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Volleyball

Jumbos excel at Hall of Fame tournament

The volleyball team continued its recent string of success over the weekend, ripping off three straight wins to extend its winning steak to eight games.The Jumbos, who have not lost since Oct. 4, won all three of their games at last weekend's Hall of Fame Invitational. Tufts took both games of ...



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Golf

Jumbos show strong season finish at NEIGA Championships

The men’s golf team finished up the fall season with a solid performance at the New England Collegiate Golf Association Championships in Brewster, Mass. on Sunday and Monday. Five golfers competed on The Captains Course, posting a cumulative team score of 649 over the two days. The Jumbos finished ...


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Sports

Bumgarner's domination leaves Giants one win away

Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. is a beautiful ballpark. There are fountains beyond the outfield walls and a giant crown atop the Jumbotron. But for all its interesting modern characteristics, it's a ballpark not used to hosting baseball games this late in the season. Future baseball fans, however, will look back and see that Kauffman Stadium played host to the final game of the 2014 MLB season.


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Columns

When domestic violence is the norm

It's a sad day when the NFL Players' Association (NFLPA), no bastion of progressive values in its own right, inadvertently takes the NFL to task for its flawed implementation of domestic violence training.The NFLPA and the NFL have long been accustomed to discord, constantly wrangling over ...



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Sports

A look at the top of the league

After a long offseason and a crazy summer of free agency, it's finally upon us. No longer do you have to feel guilty watching the NFL; no longer do you need to pretend you care about baseball to get your sports fix; no longer do you need to wait. The NBA is back.It's time to celebrate the return ...


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Soccer

Tufts takes down Hamilton on Senior Day

In a fitting end to an already picturesque Senior Day, the Jumbo faithful were treated to what will be one of their last glimpses of greatness on Kraft Field this regular season: senior midfielder Gus Santos' abs. Santos' goal with 20 seconds to go capped off Tufts' 2-0 victory over Hamilton, ...


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Football

Tufts falls to undefeated Amherst

Coming off of an important home win over Williams, Tufts traveled to Pratt Field to take on the undefeated Amherst Lord Jeffs. Searching for its first road win, the Jumbos' offense struggled throughout and the team fell by a score of 30-3.It was family weekend at Amherst, and the team was able ...


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Sports

Seniors lead offensive push on Senior Day

In its final regular season home game, Tufts honored its seniors on Senior Day by beating Hamilton on Bello Field Saturday afternoon. The 3-2 win caps off a three-game winning streak for the Jumbos as they try to build momentum ahead of next month’s NESCAC tournament.The game wasn’t as close as ...


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Soccer

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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Sports

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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Sports

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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Sports

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 ...