On Aug. 21, things looked bleak for the Colorado Rockies. The team had a mediocre 62-60 record, trailed the National League West division-leading San Diego Padres by 11 games and was essentially left for dead.
Sachin Tendulkar, legendary Indian cricketer, steps up to bat. There are two balls left in the match and six runs needed to save the day. He misses out on the first ball. The subcontinent waits with bated breath as he swings toward that second ball, and then it happens: It's out of the stadium, into the hands of the seething masses — it's a six!
Tuesday night's clash with Mass. Maritime had all of the makings of the perfect tune-up game for the men's soccer team. The Buccaneers had dropped four straight matches and had been shutout in their last three. Tufts was at home and was looking to repeat its 4-1 non-conference victory over Endicott this past week and thus double its win total.
Buoyed by great performances from two new players, the Tufts golf team tied for 11th place at this weekend's Duke Nelson Invitational. The Jumbos shot a combined 312 on Sunday, besting their score of 320 from the day before. This total of 632 was enough to make the top half of the 25 teams in attendance.
The Tufts men's tennis team began its fall season with two wins in Rhode Island, defeating Roger Williams University 8−1 and Salve Regina 9−0.
The co−ed sailing team came into the year aspiring to reach the top five in the highly competitive New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) and at least the top 10 in the United States.
The NFL, hands down America's most−beloved sports league, opened its season two weekends ago with a depressing reminder that it might not be doing the same come next September. The current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) and the owners expires at the end of the 2010−11 season. This means that if DeMaurice Smith of the NFLPA and commissioner Roger Goodell can't forge a new deal within the next 136 days, a training camp lockout looms — with the ugly possibility of it spilling over into next fall, shortening or even cancelling the 2011−12 NFL season.
With the coming of each new year, every college team hopes that it can get a talented and energetic freshman class on which to rest their hopes for the future. And after only one race, it is apparent that this year's freshman class is ready to make an immediate impact and give such a hope to the women's cross country team.
The men's cross country team opened its season Saturday at the Bates Invitational in New Gloucester, Maine.
It's a knee-jerk reaction innately ingrained in humans, similar to flinching at a punch or screaming during a frightening movie. Deeply embedded in every sports fan's DNA is the desire to press the panic button, to throw up one's arms if problems arise and abandon all hope when feces and fan collide.
The storm clouds cleared Friday night before the football team took the field at home for its scrimmage against Bowdoin. Though the "game-atmosphere practice," as senior quarterback Anthony Fucillo described it, ended with a 19-13 Polar Bears victory, the rejuvenating excitement of a new year filled the air as the Jumbos prepared to start their regular season on Saturday against the Hamilton Continentals.
After a Sunday slate of games in which eight teams put up 30 points or more and six quarterbacks threw for at least 300 yards — and two for over 400 — we see once again how a high-powered passing attack can make or break an NFL team.
She might have been the national champion last spring, but after falling in the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) New England Championships this past weekend, senior co-captain Julia Browne knows too well how each year brings a new set of competition and a new uphill battle.
The 2009 season started off on the wrong foot for the women's cross country team. Top runner Stephanie McNamara, a senior, was injured prior to the start of the season, leaving only two senior runners to lead the squad, neither of whom consistently scored points for the Jumbos. The team pushed on without McNamara at the forefront but has expressed disappointment with the overall results.
The commuter rail rumbled past on the nearby train tracks, the filming tower's motor simultaneously emitting a deafening whir. Moments later on the football team's adjacent practice field, a roar went up from the baby−blue−and−white−clad players, an audible sign that football season is near.
The men's cross country team enters its season with what could be its strongest squad in history. Between a powerful returning team of upperclassmen and a large, promising group of freshmen, the Jumbos are confident of their potential.
The National Football League (NFL) is back. The season's first week gave us the usual share of touchdowns, big hits, concussions, celebratory chest beating, upward angle shots of cheerleaders and any other aspect of football that has been absent since the Super Bowl. Fantasy football is relevant again, as is the gleam of Terry Bradshaw's bald head. The return of professional football makes homework very hard to finish on Sundays because one can sit on the couch and watch televised coverage — pre−game and post−game included — nonstop between 11 a.m. and midnight. And that is wonderful.
It was just the first contest of her Tufts career, but it only took Maeve Stewart a little over 10 minutes to produce.
Living up to its preseason hype turned out to be a pretty easy task for the field hockey team.
After a disappointing Friday at the Emory Classic in Georgia this past weekend, a strong recovery on Saturday showed that the No. 22-ranked volleyball team knows how to deal with adversity. Whether this team is good enough to repeat its 2009 trip to the NCAA tournament, however, remains up in the air.
