After several years of waiting, the women's club water polo team was established at Tufts earlier this semester, when Assistant Athletic Director Branwen Smith-King approved a request to create the team. Junior Captain Taegan Williams had officially proposed the idea to Smith-King last year.
Well, this is it. Free Agency will have opened up by the time this is published, so this will be my last article on the topic. Things have been crazy so far, and they’re only gonna get more hectic. I’ve decided to finish up with wide receivers because non-avid fans really only care about the big ...
After finishing high school in Los Angeles, Calif., junior KJ Garrett went to the University of Washington to play Div. I men's basketball for the Huskies (9-21). After two years of frustration, however, he decided to transfer across the country.Garrett's transfer was not just one from the ...
Junior Annalisa DeBari punched her ticket to the NCAA Div. III Indoor Championships over the weekend as she ran a personal record of 8.85 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles at the Tufts Final Qualifying meet. The time improvement of 0.21 seconds was enough to boost her from No. 36 in the nation heading ...
The Jumbos (1-0) kicked off their season on Saturday with a 12-5 win over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers (1-1), easily handling MIT's offense and securing a comfortable victory. While Tufts only led 1-0 after the first 11 minutes of play, sophomore attacker Dakota Adamec then scored ...
No. 11 Tufts men’s track and field competed in the Tufts Final Qualifying Meet in the Gantcher Center on Saturday. This race was the last chance for runners to earn a spot at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships. With a few exceptions, only athletes within the top 15 times are invited to compete at ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold, unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports.Last week, I went two-for-three on my NBA predictions. I had the Celtics upsetting the Cavaliers in Boston, and the Celtics won 103-99. I was proved correct as the Nets broke their losing streak, ...
This week, the golfing world took a trip to our beautiful neighbor to the South: Mexico. The World Golf Championships, an invite-only event (based on world ranking and some other special exemptions), was played at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City.The event saw ...
The Jumbos easily overcame the Stevens Institute Ducks on Saturday in their season opener, winning 19-6 to extend their record against the Ducks to 4-0 in the last four seasons. The match-up was a stark contrast from last season’s narrow 14-13 victory during which the Jumbos came from behind to win. ...
Tufts turned in a fourth-place performance on Saturday at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships, with strong contributions from all three weapons. The uniquely formatted tournament, hosted by the University of Vermont, consisted of 14 teams from around the Northeast. ...
“We have to do a good job defending inside with their bigs and just play overall better in the defensive half court,” Berube said. “And we gotta be able to control the backboard. They’re a great offensive rebound team as well. We just gotta keep working on that and working on our execution and I’m just excited to be moving on.”
The Tufts Jumbos (22-6) vanquished the St. John Fisher Cardinals (23-6) on Saturday night in the second round of the Div. III NCAA men’s basketball tournament, 94-81. With the victory, Tufts now advances to the Sweet Sixteen for the second consecutive season.Meeting them there will be the Babson Beavers ...
We’re back, baby! Every year, Spring Training gets me so excited for the upcoming season. Over the course of March, we see the weather turn from frigid to slightly less frigid by April. With April comes pre- (and post-) game sausages, Fenway Franks and grossly overpriced beer. Baseball gets us through ...
Tufts begins its sixth consecutive NCAA Championship campaign this upcoming weekend at home, where it will be matched up against St. Joseph’s of Maine (24-4, 15-1 in the Great Northeast Atlantic Conference) in the opening round on Friday.“We’re excited to be in the NCAA tournament. There’s nothing ...
Despite falling to the Williams Ephs (19-8) in the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament, the Tufts Jumbos (20-6) secured a spot in the Div. III NCAA men’s basketball tournament for the second consecutive year. The Jumbos will travel to Bobby Wanzer Court in Pittsford, N.Y. to face off against the ...
The Tufts men’s club rugby team has had a successful season this year, and it hasn’t stopped yet. The team made a historic run in the regular season, and is looking forward to even more success in the Men’s Champions Cup, the Div. III national club rugby tournament run by the National Small ...
Last May, Tufts graduated 15 seniors who made up one of the most successful classes on the lacrosse team in history. Although they lost 14-13 to the Salisbury Sea Gulls in the final seconds of the NCAA Championship, losing out on the chance to be the first team in history to win three consecutive national ...
The franchise tag deadline for the NFL has passed, so forgive me if new information comes out before this is published. Already this week, some big names have been franchise tagged, so instead of projecting where those free agents will go, we will instead analyze how good of a move the tag was. This week I’m going to be talking about as many of the best defensive free agents as I can and, of course, Adrian Peterson.
On Friday and Saturday, men’s track and field competed in the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The meet included teams across all athletic divisions, and the Jumbos faced tough competition. Overall, the team finished ...
The Tufts women's squash team (17-7) return from the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships in Princeton, N.J. ranked 19th in the country. On Sunday, the Jumbos faced off against William Smith College (14-8), and they were victorious with a 6-3 win.First-year Claire Davidson ...
