Despite allowing Hamilton (8-8-6) to force a 3-3 tie on Military Appreciation Night and then losing 3-1 to No. 10 Amherst (16-4-2) on Senior Night, Tufts (7-13-2) played stretches of its best hockey this weekend.The Jumbos were up a goal on the Continentals and had led all game before junior defenseman ...
In the New York Times last week, writer Jon Ronson chronicled the swift demise of a woman named Justine Sacco at the hands of a ruthless Twitter mob. With each successive tableau, Sacco makes her way gradually from antagonist to victim, her situation reaching a nadir, perhaps, when she is disowned ...
In the town of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — 1600 miles away from the chilly Tufts campus — things really started to heat up for the men’s swimming and diving team as it trained over winter break to prepare for the second half of its season.According to first-year Jacob Siegelbaum, the training ...
Not long ago, the Bruins were playing impressive and commendable hockey, and they seemed to be rounding into contending form. The season hadn’t gone quite according to plan through December, as the team had suffered injuries to key players, including one to mammoth defenseman and captain Zdeno Chara.After ...
With the Patriots winning Super Bowl XLIX in heroic fashion a mere week-and-a-half ago, writers everywhere discussed the greatness of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as a duo. After all, they have won four Super Bowls together and were NFL runner-ups on two other occasions in 2008 and 2012. Despite what ...
For most members of the women's swimming and diving team, the long season that began before Thanksgiving will finally come to a close at this weekend's NESCAC Championships. Tufts is sending 23 swimmers and one diver (sophomore Kylie Reiman) to the event, which is taking place at Wesleyan University ...
The 11th-seeded men’s squash team traveled to Williams College last weekend for the 2015 NESCAC Championship tournament prepared and confident. The Jumbos were unable to come home with team success, however, due to a few critical players' being injured.“We didn’t perform as well as we hoped,” ...
Conn. College outmuscled Tufts 2-1 on Feb. 6 at Valley Forum in Malden, and then again 4-1 the next day at Dayton Arena in the two teams' annual home-and-home series. Despite the disappointing losses, Tufts' record of 7-12-1 and 4-9-1 in conference has them holding steady in the eighth and ...
Perhaps Morocco took its cue from Governors Christie and Cuomo. Unlike the governors, however, Morocco will be made to pay -- literally.On Sunday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) fined the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) $1 million for reneging on its commitment to host the 2015 ...
For a moment this past weekend, it looked like the No. 4 women's basketball team was at risk of dropping its first NESCAC game of the season. The Jumbos were down three with just 19.7 seconds left to play at Hamilton's Margaret Bundy Scott Field House on Friday night after committing a foul ...
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 ...
