After a middling finish to its fall season, the Tufts golf team will look to improve in its upcoming spring campaign. The Jumbos, who are led by coach George Pendergast, finished third at the NESCAC Qualifier and seventh at the New England Championships in October.The former result earned the team ...
The Tufts men’s track and field team hosted a quad-meet with MIT, Bates and RPI at Dussault Track on Saturday.The Jumbos kept up their strong early-season form, winning a total of six events and finishing second overall.Junior Anthony Kardonsky won the 100-meter dash for Tufts.The Tenafly, N.J. ...
In a season where Chelsea has been erratic and disappointing to say the least, manager Antonio Conte continues to face pressure for his underperforming team. In return, the manager has complained that he has not received enough support from the board. This, despite spending an inordinate amount of ...
The antagonist. Every great story has one. Sometimes (most of the time) we hate them (despise them). Sometimes, we cheer for them. This is true in movies, books and sports. The recent Masters tournament saw a former hero try to regain his status, as well as the birth of a new villain.Tiger Woods came ...
When the No. 6 Tufts women’s tennis team wrapped up its away match against Colby late on Sunday evening, it marked the end of a busy weekend and the beginning of the team's final regular season push. With its decisive 9–0 win over Colby, Tufts finished the weekend 2–1 after losing 6–3 ...
The No. 15 Tufts men’s tennis team bounced back from its 7–2 loss to then-No. 3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on March 24, defeating Vassar, 9–0, at home on Saturday morning and Babson, 7–2, in the afternoon.After winning both ends of the doubleheader, the Jumbos lost a close contest to the Middlebury ...
The No. 6 Tufts women's lacrosse team (10–1, 6–0 NESCAC) won all three of its games in the last week, extending its winning streak to six games leading up to what figures to be a difficult end to the regular season.On Sunday, the Jumbos defeated the Babson Beavers (6–5) in a non-conference ...
"Icarus," the 2017 Oscar-winning documentary, takes a deep look into the epidemic of doping in cycling and along the way uncovers a deeper scandal surrounding the Russian Olympic team and its doping problems.One thing that the documentary reveals is that if someone wants to dope or utilize ...
The No. 3 Tufts men’s lacrosse team (9–0) triumphed over No. 4 Wesleyan (8–2) by a score of 14–10 on Saturday afternoon at Bello Field.Both teams were undefeated in NESCAC play heading into the game, sporting matching 5–0 conference records.The Jumbos used a 4–0 run in the second quarter ...
Individual event winners received nine points for their teams, second-place finishers garnered seven and each successive athlete through tenth place earned one less point.Meanwhile, the relays were scored with a 9–7–6–5 point template. Tufts took second place with 186 points, trailing only MIT (212 points), which has won this meet for the past two years.Bates (132.5) and RPI (122.5) placed third and fourth, respectively.
While the UEFA Champions League (UCL) quarterfinals took center stage last week, MLS and Liga MX — Mexico’s top league — duked it out in the CONCACAF Champions League (CCL) first-leg semifinals to determine North and Central American supremacy.Toronto FC’s historic 3–1 semifinal home win against ...
The Tufts men’s lacrosse team will face off against Wesleyan at Bello Field on Saturday for the teams' first matchup of the 2018 season. Last year, the team from Middletown, Conn. defeated the Jumbos three times. With Tufts (8–0) currently ranked third in Div. III and Wesleyan (8–1) right ...
It has been about five months since the Tufts men's and women's crew teams have taken part in any competition, as their fall seasons ended in late October.The teams will kick off their spring seasons this weekend, with both hosting regattas on the Malden River in Medford, Mass.The weekend ...
The Tufts sailing team competed at a whopping six regattas over the weekend, with some sailors doubling up by competing in one location on Saturday and another on Sunday. Wind was certainly a prevailing theme of the weekend. Gusts at Tufts’ home course of Mystic Lake approached 15 knots at times, making maneuvering quite difficult for the competitors.
Playing five games in a span of six days, the Tufts baseball team recorded two wins and three losses to make its overall record 7–7, including a 1–2 mark in the NESCAC.On Monday, the team lost 7–5 to Salem St. in a game that began as a pitching duel and ended with fireworks. First-year pitcher ...
As a bitter Manchester United fan, congratulations, Pep. You're no longer the noisy neighbor, you're now just a constant thorn in my side.Chances are, come Saturday afternoon José Mourinho's Manchester United will lose at the Etihad Stadium and Manchester City will win their third league ...
The No. 7 Tufts women's lacrosse team continued its mid-season domination with impressive wins over Endicott College and Conn. College on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.The Jumbos are now 7–1 on the season and 4–0 against NESCAC opponents.Fresh off its commanding victory over Endicott, ...
The No. 6 Tufts women's tennis team (6–2) continues to battle its way through NESCAC opponents as it enters the business end of its regular season schedule. The Jumbos recorded a 9–0 rout of the Trinity Bantams on Thursday in their first match following a busy West Coast swing. The team ...
Villanova crushed Michigan by 17 points in the NCAA men’s basketball title game on Monday night, finishing off an absolutely dominant tournament run. While the final game did not come down to one play, many games do. This is all to say that it seemed unnatural to write this column without mentioning ...
The Tufts softball team played a trio of crucial games last weekend — its first series against a NESCAC opponent in the 2018 season.In a three-game homestand against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (14–5), the Jumbos were able to pick up wins in two of the three games.After two victories for Tufts that ...
