While most Major League Baseball fans continue to freeze, the players annually spend their late February and March warming up for the upcoming season in Arizona and Florida. So far, each team's pitchers and catchers have made the trip south, and the position players are to follow in the coming days.
With the women's squash team's season coming to a close, the Jumbos still have one hurdle ahead of them that could define their success this season: nationals.
Don't look now, but there could be a team from Connecticut making noise in the NCAA Tournament come March — outside of the one everyone already knows.
The old adage in any sport is that defense wins championships.
Sophomore Valerie Eacret earned her fourth All-Conference award at Friday's NESCAC Championships in the 50-yard butterfly, joining senior diver Lindsay Gardel as Tufts' two honorees.
As the women's NESCAC basketball tournament kicked off this weekend, it became apparent that this year's title is very much up for grabs.
I told myself I wasn't going to write about it. I told myself that, when Tiger Woods finally emerged from his self−inflicted divot and addressed the media about his various transgressions, I would keep my opinions to myself. After all, who am I to condemn one of the most dominant athletes of my time, a person who's inspired millions of people and made even more in dollars?
Nearly a year ago, the North Carolina Tar Heels (UNC) were on top of the world. The storied program had just won its fifth national championship — its second out of the last five years. Senior forward Tyler Hansbrough had completed his mission of bringing his school a title. It was a storybook ending, and perhaps a sign of things to come for one of the strongest basketball programs in the country.
1- Seed of the U.S. men's hockey team in the Olympic tournament after a stunning 5-3 win on Sunday over Canada. In Vancouver, the Americans rode a 45-save effort from goalie Ryan Miller and two goals out of nowhere from Brian Rafalski to stun the Canadians and advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Thanks to a 3-0 win by Sweden over Finland, the United States will next take the ice on Wednesday against the winner of Switzerland-Belarus, having upset Canada, the heavy gold-medal favorite.
Before this weekend's three−match slate in the Summers Cup at the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships, members of the men's squash team told themselves that their showing would determine the overall success of the season.
The women's indoor track and field team got its championship season underway on a strong note Friday with its second consecutive third−place showing at the New England Div. III Championships.
For the Bowdoin women's basketball team, there is no place like the NESCAC championships.
Behind another outstanding performance from senior quad−captain Jared Engelking, the men's track and field team narrowly claimed a third place finish at the New England Div. III Championships hosted by Bates this weekend.
With a split in its final weekend of regular season play, the hockey team set a new mark for the Tufts program in the NESCAC era. Though the Jumbos fell 7−1 to Norwich on Saturday, their 7−2 victory over Saint Michael's on Friday night secured the Jumbos'12th victory of the season and their 27th point in the standings — the most since they joined the league in 2001.
Though the ice hockey team may be over the hill, having clinched the No. 7 seed in the NESCAC playoffs, the Jumbos are definitely not yet through the woods. Before it heads to the conference tournament, Tufts will have to close out its regular season with back-to-back home games this weekend, starting with Saint Michael's College tonight and followed by Norwich tomorrow afternoon.
I love the Winter Olympics. I love the patriotism involved, I love seeing the world's best athletes compete with so much on the line, and most of all, I love seeing all the obscure sports that I would never watch otherwise: short track speedskating, ski jumping, the biathlon, hockey.
Before swapping cards or candy hearts, the women's track and field team spent Valentine's Day weekend gearing up for the upcoming Div. III New England Championships with back−to−back meets at BU and MIT.
For those unfamiliar with Olympic pairs figure skating, the Russians are like the NCAA women's basketball powerhouse Connecticut Huskies. In each of the past 12 Winter Games, beginning at Innsbruck, Austria in 1964, a duo from Russia or the Soviet Union has triumphed with the gold medal. But that remarkable streak came to a screeching halt after Monday night's free skate, as the veteran Chinese pairing of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo usurped the top spot on the podium.
The Atlantic 10 is a typical mid−major conference. While it occasionally produces a shining moment, it is annually overshadowed by the power conferences. Xavier has been the only Atlantic 10 team making headlines in recent years, and even the Musketeers have struggled to make it deep into March.
16 - Dollars, in millions, that Oakland Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski will earn over the next four years, making him the richest kicker in the history of the league. The deal, signed on Tuesday, also removed arguably the top kicker from the free-agent market. In 10 seasons with the Raiders since he was drafted in the first round out of Florida State, Janikowski has scored 1,000 points, converting 78.4 percent of his field goal attempts. He has also attempted a record-long 76-yard field goal in 2008, which he missed.
