The men’s lacrosse team bested the Conn. College Camels Saturday evening by a score of 10-9. The undefeated Jumbos stretched their record to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the NESCAC with the win.This contest was the closest the team has played this year, and it narrowly escaped with its perfect record still ...
The men's swimming and diving team's 2014-2015 season finally came to a close after junior tri-captain Michael Winget and sophomore diver Matt Rohrer led the Jumbos to 23rd place at this month’s NCAA Championships. This season was the second in a row -- and the fifth in the last six years ...
No. 11 Tufts improved to 7-2 overall (3-2 in the NESCAC) on Saturday after defeating Conn. College 11-10 in overtime. Despite wind and snow, the Jumbos were able to score the last three goals in regulation to force overtime, in which first-year midfielder Calie Nowak scored the game-winning goal on ...
For the first time in over a month, the women’s track and field team had its full squad in competition at its own Snowflake Invitational, held at the Ellis Oval. The Snowflake Classic, which ushers in the outdoor season, was run in miserable conditions. Temperatures hovered in the low 30s with a wind ...
The men’s crew team begins its season on Saturday, April 4, with a race against Hamilton at the Shoemaker Boathouse.The No. 9 Jumbos, according to the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association, enter the season with high expectations and hope to challenge the top teams they will face.The Continentals ...
My 10-team AL/NL head-to-head league had its draft last week, and I was picking fifth. The 6x6 league has BBs and QSs as the final two categories, and you play nine pitchers (it could be nine SPs and zero RPs, four SPs and five RPs, etc.). The first four picks went as expected with Mike Trout going ...
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, ...
