Craig Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman, and Greg Holland are clearly the position’s elite, but none of them will wind up on my teams this spring simply because of how early people tend to draft premium closers.The aforementioned three will bring you excellent ratios and at least 90 strikeouts, but I would ...
The men’s squash team entered the 2014-15 season with high hopes of finishing off the season with a higher ranking than its previous one, No. 34. The Jumbos were able to achieve this goal, which can be attributed to the team’s camaraderie, improved practices and hard work on and off the court.“This ...
This past weekend the Jumbos bounced back from their disappointing results in the New England Div. III Championships two weekends ago with impressive performances at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Assocation Championships, colloquially known as Open New Englands. The competition, ...
Claiming his second title in as many weeks, sophomore diver Matt Rohrer once again headlined the Tufts effort at last weekend’s NCAA Zone Qualifier meet in Springfield, Mass. Both the men’s and the women’s swimming and diving teams sent a diver to the regional championships, and Rohrer placed ...
The Players' Tribune, a first-of-its-kind media platform whose writers are exclusively current and former professional athletes, aspires to bring "fans closer to the games they love than ever before." They're lying.Gone are the days of journalistic meddling, of careerism, when writers ...
In its season opener on Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team defeated the Middlebury Panthers by a score of 17-10. For the defending champion Jumbos, the game was the first step in its quest to win back-to-back titles.The Jumbos entered the game as heavy favorites as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation ...
Capping off a memorable weekend for Tufts athletics, sophomores Josie Lee and Mason Pulde earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors. Pulde, a goalie on the ice hockey team, is the first Tufts hockey player to win the award this season. Lee, a guard on the women's basketball team, follows senior ...
Over the weekend, a few members of the women's track and field team traveled to Boston University's Track and Tennis Center for the annual New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships, colloquially known as Open New Englands. At this meet, top teams and individuals ...
This time last year, the women's basketball team cut down the nets in Cousens Gym after winning the first NESCAC championship in the program's history. This year's team had its sights set on a repeat with most of its integral players still around and hungry for another title. After earning the ...
Heavy underdogs going into the game, Tufts (9-14-2) defeated No. 2 Trinity (21-3-1) for the program's first victory in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC tournament. Tufts will advance to take on No. 10 Amherst, while Trinity's season is at the mercy of the NCAA selection committee."We ...
The NESCAC Championship will be held this Sunday at Cousens gymnasium, but whether the No. 5 women’s basketball team will have a shot at defending its title and becoming back-to-back champions for the first time will depend on its semifinal matchup against fourth-seeded Williams the day before.Tufts ...
Coming off an NCAA Div. III national title a year ago, expectations are rightfully high for the men’s lacrosse team. The Jumbos’ season kicks off Saturday with a home game against the Middlebury Panthers, and with it begins the quest to repeat as champions.Tufts begins the year as the No. 1 team ...
The women’s lacrosse team will open up its season this Saturday against Middlebury. The Jumbos have high hopes for the 2015 season after finishing with a 10-6 record overall and a 6-4 mark in the NESCAC last year.The team returns key starters, including Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches ...
After securing the fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament, Tufts dreams of a playoff run were quickly dashed in first round with a 92-66 loss to a hot-shooting Amherst team in Cousens Gymnasium on Saturday. The Jumbos ended the season 13-12.The Lord Jeffs got out to a hot start early led by junior forward ...
The men’s track and field team started its championship season with a sixth-place finish at the New England Div. III Championships at Springfield College this past Saturday. A total score of 52.5 placed Tufts behind MIT, Bates, Williams, Southern Maine and Bridgewater State. Amherst, Bowdoin, Coast ...
Following impressive performances over the weekend, junior tri-captain Michael Winget and sophomore diver Matt Rohrer were named to the NESCAC Men's Swimming and Diving All-Conference Team. This is Winget's first time receiving the honor and the second time for Rohrer. Unsurprisingly, Williams ...
“If LeBron can go home, why can’t I?” asked an aging star on a Brooklyn Nets roster that never seemed to click despite high expectations at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season. Kevin Garnett is returning to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a franchise he so deeply loves and never wanted to leave ...
Tufts will face the top-seeded Trinity Bantams in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC Championship this weekend. The Jumbos finished their regular season with an 8-14-2 record, the team’s best since the 2011-12 season, when the team won 12 games. While the Jumbos are facing the intimidating 21-2-1 Bantams, ...
Owen Elliott has had an exceptional sophomore year. Not only has he established himself as Tufts' premier golfer,but he also cemented his position in the starting lineup on the men's squash team; he is en route to joining the select group of Jumbos that call themselves multi-sport athletes.Although ...
On Saturday, the Jumbos competed in the Div. III New England Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Although collectively the team did not compete as well as it had hoped it would, it still posted some solid performances and gained some new All-New England ...
