Before he had ever played in a professional game, Sports Illustrated christened him the “Chosen One,” and he had the moniker tattooed across his upper back. Before he had graduated from high school, his games were nationally televised spectacles with him as the preternaturally gifted focal point. ...
Six Jumbo swimmers and divers -- four from the men's team and two from the women's -- travel to Greensboro, N.C. today to compete in this weekend's NCAA Div. III Swimming and Diving Championships, beginning tomorrow and continuing through Saturday. First-years Kingsley Bowen and Colleen ...
Tufts men's basketball ended a historic NCAA run Saturday night with a tough loss to NESCAC rival Amherst in an Elite Eight matchup at Cousens Gym. With a pair of close wins to open the NCAA tournament last weekend in the first NCAA games the men's team has ever hosted at Cousens, the Jumbos ...
“Why Tufts?” That essay prompt is what brought me to Medford/Somerville. It’s the prompt that countless current members of the Class of 2016 had to answer through the Common App to seal our deal into Tufts. Even though I’ve been asked that several times I’ve never really had a concise answer. ...
If the Premier League started on Boxing Day, Chelsea would be playing in the Champions League next year. To make it even better reading for Blues fans, if the League started on New Years’ Day, it would have been in a great position to defend its title! Chelsea has been hot since handily beating Crystal ...
For the past two years, Tufts had gotten it done at home in the postseason. The Jumbos had qualified for the NCAA tournament by winning the NESCAC championship, earned home court advantage and fought their way through dominant first-round wins and overtime thrillers alike to reach the NCAA Div. III ...
"Tufts has no weenie game," stated an irate Jonathan at last night’s dinner. He wore a UNC Football shirt, which is how we got onto the subject in the first place. I asked him about why he likes UNC football right as Jif, another friend, joined us. And, boy, did I ask a loaded question.It ...
The co-ed and women's sailing teams got their first taste of action this spring season with three regattas last weekend, the first competitions for both teams since November. The co-ed team sent contingents to both Brown University and Connecticut College, while several women’s team sailors ...
In an exciting weekend for Tufts athletics, five winter sports teams are still in action and will be competing in NCAA championships and tournaments.Men's basketball, ranked at No. 20 in the nation, makes history as the team hosts an NCAA Div. III Sectional this weekend — just one of four teams ...
The women’s lacrosse team started the season off strong with back-to-back home wins against Castleton College and MIT this week.After downing Castleton in a dominant 23-5 victory on Monday, Tufts came back from an early deficit to handle MIT in a 13-9 win on Wednesday night. The game against MIT ...
As the indoor track and field season reaches its climactic end this weekend with the NCAA Div. III National Championships, the men's track team is poised for a strong showing on the national stage. Tufts competed in two of its final indoor meets this weekend. The first was at home on Friday for ...
Over the weekend, Tufts hosted the annual Last Chance Meet at the Gantcher Center. This meet, which features competition from all across the country, gives athletes on the bubble one final shot at qualifying for the NCAA Div. III National Championships next weekend in Grinnell, Iowa.Senior quad-captain ...
The squash season officially came to an end this past weekend for both the men's and women's teams as first-year Aidan Porges of the men's team and senior captain Paget Stanco of the women's team competed in the College Squash Association (CSA) Individual Nationals. Unfortunately for ...
In the January transfer window, one league surpassed all others in total spending. Take a guess. The Premier League you say? Nope. La Liga? The Bundesliga? Serie A? Ligue 1? Keep guessing. Alright I’ll tell you: it was the Chinese Super League.Following Chinese president Xi Jinping’s vision of China becoming a soccer superpower, wealthy owners started to splash the cash. High profile names such as Ramires (bought for £21 million from Chelsea), Jackson Martinez (bought for £31 million from Atlético Madrid) and Alex Teixeira (bought for £38 million from Shakhtar Donetsk) all moved to clubs in the far east. The CSL not only outspent the Premier League by over £19 million, it also outspent the other four major European leagues combined by almost £60 million.
The No. 2-seeded Trinity Bantams ended the No. 8-seeded Tufts Jumbos' Cinderella story postseason by handing them a 4-3 loss on Saturday in the NESCAC semifinals. For the Bantams, the win avenged last season's 2-1 defeat in the first round of the playoffs at the hands of the bottom-seeded Jumbos, ...
This month, 68 Div. I basketball teams will enter a single elimination tournament. Sixty-seven of these teams' seasons will end in a loss. Sixty-seven separate times, senior students that have dedicated an incomprehensible amount of their life to the sport will weep when the clock hits zero. Just ...
The reigning NESCAC and NCAA Div. III national champions opened their season with a tense 14-13 victory over Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday. The Jumbos went into the final quarter two goals down but managed to outscore the Ducks 4-1 in the final quarter to claim the win.Face-off expert ...
For the fifth year in a row the Jumbos are headed to the third round of the NCAA women's basketball championship in hopes of finally breaking through to the title game. After double-digit wins against Regis (Mass.) College on Friday and Moravian College on Saturday, No. 7 Tufts is headed back ...
Seniors John Uppgren and Conor Helfrich made school history on Jan. 22 when they became the first two Tufts lacrosse players to be picked in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Collegiate Draft. In previous years, Tufts players have been picked in the supplementary draft, but no Jumbo has ever achieved what ...
I was born on June 16, 1994, in New York City. At the time, the Rangers were playing for the NHL Stanley Cup, the Knicks were in the NBA Finals against the Rockets and even though there wasn’t an MLB World Series that year, I’m sure the Yankees had a good chance of winning it. In comparison to today, ...
