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Moments ‘til Madness: Realignment, recruiting and scandal

By Owen Short | October 15

With opening night still a few weeks away, there isn’t much going on in college basketball. Teams right now are preparing for the long season ahead and there is little to no movement in regards to personnel. But there are still some headlines regarding recruiting, conference realignment, and more. Here are the stories that I found to be the most significant and interesting.

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The Round-off Roundup: The invisible hand of the code

By Sarah Firth | October 15

The Code of Points is the rule book determining exactly how each gymnast gets scored and by extension, what skills are the most efficient balance of risk and reward. Here is a quick overview of the major changes in the women’s Code of Points for 2025-28. 

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Baseball

Full Court Press: What the Jurickson Profar incident can teach us about fan etiquette

By Noah Goldstein | October 11

It’s tough to go from Little League to The Show. Only around 0.5% of those who play baseball in high school make it to the professional level. But what if we all want to be involved in America’s favorite pastime? We don’t all possess the strength or talent required to throw a ball in the 90s or hit one 400 feet, but we all can come to the ballpark as fans, with our mitts and souvenir cups, and experience the game from the bleachers.

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Columns

In the Crease: The puck drops on the new NHL season

By Zachary Gerson | October 11

The NHL season kicked off Tuesday night with three nationally televised games: Blues-Kraken, Bruins-Panthers and Blackhawks-Utah Hockey Club. The Blues were victorious over the Kraken 3-2, the Panthers over the Bruins 6-4 and Utah over the Blackhawks 5-2.

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Football falters in second half as Trinity pulls away

By Luke Fredericks | October 10

Tufts football entered its week four matchup against Trinity College riding high after a 25–0 shutout victory over Amherst College. The Jumbos, with a 2–1 record, looked to hand the undefeated Bantams their first loss of the season. 

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Tufts puts six goals on the board against Trinity

By Eliza Warren | October 10

After four consecutive away games, the Tufts women’s soccer team came home to Bello Field last weekend to take on Trinity College in their sixth NESCAC game of the season. The Jumbos, coming off a 4–1 win versus the Endicott College Gulls, were on a high, but were still working hard to prepare for their game against the Bantams.

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Men’s soccer rolls over Bantams 6-0

By Riley Daniel | October 10

The Jumbos closed a two-game homestand looking for a fifth consecutive undefeated week to begin October, having jumped to the No. 2 ranking in the country according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll. The squad — which had spent Tuesday night in a 90-minute dogfight with Babson College where Tufts had escaped with a 1–1 draw thanks to an 89th minute equalizer from sophomore superstar forward Xavier Canfin — was looking for their first clean sheet performance in a NESCAC game since Sept. 15 versus Connecticut College.

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Cross Country

Impressive showing by men’s cross-country at Paul Short Run

By Tara Wirtschoreck | October 9

On Saturday, men’s cross-country traveled to Bethlehem, Pa. to compete in the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University. The Paul Short Run is a huge cross-country meet featuring 10 different collegiate races.

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Sports

Obscure Sports: The Barkley Marathons, a race against nature

By Max Sharf | October 8

When James Earl Ray escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, the clock was ticking until his eventual capture. Martin Luther King Jr.’s killer covered 12 miles in 54 hours before he was caught in the mountains. Every year in eastern Tennessee, around 40 handpicked runners compete in an ultramarathon to try to shatter James Earl Ray’s pace: They attempt 100 miles in 60 hours.

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Women’s volleyball goes 1–1 against NESCAC foes on weekend road trip

By Josh Solomon | October 8

After winning four matches in a row, the Tufts volleyball team had their first in-conference defeat against Middlebury College on Saturday. The Jumbos bested the Ephs in four sets with scores25–12, 25–20, 25–21 and 25–18, but ultimately fell to the Panthers in four the next day, losing 25–22, 25–23, 17–25 and 25–19.

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The Intangibles: ESPN hits new ‘Lowe’

By Jonah Cowan | October 7

Last week, ESPN laid off Zach Lowe, their best basketball journalist. Lowe’s firing serves as a confirmation of a decades-long shift in corporate media strategy level: from the 20th-century sports writer to prioritize talking heads in their stead. 

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Field hockey falls 2–1 in NESCAC battle against Wesleyan

By Jack Chapleski | October 4

Tufts field hockey’s lone goal didn’t prove to be enough in their NESCAC conference loss to Wesleyan University. The defeat on Saturday ended the Jumbos’ five-game win streak, moving them to fourth in the conference. Despite the Jumbos outshooting the Cardinals 9–3, Wesleyan forward Teddy Tolbert was assisted by midfielder Brooke Miner for their first goal of the game early in the second quarter, with Miner scoring a goal of her own less than two minutes later on a penalty shot.

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Defensive domination in Jumbos’ win over Mammoths

By Dexter Joffrey | October 3

After a disappointing loss last week against the Wesleyan University Cardinals, Tufts football faced the undefeated Amherst College Mammoths on Saturday. The Mammoths had won their first two games of the season with impressive defensive performances, limiting Hamilton and Bates to seven points each.

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Men’s tennis finds a dominant start to the season at regionals

By Bassil Chughtai | October 3

On the weekend of Sept. 27–29, men’s tennis came out with, according to senior Vuk Vuksanovic, the strongest start the team has seen in years during their performance in the three-day ITA Northeast Regionals tournament. Six of Tufts’ top tennis players participated in the singles draw, four teams of two participated in the doubles draw and four players participated in the B draw for singles.

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Columns

The Final Whistle: Karim Adeyemi, Dortmund’s latest wunderkind

By Bharat Singh | October 3

A combination of neat triangle passes deep into the Dortmund half was broken by the Celtic press, as Gregor Kobel launched a long ball forward. Guinea’s Serhou Guirassy was the first to react, steadying himself before gently caressing the soccer ball towards Julian Brandt with a deft touch. With runners on each side and a scrambling Celtic backline, Brandt threaded a pass into the path of Karim Adeyemi. Signal Iduna Park roared their star on as Adeyemi buried the ball beyond veteran goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. 2–1.

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Soccer

Women’s soccer falls to Wesleyan on the road

By Eliza Warren | October 2

Tufts women’s soccer stepped onto Jackson Field in Connecticut last weekend ready to take on Wesleyan University in their fifth NESCAC game of the season. Tufts came into the weekend with a 4–1–1 record, but, after a 2–0 win against No. 7 nationally ranked Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday, they were feeling good about their upcoming games.

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The Round-off Roundup: An ode to Amy Chow and her post-gymnastics career

By Sarah Firth | October 1

Amy Chow may have to be my favorite member of the Magnificent Seven, the U.S. gymnastics team that competed in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Born to immigrant parents from Guangzhou and Hong Kong in San Jose, California, Chow began training gymnastics at 3 years old at the West Valley Gymnastics School. Chow started competing at the elite level when she was 11 years old and made her Olympic debut seven years later. In Atlanta, she won a gold medal with the team and an individual silver medal on the uneven bars, becoming the first Asian-American gymnast to win an Olympic medal.

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Moments ‘til Madness: Predicting award season

By Owen Short | October 1

As we enter October, not much is happening regarding college basketball news. Luckily, however, this means that essentially all coaching jobs and rosters have been filled out. This being the case, here are my preseason individual award picks for the 2024–25 college basketball season.

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Men’s tennis team gets into the swing of things at the MIT Invitational

By Jack Krasnof | September 27

The Tufts men’s tennis team made the short trip to Cambridge this past Saturday to compete in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Invitational. The invitational provided the team with an early opportunity to break into the 2024–25 season with competitive exhibition matches against DI and DIII programs. The team was geared up to play tennis and ferociously brought it to the courts over the course of the day. 

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Tennis

Stand-out first-year performances highlight ITA Regionals to kick off the women’s tennis season

By Keriann Slayton | September 27

Tufts women’s tennis traveled to Bowdoin College in Maine last weekend to launch their fall campaign by competing in Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regionals over the course of two days. On Sept. 21, first-year Melanie Woodbury won her first two collegiate matches to advance to the Round of 16 in the “A” singles draw, while her fellow first-year Brooklyn Bindas handled Sanjana Kumar of Brandeis University to advance in “B” singles.

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