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Inside the NESCAC | For Lord Jeffs against NESCAC foes, it was a weekend to forget

February 16

Prior to tip-off inside Middlebury's Pepin Gym on Friday night, the undefeated Amherst men's basketball team may have been indulging fantasies of a perfect season. The Lord Jeffs seemed poised to sweep its two weekend games, which would have tied the school's all-time longest winning streak of 23 games, a mark set in 2007. Two wins would have also secured the No. 1 seed in the upcoming NESCAC Tournament.

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Men's Basketball | Amauris Quezada's "controlled chaos" powers the Jumbos

February 16

"Just put my name in there with a pronunciation key and ask people never to call me ‘Q' again," Amauris (ä-mau-de) Quezada teased. Like everything he says, the remark, directed at a Tufts community — including its PA announcers in Cousens Gym — that repeatedly pronounces his name wrong, was laced with sarcasm.

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David McIntyre | The Beautiful Game

February 16

From LeBron James taking his talents to South Beach to Babe Ruth getting bought by the Yankees, player acquisitions are some of the most talked-about items in sports. This is especially true in the soccer world, as teams have only one month in the middle of the season, January, to try to improve their teams for the rest of the year. Normally, though, the month is marked by restraint as a few major transfers trickle through and clubs get rid of various disgruntled players.

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Women's Swimming and Diving | Bronze or bust: Jumbos strive for third place

February 16

The women's swimming and diving team has been preparing for this weekend since the beginning of the season. The tune-up meets in the fall, the conditioning trip during winter break, the tapered practices over the past two weeks: It all leads up to the season-ending NESCAC Championships, which start on Friday at Williams.

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Inside the NHL | Islanders and Penguins duke it out

February 16

The idea of a fight in an NHL game shouldn't elicit much of a reaction to the casual observer. Most people probably carry an implicit association between the sport and on-ice fighting. The image of two toothless, black-eyed hockey goons swinging wildly at each other is indelibly seared in the minds of many casual sports fans.

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Women's Basketball | Jumbos end regular season with force

February 15

The women's basketball team finished its regular season with a decisive 60−47 victory over Endicott on Monday night at Cousens Gym. Dominating from the opening tip−off to the final buzzer, Tufts took advantage of this final tune−up before the start of postseason competition on Saturday at Williams.

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Brian Rowe | Calls the Shots

February 15

The NFL lockout that will likely begin on March 4 will not end quickly or gracefully. The owners — or prime evildoers in this saga — all run franchises valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Even the Detroit Lions, who at 0−16 in 2008 had almost as many problems as Bear Stearns that year, were reportedly valued at $917 million. In this struggle between owners and players, the owners are asking for more money, more games and for the players to sacrifice their bodies even more than they already do. The players want the same deal as that which already exists: The same number of games, plus financial accountability from the owners.

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Women's Squash | Tufts dominates Northeastern yet loses upset bid at Vassar

February 14

After losing to every higher−ranked opponent they faced this season, the No. 23 Jumbos had one last chance on Sunday to come away with an upset in their match against No. 22 Vassar. Following an impressive 9−0 sweep against No. 29 Northeastern on Thursday, which clinched their place in the C−Division of the upcoming Howe Cup, the team was full of confidence going into Sunday's bout. But it wasn't enough for the Jumbos, as they fell 6−3 to the Brewers.

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Inside MLB | At spring training, players hope to compete for roster spots

February 14

Most baseball fans spend the long offseason anxiously counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report for spring training in Florida and Arizona. That countdown will end this week, and by the beginning of next week, teams will be busy preparing to knock off the defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants.

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Alex Prewitt | Live from Mudville

February 14

The blinking cursor on my laptop screen is taunting me. My column was due hours ago, and ideas have been tossed into the virtual recycle bin, which would be appropriate, except they're never going to get reused for anything worthwhile.

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Ice Hockey | Finally, losing streak halted at 12 games

February 13

After enduring a two-month-long, 12-game losing streak, the ice hockey team split its final two home games of the season this past weekend at the Malden Forum. The weekend, in many ways symbolic of the entire season, had its ups — the Jumbos broke their losing streak Friday with a dramatic 6-5 win over the University of New England (UNE) — and its downs, as Tufts was then thrashed by Southern Maine 5-1 on Saturday

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