On May 12, 2019, Kawhi Leonard released a high arcing shot over the outstretched fingertips of seven footer Joel Embiid. The entire sports world watched at the edge of its seat as the ball bounced four times on the rim before falling through the hoop, giving the Toronto Raptors a 92–90 victory over ...
The women’s track and field team hosted the Cupid Challenge on Saturday in the Gantcher Center. The Jumbos had four first-place finishes, performing exceptionally well in the jump events. The meet, which had athletes competing mostly from New England Div. III teams, did not have team scoring, “I’m ...
The men’s track and field team hosted the annual Cupid Challenge on Saturday at the Gantcher Center. The team won only one event, but athletes earned top five finishes in several events, and four of Tufts’ results rank in the top 50 for Div. III track and field. One of the most impressive results ...
Remember when star baseball sluggers Bryce Harper and Manny Machado dominated free agency talk all winter long, waited eons, and finally signed massive, $300 million-plus contracts with the Phillies and Padres respectively? Yeah, me neither. Both teams missed the playoffs and the baseball world moved ...
The hockey team went 3–2–1 in its previous six games, getting back on track after a 4–10 start that included a five-game losing streak to start the season.This weekend, the Jumbos faced off against the Conn. College Camels in a Friday-Saturday doubleheader.In Saturday’s matchup in New London, ...
The women’s squash team claimed sixth place in the NESCAC tournament this weekend, finishing 2–2 in its four matches over the course of the three-day event. Along with the eleven other NESCAC teams, the Jumbos traveled to Middletown, Conn. on Friday for the tournament hosted by Wesleyan.Tufts, ...
With most English Premier League teams on a winter break, Romelu Lukaku and his Inter Milan club stole the headlines in the soccer world this weekend after beating cross-town rivals A.C. Milan 4–2 in the Milan derby. The comeback victory put Inter atop the Italian Series A over Juventus, the winners ...
The No. 1 women’s basketball team beat Conn. College 78–59 and Trinity 77–61 this past weekend at Cousens Gym. The two NESCAC wins bring the Jumbos’ record to a perfect 22–0 in the overall season and 8–0 in conference play with two games left in the regular season.In preparation for yet ...
This past weekend, the men’s and women’s swimming teams kicked off their championship season at the Boston Winter Open held at Boston University (BU). Although many of the team’s swimmers were not competing as they are preparing for the NESCAC Championships, the Jumbos still put up several top-three ...
I write this column hoping to find a glimpse of optimism for the 2020 Red Sox season, but, unfortunately, can find none.On Tuesday evening, the Red Sox announced a trade sending outfielder Mookie Betts and pitcher David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers for outfielder Alex Verdugo and Twins pitching ...
After losing to No. 20 Amherst 6–3 on Jan. 31, the No. 24 men's squash team returned home for the opening weekend of the new Tufts Squash Center, defeating No. 27 Conn. College 9–0 on Saturday and losing to No. 21 Middlebury 6–3 on Sunday. The team was back in action on the new courts again ...
After the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, a lot of blame was placed on the 49ers for blowing a 10 point advantage that they held late into the fourth quarter. But, the 49ers did not lose because of conservative time management or inaccurate passing, they simply ...
The Tufts Athletics Department completed the installation of a field turf surface in Carzo Cage in December, which promises to provide several teams with safer and more realistic conditions during their winter training.“The previous surface was almost 20 years old and was long past its period of usefulness,” ...
It was a busy weekend for the women’s squash team, who played four matches in three days, including the program’s first ever home match at the newly opened Tufts Squash Center.Tufts played their final match of the weekend on Sunday afternoon against NESCAC opponent No. 17 Middlebury at home. The ...
Groveling over an exhilarating final 10 minutes during the Arsenal-Chelsea fixture on Jan. 21 in London pub The Fountain Abbey, I suddenly found myself in the middle of Serbia.Not literally, unfortunately, but I had indeed spiritually landed there from a tale spun by a drunken web. The spider responsible? ...
In a thrilling upset on Saturday, the now No. 21 Tufts men’s basketball team defeated No. 9 Colby 80–67 at Cousens Gym. The win propelled the Jumbos into first place in the NESCAC with a 6–0 conference record, and gave them a 16–4 overall record on the season.Tufts started off strong with a ...
On Saturday, the men's track and field team placed second in the third annual Branwen Smith-King Invitational, hosted by Tufts at Gantcher Center. The team secured wins in two events, tallying 86 points, which was well short of the 135.5 point, first-place finish by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Football is over. We have a champion. Andy Reid won his first Super Bowl and cemented his legacy as a Hall of Famer as Patrick Mahomes added yet another accolade to his incredible young career. We should be celebrating these amazing feats in an article like this, right? Wrong. That's not how we ...
In the third annual Branwen Smith-King Invitational at the Gantcher Center over the weekend, the women's track team placed second out of 22 teams in team scoring. Several individual athletes placed in the top five, including victories in the 600 meters, 800 meters and 3,000 meters races.At the end ...
Sander Berge shocked the soccer world late last month when, despite being sought after by many of Europe’s elite, he decided to sign for Sheffield United. A newly-promoted side, United has vastly surpassed expectations sitting in sixth place, perched in between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United ...
