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Jumbos hope to stay undefeated away against Polar Bears

After a second straight comeback win on home turf, the football team (2-0) is ready to take its show on the road. On Saturday, the Jumbos will travel to Brunswick, Maine to square off against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (0-2). The 12-7 Homecoming victory over the Bates Bobcats (0-2) may have been closer ...


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Jumbos extend NESCAC lead, beat Wesleyan, Trinity

Women’s volleyball continues to add wins to their best start since 2009. The Jumbos put together three impressive victories over the past week to improve their record to 12-1 and 5-0 in NESCAC play.Tufts defeated Rivier in Cousens Gym on Tuesday with first-year outside hitter Brigid Bell leading ...


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Jumbos earn historic victory over Homecoming weekend

Men's soccer treated its returning alumni to a victorious Homecoming match on Saturday as Tufts beat No. 16 Amherst for the first time since 2005 in a decisive 3-0 victory. The Jumbos returned to Bello Field on Sunday to face the Hamilton Continentals, who currently top the NESCAC, and came ...


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Jumbos just miss at NESCAC Championship Qualifier

Coach George Pendergast’s squad narrowly missed out on qualifying for the NESCAC championships last weekend, as the Jumbos placed fifth at the NESCAC qualifier tournament. A week prior to the NESCAC qualifier, Tufts put together a solid two-day performance at the Williams Invitational that saw the ...


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Columns

Vinny's Variety Pack: Week 5, the Brady bunch

Well, I hope you’re happy, Goodell. Deflategate was a disaster, but at least most of the football world got something out of it: NO TOM BRADY! What a great plan that turned out to be. The Pats are 3-1 and the chosen one returns this week. Look out, football world: Brady’s back and he’s about to set the league on fire.


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Columns

The Coin Toss: NFL week five and playoff baseball

Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions every week about some of your favorite professional sports. First, let’s recap my predictions from last week’s NFL games.I predicted that the Chiefs would beat the Steelers, but I was horribly wrong, as running back Le'Veon ...






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Under the Lights: Going, going...

If a baseball cracks against a bat in the middle of a cold October night and nobody in the 18-to-34-year-old demographic hears it, did it really happen?That’s the question that Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred and executives of "America’s pastime" across the nation ...



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Jumbos race Div. I teams at Paul Short Invitational

Women's cross country placed 40th out of 45 teams in the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University on Oct. 1. Competing against Div. I programs, No. 6 Tufts was one of only three Div. III cross country programs in the race; the others were No. 5 Williams and No. 28 SUNY Oneonta. Most other ...


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Tufts outlasts Bates in rainy homecoming contest

On a gray Homecoming day, the Jumbos beat the Bates Bobcats 12-7, to improve to 2-0 overall. The weather clearly played a major factor in the game, as the field deteriorated throughout the contest and the ball was more slippery than usual. Despite the weather, Tufts senior kicker Willie Holmquist knocked ...



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Jumbos to host Bobcats in Homecoming matchup

After rallying from behind in the fourth quarter last weekend to overcome a two touchdown deficit and defeat Wesleyan (0-1) under the lights during the team's first ever night game, Tufts is now 1-0 and preparing for a matchup against Bates (0-1) on Saturday.Last year, Tufts eked out a 17-16 ...




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Columns

Vinny's Variety Pack: "Dance-Cam" Newton bounces back

For those of you who relied on my column last week, my apologies. I seemed to have forgotten that Bill Belichick is the second-coming of Christ, and I suppose Rex Ryan decided that coaching was more fun than playing Angry Birds on the sidelines. Anyhow, the past is the past, so let’s move on and jump right into Week 4.



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Rodopman finishes first in Singlehanded New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Championship

It was a busy weekend for the Tufts sailing team as coach Ken Legler sent his sailors to eight different events. Two highlights of the weekend were the Singlehanded New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Championships, where senior Alp Rodopman finished first out of 23 sailors, and the 34th interconference Professor Stedman Hood Trophy regatta, hosted by Tufts. Rodopman secured one of four spots at the 2016 Intercollegiate Sailing Association Singlehanded Championship in Galveston, Texas on Nov. 4, while Tufts’ first-string of larks won its home regatta.


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