Columns
Sports and Society: Reinventing stupidity with Aaron Rodgers
By Oliver Fox | November 10There is plenty of stupidity in the NFL.
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Tufts football defeats Colby, extends winning streak to three on senior day
By Ethan Grubelich | November 9For their last home game of the 2021 NESCAC football season, the Jumbos hosted the Colby College Mules on Saturday and pulled out a 26–21 win. After five straight losses to start the season, the Jumbos entered the game with a record of 2–5, having won their last two games at Bowdoin and Hamilton. The Mules entered the game with a record of 3–4, coming off a 10–2 win at Bates.
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The End Around: Rethinking the NFL's approach to head coaches
By Henry Gorelik | November 9As I watched the 49ers get shredded by Colt McCoy and James Conner on Sunday, it felt as if I had been watching a poorly coached team. Then I remembered that in the football community, especially on Twitter, it is a cardinal sin to criticize Kyle Shanahan: the revered offensive guru and mastermind. While Shanahan is not on the hot seat in this case, a game like this begs the question of whether NFL teams should blindly pursue the best-looking, most innovative offensive mind that is available in the offseason. While NFL teams are no longer hell-bent on hiring anybody who has shaken hands with Sean McVay, I believe it would be useful to examine the different types of head coaching that exist in the NFL and evaluate the hiring process as a whole.
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Page, Wagude lead Tufts cross country to impressive showing at NESCAC Championship
By Arnav Sacheti | November 8Tufts cross country spooked its competitors at the NESCAC Championship at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn., with the women's team finishing second and the men's team finishing fourth on Halloween weekend. The women, who competed in a 6K race, maintained their position from their last NESCAC Championship in 2019, while the men, who ran an 8K race, massively improved from their 2019 eighth-place finish.
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The story behind Brentford’s meteoric rise to the Premier League
By Bharat Singh | November 5Six seasons ago, Brentford F.C. found itself in the third tier of English football. Today, after a 74-year absence from the top flight, the small club from West London is mid-table in the Premier League.
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Sports and Society: Humanizing a superhuman
By Oliver Fox | November 5After the departure of legendary wide receiver Julio Jones, there was little doubt that young talent Calvin Ridley would become the undisputed new number one for Atlanta, both quarterback Matt Ryan’s favorite target and a fan favorite among the Falcons faithful.
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Volleyball closes regular season on high note before NESCAC championship
By Matt Chen | November 4The Tufts volleyball team's regular season came to a positive end with back-to-back wins against Bates and Colby this past weekend. The wins improved their record to 17–4 overall and 8–2 in NESCAC play.
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Roster Rundown: Fantasy football preview Week 9
By Timothy Valk | November 4Ah, the backup quarterback. A position no one pays attention to… until they have to. These next-in-line signal callers are often viewed as overpaid, but this past week illustrated why teams lay out the big bucks for them.
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Women's soccer loses NESCAC quarterfinal 1–0
By Arielle Weinstein | November 3Tufts women’s soccer was narrowly defeated by Hamilton 1–0 on Saturday in the NESCAC conference quarterfinal game. In a tough, evenly matched contest, the Jumbos were unable to get on the scoresheet. Tufts will end its season 8–7 overall, and 5–6 in conference play.
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Tufts football beats Hamilton in overtime thriller
By Isaac Karp | November 2After claiming its first victory of the 2021–22 season on Oct. 23, Tufts football continued its hot streak on Saturday, beating Hamilton 30–24 in overtime. The Jumbos have had a difficult season with injuries to many of their key starters, but it seems as though the offense and defense finally clicked.
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Keeping up with the 617: Bad luck
By Matt Goguen | November 2As a sporadic Boston Celtics fan, I don't usually get concerned over a bad stretch of basketball during the regular season. This stretch is different. As a fanbase, we knew that coming into the 2020–21 season that the Boston Celtics were not a title contender; they simply do not have enough talent nor depth on the roster to manufacture a title run. Additionally, they have a new head coach, Ime Udoka, who is working with a roster that doesn't have a true identity. The Celtics’ start to the season has been nothing short of a dumpster fire. After their heartbreaking double-overtime defeat to the New York Knicks on Opening Night, the Celtics have only played three quarters of inspiring basketball. It's a dreadful trend that has continued from last season.
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Men’s soccer demolishes Bowdoin en route to NESCAC semifinals
By Ethan Grubelich | November 1The Tufts University Jumbos hosted the Bowdoin College Polar Bears in a NESCAC men’s soccer quarterfinals matchup on Saturday.
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Meet 2 rookies on the volleyball team: Alina Qi and Gillian Sherrill
By Jasmine Chang | October 28After a year without sports on Tufts’ campus due to the pandemic, sports are back, and the Jumbos are joined with a new class of first-year athletes.
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Men's soccer completes regular season with loss, draw
By Jack Adgate | October 28The men’s soccer team completed its regular season this week, losing to Connecticut College on Saturday and drawing Bowdoin on Tuesday. The loss to Conn. College was the Jumbos’ first of the season.
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Roster Rundown: Fantasy football preview Week 8
By Timothy Valk | October 28Some things in this world are just made for each other. Summer and the pool. Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Halloween and… football? I know, I know. Thanksgiving is supposed to be the holiday of pigskin. But wild things have taken place when Oct. 31 falls on an NFL Sunday.
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Men's and women's rowing teams succeed at Head of the Charles
By Brigitte Wilson | October 27Both the men’s and women’s rowing teams competed in the three-mile course at the annual Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston over the weekend, continuing their respective remarkable fall seasons.
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Sports and Society: Cancel this culture
By Oliver Fox | October 27Two professional sports coaches, both alike in their innate lack of dignity, resigned or were fired in the last month over various instances of misconduct. It would seem we are in the middle of a reckoning on the unacceptable behavior of coaches. Except we aren’t.
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The End Around: Perception vs. reality, taking stock after Week 7
By Henry Gorelik | October 27The team we should take more seriously
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Keeping up with the 617: A season in review
By Matt Goguen | October 25If anyone said they expected the Red Sox to perform as well as they did this season, they'd be lying through their teeth. Coming off of an abysmal 2020 season, many baseball pundits doubted this Red Sox squad — and with good reason. Their offseason acquisitions weren't raising any eyebrows and the team was still without Chris Sale and Eduardo Rodriguez in their starting rotation at the beginning of the season. Given what the cupboard looked like at the beginning of April, what this team accomplished this season was nothing short of remarkable.
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Volleyball gets back on track, completes 3–0 weekend
By Matt Chen | October 15Coming off a tough loss to NESCAC rival Williams, Tufts volleyball bounced back in strong fashion, winning three consecutive games over the weekend to improve its record to 13–4 overall and 4–2 in NESCAC competition. The wins included victories over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a non-conference opponent, Trinity University (Texas), the nation's No. 3-ranked team, and Trinity College (Conn.), a NESCAC rival. Head coach Cora Thompson spoke about the benefits of playing a variety of non-conference teams.
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