Columns
Game Day: Remembering a classic
By Alex Sharp | April 3With temperatures increasing, the grass slowly becoming greener and the sun staying up later, spring is officially upon us.
Sports
Football
From Jumbo to Ram: Waldron takes experience from Tufts to NFL
By Aiden Herrod | April 2When the stadium lights shut off and the players hang up their cleats for the offseason, there are still plenty of coaches and executives working tirelessly to deliver the fine-tuned product that is the NFL.
Coronavirus
Dezotell hired as men’s soccer coach
By Jake Freudberg | March 30The men’s soccer team has a new coach at the helm, as Kyle Dezotell was recently hired as the head coach of one of the country’s top Div. III teams and the reigning national champions.Dezotell comes to Tufts with 16 years of experience as a head coach at the Div. III level, with stints at Johnson ...
Columns
Keeping up with the 617: Examining Tuukka Rask's hazy future
By Matt Goguen | March 30The bad news continues to pile up for Boston sports fans. First reported by the Boston Globe's Matt Porter, Tuukka Rask has hinted at a retirement following the termination of his current contract, which ends after the 2020–21 season.When asked about his future workload, Rask said: "I have ...
Columns
The Little Londoner: COVID-19 and English football
By Jeremy Goldstein | March 26This is a column that no one wants to write — my hand is almost forced simply due to the utter lack of content. However, a bevy of swirling topics of conversation looms in a football world that seems to have no long term answers to (or any lasting longer than a week). Consider this a primer on such ...
Columns
The Turf Monster: A heartbreaking, powerful silence
By Aiden Herrod | March 26As a sportswriter, college student and resident of the United States and the world, all I can say is: wow. You’ve likely read a thousand times how chaotic and unprecedented these times are. I’m not here to add any sort of exclamation mark to that. I’m here to deliver a sportswriter’s perspective, ...
Basketball
Recapping the impact of COVID-19 on the NBA
By Sharan Bhansali | March 25On March 12, the National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended its season until further notice, after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. There are 259 games left to be played this regular season, but nobody knows if things will resume.After Gobert’s test came back ...
Sports
The Daily's Complete Coverage of Tom Brady
By Tufts Daily Sports Staff | March 24After 20 years in New England, quarterback Tom Brady, known as the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) to some fans, signed a two-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Daily's sports writers — some die-hard Pats fans, others just keen NFL observers — offered their take on this historic ...
Sports
The greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time
By Brigitte Wilson | March 24Tom Brady’s departure from the New England Patriots leaves many fans reminiscing about better days — perhaps specifically Feb. 5, 2017, when the team executed what is widely considered to be the best Super Bowl comeback in NFL history. To the shock of the Atlanta Falcons, the Patriots overcame a ...
Sports
The next chapter for Tom Brady
By Savannah Mastrangelo | March 24After months of tormenting speculation, otherwise dubbed as “Bradygate,” Patriots fans and football fans alike have the answer they’ve been fearfully anticipating. Tom Brady is ending his near 20-season tenure with the New England Patriots in favor of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.While this is not ...
Columns
Keeping up with the 617: The day the music died
By Matt Goguen | March 24Tom Brady has officially left the New England Patriots and has signed a two-year contract to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That sentence makes me want to throw up, cry and defenestrate my computer. It doesn't even seem real that my childhood hero has left Gillette Stadium as a New England Patriot ...
Columns
Off the Gridiron: TB is going to TB
By Henry Gorelik | March 24I’m not sure that the image of Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform will ever look right, but that’s the new reality for football fans.Last week, the G.O.A.T. signed with the Buccaneers on a two-year contract worth $50 million. Brady announced his departure from the Patriots after posting ...
Coronavirus
Spring sports canceled, winter NCAA competitions to continue
By Sruthi Kocherlakota and Jake Freudberg | March 12All spring sports have been canceled, while winter sports teams still competing in NCAA postseason competitions will continue as scheduled, according to an email sent to the Tufts community on Tuesday evening by University President Anthony Monaco.The announcement came as the university joined a growing ...
Columns
Game Day: Tourney time
By Alex Sharp | March 12I was in the library last night when Tufts announced that classes will be moved online after spring break due to the global coronavirus pandemic. The library quickly went from a quiet study space to a hive of activity with kids making calls, embracing their friends and shedding tears. When I saw the ...
Sports
Women’s tennis begins spring season with win over Conn. College
By Delaney Tantillo | March 11The women’s tennis team traveled to New London, Conn. to face NESCAC opponent Connecticut College for their first match of the spring season on Saturday. The No. 12 Jumbos defeated the unranked Camels in a decisive 8–1 victory to begin the spring season 1–0.The young Tufts team — which features ...
Sports
Men's, women's track and field produce many national qualifiers
By Arnav Sacheti | March 11In many of the athletes’ last chance to qualify for the Div. III NCAA Championships next week, the men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted the Tufts National Qualifying Meet on Saturday in the Gantcher Center. Although the cut-off for nationals is tough, with only the top 20in the nation ...
Columns
The Turf Monster: NFL quarterback free agency dominoes
By Aiden Herrod | March 11Overly bold NFL free agency predictions? Yes please. We’re staring down an extremely unpredictable free agency period, in which the quarterback class especially shouldn’t fail to shock and awe. We have veterans, youth and everything in between to scratch that quarterback itch for teams across the ...
Sports
No. 2 women's lacrosse starts season 3–0
By Sruthi Kocherlakota | March 10The No. 2 women's lacrosse team dominated in its season opener against Colby and followed with a pair of victories over Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and No. 9 Amherst this past week. In just these three games, the team has scored a total of 47 goals. The Jumbos are now 3‒0 on the ...
Columns
Off the Crossbar: Quieting the neighbors
By Arjun Balaraman | March 10“Sometimes, you have a noisy neighbor. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.”Oh, how times have changed since that nowinfamous quote from Sir Alex Ferguson in 2009 following Sheikh ...
Sports
Men's basketball advances to Sweet 16 with 2 close victories
By Jake Freudberg | March 9It was looking like the men’s basketball team was going to make a quick exit from the NCAA Div. III tournament on Friday night. Down 46–27 at halftime,Tufts' offense was completely shut down by Western Connecticut State University’s press defense.But after a second half comeback and a win ...
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