This is the last issue of our board, and the last opportunity for the outgoing sports editors — Matt Simmons, Kimberly Ruthsatz and Ramesh Nagarajan (from left to right) — to express what The Daily Princetonian has meant to us. The three of us began working at the 'Prince' in the fall of 1999, freshman year. It's been a long road since then, and we've learned from every part of it. Carrying on a tradition began by last year's editors, we've decided to use this space to recount the most important things we've learned over the past four years.
Pleasant Surprise: Rocky is not the center of the world, and the tennis courts are not the known world's end. It won't kill you to walk to Jadwin to cover a team.
Geography Lesson: Charter is much farther away from the 'Prince' than it appears to be on a campus map. This information would have been more useful a year ago.
Good Times: Talking about sports with your friends is fun. Writing about sports with your friends is even more fun. Thank all of you who worked to make this page happen every day for the past year.
Play the Odds: Athletes are sometimes annoyed when you ask them for quotes. They are always annoyed if their sport isn't covered.
Accept the Unbelievable: Beer pong is not a sport.
Accept When You're Wrong: Deadline has a different definition than we had originally thought, a drastically different definition.
Pleasant Surprise #2: Teams like it when you travel to see them play. Even if they lose, they're always more willing to talk on the field or the court after a road game if they see a (usually) friendly face.
Wisdom of the Ages: A very good 'Prince' Sports Editor once said that 'You don't work for the newspaper for the money or the glory.' Remember that nobody at 48 University Place is getting famous or rich putting out a paper. Infamous maybe, but certainly not rich.
All the News That's Fit to Print: The New York Times might be the best newspaper in the world, but they have some lousy National Desk Editors there with inferiority complexes.
An Olive Branch: Questioning a team's motivation or heart isn't the best way to assure good relations between reporters and athletes.
Think Before You Write: When a track team wins Heps one week, destroying Yale in the process, and lose to the Elis one week later at IC4As, that should set off alarm bells. Freshmen reporters shouldn't call the second performance "mediocre," especially before they find out that it was "mediocre" only because less than half the team went because of midterms.
Don't Forget Yale: Things that suck include News, Harvard, the Quackers and the Philadelphia Eagles.
What Do You Do on Saturday Afternoons?: Even if the rest of Princeton doesn't know it (or care), we have a pretty good football team that plays in a very good stadium.
Deliverance: I love you, Jon Gruden. I was doubter, but nevermore. See you in San Diego.
The Temple: The best place to watch a college basketball game is the Palestra. Hopefully the Tigers will make it even more enjoyable this season.
Thanks: We hope you've enjoyed the sports section of the 'Prince' — we have certainly enjoyed creating it for you.
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