Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.Nothing to recap from last week, as I made some NBA award predictions. This week, we'll get back to football for the NFL's week nine. Let's do it...Saints take down undefeated RamsThe Rams escaped ...
In one of the best seasons in team history, the No. 4 Jumbos completed their regular season on Wednesday, defeating the No. 12 Bowdoin Polar Bears by a score of 2–1. The Jumbos didn't have much time to celebrate the season's success, though, as the NESCAC Tournament began on Sunday after ...
Tufts hosted the 2018 NESCAC Cross Country Championship at Franklin Park in Boston on Saturday, claiming seventh place as Amherst established itself as the conference champion for the second straight year.The Jumbos totaled 159 points, coming just shy of the sixth-place Bowdoin Polar Bears (156 points). ...
I am tired. I know a lot of baseball fans who are tired. Why are we so tired? Game 3. The third game of this year’s World Series clocked in at an astonishingly long seven hours and 20 minutes. The game was 18 innings long, twice as long as the regulation nine of a baseball game. The game itself was ...
Tufts suffered its first loss of the season on Sunday against Colby, 3–2 on penalties after a goalless 110 minutes in the NESCAC Championship quarterfinal. The No. 1 Jumbos failed to convert three of their five penalties in the shoot-out, crashing out to the No. 8 bottom-seeded Mules. Failing to convert ...
The NFL has reviewed and revised a multitude of rules over the past few years as they have attempted to pin down what exactly a catch is, and recently, what exactly an acceptable tackle is. The changes are driven by good intentions, as the NFL has expressed a desire to bring down or stop the amount ...
The Jumbos traveled to Pratt Field in Amherst, Mass. on Saturday, with hopes of spoiling the Mammoths' undefeated record. They came out on the losing end in a hard fought defensive battle, falling 19–13, as their opponent remained undefeated. This loss dropped Tufts’ overall record to a still-stellar ...
Tufts faces perhaps its most important game of the season tomorrow. The Jumbos, now 5–1 after last week's win over the Williams Ephs, will visit the Amherst Mammoths (6–0) and try to spoil their undefeated season.Amherst sits atop the NESCAC standings with Tufts and Trinity one game back, so ...
The Jumbos wrapped up the regular season with a pair of wins that secured them the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC Tournament and a No. 2 national ranking, their highest this season. In doing so, the team finished without a single regular season loss, a first for the program since 1946, the earliest year for which its record is available. The Jumbos will host the eighth-seeded Colby Mules (7–6–2, 3–5–2 NESCAC) in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC Tournament on Sunday.
Tufts closed out its regular season this week, suffering a pair of 1–0 losses to NESCAC opponents Williams and Bowdoin. Despite the results, the Jumbos (9–4–2 overall, 5–3–2 NESCAC) will advance to the conference tournament for the sixth straight year.The Jumbos faced a difficult road test ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.Let's take a look at last week's NFL predictions: PredictionOutcomeDid I get it right?Jaguars 4+ sacks1 sackNoPanthers over EaglesCAR 21–17 PHIYes!Baker Mayfield 300+ passing tards215 yardsNo So ...
Tufts wrapped up its fall campaign on Monday with a respectable seventh-place finish at the 84th annual NEIGA Championship, hosted by The Captains Golf Course in Brewster, Mass. Tufts finished with a total score of 636, powering through both the 23-team field and challenging conditions. The mark was ...
With consecutive victories over Springfield, Babson and MIT, Tufts swept the New England Challenge tournament to improve its overall record to 14–8.Tufts faced then-No. 21 MIT in its third tournament game, looking to lock up an undefeated record for the weekend. The first set proved to be a back-and-forth ...
Tufts was largely able to escape the local fervor surrounding the Red Sox run to the World Series, but it could not fully escape the weekend's prevailing winds. Instead, the Jumbos were caught in a swirling October breeze that affected everyone from college sailors to kickers in the NFL.One ...
Just stop. Jayson Tatum is not better than Ben Simmons. Stop the homerism and hold onto this thought. Every October, basketball fans emerge from their hibernation like the first tinges of dew lightly coating the morning grass on Tufts’ Residential Quad. They traipse through the dew and find themselves ...
The Jumbos competed in the Head of the Charles regatta this weekend. The Head of the Charles is one of the biggest and most famous regattas in the world of rowing, with thousands of athletes competing across several events. Tufts competed in the Men's Club Eights, Men's Championship Doubles, ...
It was Parents Weekend on Saturday, and families visiting from near and far congregated at Ellis Oval to witness the Jumbos (5–1) battle the Williams Ephs (4–2) for a high-stakes football game that ultimately determined which team would take second place in the overall ranking of the NESCAC. ...
I love a good celebration. Someone got a promotion? Celebrate. Someone won a competition? Celebrate. Someone is having a baby? Celebrate. But you know what pastime loves a good celebration as much as I do? Sports. And today I want to celebrate celebrations.Celebrations in sports have been around for ...
Entering the final stretch of their regular season schedule, Tufts made major statements with a pair of 2–0 shutout victories against Haverford and No. 16 Williams. The impressive defensive performances were the fourth and fifth straight shutouts for the Jumbos (13–1).The stakes were high when the ...
The NBA G League made a major announcement this Thursday when it revealed its new “select contract” route. These are the $125,000 contracts that the G League will offer to elite high school prospects who are at least 18 but are not yet eligible for the NBA draft. Previously, recent high school graduates ...
