Over the weekend, a few members of the women's track and field team traveled to Boston University's Track and Tennis Center for the annual New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships, colloquially known as Open New Englands. At this meet, top teams and individuals ...
This time last year, the women's basketball team cut down the nets in Cousens Gym after winning the first NESCAC championship in the program's history. This year's team had its sights set on a repeat with most of its integral players still around and hungry for another title. After earning the ...
Heavy underdogs going into the game, Tufts (9-14-2) defeated No. 2 Trinity (21-3-1) for the program's first victory in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC tournament. Tufts will advance to take on No. 10 Amherst, while Trinity's season is at the mercy of the NCAA selection committee."We ...
The NESCAC Championship will be held this Sunday at Cousens gymnasium, but whether the No. 5 women’s basketball team will have a shot at defending its title and becoming back-to-back champions for the first time will depend on its semifinal matchup against fourth-seeded Williams the day before.Tufts ...
Coming off an NCAA Div. III national title a year ago, expectations are rightfully high for the men’s lacrosse team. The Jumbos’ season kicks off Saturday with a home game against the Middlebury Panthers, and with it begins the quest to repeat as champions.Tufts begins the year as the No. 1 team ...
The women’s lacrosse team will open up its season this Saturday against Middlebury. The Jumbos have high hopes for the 2015 season after finishing with a 10-6 record overall and a 6-4 mark in the NESCAC last year.The team returns key starters, including Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches ...
After securing the fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament, Tufts dreams of a playoff run were quickly dashed in first round with a 92-66 loss to a hot-shooting Amherst team in Cousens Gymnasium on Saturday. The Jumbos ended the season 13-12.The Lord Jeffs got out to a hot start early led by junior forward ...
The men’s track and field team started its championship season with a sixth-place finish at the New England Div. III Championships at Springfield College this past Saturday. A total score of 52.5 placed Tufts behind MIT, Bates, Williams, Southern Maine and Bridgewater State. Amherst, Bowdoin, Coast ...
Following impressive performances over the weekend, junior tri-captain Michael Winget and sophomore diver Matt Rohrer were named to the NESCAC Men's Swimming and Diving All-Conference Team. This is Winget's first time receiving the honor and the second time for Rohrer. Unsurprisingly, Williams ...
“If LeBron can go home, why can’t I?” asked an aging star on a Brooklyn Nets roster that never seemed to click despite high expectations at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season. Kevin Garnett is returning to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a franchise he so deeply loves and never wanted to leave ...
Tufts will face the top-seeded Trinity Bantams in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC Championship this weekend. The Jumbos finished their regular season with an 8-14-2 record, the team’s best since the 2011-12 season, when the team won 12 games. While the Jumbos are facing the intimidating 21-2-1 Bantams, ...
Owen Elliott has had an exceptional sophomore year. Not only has he established himself as Tufts' premier golfer,but he also cemented his position in the starting lineup on the men's squash team; he is en route to joining the select group of Jumbos that call themselves multi-sport athletes.Although ...
On Saturday, the Jumbos competed in the Div. III New England Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Although collectively the team did not compete as well as it had hoped it would, it still posted some solid performances and gained some new All-New England ...
The men’s squash team traveled to Trinity College last weekend to play in the College Squash Association’s (CSA) Team Championships. The Jumbos competed in the D division in the hopes of winning the Conroy Cup and a higher national ranking than their current one, No. 28.The Jumbos opened up play ...
After three days of racing this weekend, the men’s swimming and diving team finished the 2015 NESCAC championships in the same position as last year. Tufts ended with 1,086 points for fourth place behind perennial champion Williams (2,065.5), Amherst (1,579) and Connecticut College (1,323).Unsurprisingly, ...
When Jose Mourinho was christened "The Chosen One" during his first stint at Chelsea, he must really have internalized the sobriquet, evident in the way he now metes it out quite liberally, a modern King Midas, having convinced himself -- and trying to us -- that not only he, but the teams ...
Just over two weeks after battling Hamilton down to the final minutes of regulation and escaping with a win in overtime, the No. 5 women's basketball team posted a definitive 64-43 win over the Continentals in the NESCAC quarterfinal matchup on Saturday. Hamilton, led by NESCAC leading scorer, junior ...
The men’s basketball team entered Saturday’s NESCAC quarterfinal meeting against Amherst as the No. 4 seed and with a 27-point road win in an earlier matchup under its belt. This game would not go as swimmingly for the Jumbos, as the Lord Jeffs shot 56.4 percent from the field in a 92-66 victory ...
The 2015 catcher situation is quite similar to the situation from years past. There are about 10 solid number-one catchers, followed by 15 almost interchangeable players. Then there are some unusable starters and minor league prospects rounding out the bottom of the list.Buster Posey and Jonathan Lucroy ...
The San Diego Padres have been one of the most active teams this offseason. After trading for Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Wil Myers, Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks, they signed righty James Shields two weeks ago to a four-year, $75 million deal. These moves have led some to believe the Padres are now ...
