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.
What a week in the world of sports. Butler almost pulled off the greatest run ever in NCAA Tournament history, the UConn women secured their place in history, Tiger Woods is coming back to play the Masters, and Donovan McNabb is now a Redskin.
It's no secret what the big story line will be when the first hole is played at this weekend's PGA Masters in Augusta, Ga. Tiger Woods, fresh off a stint in sexual rehabilitation following his national fallout on Thanksgiving, will garner close to 100 percent of the media attention and the public's eye when he tees off, as heads across the world will turn to see if the world's best golfer can parlay his revamped personality into a 15th PGA Major and fifth green jacket.
Meet the Milwaukee Bucks: the team that has perennially been at the bottom of the barrel of the Eastern Conference but is somehow tied for the fifth seed in the conference with just five games to play in the 2009−10 regular season. Since mid−February, the Bucks have been one of the hottest teams in the NBA and are heading into the playoffs as either the fifth or sixth seed with the promise of being a dangerous matchup for any opponent.
For six months, the members of the golf team have been waiting to get a bitter taste out of their mouths. Now, they're finally going to get that opportunity.
With the race for the Stanley Cup officially beginning in less than a week, no team is more excited to start the postseason than first−overall seed Washington Capitals.
The Boston Red Sox will be boring in 2010. There is no other way to put it.
After a rough spring break schedule in which it lost three out of five contests against stiff non-conference opposition, the women's tennis team began the NESCAC season with a bang, notching two in-conference wins last Friday afternoon. After traveling to Maine, the Jumbos thoroughly dominated rivals Colby and Bates, not dropping even one match on their way to toppling both with perfect 9-0 victories.
Listen up, Brad Stevens, because this one is for you. I realize you're just coming off your heartbreaking loss in the NCAA Tournament final to the bloated bag of suck that is Duke, but I think you need to hear this.
The men's track and field team opened its outdoor season in a big way Saturday, clinching eight victories at the annual Snowflake Classic at Ding Dussault Track.
The men's tennis team has not been the most successful squad at Tufts in recent history; since conference records began to determine team standings in 2007, the team has failed to register a winning record against its NESCAC opponents, compiling a lackluster aggregate mark of 8-15.
The outdoor season is barely underway, but the women's track and field team appears to be in midseason form, at least considering its results from Saturday's Snowflake Classic.
A young softball squad was tested for the first time in conference play this weekend, hosting the Bowdoin Polar Bears in a three-game series. After a 5-4 loss on Friday, the Jumbos rebounded quickly, and on the back of dominant freshman pitching, swept the Saturday doubleheader.
The baseball team entered the NESCAC portion of its schedule on Friday with a record of 19-2 — a vast improvement over the 2-9 ledger it brought into conference play last season. But after averaging a terrific 9.1 runs per game over their first 11 contests, the Jumbos found runs a lot harder to come by during their weekend series against Bates (10-5 overall, 1-2 NESCAC) at Lewiston, Maine.
After losing its first two NESCAC games this season, the women's lacrosse team has turned its season around, having since won four straight contests. The latest was an 18-13 win over NESCAC opponent Wesleyan at home on Saturday.
In a span of just over four minutes on Saturday, the men's lacrosse team, ranked No.6 in the latest Div. III Coaches Poll, showed the kind of form that makes the Jumbos legitimate contenders for the national championship.
Revenge will be on the minds of the men's lacrosse team when it travels down to Wesleyan tomorrow in a rematch of last season's NESCAC title game. The Cardinals took the game by a score of 14−10, dashing Tufts' hopes of its first−ever conference title.
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.
