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Inside NCAA Football | Ducks and Tigers smoothly escape the 2010 BCS chaos
December 6A lot can change in five months.
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Women's Track and Field | Jumbos shake out jitters in first meet
December 6The first few meets of the indoor track and field season are traditionally used to get a bearing on the fitness of team members. For the Jumbos, the Jay Carisella Track and Field Invitational, hosted by Northeastern University at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, turned out to be an opportunity to set high marks and fast times too.
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Men's Track and Field | Jumbos flourish in pressure-free season opener
December 6The men's track and field team opened its season with a strong performance at the Jay Carisella Invitational hosted by Northeastern on Saturday.
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Women's Basketball | Colleen Hart named NESCAC Player of the Week
December 6Senior guard Colleen Hart's 19 points and 7.5 rebounds per game last week in two Jumbo victories has earned the women's basketball tri-captain NESCAC Player of the Week honors. Last Tuesday, Hart put up a season-high 23 points to help the Jumbos pull away in the second half over Salem State in a 59-49 win. In Saturday's 70-36 rout of Colby-Sawyer, Hart followed up that performance with her second double-double of the season — 15 points and 11 rebounds.
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Alex Prewitt | Live from Mudville
December 6As a general rule, I don't care too much for bowl games. They're similar to mayonnaise in that vein. If someone thrusts it in front of me and insists upon supplementing my healthy sandwich comprised of college basketball, NBA and NFL with some BCS condiment, so be it.
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Inside International Soccer | FIFA picks Russia, Qatar to host World Cups in 2018, 2022
December 5FIFA, the world's soccer governing body, on Thursday announced the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. The announcement came as a shock to many observers, who expected the 2018 World Cup to go to more favored bids by Portugal/Spain, Belgium/Netherlands and England.
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Women's Basketball | Explosive offense propels Jumbos to win over Chargers
December 5In an outstanding display of both offensive and defensive skills, the women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon extended its winning streak to three with a 70−36 blowout victory over out−of−conference opponent Colby−Sawyer at Cousens Gym. With three straight impressive wins under their belts, the Jumbos are starting to hit their stride.
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Tufts once again stampedes to victory in second half
December 2If games were decided only in the final 20 minutes, the women's basketball team might be the best in the country.
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Men's Swimming and Diving | Tufts looks for strong showing at MIT Invitational
December 2After opening its season with three conference victories, the men's swimming and diving team hopes to keep the win train rolling today and tomorrow at the MIT Invitational.
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Women's Swimming and Diving | Tufts wins 15 of 19 events in big win over Wellesley
December 2A grueling start to the season left the women's swimming and diving team gasping for air when the Jumbos left campus for Thanksgiving last week. They returned well rested for Wednesday's home meet against Wellesley, and it showed in a 172−117 victory over the Blue.
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Avinash Asthana | Switch Hit
December 1Going from one extreme to the other is a hallmark of any Pakistani cricket team. After putting up a great fight against a strong South African team in the test matches — during which a player actually ran away from host city Abu Dhabi to London, citing some death threats made to him by unknown sources, without telling the team management about the "threats" — there are fresh match-fixing allegations against five more players in the team.
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Men's Squash | Jumbos prepare for NESCAC showdown at Wesleyan
December 1After finishing 1-5 against some of the top teams in the nation at the season-opening Boston Round Robin two weekends ago, the 22nd-ranked men's squash team will look to get back on track tomorrow evening in an away match against Wesleyan.
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Men's Basketball | Against Lesley, Tufts earns largest margin of victory in 15 years
December 1If it wasn't already clear that this men's basketball season was different from last year's, Tuesday's game made that fact impossible to miss.
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Women's Squash | Women's squash squad to face upstart Wellesley team and rival Wesleyan
December 1The women's squash team, still ranked No. 23 nationally five matches into the season, will be tested once again this weekend in two matches, both against teams behind them in the standings: No. 28 Wellesley and No. 32 Boston College. A win in both match-ups will give the team a chance to leapfrog NESCAC rival No. 17 Wesleyan and move into the top 20.
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Winter intramural season put on ice
December 1The hundreds of Tufts students who sign up to play in winter intramural leagues will have to find another way to stay warm during the dreary New England winter.
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Men's Track and Field | Track and field opens season with Saturday's Husky Invite
November 30The men's indoor track and field team this Saturday opens its season at the Husky Invitational hosted by Northeastern at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
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Ethan Frigon | The Beard Abides
November 30So I spent Thanksgiving week with a horde of Penn State college football homers — my mom's from Pennsylvania — and it reinforced a truth I've always known, but whose importance seems to have slipped my mind: No sports fans are more narrow-mindedly provincial than college football fans.
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Women's Track and Field | Jumbos to use Husky to gauge fitness, prepare for spring
November 30The women's track and field team will open its season this weekend with the Husky Invitational at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The meet hosted by Northeastern is the only meet that the Jumbos will be competing in before January.
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Inside the NFL | Playground justice for Andre Johnson in weekend fight
November 30Each week it seems that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has a new fine to dispense, and throughout the whole season, the players have lashed back. So when Tennessee Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan and Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson turned to fisticuffs Sunday afternoon, everyone waited to see the severity of the punishment that Finnegan and Johnson would inevitably face. While most predicted suspensions for both players, it turned out that each only had to ante up $25,000.
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Inside the NBA | Spurs, Hornets and Mavericks off to impressive starts
November 30A month into the 2010-11 season, heat is being emitted from a place far from the beaches of Miami: the Southwest Division. Heading into Tuesday's action, the San Antonio Spurs (14-2), Dallas Mavericks (13-4) and New Orleans Hornets (12-5) have opened the season with a combined 39-11 record. To top it off, five of those losses have come at the hands of each other, showing just how dominant these three teams have been against the rest of the league.
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