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Soccer

Jumbos advance to Sweet 16

The men's soccer team lives to see another weekend after winning its first and second round games in the NCAA Div. III tournament. On Saturday, Tufts took down Dickinson College by a score of 2-1. The team followed up that victory with a convincing 2-0 win over sectional host Wheaton College on ...


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Sports

Tufts opens season with two losses

This weekend, the Tufts hockey team opened its season with two home games, beginning on Saturday against Wesleyan (which finished with a record of 11-12-2 last year) and against Trinity (21-5) on Sunday. The Jumbos lost to both teams twice last season."I think that Wesleyan is a very skilled ...


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Sports

Jumbos earn at-large bid to Nationals

This past weekend, the women's cross country team went into the NCAA Div. III New England Regional Championship in Williamstown, Mass., determined to punch their ticket to the NCAA Championship meet held next weekend in Mason, Ohio. Although the race didn't go as planned, the Jumbos placed sixth ...


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Basketball

Tufts begins season with tournament win at Ramada Invitational

The Tufts women's basketball team enters its season as the team to beat in the NESCAC, and in the entire northeast, coming off a season in which it reached the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. The Jumbos began the season competing in the Ramada Roundball Invitational at University of New England ...


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Sports

Sophomore duo leads Tufts to Nationals

For the fourth straight year, the Tufts men's cross-country team has earned a bid to the Div. III Championship meet. The Jumbos finished sixth at the NCAA Regional Championship meet on Saturday with a score of 165 to earn the last at-large bid to nationals from the New England region. Colby won ...


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Sports

How do free agents get paid?

Now that the MLB offseason has begun, many fans anticipate that their teams will sign players to large contracts. It is an exciting time of year; fans can forget about their teams’ terrible 2014 seasons and hope that they get the right players for 2015. Of course, many teams will fall short of meeting ...



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Sports

Jumbos gear up for big season at Hamilton Pool

The 2014-2015 men’s swimming and diving season kicks off Saturday, and the Jumbos are eager to start off strong and sweep their season-opening tri-meet for the third straight year.This year, Tufts will face off against Middlebury in the opener, a team that Tufts has handled easily in each of the ...


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Volleyball

Tufts splits NCAA Tournament games

The Tufts volleyball team won its first game in the NCAA tournament since 2011 over the weekend, scoring a first-round victory over Springfield College before bowing out after a hard-fought second round loss against Clarkson University."We went into this weekend knowing the importance of these ...


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Sports

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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Sports

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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Sports

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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Sports

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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Columns

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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Sports

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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Football

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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Sports

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

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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Track And Field

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 ...