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Field Hockey | Top 10 Beatdown: Jumbos put Panthers to sleep in opener
September 12Living up to its preseason hype turned out to be a pretty easy task for the field hockey team.
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Volleyball | Jumbos fly to Georgia, start 2-2 in turbulent weekend
September 12After a disappointing Friday at the Emory Classic in Georgia this past weekend, a strong recovery on Saturday showed that the No. 22-ranked volleyball team knows how to deal with adversity. Whether this team is good enough to repeat its 2009 trip to the NCAA tournament, however, remains up in the air.
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Men's Soccer | New coach, same story: Tufts drops opener to Middlebury 1-0
September 12With beautiful conditions at Kraft Field, a new coach at the helm and a renewed spirit among the players, the men's soccer team was optimistic that it would erase the memories of a disappointing 2009 season in Saturday's season−opening match against Middlebury College. And despite losing a 1−0 decision to the Panthers for the second straight year, the Jumbos remain confident that they are moving in the right direction.
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Women's Soccer Season Preview | Aspirations high for NESCAC championship
September 8For the past two seasons, the women's soccer team has been on the brink of the NESCAC's top tier. In 2008, a heartbreaking shootout in the conference quarterfinals ended its run, while in 2009, overtime struggles during the regular season led to a fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament and an eventual semifinal exit against top−seeded Williams.
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Men's Soccer Season Preview | Former Div. I coach looks to reverse dismal fortunes
September 8To say the men's soccer team's 2009 season was a disappointment would be a massive understatement.
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Inside NCAA Football | Despite big ego, Big East falters on opening weekend
September 6Two months ago, football fans around the country debated whether the Big East would disappear with the seemingly inevitable creation of the "super-conferences."
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Men's Lacrosse | Is a repeat possible for the reigning Div. III national champs?
September 6If the incoming freshman class was frustrated to have missed out on the spectacle of the men's lacrosse team's national championship last spring, it needn't be worried.
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Women's Field Hockey | Jumbos match best-ever performance in Directors' Cup
August 31The past school year was arguably the most exciting in recent memory for Tufts athletics and, ever since the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings were released at the end of June, it seems that recognition of the Jumbos' success has spread throughout the nation.
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Welcome to the NESCAC
August 31Welcome to the NESCAC, the strongest Div. III conference in the country and home to national powerhouses across the board. The 11 members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference, including Tufts, took a combined six 2009-10 national championships: Tufts in men's lacrosse, Williams in women's tennis and crew, Trinity in men's squash, Amherst in women's hockey and Middlebury in men's tennis. In addition, NESCAC schools took four of the top six spots in the final Directors' Cup standings: Williams (1st), Amherst (2nd), Middlebury (4th) and Tufts (6th). Any Div. III athletic knowledge starts and ends with the NESCAC; so without further ado, the Daily brings you a brief look at the 10 other schools that share a conference with the Jumbos.
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The business of baseball: Why the national pastime is as profit-driven as a Fortune 500 company
August 31Baseball is a business and, like in all other businesses, the goal is to make money.
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What you need to know about Tufts athletics
August 3110. Watching games won't cost you a cent. You may need to take out a loan to attend a Yankees game, but you can cheer on your classmates for free at fields across Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus.
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Football | 'Hard Knocks': Revis, media and expectations pressure Jets
August 31The AFC East has recently belonged to the New England Patriots. But with a fortuitous run to the conference championship and an overly active off-season profiled by HBO's television miniseries "Hard Knocks," the New York Jets have become division favorites as well as the most interesting team in the National Football League.
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Crew | Novice eight boat snags ECAC gold medal
May 22In its final race of the season, the women's crew novice eight boat took first place and a gold medal at the ECAC National Invitational Championships on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. on May 9.
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Men's Lacrosse | Men's lacrosse captures first conference title
May 22A school record for victories, a one-loss season and the No. 2 seed in the conference — all of these things had already been achieved by the men's lacrosse team as it headed into the NESCAC Tournament. But it still had one final acknowledgement missing from its résumé: a NESCAC title. That is, until May 9.
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Baseball | Baseball earns first NESCAC title since 2002
May 22The baseball team had every excuse if it lost the NESCAC championship game two weeks ago. The Jumbos had completed a rain-suspended game that was resumed at 9 a.m. that day, and despite not having lost in the double-elimination tournament, Tufts was forced to take part in a one-game championship playoff against Bowdoin — a team that had already fallen once in the tournament — because of the change in schedule.
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Softball | Year ends with quick exit from conference tournament
May 22Last year, the softball team graduated eight seniors, including seven everyday players and one of its two starting pitchers. But the Jumbos refused to write this season off as a rebuilding year, and despite an early exit from the NESCAC Tournament, they still earned a NESCAC East regular-season crown and have a lot to look forward to in the years to come.
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Tufts catches World Cup fever
May 22Rising sophomore Phil Teves is a self-proclaimed sports hater. Ask him about almost any sport, from baseball to football, and he will have an opinion about just how boring and pointless it is. But there is one sporting event that even Teves cannot ignore: the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Women's Lacrosse | Roller-coaster 2010 campaign marked by big wins and early postseason exit
May 22It was a season of ups and downs for the women's lacrosse team.
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