In a successful stretch of five wins in six games over five days this past week, Tufts baseball guaranteed its place on top of the NESCAC East Division with a three-game sweep of Colby over the weekend, staying undefeated in conference play. The team also split its Sunday doubleheader at Keene ...
In October, Juventus was in unfamiliar territory. Through the first ten games of the season, the reigning champions of Serie A had accumulated just twelve points. After losing their opening match, manager Massimiliano Allegri emphasized that “Serie A is a marathon, not a 100 meter final.” But following their 1-0 defeat to Sassuolo in late October which saw Juventus off to their worst start in Serie A in almost fifty years, Allegri’s tone was distinctly different. He called for “an immediate change of attitude” in the team, and proceeded to take the team on a week-long training retreat. After a week away from their families, the players returned to Turin and won 2-1 against local rival Torino. They haven’t looked back since.
This past Sunday, my beloved New York Yankees lost a thoroughly uninteresting game to the Tampa Bay Rays. The loss dropped them into last place and saw their highest paid player exit with an injury. Sunday was also the best day of this young baseball season. If not in the Bronx, the thrilling games ...
The No. 15 Tufts women's tennis team lost two of three games over the past week as it completed the last away match this season. The team's 9-0 victory over Conn. College on Friday was sandwiched by a 6-3 defeat at Amherst on Wednesday and a 5-4 loss at Wesleyan on Sunday. The Jumbos fall ...
First-year Dakota Adamec scored five goals against the Wesleyan Cardinals (1-8) to lead No. 16 Tufts (8-6 overall, 4-5 NESCAC) in a 13-10 playoff-clinching win on Saturday.Adamec's performance earned her NESCAC Player of the Week honors, the first of her career.Junior Liana Mathias opened the scoring ...
This Saturday, the men's track and field team hosted the first annual Sunshine Classic at the Dussault Track, a relatively small event which served as the team's final tune-up before this weekend’s heavily anticipated NESCAC Championships at Amherst. The six-team meet also featured cameo ...
With the popularity and heightened discussion around collegiate and professional athletics today, fans must use a critical eye to be able to give the necessary push back against sport’s interactions with society, specifically regarding sports' negative connections with violence, corruption and ...
On Saturday, the women's track and field team hosted the first annual Sunshine Classic at Ellis Oval. Despite the relatively small size of the meet, with just seven teams competing, the women's team was still able to hit top marks and take first place for the third time this season. The meet ...
The PFA recently announced its Team of the Year, with Leicester and Spurs players dominating the team. With only 11 spots on the team, a ton of other players who’ve impressed didn’t make the roster, and here’s my list of possible alternatives — and mind you, even these weren’t easy to filter ...
The men's lacrosse team had an eventful week, playing three conference games against Wesleyan, Bates and Amherst. Tufts hosted Amherst, its biggest rival in the NESCAC, on April 16. Tied for second in the conference with Bowdoin at 7-2, Amherst was one of Tufts' strongest opponents in the ...
Tufts tennis had been trailing for the entirety of its matchup against Bates going into the final two singles matches on Friday. At No. 5 singles, sophomore Danny Coran of the Jumbos was locked in battle against junior co-captain Pat Ordway of the Bobcats, and at No. 2, Tufts sophomore Zain Ali took ...
One month ago, Barcelona were atop La Liga, nine points clear of second place Atletico Madrid and in the quarter finals of the Champions League after defeating Arsenal 5-1 on aggregate.It had been 39 games since they had lost in any competition. In their previous 20 league games, they had won 19. In their next game, Barcelona would face their most bitter rival, Real Madrid in the biggest event in Spanish football: El Clásico. In the first meeting between the two sides this season, the team from the Catalan region left the Spanish capital victorious after a dominating 4-0 display at the Bernabeu. Their second meeting would go a little differently. Despite taking a 1-0 lead on 56 minutes, Barcelona went on to lose for the first time in just under six months. Since then, Barcelona have lost four out of their last five, with their only win coming against a 10-man Atletico Madrid side. They have been eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinal, and their lead over their La Liga rivals has disintegrated. Their dramatic and sudden loss of form seems as though it has out of nowhere, however hindsight provides indications that their success was hard pressed to last.
This weekend, the Tufts men’s crew team competed against Middlebury at Malden River on Saturday and traveled to Worcester on Sunday to race against the host Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Skidmore College and Washington College. The Jumbos won three out of four races against their NESCAC ...
The women's lacrosse team rebounded from Saturday's heartbreaking 7-6 loss to No. 8 Amherst to defeat No. 9 Bates 6-5 on Tuesday in its last game on Bello Field this season. The Bates win brings No. 18 Tufts' record to 7-6 overall and 3-5 in the NESCAC. Amherst is now tied with Colby for ...
The women's crew team finished its final weekend of regular season competition this week with a pair of strong wins. The team won two out of three races to beat Middlebury in a head-to-head event on Saturday, continuing its dominance on the Malden River this season before coming in first out of ...
Tufts baseball recovered from its fourth loss of the season last week to belt out five straight wins at home over a four-day span, including a sweep of a three-game NESCAC series against Trinity. The Jumbos came out on top against the Trinity Bantams 7-4 in a game on Friday afternoon before winning ...
Patriots’ Day is a wonderful day. Those of us lucky enough to attend college in Massachusetts are gifted a three-day weekend. Some of us use it to catch up on schoolwork, some of us make up for lost sleep and some of us attend (or even participate in) the delightful Boston Marathon. Each of my four ...
The men's lacrosse team (11-2 overall, 7-1 NESCAC) had a big win over Amherst on Saturday to take the latest contest in what has become an intense rivalry. But Tufts then suffered its first NESCAC loss of the season in a fiercely competitive double overtime battle at Bates on Tuesday night. Tufts, ...
Over the weekend, Tufts swept a three-game series at home against NESCAC East foe Trinity to stay undefeated within division play and atop its division, with just one more division series against Bates remaining before the conference playoffs next month. The team's winning-streak of nine games, ...
The reasons why we like sports can vary on a spectrum, but for the most part, our attraction to sports comes from three things, one of which is its unpredictability. Without this factor, the essence of competition would be completely lost. Not to say that people don’t like for victories to be planned, ...
