On April 10, New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia flirted with baseball immortality, holding the Tampa Bay Rays hitless through 7.2 innings before Kelly Shoppach broke up his run at history.
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The words are well known in baseball circles. At the time, they seemed genuine. Now, they are simply infamous:
Editor's Note: Evan Cooper is a sophomore, a sports editor for the Daily and an aspiring professional cyclist. He races for the Tufts Cycling Team and for the elite amateur squad Team Ora presented by Independent Fabrication. This series will chronicle his season as he tries to make racing into more than just a hobby.
Out West, the NBA Playoffs have been filled with surprises. The seventh-seeded San Antonio Spurs are up three games to one on the Dallas Mavericks, and the fifth-seeded Utah Jazz are up on the dynamic Denver Nuggets, 3-1. The East has been exciting, but the results have turned out more or less as expected. The Orlando Magic just completed a four-game sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday and will face the winner of the Hawks-Bucks series.
Last week, the co-ed sailing team earned a national semifinals berth thanks to a hard-fought regatta at Conn. College. On Saturday, less than 60 miles away, the women's team followed suit, securing a spot in the upcoming ICSA National Championship semifinals with a fifth-place finish out of 13 teams at the New England Championships on the water in Providence, R.I.
At the end of the NESCAC track and field season, the Jumbos have proven why they are one of the premier programs in the region. Following the conference championships at the Ellis Oval and Dussault Track this past Saturday, the NESCAC Track & Field All-Conference Teams were announced, and Tufts collected two prestigious awards.
In this past weekend's third-annual Spirit Regatta on the Malden River, the women's crew team may have not taken home the Cup, but solid wins against top-tier opponents across all events made it a successful weekend before New Englands on Saturday.
While it is a common cliché to say that "softball is a game of inches," those watching Tufts' Monday afternoon game against Trinity saw just how true the saying really is.
There are two sides to every story. Therefore, one team cannot emerge unless it is at the expense of another. And that, in a nutshell, is the NBA playoffs.
The men's tennis team continued its busy schedule last week with matches against Wheaton College on Tuesday and Trinity College on Thursday. The Jumbos got back to their winning ways against Wheaton at the Voute Courts, drubbing the Lyons 9−0. On Thursday, however, the Jumbos were given a dose of reality when they made the trip south to Hartford to play against NESCAC rival Trinity, losing 8−1.
Unpredictable.
The No. 17 women's tennis team on Saturday tended its two−match slide with a hard−fought victory against No. 15 Middlebury College. The NESCAC matchup raised Tufts' record to 11−5 overall and 6−2 in conference play. Despite losing two of their three doubles matches, the Jumbos rode a strong singles effort, in which they won five out of six matches, to clinch the win.
A few months ago, during the college football season, I watched as former Notre Dame receiver Golden Tate put up an absurd 244 yards in a 37−30 win over Washington on Oct. 3. On nine catches, Tate abused the Huskies defense — OK, maybe this isn't quite the feat, but 244 yards is 244 yards no matter what, especially given that the most Washington gave up all year to any individual receiver besides that was 138 — which prompted me to turn to my friend and boldly predict that Tate would have a better pro career than quarterback Jimmy Clausen. This statement was immediately met with disdain and shouts, and I was banned from talking for the rest of the afternoon.
The men's track and field team exceeded expectations and won five titles at the NESCAC Championships on Saturday at the Ding Dussault track, where the team finished second overall.
The men's track and field team exceeded expectations and won five titles at the NESCAC Championships on Saturday at the Ding Dussault track, where the team finished second overall.
The baseball team headed north to Brunswick, Maine over the weekend looking to secure its first NESCAC East division title since 2007. By taking two out of three from Bowdoin (21−10 overall, 4−5 NESCAC East), the Jumbos (21−4 overall, 9−2 NESCAC East) have accomplished their goal.
Coming off an impressive sweep of NESCAC rival Trinity over the weekend, the baseball team had no desire to let non-conference foe UMass Dartmouth take away its momentum on Monday. But the Jumbos (19-3 overall, 7-1 NESCAC East) did not need to worry, as they rolled right over the Corsairs (14-11) and extended their winning streak to nine games.
In this past weekend's races, the women's crew team found success across its varsity eight, second varsity eight and novice eight squads against a slew of competition in the two-day cycle.
