I have a newfound attitude when it comes to one of my favorite annual sporting events. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, well, still shame on you. I'm not the one to blame.
With the No. 4 seed in the NESCAC Tournament wrapped up, the women's basketball team will turn its attention to the regular season finale at home against Worcester State. Due to inclement weather, the game has been postponed and will be played tonight at 7 p.m.
The men's squash team wrapped up its regular season schedule against some of its stiffest competition of the year with bouts against Ivy−Leaguers Brown and Dartmouth. Though the Tufts squad came back to the Hill with two losses in hand, the Jumbos took away some positives from going up against higher−level competition.
All good things must come to an end. And the high the men's basketball team felt last week after upsetting Amherst for the first time since 2003 was no exception. Though the Jumbos did not have a chance at the playoffs entering the game on Saturday — a Wesleyan victory on Friday over Bowdoin eliminated that possibility — the team was still looking to triumph over Bates and send its six seniors off on a high note. But the Bobcats put an end to Tufts' frustrating 6−17, 2−7 NESCAC season in an unceremonious fashion, putting down the Jumbos by a score of 64−55.
With a NESCAC Tournament berth on the line this past weekend, the hockey team delivered.
With a first−round home matchup in the NESCAC Tournament already locked up for the women's basketball team, the No. 13 Jumbos were upset Saturday on the road by Bates, 71−55. After last week's loss to conference rival Amherst, Saturday's game marks the first back−to−back regular season defeats for the Jumbos since January 2007.
Members of the men's lacrosse team took Bello Field for the official start of spring practices over the weekend. Last year's NESCAC Tournament runner-up was just one of several Jumbo squads to commence practices. Season start dates vary from team to team, with the majority of spring sports beginning mid-March.
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are being held in Vancouver, just miles north of the U.S. border, and they will be broadcast in America on the NBC family of networks. As always, the focus of these telecasts will be on the American athletes, for whom the fans watching on NBC will likely be rooting. But while you're expressing your pride for the red, white and blue, be sure to watch for these five non−U.S.−born athletes, whose abilities are incredible regardless of the colors of their flags.
It may not have the drama of Red Sox−Yankees, nor will it boast the prestige of Celtics−Lakers. The fans won't cheer as they do at a Real Madrid−Barcelona game, and the players won't scream like they do at a UNC−Duke contest. But the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is guaranteed to have an abundance of rivalries like the aforementioned classics. In preparation for Friday's opening ceremonies, the Daily counts down the top five rivalries sure to set fire in the wintry cold in the upcoming weeks.
Don't let the pretty costumes, dancing and prancing fool you: The figuring skating competition at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics promises to be fierce.
As far as most Americans are concerned, the movie "Miracle" (2004) is pretty much the hockey bible. Beyond the film and the words "Canada" and "1980," most Americans' hockey knowledge is pretty limited. Not to burst anyone's bubble, but it doesn't look like the 2010 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team will be etching its place in U.S. hockey glory.
Today marks the beginning of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where hundreds of elite athletes from countries around the globe have gathered to show their skills on the world's biggest stage. While the 2010 U.S. Olympic team features many medal favorites poised to honor their country, here are five of the most intriguing American athletes to watch.
When it comes to elite teams in women's college basketball, the discussion begins and ends with the No. 1−ranked Connecticut Huskies, owners of a 62−game winning streak — the second longest in NCAA history — and last year's national championship. So far, Geno Auriemma's squad has seemed literally unbeatable, running its record up to 23−0 and winning by an average of 39.3 points per game.
It may not be the playoffs yet, but don't tell the ice hockey team that.
Shortly after a strong NESCAC tournament in which the women's squash team ballooned its win total from one to three, the Jumbos fell victim to Brown on Tuesday night in a battle of two top−25 squads.
Coming into the last weekend of the regular season at Cranmore Mountain in New Hampshire, both the men's and women's ski teams had clear goals in mind. The men, in a three−way tie for second place, hoped to pull out in front, while the women hoped to hold off WPI for the coveted fourth−place spot in the conference standings and their first trip to the Regional race in three years.
The Big East is home to five of the AP's top-25 teams in the nation. The Mountain West Conference contains three. Even the Ivy League is represented in the ESPN/USA TODAY poll, with Cornell ranked No. 22.
Coming into last weekend, the women's squash team had just one win in 2010, a commanding 8-1 victory Feb. 2 at Northeastern.
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