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Road to the World Cup: FIFA’s latest spectacle, exciting groups and ticket economics

By Antonia Toro | December 8

The FIFA Final Draw is complete, and if you missed it, you missed quite the show. The 2026 World Cup draw ceremony managed to pack in more unexpected moments than most tournaments deliver in their entirety. Among the notable moments: President Donald Trump receiving a freshly-created peace prize, FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s subsequent effusive praising of Trump and the actual draw being conducted by a distinguished panel of North American sports icons including Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Aaron Judge and Shaquille O’Neal. Talented athletes all, though their combined professional football experience totals precisely zero. 

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Love To Hate: The gameday experience

By Brian Becker | December 5

Ask anyone who has been to a professional sports game in this country and they’re bound to give you a strongly worded opinion on the sights and sounds that occur within both the stadium and arena experience. Many diehards will be quick to scold the corny music played during play, asserting that it takes away from the gameday product and the “game’s gone” because of it. Other fans, however, will be quick to laud and praise the gameday experience, pointing to the Red Sox’s “Sweet Caroline” or the Bruins’ “Livin’ on a Prayer” as mainstays within fan culture.

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The Full Court Press: Kevin Durant is a trumpeter, Miles Davis is a small forward

By Noah Goldstein | November 25

Making an appearance on the “Hot Ones” YouTube series back in October 2024, Jaylen Brown elucidated one of the best insights on the game of basketball I’ve ever heard. “I look at basketball as like poetry in motion, which is music, and everybody is playing their own song,” Brown commented to host Sean Evans. “Everybody samples from different artists, and they’re playing their own song and if you wanna stop them you gotta study their rhythm.”

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The Intangibles: Selling the Integrity of the Sport

By Jonah Cowan | November 21

In 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver advocated for the legalization of sports betting in a New York Times op-ed. His main argument was one similar to one made for cannabis legalization: “Sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated.” In that same op-ed, Silver stated, “one of my biggest responsibilities [as commissioner] is to protect the integrity of professional basketball.” It is clear Silver views his role as juggling the ideals of maximum profit and total sporting integrity.  

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Love to Hate: Kai Havertz

By Brian Becker | November 17

It is quite a rare occurrence for a player to be hated by their own club for so long. The tale of Kai Havertz is certainly interesting, but it just makes sense. When you score a club defining goal, you become a club defining player, regardless of what happened before the moment. Havertz turned contenders into champions and anxious fans into content ones.

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Field Hockey knocked out of NESCAC tournament

By Leanna DeSousa | November 14

This past Saturday, Tufts’ campus was buzzing with the excitement of the NESCAC tournament. Both men’s and women’s soccer competed for conference titles on Bello field, volleyball kicked off its tournament run in Cousens Gymnasium and field hockey faced fourth-seeded Wesleyan. 

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Women’s soccer claims first NESCAC championship in 23 years

By Max Druckman | November 13

The phrase ‘better late than never’ is often used and usually rings true. Still, those four words don’t account for the rollercoaster of emotions that completing a task before ‘never’ brings. The Tufts women’s soccer team experienced this rollercoaster twice this past weekend, as they scored a late goal to beat Colby and a late equalizer that yielded a penalty shootout win over Williams to claim the 2025 NESCAC crown. 

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Losing, a constant: The story of the saddest team in sports

By Ben Lable | November 10

There are a lot of dysfunctional, disastrous and downright depressing teams in the world of athletics. These are teams that always find themselves with high draft picks that become busts, miss the playoffs year after year and just as a wave of optimism appears, still seem to encounter the most unfortunate of events. The Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, Charlotte Hornets and Cleveland Browns all sit among the pyramid of sports misery, but there is one unlucky team that lies above them all … the New York Jets.

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Field hockey defeats Amherst in NESCAC quarterfinal, to host final 2 games this weekend

By Jacob Skolnick | November 5

Tufts field hockey faced off against Amherst on Saturday in their first game of the NESCAC tournament: the quarterfinal. The Jumbos had already defeated the Mammoths 3–1 in October, setting the stage for another tight battle between the two teams. Tufts entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed, with an impressive 10-game winning streak and a 13–2 record that topped the conference. Amherst was the No. 8 seed with an 8–7 record before last weekend’s matchup.

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