Even after one of the best seasons in recent memory, the National Basketball Association's labor tensions threatened the entire 2011−12 campaign as recently as last week, after the players' union disbanded and commissioner David Stern declared that the league had entered a nuclear winter.
The women's basketball team beat the Brandeis Judges on Sunday afternoon, 59−44, improving its overall record to 2−2. After getting off to a slow start and losing their first two games, the Jumbos have now earned two straight victories, both by double−digit margins.
You can call it apathy brought on by the coming structural changes, or schools looking ahead to greener pastures and failing to focus on the present. But just weeks into the new college basketball season, the Big East is no longer simply deteriorating off the court; it is doing so on it as well.
This weekend, the men's ice hockey team participated in the Rutland Herald Invitational, hosted by Castleton State College, but the Jumbos met an early exit when they fell 4−2 to SUNY Morrisville during Saturday's first−round play. Tufts redeemed itself with a 3−0 victory over Becker College in Sunday's third−place match, improving to 3−2 on the season.
As autumn gives way to winter each year, an American sports tradition begins. That tradition is not the celebration of the beauty of college football — the piercing in−state rivalries, battles for bowl eligibility and upcoming conference championship games.
The allocation of spots for the Tufts Marathon Team (TMT) has this year become increasingly competitive as the program faces cuts to the number of spots available for runners from the Tufts community.
While most students were eating turkey and watching football, the women's basketball team was busy winning games.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams began their seasons this weekend, each splitting tri-meets against Middlebury and Conn. College on Saturday and defeating Keene State in Hamilton Pool on Sunday.
The No. 21 Tufts women's squash team started off its 2011-12 season this weekend, beating No. 26 Wellesley and No. 25 Smith before falling to No. 13 Mount Holyoke.
Tim Tebow has been a controversial figure since high school, when his family bought a small apartment so the homeschooled phenom could play football in the district of his choice. In college, Tebow became increasingly polarizing, referencing biblical verses on his eye−black in front of national audiences and starring in a pro−life ad that ran during Super Bowl XLIV, all while winning a Heisman Trophy.
If this week's BCS projections are correct, then the top three teams — LSU, Alabama and Arkansas — will all come from the same conference, creating one of the most interesting scenarios in recent memory.
In my Sept. 30 column, I extolled the virtues of the new soccer video game, FIFA '12 and shared my excitement as I got ready to play my first game on the new version. And don't get me wrong - FIFA has proven to be a great game during these last few months, and my friends and I have gotten hours of enjoyment from it. But there was an even better game released on Oct. 21 that is even more realistic, dramatic and addicting than FIFA: Its name is Football Manager 2012.
With many of the women's squash team's key contributors from last season abroad and graduated, the future of the squad was up in the air at the beginning of the school year.
