The men's basketball team headed into Cambridge with recent history on its side, having taken its last 10 meetings with neighboring rival MIT. But on Saturday the Engineers prevailed as senior Jimmy Bartolotta dropped 31 points to secure the top spot on MIT's all-time scoring list as the Jumbos fell 79-66. The loss dropped Tufts to 4-3 while MIT improves to 6-3.
The men's track and field team kicked off its indoor season with a downsized lineup at the Husky Winter Carnival at Northeastern on Saturday, as just 28 Jumbos competed in the meet while others watched from the sidelines, including 21 returning letter-winners.
With hundreds of fans and coaches packed into MIT's gem of a pool house and screams synchronized to every breath ricocheting off the walls, the women's swimming and diving team took center stage against some of the best competitors from across the region. At the end of the two-day meet in Cambridge, the excitement over their results far exceeded the atmosphere in the pool house for the Jumbos, as Tufts rolled to a second-place finish in the seven-team MIT Invitational.
Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym, the women's basketball team finally resembled the squad it knew it was all along.
At this weekend's MIT Invitational, the men's swimming and diving team proved that it can keep up with the likes of bigger fish.
After entering its fifth match of the early season still lacking its full starting lineup, the women's squash team lost 9-0 at Amherst on Thursday, dropping its record to 0-5 going into winter break.
"Your first track race is nerve-wracking -- it's a totally different terrain [than cross country]," said sophomore Stephanie McNamara, who led the women's track and field team in its first meet of the season two weeks after earning All-American honors at cross country Nationals.
Despite ending the first half of its season with a 2-5 record, the men's squash team enters the winter offseason with optimism knowing that when it returns to the court in the spring, its lineup will be bolstered and ready to take on the healthy competition that still lies ahead.
The women's swimming and diving team had not dropped a contest to the Blue in its last seven matchups, entering a rare Wednesday night meet against Wellesley College. This meeting was no exception.
When the Plymouth State Panthers paid a visit to the men's basketball team two years ago, brothers Ryan and Jason O'Keefe took the college court against each other for the first time. Ryan (LA '08) had an off-night for the Jumbos, scoring four points, while then-freshman Jason for the most part watched from the PSU bench.
"It's just a game." That single sentence changes the meaning of sports entirely. It's the sentence that makes the guys who go to stadiums with painted chests "idiots." It's what makes spending huge sums of money on tickets supposedly "ridiculous." It's what makes caring -- truly caring -- about sports considered "childish."
There was plenty of excitement leading up to Wednesday's game between the Dallas Stars and the Calgary Flames, although few would have suspected that it would lead to a pre-game suspension. The NHL suspended Dallas left wing Sean Avery for an indefinite period on Wednesday, not for any on-ice violations, but rather for his comments to the Canadian news media.
After months of fundraising and preparation, it's official: The Tufts University Football Club (TUFC) will be spending its 2009 spring break in Madrid, Spain.
For some college athletes, graduation marks the end of their sporting careers. But thanks to the Capital Alumni Network (CAN), many Jumbo alums in the Washington, D.C. area have far from left their athletic glory days behind.
Since its inception in the 1998 season, the BCS selection system has provided the college football faithful with frustration and disillusion as the often nebulous criteria for selecting teams for the national championship game has left many worthy teams on the outside looking in.
The odds are stacked against Tufts' Taekwondo Club: the team participates in five tournaments per year, where it faces opponents from up to 25 other schools; it is the second-smallest team in its league, the Ivy Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League (INCTL); the team's opponents are primarily from larger, Div. I schools; and the team is completely self-sufficient, meaning all expenses are paid out of the individuals' pockets.
For the women's track and field team, which won the New England Div. III Championship last winter after finishing second for five consecutive seasons, this year, the goal remains the same: beat Williams.
After claiming its fourth Div. III New England title at the end of last season, the men's indoor track and field team will kick off its new campaign Saturday at the Husky Carnival at Northeastern with hopes of emulating past achievements -- and of being seen as a legitimate contender throughout the winter.
Forget about records. Forget about prestige. And forget about the Tennessee Titans.
