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Inside NCAA Basketball | As other teams shuffle, Notre Dame is sleeper for Big East title

March 9

As the season has progressed, the title of tournament favorite has been passed around in seemingly endless fashion. Duke started out as the chosen team, but it lost its best player, Kyrie Irving, and looked far from elite while getting pounded by St. Johns. The University of Kansas tried on the mantle, but then lost by 16 at rival Kansas State. Even mid-majors Brigham Young University (BYU) and San Diego State made their way into the argument, but the Cougars shot themselves in the foot by dismissing Brandon Davies, while the Aztecs no longer had any right to talk after losing to BYU twice.

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Inside the NESCAC | Trinity, Tufts top field of NESCAC contenders

March 9

Over the past four seasons, one squad has dominated the NESCAC women's lacrosse scene: the Colby Mules, who have reached the conference championship game in each of the last four years, winning the title in 2008 and 2009. However, in last year's tournament, the Mules were upset by the Williams Ephs in the final — Williams' first ever NESCAC title.

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Men's Lacrosse | How the Jumbos can stay on top

March 8

Last season, the men's lacrosse team powered its way to an impressive 20-1 record and pocketed the school's first NCAA Div. III National Championship. This year, coach Mike Daly and his team are ranked No. 1 in the country and head into this weekend's opener with a target on their backs. After graduating several crucial players, the Jumbos must ignore the hype and focus on fundamentals. By reconstructing their defense, maintaining last year's offensive gains, perfecting the basics and staying healthy, the Jumbos have the potential to reproduce last year's successes. Here are five key areas for them to focus on.

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Brian Rowe | Calls the Shots

March 8

So on Friday night at the Garden, the Boston Celtics played the Golden State Warriors. The Celtics won 107-103, Monta Ellis put up 41 and Rajon Rondo dished out 16 dimes. Your basic game with a championship-caliber squad playing at home against an inferior, sub-.500 team, right? Wrong. One big difference: I was there.

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Worked up over workouts: Treadmill lines frustrate students

March 7

Senior Rebecca Gorodetsky has worked at the desk at the Lunder Fitness Center in the Cousens Gym Complex for three years, but the scene on and around the gym's eight treadmills during her mid−afternoon shift the first week of spring semester was among the wildest that she's seen in her time working at Tufts.

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Men's Lacrosse | Judgment Day arrives for men's lacrosse team

March 6

As part of its second annual "Judgment Day" training session with a former Marine, the men's lacrosse team performed leg lifts yesterday afternoon on Bello Field. The high-intensity session is designed to prepare the team, the reigning NCAA Div. III champions, as it enters this season.

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Women's Track and Field | Wilfert's huge weekend lifts Jumbos at ECACs

March 6

For many runners, connecting stellar efforts in practice to race-day success can be difficult. Athletes can be in phenomenal shape and still struggle to reach new heights when the starting pistol fires. Workouts can be great and legs can feel fresh, but sometimes the races just do not come together.

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Men's Lacrosse | Once again, Jumbos take to the battlefield

March 3

The men's lacrosse team may not have any scrimmages lined up for the last Saturday before the start of its regular season, but that hardly means a weekend off for the Jumbos. On Sunday and Monday, the team will hit the pool deck, the gym and the practice field, as it participates in its second−annual Judgment Day training program, as the team has dubbed it.

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Men's Squash | Gross'ed out: Two brothers reign over Tufts men's squash

March 2

The course of Tufts athletics history was changed forever in the quaint conference area in Halligan Hall nearly eight years ago on a sunny afternoon in June. From the outset of the family's vacation, one of their myriad road trips up and down the East Coast, the Grosses shuttled back and forth between their black 1998 Toyota Sienna minivan and collegiate meeting rooms, breaking from this standardized routine only for the obligatory tour or information session. The majority of schools were nice but unimpressive.

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David McIntyre | The Beautiful Game

March 2

In watching soccer over the years, I have learned to expect the unexpected. Whether it's Liverpool coming back against AC Milan to win the Champions League in 2005, or Birmingham beating Arsenal in the Carling Cup final last Sunday, you can never quite tell what's going to happen next, no matter how unreasonable the outcome might seem. I mean, who would ever think that FIFA would award a World Cup to a country the size of Connecticut with no stadiums built for the event and an average summer temperature of 106 degrees? (I'm still seething about that.)

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Inside the NHL | After quiet trade, time to examine top deals

March 2

Monday's NHL trade deadline brought the customary annual excitement for hardcore hockey fans. As 3 p.m. drew closer and closer, pundits and fans feverishly monitored Twitter and refreshed browser windows, waiting for a game-changing trade to happen at any moment.

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