On Saturday, the women’s track and field team traveled to Amherst College where it won the school’s Spring Fling Invitational. Winds reached speeds as high as 30 miles per hour, but the weather did not stop the Jumbos from taking first with 133 points, beating out second-place host Amherst’s ...
With the 2015 regular season now upon us, I want to take one final look at a number of important happenings from Spring Training. Although the scores of the games do not matter, the extreme performances, call-ups/send downs and injuries do.Fantasy baseball owners know not to worry too much about Spring ...
The women’s tennis team began its east coast spring season with a home match against unranked Brandeis on March 27. It then started its NESCAC schedule, which spans the month of April. The Jumbos made the Maine road trip for the first time this season, traveling to Colby on Friday and Bates on ...
Continuing its strong first half of the season into April, Tufts swept a doubleheader against Brandeis in Waltham on Saturday to extend its winning streak to six games — its longest of the season so far. The Jumbos held on against a Judges comeback to take game one 5-4 before lighting up multiple ...
After a very successful spring break trip, the nationally No. 1-ranked Tufts softball team returned to Medford with a full slate of games on the schedule for this week. But due to unseasonably bad weather in Massachusetts, the team’s home opener against Bates on Friday was postponed, as was the team’s ...
The baseball team continued to roll after storming out to an 8-3 start over spring break, improving its record to 13-4 on the year with wins over Keene State yesterday and Plymouth State on Wednesday.The Tufts offense, which averaged nearly 11 runs per game during its torrid swing through North Carolina ...
On Wednesday, the men’s tennis team lost 6-3 to No. 35 Brandeis, which improved to 5-7 on the season, while No. 23 Tufts fell to 3-2. Although Tufts split the singles competition with Brandeis, the host swept all three doubles matches to secure the victory.This was the Jumbos’ first match in ...
The women’s crew team begins its season on April 4, on home turf, with a race against Hamilton, Mount Holyoke and Trinity at the Shoemaker Boathouse. The No. 11 Jumbos enter their season full of optimism as they prepare to hit the water for the first time all year. “I’ve been rowing for Tufts ...
The NBA playoffs will begin in mid-April, and participating in the 16-team tournament are the best eight teams from each conference. Notice that I did not say that the best 16 teams in the league are competing. That is because the Pelicans and Suns, who currently sit in the ninth and 10th positions, ...
The snowy weather may have disappointed in Tufts’ first outdoor meet, the aptly named Snowflake Classic, but the team’s results certainly did not. On Saturday, the track team opened its spring season account with the best possible result: a first-place finish out of 22 competitors. While the weather ...
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 ...
