A slew of strong efforts earned the men's indoor track and field team an impressive second-place finish in the ECAC Championships at the Armory in New York City this weekend. Several athletes improved on their national qualifiers, while others capped their seasons off with strong performances.
"Great moments are born from great opportunities." The famous opening lines to Herb Brooks' pregame speech in the movie "Miracle" (2004) do not just apply to ice hockey. In a team sport like basketball, individual moments often decide games, seasons and championships. Take them, and glory is within reach. Let them pass, and spend the rest of your life wondering, "What if?"
On Saturday, the Tufts Tufflepuffs opened their conference schedule and soared to a 2-1 match victory over the Harvard Horntails at Fletcher Field.
The women's track and field team secured third place at the ECAC Championship this past weekend at the Armory in New York City, and several athletes earned a trip to Nationals in Iowa next week.
Since the end of the 2010 college football season, Andrew Luck has been branded the second coming. Luck has drawn comparisons to Hall of Fame quarterbacks like John Elway and current NFL royalty Tom Brady. When the Indianapolis Colts were in the midst of their miserable, Peyton Manning-less 2011 season, the one thing that kept fans attending games was the future prospect of a Luck-helmed team. (And the fact that the fans live in Indiana, so there's not much more to do with leisure time than watch football.)
Chelsea Stevens entered the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Assocation (USCSA) Eastern Regionals with relatively minimal expectations. Qualifying for nationals merely lingered in the back of the sophomore's mind.
An historic season resulted in historic awards for the ice hockey team.
The men's and women's track and field teams are in New York City this weekend for the ECAC Championships, held at the Armory. In the last meet of the season before nationals, some Jumbos will look to secure their bids to NCAAs by improving their national qualifying marks, while others will try to cap off their seasons with strong performances.
Renowned "sabermetrician" Bill James, who laid the groundwork for alternative baseball analysis techniques now used by many MLB front offices, stopped by an Experimental College class on Thursday afternoon to discuss the thinking that fueled his statistical methods. James famously inspired the baseball decisions made by Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, the main character of Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" (2003), a book that James told the students he didn't actually read.
More than ever before, it seems like even casual football fans are beginning to religiously follow the running, jumping and lifting that makes up the NFL scouting combine. This phenomenon has turned what used to be a formal way for NFL scouts to get a final look at hundreds of college prospects into an overblown week-long circus that, like Linsanity, has consumed sports media outlets for the majority of the last week.
Last season, the men's lacrosse team topped the NESCAC for the second straight year and finished 18-3 overall, ultimately falling19-7 to Salisbury in the National Championship game.
With just five weeks left in the 2011-2012 NHL season, no club has been a bigger disappointment thus far than the Montreal Canadiens — commonly referred to as the Habs — who find themselves in last place in the Eastern Conference after dropping Tuesday night's match against the lowly Tampa Bay Lightning.
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and reigning National League MVP, recently underwent the most damaging trial of his career. Sure, he escaped punishment, but he'll go into the record books with an indelible asterisk by his name.
With the All-Star Game and all of its festivities wrapping up this weekend, the second half of the NBA season got under way last night. This is the time when teams make a push for the postseason, and in the Western Conference, that will be no easy feat. Traditionally, the West is the NBA's deeper conference, with between nine and 12 teams typically boasting records around .500 or better and legitimate chances at making the
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder and reigning National League MVP, recently underwent the most damaging trial of his career. Sure, he escaped punishment, but he'll go into the record books with an indelible asterisk next to his name.
With the All-Star Game and all of its festivities wrapping up this weekend, the second half of the NBA season got under way last night. This is the time when teams make a push for the postseason, and in the Western Conference, that will be no easy feat. Traditionally, the West is the NBA's deeper conference, with between nine and 12 teams typically boasting records around .500 or better and legitimate chances at making the playoffs.
For most people, sailing evokes visions of calm lakes, picturesque days on the ocean and "Wedding Crashers" (2005). But for junior Max Bulger, sailing goes far beyond recreation and even competition — it ventures into the extreme.
The Amherst women's basketball team is in the midst of a remarkable run on par with some of the best ever seen in Div. III sports. In the past few years, the Lord Jeffs have not only established themselves as the perennial team to beat in the NESCAC but have also become the top Div. III team in the nation. In defeating Tufts on Sunday, defending national champion Amherst extended its winning streak to 46 games overall and 63 straight at home while clinching their third straight NESCAC championship and further cementing their position as the class of the conference.
This past weekend, the 23rd−ranked women's squash team traveled across town to Harvard for the Howe Cup National Championships. The Jumbos competed in the Walker C Division — consisting of teams ranked 17th through 24th — and went 1−2 against a trio of NESCAC opponents. The Jumbos were swept in their first−round contest by their NESCAC rival, the No. 18 Lord Jeffs. They recovered nicely in consolation play on Saturday, winning 6−3 against a Camels team that had defeated them twice in the regular season, but then struggled once more on the final day in an 8−1 loss to the Colby Mules.
The women's fencing team took sixth place at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships in a pool of 14 teams at Vassar College on Saturday.
