Though Tufts dropped its last game of the season, the 2017 season marked Tufts' third winning season in a row — a feat the program has not accomplished since 1989–91 under former coach Duane Ford. The Tufts Jumbos (5–4) hosted the Middlebury Panthers (7–2) on Saturday at the Ellis Oval. Middlebury ...
Famous athletes boast immense followings. Almost 64 million people follow Cristiano Ronaldo's Twitter account. That is just about a fifth of the U.S. population and 20 million more followers than Donald Trump's Twitter. When Ronaldo plays soccer, the whole world watches. With access to so many ...
Baseball and all of its faithful followers were dealt a tragic blow this week. Retired pitcher Roy Halladay, who played on the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, passed away when his plane crashed.He was 40 years old. The entire Major League Baseball community came out and mourned a great ...
Following a successful run at the NESCAC Championships on Oct. 28, the Jumbos will compete at the New England Div. III Regional Championship on Saturday as both the men's and women's teams look to build on an impressive season.For the men's team, juniors Colin Raposo, Brian Reaney, Dylan ...
This weekend, the women's soccer team reached the NESCAC final for the first time since 2005 with a 3–2 semifinal victory over Hamilton on Saturday in Williamstown, Mass. Unfortunately, the fourth-seeded Jumbos fell 2–1 to the top-seeded Ephs of Williams on their home turf the next day in an ...
The Tufts volleyball team hosted the NESCAC tournament this past weekend, with aims to finish what they could not last year, as they lost in the championship game. The Jumbos entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed for the second year in a row, after finishing the season with a 10–0 record in NESCAC ...
The Jumbos set sail for a busy weekend on Nov. 4–5, returning with impressive showings in numerous environments in both individual and team efforts. These regattas featured all along the East Coast, including two strong individual showings in sunny Florida.Senior Alp Rodopman and first-year Talia ...
It might be tempting to just write off the title race this season as completely done. Manchester City is, after all, eight points clear, scoring goals for fun with about a third of the season played. Kevin De Bruyne looks completely unplayable, and David Silva doesn't seem to be slowing down his ...
Tufts offers athletic outlets for just about everyone, from varsity football to its renowned Harry Potter-inspired quidditch team. Until this semester, however, a club basketball program remained mysteriously absent from campus.Thanks to the efforts of senior Jordan Kemp, the gap is about to be filled. ...
Tufts (5–3) clinched its fourth five-win season since the start of the 21st century on Saturday when it rode the Colby Mules (0–8) to a one-sided 28–14 victory. The win marks Tufts' third winning season in a row and puts to rest any worries of slipping back into the lower half of the NESCAC ...
Most people would agree that U.S. Soccer has officially reached an all time low. After crashing out of World Cup contention, calls for the dismissal of the United States Soccer Federation’s (USSF) President Sunil Gulati and for the implementation of promotion/relegation illustrate just a few of the ...
With just under three minutes remaining in the NESCAC championship match Sunday, both Tufts and Middlebury were scoreless despite many close second-half opportunities. At 87:04 of regulation, senior defender Matt Zinner fed the ball wide right to sophomore midfielder Zach Lane who was barreling down ...
In its first season in the more competitive New England Division, men's club water polo finished with great success. At the Div. III National Club Championship hosted by Middlebury College on Oct. 28 and 29, Tufts placed second for the team's best finish in recent years.Tufts club water polo's ...
I have five fantasy football teams, a Premier League fantasy soccer team and a fantasy basketball team. The draws of fantasy sports are stronger than ever with the rise of daily fantasy sports and a proliferation of websites for the traditional season-long version. Even though fantasy sports take ...
The Tufts Athletics Department instated its very own Athletics Hall of Fame this September. The Hall of Fame will honor and celebrate the full history of athletics at Tufts, inducting its first honorees in the spring of 2018. Although it does not yet have a physical space on campus, the hall’s existence ...
A week that began with much optimism ended in dismay for the Tufts field hockey team, which hosted Bowdoin twice in the span of four days due to a scheduling coincidence. On Oct. 25, the Jumbos closed out the regular season by clinching second place in the NESCAC standings with a 3–0 win over the ...
Tufts won its NESCAC quarterfinal matchup against Trinity 1–0 this past Saturday, banishing memories of its disappointing defeat at this same stage last year against the same opponent once and for all.The match started out tentatively, with both sides conceding corners early on. Tufts slowly grew ...
The Colby attack relies heavily on the pass, as the team has thrown 265 times this season, the third most in the league. In contrast, the Mules have only run the ball 214 times, with the fewest rushing attempts of any NESCAC squad.
Some big news broke in the sports world recently. With one of the craziest World Series in recent history, the NFL deadline fast approaching and Americentrism in terms of sports, this news got passed over on most American channels. In spite of this, the news was, for me, one of the biggest sports news ...
The Tufts volleyball team secured its second consecutive year as the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC tournament over the weekend. With wins over Wesleyan and Conn. College, Tufts improved to 10–0 in its conference this season. As the Jumbos prepare to host the NESCAC tournament yet again, sophomore ...
