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Jumbos score three goals in second half comeback

The women's soccer team scored three unanswered goals against Hamilton on Saturday, erasing a one-goal first half deficit to defeat Hamilton 4-2 in its second-to-last regular season game. Sophomores Jess Capone and Brook Fortin each scored two goals to bring the team's record to 3-5-1 in the ...


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Soccer

Jumbos' success brings senior class full circle

The men's soccer team finds itself in an unusual position entering its penultimate conference game against Hamilton this Saturday. Since they started playing in the NESCAC in 2000, the Jumbos have never finished above third place in the conference, and have never entered the final weekends of ...


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Football

Tufts looking for first road win

The Tufts football team continued to prove its skeptics wrong with its seven point win over Williams on Saturday. This weekend, the Jumbos will face perhaps the best team in the NESCAC, the 5-0 Amherst Lord Jeffs.One of the keys to Saturday’s game will be the success of the Tufts run defense. Prior ...


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Soccer

Tufts ends scoring drought with three goals against UMass Boston

Tufts scored three goals on Tuesday in its tie against UMass Boston, breaking the team's five-game slide -- in which the team went 1-4 -- en route to scoring as many goals on Tuesday as they had in their previous six games combined. The three goals were not enough to give the Jumbos the win, ...


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Sports

The state of sports journalism

The Daily sports section published, on Sept. 24, a story on the infamous Ray Rice suspension scandal, and on Sept. 29, an article on the Donald Sterling scandal. In doing so, we joined every other sports media outlet in the United States. In doing so, we drew attention, under the guise of “sports ...




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Jumbos part of historic 50th Head of the Charles Regatta

This weekend, both the men's and women's crew teams had the opportunity to be a part of one of the world's preeminent rowing competitions, the Head of the Charles Regatta. In the historic 50th Anniversary Regatta, which attracted 11,000 competitors and more than 400,000 spectators, both ...


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Keys to the Royals' playoff success

An easy way to spot a liar: find someone who claims they predicted before the season that the Kansas City Royals would win the American League pennant. The organization last played postseason baseball in 1985 when it won the franchise’s only World Series, and despite an encouraging year last season, there was no one picking the Royals to make it to the Fall Classic.


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Jumbos place 13th at Conn. College Invitational

Resting its varsity lineup for the upcoming NESCAC Championship meet, the Tufts’ men’s cross country team placed 13th out of 18 teams at the Conn. College Invitational on Saturday. Freshman Sam Little was the top finisher for Tufts with a time of 27:05, good for 42nd in a field of 122 runners ...


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Volleyball

Jumbos jump into NESCAC's top spot

The Tufts volleyball team remained undefeated at home over Parents Weekend, winning all three of its matches to cap off a successful homestand in which it dropped just one set. The Jumbos, now 14-7 on the season, moved into first place in the NESCAC with a stellar 7-1 conference record."It was ...


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Jumbos take first in NESCAC with win over Ephs

Visiting parents this past Saturday got a chance to see a once-in-a-decade moment: the men's soccer team staking its claim to first place in the NESCAC. With a 1-0 win over Williams at Kraft Field and Wesleyan's 2-1 upset win in overtime against Amherst, Tufts assumed the top spot in the conference.Tufts ...


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Tufts shows grit in comeback wins

Coming off a rough stretch where the team lost two of its last three games, the Tufts field hockey needed to stay near the top of the NESCAC and make a statement. This week, it did just that.On Wednesday night, No. 10 Tufts battled back from an early deficit against No. 8 Wellesley to win 2-1.They ...


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Football

Tufts remains undefeated at home

Tufts opened its season with two impressive home victories over Hamilton and Bates, but after back-to-back road losses the team was in danger of falling below .500 in its Week 5 matchup against the Williams Ephs.After the first quarter of this weekend's game the visiting team was ahead 13-7, but ...


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Jumbos dominate competition at Conn. College

On Saturday the national No. 10 women's cross country team traveled to Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn. to compete in the Conn. College Invitational. On this scenic and flat course located on the shores of the Long Island sound, temperatures were in the low 70s, winds near the ...


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Soccer

Jumbos drop fifth consecutive conference game

Just five minutes into the game against Williams on Saturday, Tufts found itself in a familiar position: playing catch-up to a NESCAC opponent. The Jumbos' hopes of salvaging their season were put off for another game, as the team dropped its fifth consecutive conference matchup, taking its season ...


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Football

Tufts returns home to face Williams

This Saturday the Jumbos will return to Medford following their losses to Bowdoin and Trinity. Their opponents, the 1-3 Williams Ephs, will travel to the Ellis Oval in an attempt to inch their record closer to .500.As with Tufts’ previous two rivals, Williams' team has a lot of success running ...



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Sailing team just misses out on Nationals

The sailing team had a busy weekend competing in regattas down the East Coast. Although sailors represented the Jumbos in numerous competitions, two of the regattas featured some of the top competition in the sailing world: the New England Sloop Championship at Salve Regina University and the Moody ...



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Traditional powerhouses battle unexpected contenders

As the weather grows colder and the leaves continue to turn, the focus of the typical New England sports fan has shifted far from the baseball diamond. Around this area, fans are talking about the Patriots solving their offensive woes and the Bruins looking to fix their own.