The hundreds of Tufts students who sign up to play in winter intramural leagues will have to find another way to stay warm during the dreary New England winter.
The men's indoor track and field team this Saturday opens its season at the Husky Invitational hosted by Northeastern at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
So I spent Thanksgiving week with a horde of Penn State college football homers — my mom's from Pennsylvania — and it reinforced a truth I've always known, but whose importance seems to have slipped my mind: No sports fans are more narrow-mindedly provincial than college football fans.
The women's track and field team will open its season this weekend with the Husky Invitational at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The meet hosted by Northeastern is the only meet that the Jumbos will be competing in before January.
Each week it seems that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has a new fine to dispense, and throughout the whole season, the players have lashed back. So when Tennessee Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan and Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson turned to fisticuffs Sunday afternoon, everyone waited to see the severity of the punishment that Finnegan and Johnson would inevitably face. While most predicted suspensions for both players, it turned out that each only had to ante up $25,000.
A month into the 2010-11 season, heat is being emitted from a place far from the beaches of Miami: the Southwest Division. Heading into Tuesday's action, the San Antonio Spurs (14-2), Dallas Mavericks (13-4) and New Orleans Hornets (12-5) have opened the season with a combined 39-11 record. To top it off, five of those losses have come at the hands of each other, showing just how dominant these three teams have been against the rest of the league.
At the quarter mark of the NHL season, we know a few truths about the league: The Devils are awful, the Bruins' goaltending has come down to earth, and the Penguins are finally living up to their talent. The Los Angeles Kings are proving how youth can be effective, and the Blue Jackets are surprisingly decent. And, perhaps most bafflingly, the Detroit Red Wings are yet again refusing to show their age.
After a tough loss in its home opener against Curry College on Nov. 23, the ice hockey team aimed to stabilize its play over Thanksgiving weekend at the Rutland Herald Invitational in Rutland, Vt. The Jumbos ended up with much to give thanks for, including a thrilling comeback against Brockport College (N.Y.) and a dominating 6-3 win over Becker College (Worcester).
In lieu of a full intramural sports program during the winter season, the athletics department will provide numerous open gym "play days," Intramural Director Cheryl Milligan said in an e-mail to the intramural sports community yesterday.
The reigning NCAA champion and national No. 1 Duke Blue Devils are at it again. With a dominating 82−68 win over No. 4 Kansas State on Nov. 23, the Blue Devils have forced the question upon NCAA basketball fans: Are they even better than last year's 35−5 team?
In English football there was last year a changing of the guard at the top of the Premier League table. The stranglehold of the perennial big four of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool on the top of the standings was broken as Liverpool, whose season was rife with inconsistencies and injuries, faltered to a disappointing seventh place. In Liverpool's place was the resurgent Tottenham Hotspur, which charged into fourth place and, with it, a place in the Champions League.
In this past Saturday's memorable matchup between the No. 3 Boise State Broncos and No. 19 Nevada, the looming Wolf Pack rallied from 17 points behind to defeat the seemingly unbeatable Broncos in overtime by a score of 34−31.
In a generation inundated with Facebook, BlackBerrys, Tweets and twits, we seem to have lost touch with history. Sure, dates get robotically memorized in order to adequately pass tests — in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue — but these lessons hardly bear any realistic application once class gets out. It may come up once or twice in a bar conversation or maybe if you become a high school history teacher. That's about it.
For the second straight year, the Jumbos could not emerge unscathed from a turbulent opening weekend.
Each year in the NFL, trends emerge and juggernauts show their strength by Week 9. Like every season, we see a few upstarts, such as this year's Chiefs and Buccaneers, who show that they can beat up on weaker teams and hang with the usual top dogs. Bandwagon picks like the 49ers and Cowboys have shown their flaws and have been exposed as pretenders, while preseason favorites like the Vikings have shown, well, inappropriate things — the kind of things that don't equal success on the gridiron. Teams that pound the football on the ground still don't get the ‘W' that teams with elite QBs do, and concussions are still making us wonder whether we'll be watching two-hand touch football in 10 years.
Five matches into the season, the women's squash team is what it was expected to be — a team firmly entrenched in the national top 25.
The field hockey team may have suffered an early exit from the NCAAs, but that did not stop the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association from giving three Jumbos All-American honors.
The men's and women's cross country teams collectively sent two athletes to the NCAA Div. III Cross Country Championships on Saturday, and while each fared well, neither felt they performed as strongly as they could have.
Senior captain Alex Gross knew that it could be a difficult opening weekend for the No. 20 men's squash team.
The men's swimming and diving team on Friday and Saturday asserted itself as a NESCAC powerhouse as it opened up its season, first blowing away Bates at a dual−meet and then trouncing Conn. College and Middlebury at a tri−meet.
