Just a week away from the the Div. III New England Championships, the Jumbos will hit the track once more this weekend to hit some final qualifiers and stay sharp.
It will be the end of an era Saturday, as the women's basketball team's seniors — undoubtedly the most successful class in program history — take the court at Cousens Gymnasium for their final home NESCAC game.
The women's track and field team will this weekend compete in its final home meet of the season — the Tufts Invitational III at the Gantcher Center. The invitational will be the last chance for the Jumbos to ready themselves for the postseason, which will begin next week with the Div. III New England meet at MIT.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic raised his arms in jubilation two Sundays ago at the Australian Open in Melbourne.
With only four games left in the season, and having spent the past two months without a win, the hockey team is ready to break the ice on a new kind of streak. Tufts has lost its last 12 games, but this weekend's two home matchups against weak opponents are an opportunity to finally get that elusive victory.
Everybody loves a good Cinderella story.
Now that football season is over, it's time to turn our attention back to basketball. The 2011 NBA season has been one of the most exciting in recent memory.
Stapled to the Amherst men's locker room door, in bold black lettering, a sign reads "NCAA 2011 — every day, every play, no excuses." The motto can be seen on t-shirts and signs across campus. It is recited habitually in team meetings. They are words that the Amherst men's basketball team lives by, serving as a constant reminder of what their goal for this season is, what they're working so hard to reach and, most importantly, that there are no off-days.
In spite of two tough conference losses this past weekend, the men's basketball team is having a pretty darn good season. It has clinched a spot in the NESCAC tournament for the first time since 2007 and has at least some control over which team it will face in the first round.
Any longtime fan of soccer living in the United States knows that it has not always been easy to follow the beautiful game, particularly if your favorite team was not a major club. (I remember the days when Manchester United's game was always shown on television every weekend, but no other teams ever made it on the schedule.) Fox Soccer Channel (FSC), or Fox Sports World as it was then called, was pretty much the only option for fans of international soccer in the United States. Given that FSC had the production quality of a 20th-century shortwave radio broadcast, the American soccer viewer's world was indeed bleak circa 2005.
Vanessa Miller's kitchen is an oasis.
Fans of all 30 NHL teams tuned in on Jan. 30 to see the league's elite players come together in Raleigh, N.C. for the annual All-Star Weekend.
The ski team traveled north this past weekend to Cranmore Ski Resort in North Conway, N.H., for their penultimate regular-season race weekend. While the team excelled on Saturday, Sunday's events took a slight turn for the worse.
Fencing, perhaps more than most sports, is defined by inches. One tough break here or there can often be enough to decide a bout. The women's fencing team learned this the hard way this weekend, dropping three close matches to NYU, Wellesley and Sacred Heart. Due to strong individual performances, however, at least five Jumbos are on the brink of qualifying for the March 11 NCAA Northeast Regional Championships.
Albert Pujols is the best player in Major League Baseball.
The Athletics Department's decision to hold "open gym time" in lieu of a winter intramural season was implemented without any major problems, but intramural diehards remain frustrated that they'll have to wait until late March for the spring season to begin.
The women's track team hosted the Tufts Invitational II this weekend — the second of three meets that Tufts will hold this season — and continued to gain momentum as the championship season approaches.
It's a foregone conclusion that one of my favorite movies of all time is "(500) Days of Summer" (2009). That is not up for debate. I think it's a great movie, an even better story, and if Joseph Gordon−Levitt's character were female I'd have a colossal celebrity crush on her.
The good news just keeps on coming for freshman Andrew Turk. On Sunday, Turk learned that he will be the 24th and final swimmer on Tufts' conference championship roster; yesterday, he found out that he is also the men's swimming NESCAC Performer of the Week.
The No. 24 Jumbos exited the weekend's NESCAC tournament, hosted by Trinity, with a series of not−so−surprising results. Tufts dropped matches to Wesleyan and Colby — a pair of teams ranked above them — but took care of business against lower−ranked Conn. College. The matches brought Tufts' record to 6−12 overall and 1−4 in the NESCAC.
