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Sports

Jumbos pick up momentum with close wins over spring break

Tufts' current senior class has beaten every other NESCAC team except for Trinity. Until this Saturday, that is. In a true nail-biter, the No. 11 women's lacrosse team failed No. 10 Trinity 10-9 on Saturday in front of a home crowd at Bello Field. Leading 8-7 through the first half, the Jumbos ...



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Columns

Flashes of Brilliance: Bordering on the surreal

For 75 seconds, no words were spoken. The crowd roared, the stadium shook and the players jumped around in the pure and unfiltered joy that only accompanies the occurrence of the impossible. For the second consecutive night, in that city, in that ballpark, the dynasty refused to go peacefully; in the ...



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Columns

Jersey over Apron: Major in basketball

The entire premise of higher education is to allow for the mind to explore and develop, and to provide a place for students to discover their true passions to prepare them for their professional careers. That’s what we’ve all been told right? So why don’t colleges allow for their student-athletes ...


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Softball

Softball opens season with tough spring break trip

Tufts softball is 7-4 to start off the 2016 season after finishing its annual spring break trip to Clermont, Florida, with a relatively disappointing start for the three-time consecutive NCAA Div. III national champions who went undefeated last season. The four losses, the most the team has suffered ...



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Track And Field

Track and field update

The men's and women's track and field teams began to ease into the spring outdoor season over spring break as a number of athletes from both teams competed at various meets across the country. Less than two weeks after the NCAA Div. III Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 11 to 12, ...




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Columns

On the Spot: Why the world is thankful for Johan Cruyff

"In a way, I'm probably immortal."In the 14th minute of the Netherlands-France friendly on Friday, the world stopped to pay tribute to a maverick. Johan Cruyff was perhaps the most famous player to have ever donned the No. 14 shirt, at a time when most players in the first team wore the ...


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Sports

Sailing tallies three regatta wins in early-season racing

The co-ed sailing teams had a successful weekend in the water in just the second week of racing this spring season, with victories in all three of their regattas.The team sent contingents to a pair of away regattas — the Ice Breaker event at Conn. College and the Rudkin Team Race at Roger Williams ...


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Softball

Tufts athletics gears up for packed spring break

As most Tufts students leave campus for spring break, Tufts sports teams will be busy preparing for the spring season over the next week.Women's basketball headlines this weekend as the team made it back to the NCAA Div. III Championship Final Four for the third straight year. The Jumbos are in ...


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Softball

Softball looks to stay atop the nation in 2016

With the 2016 season about to start, Tufts softball is getting very close to cementing its legacy as one of the most successful programs in the history of college athletics. As back-to-back-to-back Div. III national champions, softball is undoubtedly Tufts' current strongest athletics team, though ...


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Sports

Women's lacrosse struggles against top five opponents

After starting the 2016 season winning its first two games decisively, the women's lacrosse team fell to 2-2 on the season after a pair of losses this past week to some of the best teams in the nation in the final two matches of its season-opening four-game homestand. Nationally-ranked No. 9 Tufts ...



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Baseball

Baseball team gets ready for an intense start to its season

On the verge of a new season, the baseball team is ready to shake off last year's disappointing performance in the NESCAC tournament as it sits in a strong position to get back to the postseason and claim its first NESCAC title since 2011. The Jumbos are about to kick off the season in full swing ...



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Columns

Outside of the Boot: Zlatan the Great, where next?

During his time at Barcelona, Zlatan Ibrahimovic once famously compared himself to a Ferrari. While it was in reference to his lack of playing time, the two certainly have commonalities. Powerful yet graceful. Stylish and precise. But after scoring his 100th league goal for PSG over the weekend, perhaps a more pertinent comparison is fine wine. Since he turned thirty, Ibrahimovic has scored at least an astonishing thirty five goals per season, higher than any other stretch of his career. This season, at the age of 34,Ibrahimovic is having one of his best seasons to date. During PSG's most recent 9-0 dismantling of Troyes, he scored four goals, including a sublime, acrobatic one-time finish and a side-footed volley that darted into the top right corner. With the goals, he raised his tally to 27 league goals on the season and, in doing so, secured PSG their fourth consecutive Ligue 1 title.