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Men's lacrosse nears another NESCAC title

The men's lacrosse team is moving on to the NESCAC semifinals this Saturday after beating Conn. College 16-10 in the quarterfinal round this weekend.On Wednesday, the Jumbos doubled up on the Bowdoin Polar Bears 20-10 in their final regular season game, opening up an eight-goal lead in the second ...




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Tufts closes season, sends off seniors at Johnson and Wales

The golf team ended its 2015-2016 season last week with the last of its more low-profile spring meets, the Johnson and Wales Spring Invitational. The invitational also marked the last time that senior co-captains Brendan Koh and Jay Wong, who have been stalwarts for the team throughout their careers, ...


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Tufts secures NESCAC East pennant with sweep of Colby

In a successful stretch of five wins in six games over five days this past week, Tufts baseball guaranteed its place on top of the NESCAC East Division with a three-game sweep of Colby over the weekend, staying undefeated in conference play. The team also split its Sunday doubleheader at Keene ...


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Outside of the Boot: The Kings of Italy — Juve win again

In October, Juventus was in unfamiliar territory. Through the first ten games of the season, the reigning champions of Serie A had accumulated just twelve points. After losing their opening match, manager Massimiliano Allegri emphasized that “Serie A is a marathon, not a 100 meter final.” But following their 1-0 defeat to Sassuolo in late October which saw Juventus off to their worst start in Serie A in almost fifty years, Allegri’s tone was distinctly different. He called for “an immediate change of attitude” in the team, and proceeded to take the team on a week-long training retreat. After a week away from their families, the players returned to Turin and won 2-1 against local rival Torino. They haven’t looked back since.



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Weird baseball

This past Sunday, my beloved New York Yankees lost a thoroughly uninteresting game to the Tampa Bay Rays. The loss dropped them into last place and saw their highest paid player exit with an injury. Sunday was also the best day of this young baseball season. If not in the Bronx, the thrilling games ...


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Jumbos see mixed results in always tough NESCAC play

The No. 15 Tufts women's tennis team lost two of three games over the past week as it completed the last away match this season. The team's 9-0 victory over Conn. College on Friday was sandwiched by a 6-3 defeat at Amherst on Wednesday and a 5-4 loss at Wesleyan on Sunday. The Jumbos fall ...


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Adamec scores five, clinching playoffs for women's lacrosse

First-year Dakota Adamec scored five goals against the Wesleyan Cardinals (1-8) to lead No. 16 Tufts (8-6 overall, 4-5 NESCAC) in a 13-10 playoff-clinching win on Saturday.Adamec's performance earned her NESCAC Player of the Week honors, the first of her career.Junior Liana Mathias opened the scoring ...



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Jersey Over Apron: Youth Sports

With 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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Jumbos post top marks in Sunshine Classic win

On Saturday, the women's track and field team hosted the first annual Sunshine Classic at Ellis Oval. Despite the relatively small size of the meet, with just seven teams competing, the women's team was still able to hit top marks and take first place for the third time this season. The meet ...


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On the Spot: The alternative PFA Team of the Year

The PFA recently announced its Team of the Year, with Leicester and Spurs players dominating the team. With only 11 spots on the team, a ton of other players who’ve impressed didn’t make the roster, and here’s my list of possible alternatives — and mind you, even these weren’t easy to filter ...



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Tufts men's tennis completes comeback with win at Bates

Tufts tennis had been trailing for the entirety of its matchup against Bates going into the final two singles matches on Friday. At No. 5 singles, sophomore Danny Coran of the Jumbos was locked in battle against junior co-captain Pat Ordway of the Bobcats, and at No. 2, Tufts sophomore Zain Ali took ...


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Outside of the Boot: What has happened to Barcelona?

One month ago, Barcelona were atop La Liga, nine points clear of second place Atletico Madrid and in the quarter finals of the Champions League after defeating Arsenal 5-1 on aggregate.It had been 39 games since they had lost in any competition. In their previous 20 league games, they had won 19. In their next game, Barcelona would face their most bitter rival, Real Madrid in the biggest event in Spanish football: El Clásico. In the first meeting between the two sides this season, the team from the Catalan region left the Spanish capital victorious after a dominating 4-0 display at the Bernabeu. Their second meeting would go a little differently. Despite taking a 1-0 lead on 56 minutes, Barcelona went on to lose for the first time in just under six months. Since then, Barcelona have lost four out of their last five, with their only win coming against a 10-man Atletico Madrid side. They have been eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinal, and their lead over their La Liga rivals has disintegrated. Their dramatic and sudden loss of form seems as though it has out of nowhere, however hindsight provides indications that their success was hard pressed to last.


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Tufts impresses in last meets before New England Championships

This weekend, the Tufts men’s crew team competed against Middlebury at Malden River on Saturday and traveled to Worcester on Sunday to race against the host Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Skidmore College and Washington College. The Jumbos won three out of four races against their NESCAC ...