This past week, the softball team dropped two games in a home doubleheader against Williams before recovering with a win against Bowdoin in a tight NESCAC East battle. The Jumbos came away with a 7-5 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears on Friday in their first and only conference game so far, while ...
Despite the gusting winds and rain falling on the Ellis Oval this weekend, the men’s track and field team just kept running. On Saturday, the team hosted the annual Snowflake Classic at Duasault Track and they placed third out of 16 teams. Though the Jumbos' outdoor season technically started ...
The Champions League is back. For the next two weeks, soccer fans everywhere will be treated to showdowns between Europe’s best. On Tuesday, Barcelona looked to continue their quest to become the first repeat champion since 1989 when they hosted Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the quarterfinal. The game started with Barcelona dominant, but a defensive lapse gave the away side an early lead. Fernando Torres’s 25th-minute strike had the pundits writing the former Chelsea man’s redemption story, but only until a clumsy challenge on Sergio Busquets, and a second yellow card saw the script changed. The 10-man Atletico side fought valiantly to absorb wave after wave of Barcelona attack, but two Luis Suarez goals saw Barcelona leave the Camp Nou with a 2-1 victory. Bayern Munich was also in action on Tuesday, defeating Benfica 1-0.
Coming off a 6-3 road trip through the south over spring, the baseball team returned to New England with a bang in a crushing 21-3 victory over Massachusetts Maritime Academy last Wednesday before sweeping a doubleheader against Bates on Saturday to move to 2-0 in NESCAC East play.The Jumbos are off ...
The Jumbos hit the road last week, easily handling Keene State to the tune of 23-7 on Wednesday but falling to Conn. College by just one point in a tough 14-13 NESCAC loss on Saturday. The team's non-conference play, for which they boast a 4-1 record, has been solid all season, but the team ...
Tufts women's tennis swept to three straight victories in as many days over the weekend, defeating Babson 9-0 on Thursday and then Colby by the same score on Friday before seeing off Bates 8-1 on Saturday as the team opened its spring home season. The wins put the Jumbos at 2-0 in NESCAC play ...
The Jumbos faced the Conn. College Camels at Bello Field on Saturday for their second home game of the season. Despite heavy rain showers, over one hundred spectators enthusiastically cheered the team to a resounding 24-12 victory.Not only did Saturday give the Jumbos their largest win margin yet this ...
For two weeks this summer, people all across this world will watch people walk as fast as they can without running. We will care about which horse has been taught to dance the best. We will not only view a group of women synchronously playing with hula hoops, but we will opine on which group should ...
With their first event since October, the Jumbos kicked off their spring season by finishing 12th out of 16 teams at Friday’s Rhode Island College Invitational. The event was cut in half due to rain on Saturday, but Tufts’ four best scorers totaled a 337, which tied the team with Roger Williams.Tufts sophomore ...
Sports have always been a male-dominated enterprise. From the beginnings of sports, male bodies have always been considered to be the pinnacle of athletic accomplishment. Male athletes then and now are typically valued based on stereotypically masculine attributes like physicality, toughness and having ...
The Jumbos came out in the first quarter of the NCAA Div. III National Championship and executed exactly as they needed to. They kept Thomas More's three-time Div. III Player of the Year and NCAA Tournament MVP senior Sydney Moss from getting hot, they worked the ball inside and out, knocking down ...
The women's track and field team opened its outdoor season at full strength at Saturday's Tufts Snowflake Classic, held at Ellis Oval. On a cold and rainy day, the Jumbos emerged victorious, scoring 210 points as they finished first out of a field of 15 teams. Dartmouth College was second with ...
The NCAA women's basketball championships this year provide an especially valuable opportunity to all of the teams that advanced to the Div. I, II and III semifinals and title games in Indianapolis.The commemoration of the 35th anniversary of these collegiate championships will include celebrations, ...
We go all the way now. No more of those international weekend interruptions that Ryan and I dislike until the title is decided.First order of business: will Leicester be able to hang on? As things stand, Leicester could seal the title at the home of the League’s most successful team, Manchester United, ...
Returning to its home waters of the Malden River after a week long spring training trip in DeLand, Fla., the men’s rowing team raced in its first regatta of the spring season on Saturday.Tufts hosted teams from Hamilton College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at the Shoemaker Boathouse in a morning ...
Editor's note: This article appeared in the April Fool's issue of the Tufts Daily, where articles are intended as satire and are not meant to be taken as serious journalism. All information in the following article, however, is factually accurate, with obvious bias towards the Tufts women's ...
While the rest of the student body enjoyed the reprieve of spring break, Tufts played Stevenson University, Colby and Trinity, the latter two being significant as conference match-ups. On Tuesday night, they competed in a fourth game against Western New England University (WNE). The games resulted in three ...
While spring sports teams opened their seasons, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped up their seasons over the first weekend of spring break at the 2016 NCAA Div. III Championships in Greensboro, N.C., which ran from March 16 to March 19. Senior tri-captain Michael Winget, ...
The men's tennis team got into form quickly to start its spring campaign, posting a strong 5-2 record during their California trip over spring break. The team beat Vassar College 7-2, Whitman College 5-4, UC Santa Cruz 8-1, Stevens College 8-1 and Colby 7-2. The team only dropped a pair of matches to ...
As students across the nation return to campus this week, so do the best international soccer players to their respective clubs. However, instead of a week enjoying the sun (and maybe a drink or too), players will spend the week with their countrymen on international duty. As a fan of the Premier League, there are no two words I dislike hearing more than “international break.”
