It was the type of drama befitting a major sports league.The Portland Timbers' 2-1 title-winning victory away against Columbus Crew SC at Mapfre Stadium at the end of last season won the Timbers their first league title. The Timbers, the quintessential hipster team (think Portlandia with soccer), ...
The women’s lacrosse team made huge progress last year when it made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, despite losing 17-8 in a round at Franklin and Marshall College. Notwithstanding the defeat, it was the first time since 2011 that the program had made the NCAA tournament, a considerable ...
The roar of the Jumbo crowd last year on Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia marked the end of the NCAA Div. III National Championship as Tufts men's lacrosse became back-to-back national champions. In their 2015 season, the Jumbos had to overcome injuries of some of their leading players at ...
Junior diver Matt Rohrer is headed to the NCAA Championships for the third straight year after winning the NCAA Zone Regional three-meter competition and taking second in the one-meter last weekend. With his performance at the regionals at Wellesley College, Rohrer easily qualifies for the diving events ...
The Capital One Cup final this weekend, which featured Premier League giants Manchester City and Liverpool, took the form of a stereotypical cup final: thrilling but nerve-wracking. After plenty of squandered chances and a goal apiece for Fernandinho of Manchester City and Coutinho of Liverpool, it was 1-1 after 90 minutes. Extra time passed with both teams showing the ill-effects of a grueling Premier League season, and penalty kicks commenced. In stepped Willy Caballero. Coming off a performance against Chelsea in the FA cup that was shaky at best, it would be hard to blame the often-maligned Manchester City backup goalkeeper for being low on confidence. If he was, he didn’t show it. After Emre Can’s cheeky chip sent him the wrong way to start the shootout, Caballero saved three straight, including a full-extension finger tip save. After the game, the players hoisted Caballero in the air before hoisting the trophy together a few minutes later. As a Manchester City fan myself, I was elated for Caballero. Before the game, Caballero was asked how he felt about Manchester City fans wanting him dropped. After the game, they were singing his name.
Over the weekend, a few athletes on the women's track and field team traveled to Boston University (BU) for the annual NEICAAA New England Championships, otherwise known as Open New Englands, where Tufts finished 19th overall out of 32 teams. The meet features competition at the Div. I, II and ...
Tufts men's track and field came away from the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) meet this weekend in 35th place out of 36 competing teams from Div. I, II and III programs. This meet, which serves as the championships for New England indoor and outdoor teams, sits ...
Baseball is boring. Most of the time, the players are stationary: waiting around as the pitcher rubs the ball, removes and replaces his hat, tugs on his belt and peers in towards the catcher’s calloused fingers for a sign. There are too many commercials, too many pitching changes, too many strikeouts. ...
If you’re reading this, you probably like sports. Whether you’ve played them, are a die-hard fan or maybe just a casual observer, sports most likely brought you here. Anyone who has read, watched or talked about sports has heard the cliché that sports are anything but just a game. Within the foundation ...
In what is quickly becoming a familiar story, No. 8-seeded Tufts defeated the No. 1 seed Williams 2-1 in the first round of the NESCAC Championship on Saturday. The win was the second in Tufts' NESCAC tournament history after last year's victory where Tufts, also the bottom seed then, beat ...
In one of the team's closest and hardest-fought games of the season, Tufts fell to Amherst 86-83 in the conference semifinals Saturday evening, ending its NESCAC tournament run. Mitigating that defeat, however, was the news announced yesterday on the NCAA Div. III selection show that Tufts still ...
As the Patriots in 2008 and numerous other great teams in history have found out the hard way, perfect regular seasons aren’t always followed by championships. Tufts women’s basketball team learned the same lesson unfortunately yesterday.No. 1-seeded Tufts duked it out with No. 2-seeded Amherst ...
At Old Trafford, Daley Blind and Michael Carrick started in central defence. Dutch-U17 international Timothy Fosu-Mensah came on for the injured Marcos Rojo. 18-year-old Marcus Rashford led the line for Manchester United. The signs were all pointing to an Arsenal win, given United's difficulty forming an ...
Tufts ice hockey repeated last year's David-taking-down-Goliath feat this weekend to stay alive in the NESCAC hockey tournament. Going into the tournament as the eighth seed, Tufts played top-seeded Williams on Saturday and upset the favorites 2-1 in the quarterfinals once again, despite being ...
The women's fencing team had a successful meet on Saturday, coming in fourth place out of 13 teams at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships, behind winners Boston College, runner-up Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and third-place Brandeis University.The ...
Over the course of the weekend, the Jumbos accumulated 15 NCAA B cut times across eight individual events and both medley relay events in one of the strongest across-the-board team performances in program history. Eight Jumbos received All-Conference awards this week, and Bowen received the NESCAC Rookie of the Year Award.
Though several teams have already wrapped up their seasons, the winter season — and more importantly, the championship season — isn't over yet. Several teams are still battling their ways through the postseason, with their targets set on NESCAC crowns or even bigger prizes, and the Daily is ...
The men's track and field team continued to make the case that they are one of the strongest teams the program has seen in recent years with a third-place finish at the New England Div. III Championships last weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Senior tri-captain Mitchell ...
Last weekend saw a break from premier league action, with the FA cup taking its place. The most intriguing matchup from the fifth round draw featured the last two Premier League champions, Chelsea and Manchester City. What promised to be a highly contested match quickly turned into somewhat of a farce when Manuel Pellegrini, often criticized for being too conservative in team selections, named six teenagers in the starting eleven. Five were making their first team debut. As a City fan myself I had mixed feelings about the line-up. To see talented youth players given the chance to show their talents to the world is exciting for both the fans and other youth players coming through the system. At the same time, the lineup effectively ensured City’s exit from the competition.
Men's squash capped off their 2015-2016 team season by winning the Chaffee Cup at the CSA Team Championships this past weekend.The final two weeks of the season saw Tufts put together an impressive comeback series after a dismal showing at the NESCAC Championships on Feb. 5 to 6. The Jumbos exited ...
