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Football | Improved passing attack will be key in Jumbo's game against Bowdoin

October 7

Tufts' football team picked up its first win of the season at Bates on Saturday, riding a stifling defense to a 15-7 victory. While the victory was a good starting point for the 1-1 Jumbos, a tough test awaits them in their first home game, as the Bowdoin Polar Bears come to town looking to get back in the win column after a heartbreaking 13-12 loss to Amherst.

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Field Hockey | Jumbos score biggest win yet over Wellesley

October 7

Heading into Tuesday's road match against the Wellesley Blue, the women's field hockey team had gone 753 days without dropping a regular season away game. With a sweeping 9-0 non-conference drubbing, the 8-0 Jumbos made it 754.

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Games of the week

October 7

Looking back (October 6) | Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers One hundred sixty-two games wasn't enough to settle the score between the Twins and the Tigers for the AL Central Championship, so they needed a 163rd. And it turned out to be an instant classic.

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Soccer

Inside International Soccer | Maradona's Argentina struggling in World Cup

October 7

In the world of international soccer, few countries command as much prestige as Argentina, the winner of two World Cups in 1978 and 1986. But as the qualifying rounds for next year's World Cup begin, Argentina is struggling to earn a spot in soccer's most prestigious event.

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Soccer | Men's soccer looks to get first conference win against Colby, redeem season

October 7

The men's soccer team has endured a rough start to the season so far, but the Jumbos hope that the energy of Homecoming will help them turn things around.

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Sailing | Even keel: Jumbos finish in middle of pack at Danmark

October 6

"I was definitely frustrated that I couldn't put a good set together and was really bummed the last couple races of the day where I could not read the current because it was going across the course in some places and then upwind in other places," he added.

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Inside the NL | Phillies primed for second straight pennant run

October 6

When it comes to Major League Baseball's postseason, several crucial factors that differ from the regular season can make or break a team's World Series hopes.

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Inside the NESCAC | Onside kick propels first-place Trinity over Williams

October 6

According to Trinity football coach Jeff Devanney, "an onside kick is a little bit of execution and a little bit of luck."

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Inside the AL | How the Yankees turned it around in 2009

October 6

This time last year, the New York Yankees were missing out on October baseball for the first time since Derek Jeter was a teenager. But it sure didn't take Joe Girardi's squad too long to turn things around.

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Women's Tennis | Jumbos school Engineers, club Beavers in weekend routs

October 5

    The women's tennis team rolled through a pair of dual matches over the weekend unchallenged, cruising to dominant 9-0 wins over non-conference foes MIT and Babson. For their overwhelming victories, the Jumbos did not drop a set in any of their 12 singles matches and lost a grand total of four games across six doubles matches.

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Daily Digits

October 5

3 - Consecutive years with a one-game playoff to decide a postseason spot in Major League Baseball. The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers will play one final game tonight to decide who will be the American League Central champion. Last year, the Twins suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox in a playoff game, while the year before the Colorado Rockies used their tie-breaking victory over the San Diego Padres to propel themselves to the World Series.

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Men's Tennis | MIT ekes out 5-4 win over Jumbos

October 5

Torrential rain forced Saturday's men's tennis match against MIT into the Gantcher Center, but the change of scenery did little to turn the tide in the Jumbos' favor. Tufts entered the match knowing it was in for a tough fight, and though it fell to the Engineers 5-4, the team left pleased with its overall performance.

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Inside the NFL | Two NFC powerhouses have already answered big preseason questions

October 5

After some early skepticism, two of the NFC's 4-0 teams have shown that they made some solid decisions during the offseason, and for that, they deserve some recognition.

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Feiger gives Jumbos second straight NESCAC award

October 5

Tufts' senior co-captain setter Dena Feiger became the second consecutive Jumbo to win the NESCAC women's volleyball Player of the Week award, following in the footsteps of classmate and fellow co-captain Brogie Helgeson.

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Golf | Tufts falls just short at NESCAC Fall Qualifier

October 5

he Tufts golf team had one number on its mind coming into this weekend: four. That would be a fourth-place finish or better, which would have ensured the team a spot in this spring's conference championship.

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Football | Stingy defense leads Jumbos over Bates for first win of year

October 4

Saturday's contest would see one of two things broken: either the Jumbos' 23-game history of winning against Bates or their six-game, on-the-road losing streak. Fortunately for Tufts, it was the latter.

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Women's Field Hockey | Undefeated Jumbos thrash Bobcats 3-1

October 4

The women's field hockey team routed the Bates Bobcats 3-1 in Lewiston, Maine on Saturday for the Jumbos' seventh consecutive victory against the fledging NESCAC bottom-feeder.

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Men's Soccer | Tufts plays to scoreless tie at Bates

October 4

Coming into last week with an 0-4-1 record, the men's soccer team knew that it needed to find a way to start winning games. The Jumbos came through with an overtime victory against Suffolk in a non-conference game on Tuesday and then took the pitch in Lewiston, Maine against Bates looking to start a streak.

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Women's Volleyball | Winning never gets old: Jumbos earn 16th straight W

October 4

You would think that after exacting revenge on both Williams and UMass Boston earlier in the week the Tufts' volleyball team would be out of scores to settle. Unfortunately for their next four adversaries, that was not the case.

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Athletes of the Week

October 4

Pat Bailey, Football - After Tufts' offense struggled in the season-opening 7-3 loss to Wesleyan on Sept. 26, it was junior Pat Bailey who jump-started the squad and led the team to a 15-7 victory at Bates.    

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