It was an action-packed week in the NBA. With most teams playing their 10th game of the 2014-2015 season, there are some surprising winners as well as a team that still hasn't been able to earn its first victory.The Toronto Raptors lead the Eastern Conference this week with eight wins and two ...
The women's basketball team held the visiting Hartwick Hawks to just 32 points on Tuesday in its home opener, scoring 70 points on 45.3 percent shooting (24-of-53 from the field) and bringing its overall record to 3-0.The 32 points Tufts allowed to Hartwick is the fewest in a game since they held ...
Andrew Luck is a very good quarterback on a good Colts football team. At some point, probably soon, he will be a great quarterback on a great Colts team. That time, however, has not yet come.Indianapolis was coming off a bye week and sitting atop the AFC South entering its Week 11 matchup with New ...
The men's soccer team lives to see another weekend after winning its first and second round games in the NCAA Div. III tournament. On Saturday, Tufts took down Dickinson College by a score of 2-1. The team followed up that victory with a convincing 2-0 win over sectional host Wheaton College on ...
This weekend, the Tufts hockey team opened its season with two home games, beginning on Saturday against Wesleyan (which finished with a record of 11-12-2 last year) and against Trinity (21-5) on Sunday. The Jumbos lost to both teams twice last season."I think that Wesleyan is a very skilled ...
This past weekend, the women's cross country team went into the NCAA Div. III New England Regional Championship in Williamstown, Mass., determined to punch their ticket to the NCAA Championship meet held next weekend in Mason, Ohio. Although the race didn't go as planned, the Jumbos placed sixth ...
The Tufts women's basketball team enters its season as the team to beat in the NESCAC, and in the entire northeast, coming off a season in which it reached the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. The Jumbos began the season competing in the Ramada Roundball Invitational at University of New England ...
For the fourth straight year, the Tufts men's cross-country team has earned a bid to the Div. III Championship meet. The Jumbos finished sixth at the NCAA Regional Championship meet on Saturday with a score of 165 to earn the last at-large bid to nationals from the New England region. Colby won ...
Now that the MLB offseason has begun, many fans anticipate that their teams will sign players to large contracts. It is an exciting time of year; fans can forget about their teams’ terrible 2014 seasons and hope that they get the right players for 2015. Of course, many teams will fall short of meeting ...
The 2014-2015 men’s swimming and diving season kicks off Saturday, and the Jumbos are eager to start off strong and sweep their season-opening tri-meet for the third straight year.This year, Tufts will face off against Middlebury in the opener, a team that Tufts has handled easily in each of the ...
The Tufts volleyball team won its first game in the NCAA tournament since 2011 over the weekend, scoring a first-round victory over Springfield College before bowing out after a hard-fought second round loss against Clarkson University."We went into this weekend knowing the importance of these ...
The women's swimming and diving team struggled last season, losing six straight meets to open the season before salvaging a win in its seventh and final non-tournament meet against Wheaton College. Though Tufts has a young team this year, the Jumbos are optimistic they will be able to build off ...
Although the men's basketball team is coming off a year in which it went only 4-6 and snuck into the NESCAC playoffs as the No. 7 seed, those numbers belie the promise that the 2014-2015 season holds.Last season, the expectations were set high for a Jumbos team that had finished 7-3 in the NESCAC ...
In a cruel twist of fate -- or, alternatively, a shot at redemption -- the men's hockey team will play the same five teams, in order, against whom it kicked off last season. Four of these teams -- Trinity, Williams, Middlebury and Wesleyan -- hail from the NESCAC, which saw six players selected ...
The fifth-ranked co-ed sailing team competed in the Hap Moore Team Race over the weekend, hosted by Coast Guard. The Jumbos compiled a two-day record of 8-6 and finished in third place out of the 12 teams at the regatta.Saturday came with great conditions for sailing, with a breeze of 4-7 knots that ...
Last night, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets faced off in an NBA game in Mexico City. If you can remember as far back as last season, the Wolves were slated to play a game in Mexico City against the Spurs, but smoke inside Mexico City Arena prevented the game from being played. Before ...
The nationally ranked No. 26 women’s squash team will enter its 2014 winter campaign with the Wesleyan Round Robin in Middletown, Conn. this weekend. Tufts will take on Wesleyan and William Smith College on Saturday as well as Smith College and Mount Holyoke College on Sunday.“We should do well ...
After strong preseason practice and training, the members of the men’s squash team feel that it is ready to once again take to the courts for a successful season. Tufts finished 6-18 last year, and is looking to begin with a bang in their season opener at Wesleyan on Saturday.Two veteran players ...
This season, tri-captains Kelsey Morehead, Hayley Kanner and Hannah Foley will be returning for their senior years as anchors of the women's basketball team -- a team that is coming off of its most successful season in program history. The 2013-2014 Tufts team recorded an unprecedented 21-game ...
Tufts traveled to Middlebury on Saturday for its last game of the season, but the visiting Jumbos were unable to defeat the Panthers and their high-powered offense.“We had some injuries early in the second half,” coach Jay Civetti said. "[Defensive backs sophomore Mike] Stearns and [sophomore ...
