This weekend, first-year Amber Chong and senior Aaron Idelson competed for Tufts at the NCAA Zone Diving Qualifier at Middlebury College.Both athletes performed 11-dive routines at both the one-meter height — held on Friday for the men and Saturday for the women — and the three-meter height (Saturday ...
The NFL Scouting Combine took place over the past week, where most of the draft locks and hopefuls hope to impress teams with their athleticism and skill. Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin stole the show with the fastest 40-yard dash time for a linebacker in more than a decade, running it ...
No. 8 Tufts (25–4) is through to its seventh consecutive NCAA Div. III tournament Sweet Sixteen appearance after it comprehensively saw off the challenges of Westfield State (19–8) and Ithaca (21–8) at Cousens Gym this weekend.On Saturday, the Jumbos defeated the Ithaca Bombers, 61–39. Tufts’ ...
Tuesday was a sad day for U.S. Soccer. The North American Soccer League (NASL) announced it is cancelling the 2018 season, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied the NASL's appeal for an injunction that would temporarily reinstate its Div. II league status — which the U.S. ...
The No. 19 Tufts women’s lacrosse team will kick off its 2018 season on Saturday with a home matchup against its NESCAC rival, No. 13 Hamilton. The team hopes to build momentum for the rest of the season with an opening-day victory, as it did last year against MIT, though it won't be so ...
The Tufts women's fencing team faced a packed schedule over the weekend. The Jumbos competed in back-to-back tournaments on Saturday and Sunday. A day after competing at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference (NEIFC) Championships at Mount Holyoke College, the Jumbos traveled to ...
The No. 9 Tufts men’s lacrosse team opens its 2018 season with a pair of away games this weekend, traveling to Clinton, N.Y. to face Hamilton at 1 p.m. on Saturday before playing SUNY Cortland the following day at noon. Tufts worked hard in the offseason, and after a successful scrimmage against ...
On Sunday, the Tufts men’s track and field team competed at the Last Chance Qualifier, held at Boston University.The meet included athletes from Div. I, II and III schools, as well as high school and club track teams. Despite competing against athletes in higher divisions, the Jumbos performed well, ...
The Tufts women’s track and field team traveled to Boston University on Sunday for the first of its two Last Chance Qualifying Meets.The Jumbos ran three relays at the meet, but they were unable to record any times that would qualify them for the upcoming NCAA Championships, to be held March 9–10 ...
On a day that might decide the order of those finishing behind Manchester City, Manchester United's premier summer signing finally showed up against the big boys.If the earlier meeting at Stamford Bridge vindicated one's preference for Alvaro Morata over Romelu Lukaku, Sunday's matchup ...
This weekend, the Tufts men’s squash team finished third in the Conroy Cup, the fourth-highest division of the Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) College Men's Team Nationals. After defeating then-No. 29 Conn. College on Friday, the Jumbos fell to top-seeded Hobart (then ranked 25th in the ...
Recently, there have been rumors that former NFL cornerback Charles Tillman, affectionately called “Peanut” by Bears fans such as myself, is now working for the FBI. Considering the amazing movie prospects, this is a great thing. It also reminded me of an old study that was released many years ...
In the late hours of Sunday night in Brunswick, Maine, the Tufts men’s swimming and diving team finally ascended the mountain of the NESCAC Championships, winning its first conference title in program history. In doing so, Tufts halted Williams' 15-year reign atop the NESCAC.The former champions ...
The Tufts women's basketball team continued its run through the NESCAC tournament over the weekend. On Saturday, Tufts defeated Bowdoin to advance to its fifth straight NESCAC Championship game the following day, where it fell just short in a low-scoring contest to a familiar foe: Amherst.The ...
The past weekend created a stir in the college sports world after Yahoo Sports reported on Friday that the FBI, as a part of its ongoing probe into NCAA corruption, has documents detailing specific amounts of money paid to college basketball players by many different programs.Yahoo could not say how ...
Among Tufts' graduate schools, often overshadowed by the Tufts School of Medicine and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the lesser-known gem that is the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.Ranked second in the nation and fourth in the world for Nutrition and Dietetics ...
On Saturday, the Tufts men's hockey team traveled to Hartford, Conn. to take on Trinity in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. The defending NESCAC champion Bantams defeated the Jumbos in a 2–0 shutout, improving their record to 18–5–2 and putting an end to the visitors’ season. Trinity ...
Jonathan González plays for C.F. Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, and at 18 years old, the U.S.-Mexico dual national from Santa Rosa, Calif. is one of the top youth prospects in North America. In early January, González's decision to play for the Mexican national team instead of ...
In its final weekend of the 2017-2018 season, the Tufts women’s squash team (15–7) competed for the Walker Cup in the C Division of the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships at Harvard. Entering the tournament ranked 18th in the nation, the Jumbos were seeded second of the eight ...
The Tufts women's swimming and diving team left some serious ripples at the NESCAC championship meet from Feb. 16–18, hosted by Williams.The Jumbos finished in an impressive fourth place overall, their best result in five years — thus marking the best-ever performance for senior co-captains ...
