With a record-breaking five-game winning streak under its belt, the men's squash team was reminded in this weekend's NESCAC Tournament at Trinity College that all good things must come to an end.
The men's track and field team hosted the Tufts Invitational II this weekend in the Gantcher Center, and, though the meet was non−scoring, the Jumbos claimed three individual victories on Saturday and came away content with their overall performance.
While last weekend's two−day Wheaton Invitational was a non−scored meet, the competition was still highly important for the members of the men's swimming and diving team looking to qualify for the upcoming postseason meets.
In its last home meet of 2010, the women's track and field team defended its home facility comfortably, garnering wins in five events. And while last weekend's second and final Tufts Invitational was non−scoring, the Jumbos' performance was just as impressive.
They toasted Drew Brees, Jeremy Shockey and Tracy Porter surely far into the morning on Bourbon Street for their fourth−quarter heroics in New Orleans' historic 31−17 Super Bowl XLIV win over Indianapolis on Sunday night in Sun Life Stadium.
After 43 years of frustration, the New Orleans Saints are finally NFL champions, upsetting the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV 31−17.
With the regular season winding down and the NESCAC playoff spots rapidly becoming more exclusive, the hockey team clung on to the last slot in the conference tournament thanks to a crucial weekend split.
Most matchups between two of the top 10 women's basketball teams in the country are exciting in and of themselves. But when you throw other factors into the mix — a bitter rivalry that has played out on the biggest of stages and produced rather extraordinary drama, for instance — you get something a little bit more than your run-of-the-mill clash of two national powerhouses.
After a rough outing at the Northeast Fencing Conference meet two weekends ago, the women's varsity fencing team entered Saturday's Brandeis Invitational and the ensuing home match against New York University (NYU) on Sunday hoping that additional practice time would enable it to turn in a better performance.
The Tufts men's basketball team simply cannot catch a break.
On paper, the BCS title game should be one for the ages, with the undefeated and top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide set to square off against the No. 2 and likewise unblemished Texas Longhorns on Jan. 7. But if you look at both sides' recent results, it isn't hard to see why the Tide is the favorite to come away with its first national championship since 1992.
The idiots who vote for the Heisman Trophy just might make the right decision this year. When the question comes up as to who is the "most outstanding player in college football" (the criteria given by the Downtown Athletic Club to Heisman voters), everyone who seems reasonably knowledgeable about the game seems to be unequivocal in their final decision -- it's Ndamukong Suh (pronounced en-de-ma-ken soo, I think), the 6-foot-4, 305-pound defensive tackle from the University of Nebraska.
Though the season has yet to begin, the Tufts ski team is raring to go. And over winter break, it will get a chance to test its mettle in the first races of the 2010 season.
Coming off an impressive second-place finish at last weekend's MIT Invitational, the men's swimming and diving team will travel to Fort Lauderdale over winter break to continue its training regimen. Over the course of the 12-day trip to Florida, the team hopes to develop group cohesion and endurance, in addition to a dash of historical perspective by spending a few hours at the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
The men's track and field team will return from winter break early to prepare for the start of the spring semester, which kicks off with the first of two Tufts Invitationals on Jan. 16 on the indoor track at the Gantcher Center.
While most Tufts students will spend winter break celebrating the holidays and recovering from the grind of the fall semester, the women's track team will be hard at work preparing for the indoor season.
While the winds thrash and the snow blankets Tufts' campus, the women's swimming and diving team will be in sunny Florida over winter break. For the Jumbos, this trip serves as more of a strength-builder than a luxurious vacation away from the blistering cold of New England.
For the first time in three years, the Tufts men's basketball team will not be taking a trip anywhere out of the region over break. They won't be traveling to La Verne, Calif. for the SCIAC Classic like last year or driving down to Wilkes-Barre, Penn. for the Wilkes Barre Challenge.
Already having experienced a changing roster and a reshuffled lineup due to studying overseas and graduation, the 1-3 fencing team will be faced with more changes as fencers come and go in the next semester.
