The Tufts equestrian team, one of the school’s lesser-known club sports programs, has been dominating their competition once again this year. The team’s 35 equestrians have risen to first place in point total in their region so far this season and have four more events left this spring to help secure ...
The Student Athletic Advisory Council (SAAC) unveiled the newly designated student cheering section this Saturday as part of the Fan the Fire event featuring the men’s basketball team's game against Williams College. Students swarmed the stands for the game to celebrate the inaugural day of ...
The No. 9 women's track and field team hosted its final large indoor invitational of the season, the Cupid Invitational, at the Gantcher Center on Saturday.The Jumbos fared well in the competition, scoring 115 points and taking second overall after No. 7 MIT. Across the board, the Jumbos had some ...
Fans coming to the Cousens Gym Friday night hoping to see Linsanity 2.0 -- courtesy of NBA point guard Jeremy Lin's younger brother Joseph -- were disappointed. Instead, they witnessed Tufts put together a solid team performance in its 70-63 win over Lin and his Hamilton Continentals.However, fans ...
While the 2014-2015 school year has been highlighted by the Tufts soccer team’s National Championship victory, the 2013-2014 school year had its own fair share of success on the national stage. Headlined by the Tufts softball and men’s lacrosse teams, last spring was a very eventful season for Tufts ...
The women’s squash team had mixed results against a pair of conference opponents this past weekend in its final two matches before this weekend's NESCAC tournament. While Tufts lost 8-1 against Colby at Harvard on Saturday, the team bounced back the next day to beat Conn. College 6-3. ...
The women's swimming and diving team concluded its regular season this past weekend at the non-scoring Middlebury Invitational. With the championship season on the horizon, the Jumbos can now focus exclusively on preparing for the NESCAC Championships, which will be held later this month.
There is silence from the Patriots section as the final two minutes of Super Bowl XLIX tick away. It has been a difficult half with a brutal third quarter, but the Pats seem to have regained momentum. Still, this has not been a relaxed game for anyone.Many hours later, after high-fives have been ...
NBA All-Star weekend will take place in New York City over the weekend of Feb. 13-15. The various competitions and events are meant to be a celebration of the best players from each conference at the halfway point of the season, but all too often the game has featured big names instead of the best players. ...
Further building toward a successful season, the men’s track and field team boasted two successful performances at its most recent meets. For these meets, the team was split in two. A small number of athletes headed for Boston University’s John Thomas Invitational on Jan. 31, while most of the ...
Senior tri-captain Hannah Foley connected on a 3-pointer with one-and-a-half minutes elapsed in No. 4 Tufts' final non-league game of the season, against Rhode Island College (RIC), Tuesday night, leaving her just three points shy of the 1,000-point mark as a Jumbo. Fans and teammates awaiting ...
The men’s squash team heads into the NESCAC tournament with a disappointing weekend of losses behind it. On Saturday Jan. 31, Tufts traveled to Harvard to take on one of its toughest rivals, Colby. Unfortunately, the Jumbos fell to the White Mules with a match score ending in 8-1. The Jumbos’ one ...
The women's track and field team split its squad up over the weekend for a pair of non-scoring meets. A few members of the team traveled to Boston University's annualJohn Thomas Terrier Invitational on Friday, while the majority of the team competed at Tufts' own Stampede Invitational, ...
The women's fencing team may not be the most visible athletic group at Tufts -- they play all their matches at other schools and typically practice late at night -- but the squad has certainly put its opponents on notice with an excellent season. The Jumbos have gone 16-9, winning a dozen matches ...
Jermaine Kearse bobbled the ball and kicked it inadvertently before corralling and cradling it, as if he were securing his own child. He lay on his back for a moment, beheld by a nation divided. The circus catch by the Seahawks' wide receiver, a lifeline at the 11th hour, set his team up deep ...
Tufts went on the road this past weekend, taking on Conn. College on Friday and Wesleyan on Saturday. The squad defeated both teams easily, extending its record of 20+ winning point margins to seven straight with a 69-48 victory over Conn. College and a 77-53 win over Wesleyan.On Saturday, Tufts ...
Before its two-game homestand this past weekend, in which it split games against Wesleyan and Conn. College, the men's basketball team received news of the biggest loss -- both literally and figuratively -- of its season when 6' 8" sophomore center Hunter Sabety suffered an apparently serious ...
Two things happened last week. First, New York Times columnist Charles Blow's son, Tahj, who fit the description of an intruder to a dorm at Yale, where Tahj is a student, was accosted by police at gunpoint -- he was leaving the library -- but eventually let go. Second, in a refrain all too familiar to ...
In early January, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio achieved the necessary 75 percent voting threshold to be a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. They will be officially inducted later this year.Other players just missed the cut. Guys like Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell and Tim ...
Competing in its final event before NESCACs, Tufts men's swim and dive raced against a host of tough schools that included rivals Williams and Middlebury at the Middlebury Invitational.Though it was a non-scoring meet, several swimmers dropped significant time in a bright spot for the Jumbos as ...
