The Chicago Bulls had lost six of their last seven games and were coming off a blowout loss to Boston when the NBA issued its warning on March 6.The Bulls, a team currently sitting at 23–43 and vying for the best possible draft position, needed to stop resting healthy players. Resting healthy players ...
Playing in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament on Saturday night, the Tufts women's basketball team fell to a familiar foe: Bowdoin. The Jumbos defeated the Polar Bears in the NESCAC tournament semifinals on Feb. 24, with a decisive 60–48 victory.That win was redemption for Tufts, as Bowdoin ...
The No. 12 Tufts women’s lacrosse team took on MIT (1–2) at home on Saturday, winning handily by a score of 21–10.The game came a few days after the team was scheduled to play Endicott, but last week’s harsh weather postponed that game until further notice.Continuing a high-scoring trend from ...
Amidst the United States men’s national team's (USMNT) horrific World Cup qualifying campaign and the consequently chaotic U.S. Soccer presidential election, the United States' joint bid (with Mexico and Canada) to host the 2026 World Cup has largely been left alone. Competing against Morocco ...
This weekend, members of the Tufts men's and women's track and field teams will compete in the 2018 NCAA Div. III National Indoor Championships at Birmingham-Southern University in Birmingham, Ala. The men's team is sending six athletes, who are entered in five events, while the women's ...
The No. 17 Tufts men’s tennis team kicks off its 2018 season with an away match at No. 21 MIT on Saturday afternoon. After a rigorous but promising preseason campaign, the Jumbos are confident heading into their spring schedule.After ending their 2016–17 season with a final record of 9–7, ...
On Saturday, the No. 7 Tufts women’s tennis team will begin its 2018 campaign with a home match against No. 4 Middlebury.The Jumbos fell to the Panthers by a 9–0 scoreline the last time the two teams played each other in Vermont on April 9, 2017.Tufts has not beaten Middlebury since 2011, so this ...
On Saturday, the Tufts women's track and field team competed in a qualifying meet at the Gantcher Center.The purpose of the meet was to give athletes a final chance to improve their positions going into the NCAA Championships, which will begin on March 9 in Birmingham, Ala.The national meet will ...
The Tufts men’s track and field team hosted and competed at the Tufts National Qualifying Meet at Gantcher Center on Saturday.The competition was the last chance for the Tufts athletes to post qualifying times for selection to NCAA Championships in Birmingham, Ala., and many seized the opportunity.Only ...
The Tufts sailing team braved tumultuous weather in announcing its return to competitive racing over the weekend. Unfortunately, the "bomb cyclone" that ripped across the East Coast forced the cancellation of many of the Jumbos' scheduled regattas. Due to these circumstances, Tufts was ...
Arsène, oh Arsène. How times have changed.If the Carabao Cup final from a fortnight ago and last week's game at the Emirates were anything to go by, it's almost evident that the baton for the most innovative coach in the Premier League has now most certainly passed on from Arsène Wenger ...
We all know that fantastically cheery song that goes: "It’s the most wonderful time of the year." Now, most people think of that song and associate it with Christmas, but for me and many of my friends, we think of the beginning of spring. March Madness is just around the corner and, wow, ...
In its first official action since falling to Wesleyan in the 2017 NCAA tournament, the No. 9 Tufts men's lacrosse team registered a pair of convincing wins over Hamilton and Keene State. Despite its opening weekend being reduced from two games to one due to weather, Tufts quickly established ...
The Tufts women's lacrosse team (1–0) opened its 2018 season with a bang on Saturday, dominating then-13th-ranked Hamilton (0–1) with a score of 17–4.Tufts junior attacker Dakota Adamec led the way, scoring eight goals, tied for a program record.Though Hamilton grabbed the first score ...
This weekend, first-year Amber Chong and senior Aaron Idelson competed for Tufts at the NCAA Zone Diving Qualifier at Middlebury College.Both athletes performed 11-dive routines at both the one-meter height — held on Friday for the men and Saturday for the women — and the three-meter height (Saturday ...
The NFL Scouting Combine took place over the past week, where most of the draft locks and hopefuls hope to impress teams with their athleticism and skill. Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin stole the show with the fastest 40-yard dash time for a linebacker in more than a decade, running it ...
No. 8 Tufts (25–4) is through to its seventh consecutive NCAA Div. III tournament Sweet Sixteen appearance after it comprehensively saw off the challenges of Westfield State (19–8) and Ithaca (21–8) at Cousens Gym this weekend.On Saturday, the Jumbos defeated the Ithaca Bombers, 61–39. Tufts’ ...
Tuesday was a sad day for U.S. Soccer. The North American Soccer League (NASL) announced it is cancelling the 2018 season, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied the NASL's appeal for an injunction that would temporarily reinstate its Div. II league status — which the U.S. ...
The No. 19 Tufts women’s lacrosse team will kick off its 2018 season on Saturday with a home matchup against its NESCAC rival, No. 13 Hamilton. The team hopes to build momentum for the rest of the season with an opening-day victory, as it did last year against MIT, though it won't be so ...
The Tufts women's fencing team faced a packed schedule over the weekend. The Jumbos competed in back-to-back tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. A day after competing at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships at Mount Holyoke College, the Jumbos traveled to ...
