said he’ll “probably never get over” the blown pass interference call by the referees in this year's NFC Championship game that costed his team's place in Super Bowl LIII. The Saints will most likely be back again next year with another chance to make a run ...
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Postgame Press: The times, they are a-changin'
By David Meyer | October 30I am tired. I know a lot of baseball fans who are tired. Why are we so tired? Game 3. The third game of this year’s World Series clocked in at an astonishingly long seven hours and 20 minutes. The game was 18 innings long, twice as long as the regulation nine of a baseball game. The game itself was ...
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Men’s soccer dominates Trinity after drawing Conn. College in double overtime
By Jake Freudberg | October 18After earning a 0–0 draw against No. 5 Conn. College (11–0–2) on Saturday and then defeating Trinity 6–0 on Sunday afternoon, Tufts remains one of the best teams in the NESCAC.In doing so, the Jumbos regained their position as the top-ranked NESCAC team, at No. 3 in the nation.After a frustrating ...
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Postgame Press: America's soccer problem
By David Meyer | October 16If you did not know, America is not the center of the universe. It is tough these days not to focus on the United States and the United States alone, but there is plenty more going on out there. This is an attitude that extends from pop culture and politics to sports.America has the four major sports: football, ...
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Jumbos are ready to impress in 2018
By Haley Rich | September 4After a rebuilding season in 2016 and a year of promising improvement in 2017, 2018 looks to be a breakout season for Tufts women’s soccer. Last season, the Jumbos reached the NESCAC final for the first time in over 10 years before falling to Virginia Wesleyan University in the first round of the ...
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Postgame Press: Saudi Arabia and female fans
By David Meyer | November 2Some big news broke in the sports world recently. With one of the craziest World Series in recent history, the NFL deadline fast approaching and Americentrism in terms of sports, this news got passed over on most American channels. In spite of this, the news was, for me, one of the biggest sports news ...
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Police Briefs: Week of Nov. 1
By Juliana Furgala | November 1Sticks and StonesThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report on Oct. 17 at 9:10 a.m. from the Psychology building about a chipped window. Apparently one of the windows facing Boston Avenue had a noticeable chip, concerning users of the building. TUPD investigated the incident and ...
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Formula for success: how the men's soccer team has stayed on top in recent years
By Ryan Eggers | October 10Current Tufts students see the men’s soccer team as the rest of the NESCAC and Div. III soccer teams do — dominant and happily riding a wave that includes two Div. III national championships in the past three years. Their start to the 2017 campaign has been no different. With a current record of ...
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The Equalizer: Is MLS anticompetitive?
By Arlo Moore-Bloom | September 26Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner Don Garber in 2014 announced that he wanted the league "to become one of the top leagues in the world by 2022." It was an ambitious goal in 2014, and in 2017, the MLS still appears far off the mark. Ironically, the very structure of the MLS conflicts ...
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Women's soccer adopts new formation for hopeful bounce-back season
By Eddie Samuels | September 5Fresh off of its first losing season since 2012, Tufts' women's soccer team is ready to prove it is stronger than last year's 6-8-2 record shows. The Jumbos hope a switch to a new 3-5-2 system will help facilitate the improvement.“I think we were a good team, except for a couple moments,” ...
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Jersey Over Apron: Youth Sports
By Nicole Brooks | April 25With the popularity and heightened discussion around collegiate and professional athletics today, fans must use a critical eye to be able to give the necessary push back against sport’s interactions with society, specifically regarding sports' negative connections with violence, corruption and ...
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Outside of the Boot: The dreaded international break
By Ryan Schneiderman | March 31As students across the nation return to campus this week, so do the best international soccer players to their respective clubs. However, instead of a week enjoying the sun (and maybe a drink or too), players will spend the week with their countrymen on international duty. As a fan of the Premier League, there are no two words I dislike hearing more than “international break.”
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