Four weeks into its season, the women's volleyball team is firing on all cylinders. After an early rough patch, the Jumbos have picked up steam, winning six of nine games since their 1-3 start."We are working hard to better our game every time we step on the court," coach Cora Thompson ...
For more than a decade, the New England Patriots have been the class of the NFL. They have won at least 10 games in each of the last 11 seasons and won the AFC East in all but one of those years. The one season in which they missed the playoffs was the year franchise quarterback Tom Brady missed almost the entire season with a knee injury.
As is often the case in soccer, stats can belie a team's true ability. For the Jumbos, their 0-1-1 record against top-10 teams this year fails to show how close they have come to going 2-0. Tufts' 1-1 tie against Amherst on Homecoming left it winless for the ninth-straight time against the NESCAC ...
Despite numerous home games during Homecoming weekend, other teams competed on the road. The women’s tennis team participated in the three-day long ITA Regional Championships, hosted by Williams. Six Jumbos -- freshmen Lauren Louks, Aandrita Deb and Zoe Miller, and sophomores Conner Calabro, Alexa ...
While the NFL has undergone serious, and warranted, scrutiny over incidents revolving around big name players Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, the NBA has seemingly flown under the radar this offseason. When the same domestic violence issues do unfortunately spill onto the court, NBA franchises have looked ...
The Jumbos traveled to Williamstown, Mass. on Saturday to compete in the Purple Valley Invitational at Mount Greylock High School. Led by the second consecutive top-10 performance from sophomore Luke O’Connor, the team placed fifth overall out of 21 teams.NESCAC rival Colby took first place at the ...
After a strong season opener performance at the Middlebury Invitational Tournament, the men’s tennis team went into this past weekend's USTA/ITA Regional Tournament with a chance to cement its consistent early-season play.The United States Tennis Association/International Tennis Association ...
Despite Tufts' strong play on Sunday -- it recorded the third best team score of the day (300) -- the golf team placed fifth overall at the NESCAC Qualifier this weekend, 12 strokes short of receiving a berth into the 2015 conference championship.Traditional NESCAC powerhouses Middlebury, Trinity ...
Fall is typically a great time to be a sports fan. There's football (professional and college) and playoff baseball (finally the games mean something), and hockey and basketball get underway. After the relative sports deadzone that is summer, it's exciting to have our teams, both real-life ...
The undefeated streak had to end some day, and Saturday proved to be that day. No. 4 Tufts field hockey came out to Bello Field looking to defend its home turf and record its seventh straight win this year, but instead gave up its first and second goals of the season and failed to break down the Amherst ...
Football is religion in the American South.Though metaphorical, this aphorism is actually lived out on a weekly basis when the South -- along with the rest of the country -- ensconces itself in stadiums, on sofas and virtually in fantasy leagues, eyes riveted and mouths agape.In Georgia, the phrase ...
Last week, nerdy baseball fans across the country pulled up the 2014 Playoff Odds on Fangraphs.com to check the status of the American and National League pennant races. Since it was near the end of the season, most of the teams had either a zero percent chance of making the playoffs or a 100 percent ...
On a hot and sunny day in Williamstown, Mass., the women's cross country team faced its stiffest competition so far this season at Williams' Purple Valley Classic, hosted at Mount Greylock High School. This meet served as a tune-up for New England Div. III Regionals, featuring a majority ...
Saturday was Homecoming, and the Tufts football team took the field as victors for the first time in years -- a week after the Jumbos won their first game since 2010. The stadium was packed with eager fans hoping that the Tufts win over Hamilton was only the first of many.And the team did not disappoint. ...
The former CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, now owns the Los Angeles Clippers after the media blitz that crushed previous owner Donald Sterling following his racist comments. Sterling had been caught on tape telling his mistress not to bring black men to Clippers games, which was (rightfully) a huge ...
The women's soccer team suffered its first loss of the season this Saturday at the hands of Amherst, as a 0-0 stalemate at halftime turned into a two-goal second half deficit from which Tufts was unable to recover. With the loss, the Jumbos drop to 4-1-1 on the season, and join Conn. College, ...
The co-ed sailing team began its fall season with two highly regarded tournaments over the weekends of Sept. 13 and Sept. 20: Yale's Harry Anderson Trophy located at Yale's own McNay Family Sailing Center, and the MIT/Boston University Hatch Brown Trophy Invitational located on the Charles ...
The Jumbos continued their stampede this past week, racking up another pair of shutout victories. The Tufts squad flew down to Virginia over the weekend to take on then-No. 9 Christopher Newport University in a fierce battle of top 10 teams, from which Tufts emerged on top by a score of 3-0. Then, ...
Tufts football opened up its season with a convincing 24-17 win over Hamilton, but it will have a tougher test this week against Bates.The Bobcats finished last season with a 4-4 record and have beaten the Jumbos in their past four matchups. The Bobcats lost their first game this season to Amherst, ...
The clock ticked down on the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup 2014 in Barcelona, leaving the United States on top of the podium for the second straight World Cup. The U.S. dominated throughout the tournament and won the gold medal game against a much-improved Serbian squad by ...
