Sports

Football | Offseason report: Junior class ready to take over

The junior class may have understandably found it difficult to discuss this past football season.

Women's Track and Field | Jumbos strive toward new heights

The women's track and field season gets started on Saturday, and with many key athletes returning from last year's successful campaign, the Jumbos are looking to take another step forward as a team.

Inside the NFL | Handicapping the NFL Defensive Player of the Year hopefuls

Predicting the winner of the NFL Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY) is always more challenging than guessing who will be awarded the Most Valuable Player.

Men's Track & Field | Full of experience, Jumbos to open indoor season Saturday

After boasting a young, deep squad last winter, the men's track and field team returns this season mostly intact and with a year of experience to build on its 2010−2011 successes.

Inside NBA | Owners, players reach deal

Even after one of the best seasons in recent memory, the National Basketball Association's labor tensions threatened the entire 2011−12 campaign as recently as last week, after the players' union disbanded and commissioner David Stern declared that the league had entered a nuclear winter.

Womens Basketball | Jumbos even record with rout of Brandeis

The women's basketball team beat the Brandeis Judges on Sunday afternoon, 59−44, improving its overall record to 2−2. After getting off to a slow start and losing their first two games, the Jumbos have now earned two straight victories, both by double−digit margins.

Inside NCAA Basketball | The Big (L)East

You can call it apathy brought on by the coming structural changes, or schools looking ahead to greener pastures and failing to focus on the present. But just weeks into the new college basketball season, the Big East is no longer simply deteriorating off the court; it is doing so on it as well.

Ice Hockey | Tufts takes third at Rutland Herald Invitational

This weekend, the men's ice hockey team participated in the Rutland Herald Invitational, hosted by Castleton State College, but the Jumbos met an early exit when they fell 4−2 to SUNY Morrisville during Saturday's first−round play. Tufts redeemed itself with a 3−0 victory over Becker College in Sunday's third−place match, improving to 3−2 on the season.

Inside NCAA Football | Explaining the staying power of the BCS

As autumn gives way to winter each year, an American sports tradition begins. That tradition is not the celebration of the beauty of college football — the piercing in−state rivalries, battles for bowl eligibility and upcoming conference championship games.

Tufts Marathon Team reduces runners, raises requirements

The allocation of spots for the Tufts Marathon Team (TMT) has this year become increasingly competitive as the program faces cuts to the number of spots available for runners from the Tufts community.

Women's Basketball | Jumbos halt losing streak, start winning streak

While most students were eating turkey and watching football, the women's basketball team was busy winning games.

Men's Basketball | Jumbos win Charlie Ryan Classic

Sailing | Tufts finishes fifth at Sloop Nationals

Women's Basketball | Dam-it: Jumbos suffer frustrating loss to No. 7 Beavers

Alex Prewitt | Live from Mudville

Women's Cross Country | Jumbos place 20th at NCAA Championships

Awards | Rand named cross country All-American

Men's Cross Country | Rand leads Jumbos to ninth place at NCAA Championships

Swimming and Diving | Matching results for men, women in first two meets

The men's and women's swimming and diving teams began their seasons this weekend, each splitting tri-meets against Middlebury and Conn. College on Saturday and defeating Keene State in Hamilton Pool on Sunday.

Women's Squash | Tufts goes 2-1 in opening weekend

The No. 21 Tufts women's squash team started off its 2011-12 season this weekend, beating No. 26 Wellesley and No. 25 Smith before falling to No. 13 Mount Holyoke.