It was January 2014, and I stayed up all night to watch tennis. The men’s final of the Australian Open was to be held half a world away in Melbourne, and because of the time difference, it would start at 3 a.m. local time here at Tufts.On one side of the court stood the substantial underdog Stanislas ...
Over the weekend, the Jumbos traveled to Middlebury, Vt. for the annual Div. III New England Championships. The Jumbos scored 52 points en route to tying with Southern Maine for fourth place overall, behind third place Middlebury (82 points), second place Williams (93.83 points) and winner MIT (123.5 ...
After defeating Williams in its final game of the regular season on Feb. 12, Tufts entered the NESCAC tournament quarterfinals with a good sense of what to expect as the two teams were set to face off again, this time at Tufts' home Cousens Gym. Though the game remained close throughout, the Jumbos ...
When New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced the scheduling of a ticker tape parade following the United States women's national soccer team's (USWNT) winning the FIFA World Cup this past summer, New Yorkers were excited. Who wouldn’t want a parade? The welcoming of the USWNT seemed ...
After posting a strong record for the fall semester, the equestrian team is looking ahead to its first competition of 2016 as the team hopes to ride its way back to nationals in May. The team, currently sitting in the top spot in its region with a comfortable 19-point margin over the second place ...
Four years ago, a controversial Mario Balotelli goal derailed Spurs’ momentum. Last weekend, they banished those memories and are marching on. I was holding back on this column until they beat Manchester City. Their victory at the Etihad Stadiumlast weekend required a bit of luck, but they were very ...
The No. 6 Tufts women's basketball team, seeking its third NESCAC championship in a row, kicked off its 2016 conference tournament run with a resounding 68-36 win over Middlebury College Saturday afternoon.All 13 eligible players on the first-seeded Jumbos' roster saw time on the court as they ...
“You’ll never walk alone.” This is the famed motto of Liverpool. However, as many fans, and Steven Gerrard (a lifetime Liverpool player) will tell you, it is more than that — it is a way of life. The teary-eyed 45,000 that shook Anfield with their final serenade to hometown hero Gerrard last May will attest to that. For many Liverpool supporters “you’ll never walk alone” means that there is nothing that would cause them to turn their backs on their club. However, during Liverpool’s match against Sunderland two weekends ago, many supporters felt they had no other choice. In protest of the new £77 main stand ticket and a newly announced ticket pricing structure which will see 75 percent of tickets increase in price, 10,000 Liverpool supporters left Anfield in the 77th minute.
The Jumbos are a formidable force heading into the most important weekend of their season. The past three months have tested the 46-man team as they’ve worked to become faster between the lanes and more precise off the diving boards. The successes are evident — Tufts has consistently broken personal ...
With wins against Williams in the final game of the season, both the No. 19 men’s and No. 6 women’s basketball teams secured home-court advantage for the first few rounds of the NESCAC tournament. Both teams play at Cousens Gym tomorrow with the women taking on Middlebury at 2 p.m. and the men ...
Quarterbacks are shackled with the unsavory task of toeing the line between being too cautious and too reckless and aggressive with their attempted passes. A quarterback that checks down too often, such as Alex Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs, is derided as a “game manager” — someone who is ...
Tufts wrapped up its regular season with victories against Boston University (BU), Wesleyan and Vassar College, and is now focusing on the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Nationals this coming weekend. This puts the Jumbos at 12-7 for the season, moving them up to No. 24 in the rankings.Just ...
After falling 2-1 to Amherst on Saturday, Tufts rallied to squeak by Hamilton 4-3 on Sunday. Winning on Sunday kept the Jumbos at seventh in the NESCAC with just two conference games left in the regular season.Against Hamilton, Tufts jumped out to an early 2-1 lead in the first period and extended ...
Tufts women’s swimming and diving competed at this weekend’s NESCAC Championships at Middlebury College, finishing seventh overall for the third year in a row. That performance, though a disappointment for a team that had high hopes to improve its standing in the conference at this year's championships, ...
Tufts was back in action over the long weekend, though the focus wasn't so much on overall team performance as it was on individual improvement and qualifying ahead of this weekend's New England Div. III Indoor Championships. Members of the team participated in two different events on Saturday, ...
Men's basketball ended its regular season run with a 77-73 win over Williams on Friday night, coming out with a 7-3 conference record and securing the third seed and a first-round home game going into the NESCAC tournament. The game was close throughout, with the Jumbos capitalizing on enough ...
I’m sorry. It may be for some one of the hardest things to say or admit especially in the sports world. But this sorry isn’t so hard; it's actually one of the easiest sorrys I’ve ever had to say. This column is going to be an apology to a player who didn’t deserve the immediate backlash ...
For the third year in a row, the Jumbos are undefeated during the NESCAC regular season. With a dominant 62-37 win over Williams on Seniors Night, No. 6 Tufts captured yet another 10-0 conference record and is primed to host this year's NESCAC championship over the next two weekends. Having beaten ...
Over the weekend, the women's track and field team traveled a few miles down the road to the Boston University Track and Tennis Center for the annual David Hemery Valentine Invitational. BU Valentine, as it is known, is one of the most famous indoor meets in the nation on the weekend of Valentine's ...
At some point, one wonders if the Theatre of Dreams has turned into a theatre of nightmares. Or if dreams even exist anymore at Old Trafford.Twenty-six years of attacking football under Alex Ferguson may have given Manchester United fans a right to demand attacking football. Even under David Moyes, United ...
