Next weekend’s round of Barclay’s Premier League action will be highlighted by a clash between two heavyweights in English soccer. The Arsenal-Liverpool matchup may not be a title-decider, but it looks like an all-important fight for the chance to play in Europe’s premier competition next ...
Had Chris Borland been a marquee player, his retirement -- premature, perhaps, at 24 -- would have been a thunderclap. Parents would have unenrolled their children in Pop Warner in legion, desiccating collegiate pipelines and thereby bringing the NFL to its knees. But Chris Borland, though dependable ...
As a journalist, this one really hurts.Major sponsors notwithstanding, the media, by lavishing airtime and newspaper space on college sports, is arguably most complicit in this grand farce. Erstwhile scourge of the greedy and powerful, it has since kowtowed to those whose vested interests it once ...
For the women's swimming and diving team, the 2014-2015 season was a transition year focused on integrating underclassmen into a youthful roster. The Jumbos developed their talent as the season progressed, gaining confidence and experience with each meet and evolving into a much stronger team by ...
The men’s tennis team enjoyed more than just the good weather on its spring break trip to California. With three wins and an impressive performance in its loss to Pomona-Pitzer, Tufts succeeded in establishing a winning start to the busy spring season.Before heading back home to Massachusetts, ...
After a breakthrough season in 2013-14, the Tufts women's basketball team was back this year with its sights set not only on repeating last season's success, but on taking it a step further: to the program's first national championship. The Jumbos hit the mark in many respects, winning ...
Sam Presti announced last week that Kevin Durant, the 2014 MVP award winner, has been “removed from basketball activities.” On Feb. 22 Durant had surgery on his foot, which had been nagging him since a screw was inserted in October as part of an operation to repair a Jones fracture. Long story ...
Thirteen strokes. That is how far the golf team was from placing in the top four in the NESCAC Championship qualifier. A remarkably small margin, yet just enough to drastically change the Jumbos upcoming spring season. As a result of placing fifth in the qualifier, the Jumbos' will not compete ...
The No. 17 women’s tennis team traveled to California over spring break to enjoy the warm weather and face off with Div. III competitors.The Jumbos played four matches in five days, winning the first two against Denison College and La Verne University before falling to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and ...
The No. 11 women's lacrosse team headed into spring break with a 4-0 record, but the Jumbos fell to 5-2 following their three-game stint over the past week and a half.On Saturday, Tufts traveled to Hartford, Conn. to take on 6-1 Trinity. The conference-rival Bantams -- No. 2 in the country -- have ...
Last weekend, 10 athletes from the men's and women's track and field teams traveled to the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C. for the NCAA Div. III National Championships. For the men's team, juniors Mitchell Black and Veer Bhalla qualified individually while the 4x400-meter team of ...
Baseball is a beautiful game, but the beginning of baseball season is never pretty. Hitters are still finding their timing, pitchers are still searching for their command and defense tends to be sloppy. That's why major league baseball teams -- made up of the best ballplayers on the planet -- need ...
Though it may have seemed a tall order a week ago, the men’s swimming and diving team has once again claimed its spot as a national top-25 team at the 2015 NCAA Championships. Sophomore diver Matt Rohrer and junior tri-captain Michael Winget earned 41 team points for the Jumbos to tie for 23rd place ...
Three Years of DominanceEvery year at the Matriculation Ceremony on the academic quad, Dean Lee Coffin gives a speech in which he outlines the various accomplishments of the incoming class. Tufts students, even before they matriculate, are no slouches. Coffin may identify founders of companies, inventors, ...
The men’s lacrosse team continued the undefeated start to its season Saturday with a victory over the Trinity Bantams at Bello Field. The Jumbos won by a score of 13-6 and in the process extended their record to 6-0.The defending NCAA Div. III champion and No. 1 Tufts team has started its title-defense ...
The Brewers’ Mike Fiers leads off my list of starting pitcher sleepers for the 2015 season. He had a tremendous minor league career and a solid rookie season in 2012 before he imploded in 2013. Last season, the Brewers’ No. 4 starter was lights out at both the triple-A and major league levels. I ...
Seven minutes felt like a long time. Seven minutes spent standing next to the starting line after the official had called junior Mitchell Black and his competitors over before the 2015 Div. III 800-meter national championship race kicked off.Plenty of things must have been running through Black's ...
Despite being the only team in the Div. III NCAA Championship semifinals with Final Four experience, Tufts returned just one player from its starting lineup a year ago — senior tri-captain forward Hayley Kanner. Due to multiple injuries over the course of the season, the Jumbos entered Friday’s ...
Entering the week riding the wave of a big conference win against No. 9 Middlebury and a dominant performance over Endicott, the No. 4 Tufts women's lacrosse team faced off against two non-conference opponents at home this week. With spring break around the corner, Tufts is in mid-season form, ...
With much of campus jetting off to tropical destinations for spring break, many of Tufts' sports teams will be traveling as well. Several spring teams are just beginning their seasons, while some of the winter teams are wrapping up theirs at NCAA championships. Here's a look at what the Jumbos ...
