Tufts took to the road on Saturday for a matchup against No. 11 Wesleyan and returned home Sunday for a competition against No. 3 Middlebury on the Voute Courts. After two NESCAC victories in the previous week, this weekend saw the Jumbos take their first two conference losses of the spring season. ...
The men’s rowing team was back in action Saturday on its home waters of the Malden River, taking on crews from Bates College, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Wesleyan University. The Jumbos also faced the Amherst Purple and White in head-to-head races Sunday.On Sunday, the men’s first ...
“Proud History, No Future,” read some of the banners.“No Fight, No Pride, No Effort," read some others.I do not remember watching a Premier League team with such a proud legacy of being European champions demonstrate such little spine, and it has been difficult to watch this team play or ...
Splitting up its squad over the weekend, the women's track and field team sent senior quint-captain Audrey Gould and classmate Olivia Beltrani five hours down the coast on Friday evening to Princeton's annual Sam Howell Invitational, while the majority of the team stayed in the area and traveled ...
The No. 16-ranked women's lacrosse team split games at Bello Field against No. 11 Hamilton on Saturday and against Williams on Wednesday.The Hamilton Continentals defeated the Jumbos 13-12 in a contest that was back and forth up through the final minute, but the Jumbos recovered to take the ...
The men's tennis team unloaded a 12-year-old burden this weekend when it defeated men's tennis powerhouse and 2014 NESCAC champion Amherst for the first time since 2004. Though the Amherst Purple and White has been one of the conference's top teams for many years and was ranked No. 8 in ...
The Athletics Department enacted several changes this semester to the Club Sports program, including new caps on roster sizes and the introduction of a rule prohibiting A and B teams from playing games in separate locations, following funding decrease program. These changes have caused leaders ...
The past three weekends were eventful for women’s and co-ed sailing teams, as they competed in at least one regatta each with the fleet racing season approaching.The women’s team started off its spring break trip in Maryland with an 11th-place finish out of 18 teams at the St. Mary’s Inter ...
This past week, the softball team dropped two games in a home doubleheader against Williams before recovering with a win against Bowdoin in a tight NESCAC East battle. The Jumbos came away with a 7-5 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Friday in their first and only conference game so far, while ...
Despite the gusting winds and rain falling on the Ellis Oval this weekend, the men’s track and field team just kept running. On Saturday, the team hosted the annual Snowflake Classic at Duasault Track and they placed third out of 16 teams. Though the Jumbos' outdoor season technically started ...
The Champions League is back. For the next two weeks, soccer fans everywhere will be treated to showdowns between Europe’s best. On Tuesday, Barcelona looked to continue their quest to become the first repeat champion since 1989 when they hosted Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the quarterfinal. The game started with Barcelona dominant, but a defensive lapse gave the away side an early lead. Fernando Torres’s 25th-minute strike had the pundits writing the former Chelsea man’s redemption story, but only until a clumsy challenge on Sergio Busquets, and a second yellow card saw the script changed. The 10-man Atletico side fought valiantly to absorb wave after wave of Barcelona attack, but two Luis Suarez goals saw Barcelona leave the Camp Nou with a 2-1 victory. Bayern Munich was also in action on Tuesday, defeating Benfica 1-0.
Coming off a 6-3 road trip through the south over spring, the baseball team returned to New England with a bang in a crushing 21-3 victory over Massachusetts Maritime Academy last Wednesday before sweeping a doubleheader against Bates on Saturday to move to 2-0 in NESCAC East play.The Jumbos are off ...
The Jumbos hit the road last week, easily handling Keene State to the tune of 23-7 on Wednesday but falling to Conn. College by just one point in a tough 14-13 NESCAC loss on Saturday. The team's non-conference play, for which they boast a 4-1 record, has been solid all season, but the team ...
Tufts women's tennis swept to three straight victories in as many days over the weekend, defeating Babson 9-0 on Thursday and then Colby by the same score on Friday before seeing off Bates 8-1 on Saturday as the team opened its spring home season. The wins put the Jumbos at 2-0 in NESCAC play ...
The Jumbos faced the Conn. College Camels at Bello Field on Saturday for their second home game of the season. Despite heavy rain showers, over one hundred spectators enthusiastically cheered the team to a resounding 24-12 victory.Not only did Saturday give the Jumbos their largest win margin yet this ...
For two weeks this summer, people all across this world will watch people walk as fast as they can without running. We will care about which horse has been taught to dance the best. We will not only view a group of women synchronously playing with hula hoops, but we will opine on which group should ...
With their first event since October, the Jumbos kicked off their spring season by finishing 12th out of 16 teams at Friday’s Rhode Island College Invitational. The event was cut in half due to rain on Saturday, but Tufts’ four best scorers totaled a 337, which tied the team with Roger Williams.Tufts sophomore ...
Sports have always been a male-dominated enterprise. From the beginnings of sports, male bodies have always been considered to be the pinnacle of athletic accomplishment. Male athletes then and now are typically valued based on stereotypically masculine attributes like physicality, toughness and having ...
The Jumbos came out in the first quarter of the NCAA Div. III National Championship and executed exactly as they needed to. They kept Thomas More's three-time Div. III Player of the Year and NCAA Tournament MVP senior Sydney Moss from getting hot, they worked the ball inside and out, knocking down ...
The women's track and field team opened its outdoor season at full strength at Saturday's Tufts Snowflake Classic, held at Ellis Oval. On a cold and rainy day, the Jumbos emerged victorious, scoring 210 points as they finished first out of a field of 15 teams. Dartmouth College was second with ...
