For the first time since 2012, Tufts club tennis is the only team from Div. III schools in the northeast to qualify for nationals, after clinching the fifth and final qualifying spot at sectionals at Harvard University. This was a high-intensity tournament with 29 teams in attendance playing for the ...
With its dominant performance at the Head of the Fish Regatta on Saturday, Oct. 29, men’s crew came home with some new decorations for the Shoemaker boathouse in hand: lacquered fish heads. The Jumbos, in their last varsity event of the fall season, claimed victory in four different races, building ...
After a 27-10 road victory against the Amherst Purple and White (3-3), the Jumbos (5-1) return to their home turf this weekend for their final home game of the season against the Colby Mules (2-4).Last year, the Jumbos bested the Mules, 28-10, when senior tri-captain running back Chance Brady scampered ...
In the fall of 2013, Tim Nichols and Luke O’Connor were newcomers to the Tufts cross country program. They joined a senior-heavy team one year removed from a NESCAC championship. However, the team had graduated some of their fastest runners a year earlier, such as Matt Rand (LA '12) and Kyle ...
Hello Sports fans, welcome to Week 9 of the Editor's Challenge. Last week was not a good one for those at the bottom of the standings, as Sophie "Burrata" Lehrenbaum and Nina "Mascarpone" Joung's attempts were about as solid as their cheesy namesakes. Both scored only six ...
I wasted all of my words talking about a Browns player, so my intro will be brief; hi mom!Jameis Winston, QB, Tampa Bay BuccaneersTampa Bay versus Atlanta this week. Man, can you say gun show? Tampa and Atlanta allow the sixth most and second most fantasy points to opposing teams respectively. Recently, ...
Women’s crew traveled to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. this weekend for its final regatta of the fall season, the Head of the Fish. The regatta gave the team an opportunity to work on its sculling, and to race in doubles and quads with different arrangements.“This race was a great way to end the season," sophomore ...
Tufts was eliminated from the NESCAC tournament on Saturday after falling 2-1 to the Bowdoin Polar Bears, thus losing in the quarterfinal round for the fourth consecutive season. It was a frustrating loss for Tufts, as the team had lost to Bowdoin 2-1 earlier that week and was looking for redemption.The ...
Runners faced far-from-ideal conditions on a cold, rainy and muddy afternoon at the NESCAC Championship, hosted by Colby College on Saturday. Ranked sixth nationally, Tufts finished with 72 points, earning second place after rival No. 5 Williams, with its score of 47, for the second straight year. ...
One of the most intriguing storylines of this World Series has been the return of the Cubs’ former catcher and now left fielder Kyle Schwarber. Schwarber tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL) on April 7 in the Cubs' third game of the season, when he collided ...
With yet another convincing win, the Tufts women’s volleyball team finished off its first perfect season in the NESCAC since 2008, going 10-0 in all conference play. Improving to 22-2 overall on the season, the Jumbos have wrapped up all regular season play and are poised for the next step, their ...
Tufts defeated the Bates Bobcats 2-0 at home in NESCAC quarterfinal action this past Saturday and will host the semifinals and finals this weekend at Ounjian Field, as Tufts looks to win its first NESCAC title since 2009.Tufts entered the quarterfinal round ranked third in the nation and seeded ...
The Jumbos trampled the Amherst Purple and White 27-10 this weekend, improving their record to 5-1. The win is Tufts' first over Amherst since 2007 and the first at Amherst's Lehrman Stadium since 2004.Going into the game, Amherst was touted for its extremely stout run defense. Before playing Tufts, ...
With the postseason in full swing, men’s cross country ventured out to Waterville, Maine to compete in the NESCAC championships at Colby College. Without any prior experience on Colby’s new course, the Jumbos were in for a challenge.Tufts tied with Middlebury for third, with each team scoring 126 ...
Worry and consternation have surely been flying around the NFL's New York City office throughout the last month over a problem once considered unthinkable: NFL television ratings are down. Yes, you read that right. After decades of dominating Sunday's (and Monday’s and Thursday’s and, ...
The rain came, the rain went and the rain came again, but the Tufts Jumbos (4-1) kept their NESCAC championship dreams afloat in a 35-16 Parents Weekend victory over the visiting Williams Ephs (0-5).This Saturday, the Jumbos will travel to face the Amherst Purple and White (3-2). Amherst has not lost ...
Tufts field hockey enters the postseason this weekend sitting in the driver’s seat after closing out the last week of the regular season with three wins and clinching the top seed in the NESCAC with an 8-2 conference record (13-2 overall). Tufts, which improved to third overall in the latest national ...
Tufts traveled to Bowdoin on Tuesday where it pulled off a 1-0 victory after falling to the No. 2 Williams Ephs 2-1 on Saturday. Tufts ended the regular season 5-4-1 in the NESCAC and 7-5-3 overall, finishing 5th in the NESCAC thanks to winning the tiebreaker over Bowdoin and Conn. College.Against ...
The Jumbos closed out the regular season with a loss to the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Tuesday, finishing with a conference record of 6-2-2. Nationally ranked No. 19, Tufts enters Saturday's NESCAC tournament as the second seed to No. 4 Amherst (8-1-1). Tufts overcame Williams (6-3-1) on Saturday ...
I recently found out that a member of my family is getting married, which got me thinking: isn’t having a fantasy football team like marriage? Let me explain. You devote all of your time to your team, sometimes you have a few bad weeks and get angry at your team, but then you have a great week and ...
