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Tufts sets bar high for upcoming season

The women's swimming and diving team struggled last season, losing six straight meets to open the season before salvaging a win in its seventh and final non-tournament meet against Wheaton College. Though Tufts has a young team this year, the Jumbos are optimistic they will be able to build off ...


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Tufts prepares for bounce-back season

Although the men's basketball team is coming off a year in which it went only 4-6 and snuck into the NESCAC playoffs as the No. 7 seed, those numbers belie the promise that the 2014-2015 season holds.Last season, the expectations were set high for a Jumbos team that had finished 7-3 in the NESCAC ...


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Jumbos enter first game with a chance for early season revenge

In a cruel twist of fate -- or, alternatively, a shot at redemption -- the men's hockey team will play the same five teams, in order, against whom it kicked off last season. Four of these teams -- Trinity, Williams, Middlebury and Wesleyan -- hail from the NESCAC, which saw six players selected ...


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Jumbos finish third at Hap Moore Trophy

The fifth-ranked co-ed sailing team competed in the Hap Moore Team Race over the weekend, hosted by Coast Guard. The Jumbos compiled a two-day record of 8-6 and finished in third place out of the 12 teams at the regatta.Saturday came with great conditions for sailing, with a breeze of 4-7 knots that ...


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The many flags of basketball

Last night, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets faced off in an NBA game in Mexico City. If you can remember as far back as last season, the Wolves were slated to play a game in Mexico City against the Spurs, but smoke inside Mexico City Arena prevented the game from being played. Before ...


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Jumbos to kick off season Saturday at Wesleyan tournament

The nationally ranked No. 26 women’s squash team will enter its 2014 winter campaign with the Wesleyan Round Robin in Middletown, Conn. this weekend. Tufts will take on Wesleyan and William Smith College on Saturday as well as Smith College and Mount Holyoke College on Sunday.“We should do well ...




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Basketball

Tufts looks to build on last season's Final Four success

This season, tri-captains Kelsey Morehead, Hayley Kanner and Hannah Foley will be returning for their senior years as anchors of the women's basketball team -- a team that is coming off of its most successful season in program history. The 2013-2014 Tufts team recorded an unprecedented 21-game ...


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Tufts football team's exciting season comes to end

Tufts traveled to Middlebury on Saturday for its last game of the season, but the visiting Jumbos were unable to defeat the Panthers and their high-powered offense.“We had some injuries early in the second half,” coach Jay Civetti said. "[Defensive backs sophomore Mike] Stearns and [sophomore ...


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Jumbos' second seven impress at ECAC Championship meet

The Tufts men's cross country team finished second at the ECAC Div. III Championship meet for the second year in a row on Saturday. Tufts historically fields a deep cross country roster and this year was no different, as those who competed in the ECAC meet were all part of the team's second ...


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Volleyball falls short in NESCAC Championships

The Tufts volleyball team lost only one game on its home court all year, and it was the NESCAC championship game against Williams College on Sunday.Sunday's showdown between the top two teams in the NESCAC was thrilling from start to finish, reflecting just how evenly matched the opponents were. ...


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Jumbos place fourth at ECAC Championship

On Saturday, members of the women's cross country team traveled west to Stanley Park in Westfield, MA for the annual ECAC Div. III Championship. Since the ECAC meet takes place the week before the NCAA Div. III Regional meet, most of the top squads rest most, if not all, of their top seven, and ...


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Tufts falls to top-ranked Bowdoin in NESCAC semifinals

The Tufts field hockey team had a chance to be a great Cinderella story, one about unexpectedly taking down the perennial favorite on its own turf in a dramatic postseason run to the Championship. Unfortunately, that was not the story that prevailed when the final whistle blew Saturday afternoon on ...


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Tufts ahead of the game with commitment to coaching equality

Ten of the 21 head coaches at Tufts are female. That’s refreshingly a far cry from the national norm, for which only one in five head coaches is female. A look at the head of Tufts Athletics Department, Athletics Director (AD) Bill Gehling, could shed light on why Tufts is ahead of the game. While ...


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Tufts to wrap up season against Middlebury

Saturday will mark the end of the season for the Tufts football team. The upcoming game against Middlebury will be a bittersweet affair for the Jumbos, especially for the seniors, who may never have another opportunity to play organized tackle football.“Senior leadership [has been crucial all year]," ...


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Kobe and LeBron once again are the NBA's most intriguing stars

The most awaited games in the first week of the NBA season unsurprisingly included two of the most influential players of our era: Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Many fans were excited to have Kobe Bryant, the future Hall-of-Famer, back with the Los Angeles Lakers after an entire season on the sidelines ...


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Jumbos perform well in three weekend regattas

The Tufts women’s and co-ed sailing teams were in action over the weekend, competing in a total of three regattas and earning mixed results. The women’s team sailed in the Victorian Coffee Urn regatta, hosted by Dartmouth, while the co-ed team participated in the 74th annual Erwin Schell Trophy, ...


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Chelsea leads the Barclays Premier League

The Barclays Premier League is just past the one-quarter mark in the season, and it would have been difficult to foresee the teams that have emerged as contenders, or the ones that have struggled.Chelsea leads Southampton by four points, and is six points ahead of title holders Manchester City. Chelsea looks ...


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Patriots make a statement with victory over Broncos

On Sunday, the Patriots honored former players who had been part of the three Super Bowl winning teams from a decade ago. Among them was fan-favorite running back Kevin Faulk, who donned a hoodie emblazoned with the words “University of Belichick.”It proved fitting, because coach Bill Belichick ...


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Tufts holds on for win, moves on to NESCAC semifinals

After taking down Amherst in the quarterfinals Saturday, Tufts is once again set to enter NESCAC semifinal action this weekend in a high-powered matchup against Bowdoin that will feature two of the conference’s perennial leaders.Taking down the defending Div. III National Champions, however, would ...