Graduating senior co-captain Drew DiMaiti has been the backbone of the Tufts men’s track and field team this year. DiMaiti, consistently a top performer for the Jumbos, garnered numerous first-place finishes throughout the 2017–18 season and is a big reason why the indoor and outdoor teams have ...
A few weeks ago, on April 20, people across the country participated in what has become known as the "weed holiday." On the same day, Bleacher Report released several videos featuring former NBA and NFL players discussing their use of marijuana and use throughout those leagues, as they were ...
It’s not often that a Div. III athlete gets selected to represent their country on an international stage. However, that is exactly what happened in the case of graduating senior and co-captain Andrew MacMillen of the Tufts men’s crew team.MacMillen, or “AMac” as his friends and teammates call ...
Graduating seniors Conor Coleman and Matt Zinner anchored the defense for a Tufts men’s soccer team that conceded just two goals throughout the entire 2017 season.The center back and left back, respectively, leave an impressive legacy, which includes the program’s firsttwo national titles and ...
It’s here, it’s happening and I know, we’re not going, but we were never going to make it past the round of 16 anyway, right? The FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 14, thus commencing the most popular sporting event in human history. There are too many storylines to count. This is Messi’s last ...
Triumphant is one of my favorite words. In no situation is it better than when talking about an against-all-odds story in sports. Appalachian State, unranked, beating No. 5 Michigan at the Big House.Leicester City overcoming 5,000-to-1 odds to win the Premier League in 2015–16.The "Miracle ...
I think my Dad might actually enjoy this, but I’ll grudgingly support Liverpool in this year’s Champions League final. Yes, those Reds fans will probably be obnoxious on Facebook should their team lift the trophy on May 26, but at least I can continue to hope their top division title drought continues.Because ...
After downing Bowdoin 19–11 in its regular-season finale, the No. 5 Tufts men’s lacrosse team cruised to a 16–12 win over Middlebury (9–7, 5–5 NESCAC) on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament.Just one week after the Jumbos defeated the Panthers 13–10 on the road, the ...
The NESCAC Championships took place at Trinity on Saturday, where the Tufts women's track and field team put on a strong performance, finishing second overall. This is an improvement from last year's NESCAC tournament at Bowdoin, where the team finished in sixth place.The Jumbos earned a total ...
Following a strong showing in the spring season, the Tufts men's track and field team traveled to Trinity on Saturday to compete in the NESCAC championship meet.The team finished third in the event with 137 points, three behind second-place Williams' 140.Middlebury won the event by a considerable ...
Three days after defeating Bowdoin 11–10 to earn the third seed in the NESCAC tournament, the No. 8 Tufts women’s lacrosse team fell to sixth-seeded Trinity 12–10 in the quarterfinal round on Saturday.The Jumbos hosted the No. 11 Bantams (11–5, 6–4 NESCAC) under sunny skies at Bello Field ...
The Tufts golf team competed in its penultimate tournament of the season over the weekend.The Jumbos traveled to Cranston, R.I. to compete in the Wildcat Spring Invitational, where they finished in sixth place out of 19 competing teams.Husson University won the tournament, coming in with a total ...
Following its three-game sweep of Colby on April 20–21, Tufts baseball suffered a setback, falling at home to UMass Dartmouth, Suffolk and Endicott.After Endicott (20–11) opened a 3–0 lead in the first inning on Thursday, Tufts responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the third.Senior ...
Having entered the week on top of the NESCAC East division, the No. 21 Tufts softball team posted a 3–1 stretch, starting with a 15–0 demolition of Pine Manor on Friday, followed by two massive wins at then-No. 11 Amherst over the weekend. However, he Jumbos' eight-game winning streak, ...
The No. 15 Tufts men’s tennis team registered a 2–1 record on the road this weekend.Tufts fell 7–2 to No. 24 Bates in a high-stakes NESCAC matchup on Friday.Yet, the Jumbos fired back in two non-conference contests, routing Rensselaer 6–3 on Saturday and subduing Skidmore by the same scoreline ...
The Tufts sailing teams competed in a staggering seven regattas over the weekend, including two conference championship regattas.The top women’s squad finished 11th at the New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Championship in New London, Conn.Meanwhile, the co-ed team prepared for ...
The short answer, despite the usual media hype in England, is: No, not the Three Lions.We're slightly less than two months out from the opening game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, when hosts Russia play Saudi Arabia on June 14 in Moscow.Ultimately, you'd expect most of the usual suspects to make ...
The Tufts men's track team split up across two competitions over the weekend.A handful of athletes competed at Friday's Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., while the others competed at the Sunshine Classic, which Tufts hosted at Dussault Track on Saturday.The ...
Social media has consumed a lot of American culture (and the culture of the world) within a time. These days, we see a lot of news about social media coming up on our Facebook feeds, ironically enough. Am I the only one who has seen a study about how much time social media takes up, which I read as ...
The No. 5 Tufts men’s lacrosse team continued its excellent 2018 campaign with another conference win on Saturday, defeating Middlebury (8–6, 4–5 NESCAC) on the road, 13–10. Like in their victory over the Bates Bobcats earlier in the week, the Jumbos relied on an impressive comeback to ...
