The sailing team is the Barack Obama of the collegiate sailing circuit: more intelligent, better looking and steadily rising in the rankings until the end, when it will find itself at the top.
After its second tournament launched the water polo team to 8-0, this season was playing out to be a mirror image of last year's undefeated run to the Club Nationals tournament. But with a 9-8 loss to division foe Coast Guard this weekend, that winning streak -- and the Jumbos' season -- came to an abrupt end.
The Tampa Bay Rays will win the World Series quite simply because they have prepared too well not to. Every event in the franchise's history, from baseball's expansion draft in 1997 up until tonight's first pitch, has built up to this.
In similar fashion to September's Jumbo Invitational, the men's cross country team split into two squads Saturday when it competed at the Plansky Invitational, hosted by Williams. The Jumbos took third among the eight teams in the 8,000-meter race and second out of three in the 5k race.
Saturday was a record-setting game for the football team as Tufts defeated Williams 17-7, ending a 21-year winless drought against the Ephs. During the game, senior receiver David Halas caught his sixth touchdown of the season, tying with Mike Gorham (A '73) and senior teammate Stephen Black, who had six last season, for the program's single-season record.
The Rays and Red Sox gave us a hell of a first inning in Game 6 of the ALCS on Saturday night, as James Shields executed a beautiful (we can only presume) pickoff of Coco Crisp, B.J. Upton hit his seventh home run of the postseason, and Jed Lowrie and Dustin Pedroia turned two for the Sox to retire the side.
Junior Andrew Rosen, the top singles player throughout the fall season on the men's tennis team, entered the 2008-09 campaign not knowing what to expect.
After edging MIT at last weekend's All-New England Championships, the women's cross country team took third at Saturday's Plansky Invitational, falling 12 points short of the first-place Engineers.
The women's tennis team ended its fall season over the weekend when it sent seven players to Amherst to participate in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT). At the Davis Cup-style event, all four of Tufts' pairings won their first-round matches and three advanced to the quarterfinals of their respective draws.
The volleyball team defended its lead in the NESCAC this weekend, toppling Hamilton and Williams and improving to 7-0 in conference play and 21-1 overall.
This weekend, thousands of fans huddled around the three-mile long section of the Charles River in Cambridge to watch hundreds of boats take to the 'dirty water.' Turning their attention away from the whipping winds and the surprisingly stiff October cold that harassed the rowers all weekend long, the droves of fans were treated to exciting competition on the water as well as plenty of body-warming food and drink along the edges of the river.
The Tampa Bay Rays celebrate at Tropicana Field after defeating the Boston Red Sox 3-1 in Game 7 of the ALCS last night. The Rays join the 1991 Atlanta Braves as the only two teams in baseball history to reach the World Series despite having the worst record in baseball the year before. Starting pitcher Matt Garza was named the series MVP after hurling seven innings of two-hit baseball in the clincher.
Sophomore Julia Browne and junior captain Meghan McCooey weren't initially invited to the party, but they sure had fun crashing it.
The men's soccer team scored its biggest win of the season Saturday, knocking off No. 24 Williams 3-1 to secure the Jumbo's first victory over the Ephs since 1994 and keep pace in the NESCAC playoff race.
Despite the festive and spirited atmosphere that makes the annual Head of the Charles Regatta a staple of the fall for competitors and spectators alike, the women's crew left the Charles River with a bittersweet experience yesterday.
Coming off of two consecutive losses by a total of three points, the football team needed a win to get back into the race for the NESCAC title. On Sunday, the Jumbos got just that, defeating Williams 17-7 to improve their record to 3-2. It was the first time since 1986 that the Jumbos took down the Ephs, who also move to 3-2 after the loss.
To end a midseason losing skid, the women's soccer team returned to a familiar strategy: shutout defense.
Maybe it's time to give Bello Field a new nickname: Winnersville.
The 2008 NFL season has gone all Gary Busey on us. Kerry Collins is the quarterback of the league's only unbeaten team. The Atlanta Falcons have more wins than the San Diego Chargers. And one could argue that, after Drew Brees, Philip "I throw like a girl, seriously" Rivers, Kurt Warner and Kyle Orton have been the league's best quarterbacks.
