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 ...
Tufts women's swimming looks to cap off its best season since its 2011-2012 campaign with a strong showing at this weekend's NESCAC Championships at Middlebury College. With a 4-3 record in head-to-head meets this season, the Jumbos finish the regular season with a winning record for the first ...
As the winter athletics season continues to wind down, various Tufts teams are heating up in preparation for postseason play, so once again we break down the schedule of this weekend's contests and why they matter.In arguably the marquee event of the weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team ...
Though the Jumbos were unable to advance to the winner's bracket of the NESCAC Championship this past weekend, they found a silver lining in the tournament. No. 24 Tufts fell to No. 18 Bates on Friday but bounced back Saturday to record victories in its consolation matches against Wesleyan ...
The women's fencing team had a successful meet on Saturday, defeating five different teams at the third Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the season, hosted by Smith College. Tufts beat Wellesley University 18-9, Boston University (BU) 24-3, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) 23-4, the ...
If I had told a Leicester City fan at the beginning of the season that they would be staying in the Premier League at the end of the year, they would have been more than satisfied. After all, but for a historic relegation escape where they accumulated more points in their final nine games than they did in their first 29, Leicester would have found themselves back in the second division of English football only a season after being promoted. At this point last season, they were bottom of the league with 17 points. Currently, Leicester sits five points clear at the top of the Premier League with 53 points.
Basketball is a game that demands a degree of physical dominance of its transcendent players. The enduring memory of Shaquille O’Neal, a dominant force in the NBA for many years, is a dunk of intense ferocity. For Michael Jordan, the image that sticks in the mind is his effortless glide from the free ...
Tufts Men's Hockey defeated Conn. College 4-1 at home on Friday and then again 8-1 on Saturday while away. The wins improve Tufts' record to 4-6-4 in conference play and 8-7-5 overall, vaulting the Jumbos into the seventh place in the NESCAC. They were tied for eighth with the White Mules ...
