“Be a good sport." I think that is a line from "The Great Gatsby" (1925), but I may have heard it somewhere else. All I know is that in sports, good sportsmanship is a standard for players and teams to uphold, even at professional levels when all the players are grown-up. One of those ...
The 5–0 men’s basketball team picked up a 73–63 win over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 in Cousens Gym. Coming off of three home victories and senior guard and co-captain Eric Savage’s 1,000th career point, the Jumbos are in high spirits and working well ...
Here we have a tale ripe for the current “OK Boomer” moment we find ourselves in. An old, surly and impatient chairman demands his team to go on a week-long retreat in the team’s practice facility to improve performance. An archaic practice in Italian football known as ritiro, this practice calls ...
The women’s soccer team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament in the Sweet 16 round on Saturday in Mechanicsburg, Pa., losing 2–1 to the Williams Ephs, a perennial NCAA powerhouse.With a familiar NESCAC rival as an opponent, it was bound to be a tough game for the Jumbos. Although at the end ...
Men’s squash suffered a disappointing loss this weekend at the hands of higher-ranked Franklin & Marshall College, losing 0–9. Despite four of their matches going to four sets, Jumbos failed to convert a single match in their favor.As Franklin & Marshall is ranked higher than Tufts, this ...
Hear the whistles. Hit the garbage can. Is this a performance of Stomp? No, this is the Houston Astros organization when an off-speed pitch is coming. Supposedly. It seems fitting to me that one hundred years after theBlack Sox scandal that shook baseball, we have a scandal of our own. The Houston Astros ...
This weekend, the men's soccer team advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Div. III tournament with back-to-back wins over Washington and Lee University and Conn. College.On Sunday, the Jumbos beat the Conn. College Camels in the quarterfinal game by a score of 3–1. The Jumbos qualified for that ...
As much as I don't want to believe that title above, the prediction is inevitable: Tom Brady can't play forever. The day he retires will cast a dark shadow on New England, yet us Pats fans need to prepare for a future without his weekly domination over this league. Here are two solutions to ...
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to Williamstown, Mass., on Saturday for their season-opening quad meet. The men’s team emerged victorious over Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 251–68 and over Wesleyan 259–56, but were topped by the hosting team Williams 175–138. ...
It was 2010, and the financial crisis seethed throughout Europe. Some of the European Union’s most vulnerable markets — Greece, Russia and Italy — were hit the hardest, as the next decade would usher in years of austerity and financial anxiety.As reported by Foreign Affairs, Far-right parties ...
After falling to Middlebury in the NESCAC Championship game earlier this month, the field hockey team began to prepare for its run in the NCAA Div. III championship bracket. Last year, the Jumbos reached the championship game, but fell short to Middlebury 2–0.On Sunday, the Jumbos entered the quarterfinal ...
On Saturday afternoon, the volleyball team (28–2) lost to the Bowdoin Polar Bears (21–7) in the NCAA Regional second round in Cousens Gym. The heartbreaking match went into five sets (14–25, 25–16, 25–27, 25–15, 15–13), with the Jumbos falling 3–2. This match was a rematch of the NESCAC ...
Have you ever heard of a compliment sandwich? It’s a way to give constructive feedback while reinforcing some of the positive elements of whatever you may be assessing. I want to take a similar approach to assess the NFL this week, with something I call the “vibe sandwich” (it's a working ...
In an outstanding upset performance over its adversary, the No. 13 Tufts women's soccer team defeated the No. 4 The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Lions 2–0 on Sunday in Ewing, N.J. The game remained deadlocked at 0–0 until the 73rd minute when first-year forward Claire Wilkinson connected on ...
Led by sophomore guard Molly Ryan, who put up 19 points on Friday, and junior guard and forward Emily Briggs, who hit a career-high 21 points on Saturday, Tufts women’s basketball opened its 2019-2020 season with a 2–0 sweep at the Tufts Tip Off Tournament this past weekend. Following the sweep, ...
The Tufts hockey team opened its season with two of its toughest opponents in the NESCAC. The Jumbos hit the road to face the Wesleyan Cardinals (1–1–0) on Friday and the Trinity Bantams (2–0) on Saturday. The Jumbos’ very experienced team, returning with 25 players from last year, did not get ...
After last weekend’s hotly contested heavyweight bout between Liverpool and Manchester City, players from both sides made their way back to their home countries for international duty. Tempers flared in the match, called by some an early-season title-decider and reached a boiling point when Liverpool’s ...
The men’s soccer team advanced to the Div. III NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the sixth year in a row after defeating SUNY Maritime 5–1 in the first round and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2–1 in the second round over the weekend. Both matches were hosted by Tufts at Bello Field, and now ...
The No. 24 Tufts men’s squash team cruised comfortably over Wesleyan College in its season opener held at Wesleyan, notching a 7–2 win. Wesleyan’s Sean Choi drew first blood by blanking first-year Kunal Valia 14–12, 11–6, 11–4. The Jumbos, however, bounced back to win seven of the remaining ...
Ja Morant put the ball behind his back and hit the layup. He caught alley-oops. He assisted from underneath the basket. He soared for dunks. The Memphis Grizzlies won 107–106 over the Utah Jazz on Friday and Morant finished with 25 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and a nice highlight reel. This was ...
