After a five-set loss to Amherst last weekend, Tufts bounced back with an impressive three-game winning streak starting at home on Friday against NESCAC opponent Connecticut College and continuing into Saturday at UMass Dartmouth against the host and non-conference foe Western Connecticut State. The ...
Tufts suffered a shutout at the hands of No. 13 Brandeis on Saturday, the latter's sixth consecutive shutout this year.
Week three of the NFL season was the week of wide receivers. There were 13 receivers with over 100 yards this week. Thirteen! If it were a Friday, this would really have been freaky.Bad jokes aside, no position sees players oscillate in value as much as wide receiver does. With an incredibly deep ...
The No. 10-ranked field hockey team improved upon its solid start to the 2015 season with an out-of-conference win over Gordon on Saturday. The Jumbos blanked their opposition en route to a 5-0 victory.For Tufts, the game improved its record on the season to 5-1, including 3-0 in NESCAC play. The ...
The men’s cross-country team took eighth place in the Purple Valley Classic at Mount Greylock High School in Williamstown, Mass. on Saturday, Sept. 26. Twenty-two teams participated in the eight-kilometer race, which was hosted by Williams. The Jumbos also finished in third place out of six teams ...
Last week, 15-year NBA veteran Jason Richardson announced his retirement from basketball. Richardson played with five different teams, most notably with the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns, over the course of his professional career. The 34-year-old NBA vet was drafted fifth overall in ...
Two entirely different Tufts football teams showed up to play against Hamilton on Saturday. The Jumbos dominated the game to the tune of a 21-0 lead in the first half, but a few big plays in the second half saw that lead rapidly evaporate. At the end of regulation time, the score was tied 21 apiece, ...
After starting the season 5-0, including three NESCAC wins, Tufts, ranked No. 1, suffered their first loss on Saturday afternoon at Kraft Field. Despite beautiful conditions, Jumbos offense was not able to muster a goal in a competitive 1-0 loss to the No. 16 Brandeis Judges. The Tufts offense was ...
After a 2013-2014 season in which it recorded a mere four wins, the Tufts hockey team resurged last season, ending the year on a high note with a victory over Trinity in the NESCAC quarterfinals and a close loss to Amherst in the semifinals. To ensure that their success continues, the Jumbos have ...
Tufts finished in first place at the Newbury Invitational at Franklin Park in Boston this past Wednesday with a score of 287 -- 10 points lower than Babson, whose team finished second.JuniorOwen Elliott and sophomore Aaron Corn each shot 70, tying them for first place among all competitors. Each of ...
When the Jumbos played the Hamilton Continentals on Sept. 20, 2014, the former were bearing the burden of a 31-game losing streak. That game had been touted as the Jumbos' best chance of breaking their run of losses. They were playing another struggling team. They were playing at home.And they ...
I'm Yuan Jun, but Michael works too. That's the name printed on my Manchester United jersey, along with the number 12, as an ode to the mistake Louis van Gaal made. I'm from Singapore and I'm a huge sports fan. So if you ever need someone to talk tactics to, or to pick your fantasy ...
The field hockey team continued its solid start to the season on Sunday with a 4-2 win over Trinity in a NESCAC showdown on Bello Field.The No. 7-ranked Jumbos extended their record to 3-1 on the season, including a perfect 3-0 mark in conference games. The Bantams, ranked No. 19, fell to 1-3, and 1-2 ...
This column will not focus on what goes right. In fact, it will not even focus on what goes fairly well. It will focus solely on what goes terribly, horribly, laughably, miserably and disturbingly wrong the National Football League. Without further ado:
Two Jumbos, sophomore Garrett Weinstein and senior Jay Glickman, came away with the C and D singles crowns respectively this past weekend at the Middlebury Invitational."Obviously, Jay won his flight, so he's playing very well, [and] every time a player wins a tournament, that's a big ...
Tufts came close to an upset against Amherst at the LeFrak Gymnasium last Saturday, losing 3-2 (23-25, 23-25, 25-14, 25-23, 15-10) to their NESCAC rivals.Tufts raced to a 14-9 lead in the first set, eventually wrapping up the set with 11 kills. Senior Maddie Kuppe led the way with five kills. It was ...
Aside from intramural flag football last year, I have never played a down of football. However, I study fantasy football more than most of my classes and I promise this column will be honest above all. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. For example, I was high on Rueben Randle, the New York Giants' ...
The women's cross country team opened up its season on Saturday with a quad meet at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine for the Bates Invitational. Although the meet was small, with only four teams competing -- Tufts, Bates, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wellesley -- three of the four ...
Following Saturday’s overtime victory over defending NESCAC champion Conn. College at Kraft Field, the women's soccer team lost a close game to Trinity College on Sunday, 3-1. For Tufts, the story for much of the weekend was one of constant improvement, as nearly half the team is made up of new ...
On Feb. 28, 2014, Zach Lowe’s NBA column in Grantland, the destination of the best analysis and insight for the sport of basketball, introduced the casual fan to the newest sporting event: The Basketball Tournament (or TBT for short) -- an open basketball tournament in which anyone can gather ...
