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Inside International Soccer | Spurs charge into Champions League knockout stages

November 28

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.

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Inside NCAA Football | Costly loss excommunicates Boise State from BCS title contention

November 28

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.

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Alex Prewitt | Live from Mudville

November 22

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.

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Women's Basketball | Women's basketball team sees mixed results in its opening games

November 22

For the second straight year, the Jumbos could not emerge unscathed from a turbulent opening weekend.

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Inside the NFL | Favorites emerge: The Daily power ranks the NFL

November 22

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.

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Women's Squash | Jumbos hold their ground in early slate of matches

November 22

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.

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Field Hockey | Three Jumbos make All-American team

November 22

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.

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Cross Country | Wilfert and Marks rep Tufts at NCAAs

November 22

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.

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Men's Squash | Men's squash team goes 1-5 in opening weekend play

November 22

Senior captain Alex Gross knew that it could be a difficult opening weekend for the No. 20 men's squash team.

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Men's Swimming and Diving | Wins prove Tufts is a formidable opponent

November 21

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.

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Men's Basketball | At Regis, Jumbos look to earn second win, first 2-0 start in NESCAC era

November 21

It seems that the 2010-11 men's basketball season may already be on track for success.

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Ice Hockey | Historic victory gives way to harsh drubbing

November 21

The opening weekend for the ice hockey team in some ways mirrored the unpredictability of the sport itself. After scoring a historic shutout against the defending conference champions on the road, the Jumbos were similarly swept aside by an even greater margin at Williams, returning home with a 1−1 record after the first weekend of the new season.

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Wall sit record broken yet again

November 21

The Tufts wall−sit record has been crushed once again — and this time, it's a woman who has earned the illustrious honor of being wall−sit champion.

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Men's Squash | Inexperienced squad hopes to continue winning ways

November 18

In very few sports do Tufts teams compete with and beat Div. I schools on a regular basis. The men's squash team, however, is one of those teams, maintaining a ranking in the top 25 nationally for the past 10 seasons alongside D−I powers such as Stanford, Brown and Northwestern.

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Men's Track and Field | Jumbos to rely on youth in 2010-11

November 17

It won't be easy, senior co-captain Sam Read admits, for the men's track and field team to replace what coach Ethan Barron in the spring called "one of the best classes to ever suit up" for the Jumbos.

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Men's Swimming and Diving | Men's team looks to finally clinch top spot this year

November 17

The men's swimming and diving team in March sent nine of its members to Minneapolis, Minn., to compete in the NCAA Championships. That was the largest contingent the Jumbos had produced in coach Adam Hoyt's six-year tenure at Tufts, and Hoyt believes that there are even brighter things to come.

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Women's Swimming and Diving | Team spirit key for women's swimming and diving team

November 17

The women's swimming and diving team on Friday will kick off its season against NESCAC rival Bates at home in Hamilton Pool.

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Women's Track and Field | Jumbos looking to relive success of 2008 season

November 17

The women's indoor track and field team heads into the winter season with a team full of eager underclassmen and confident veterans. After finishing third, behind Williams and MIT last winter for the second year in a row in the New England Div. III Championships, the team is looking to do even better this year.

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Women's Fencing | Strong returning fencers, new coach lead ambitious team

November 17

The idea is simple: They're good, and they want to get better.

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Avinash Asthana | Switch Hit

November 17

The Cricket World Cup, which opens in February, just reached its 100-day countdown mark last week, so I thought I would review the teams and give my predictions for the cup.