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Column: Dominican 'Moneyball': Exploiting an unfair game

Column: Dominican 'Moneyball': Exploiting an unfair game

Alex Moss

The story of “Moneyball,” which opened in theaters this weekend, is, for the most part, the story of Billy Beane. Appointed as general manager of the Oakland Athletics in 1998, Beane inherited a 65-win team that, because of the limited market, had little payroll flexibility.

SPORTS | 09/28/2011

Club Soccer: Kickin' it in record numbers

Randolph Brown

As students started their fall semester classes, clubs and organizations took part in the annual rush to woo new students. One was pleasantly surprised by the response — the men’s club soccer team, which nearly doubled its usual turnout.

SPORTS | 09/28/2011

Around the Ivies: Dartmouth, Columbia remain unbeaten

Through two games of the Ivy League season, the field hockey team is in an unfamiliar position — chasing two other teams for first place. Princeton (3-5 overall, 1-1 Ivy League), which has won six consecutive conference titles and 16 of the last 17, currently stands in a four-way tie for third place after an early-season defeat. Here’s how the Tigers’ competition stacks up.

SPORTS | 09/28/2011

Men's Soccer: No. 15 St. John's stuns Tigers with last-second goal

Nick Brement

The men’s soccer team faced a tough opponent in its final tuneup before Ivy League play — No. 15 St. John’s, whose only two losses came to No. 1 Connecticut and No. 3 Maryland. The Tigers (1-5-1) battled back from a two-goal deficit to force overtime and were just seconds away from a draw, but the Red Storm (6-2-1) broke their hearts with a game-winning goal. Only four seconds remained on the stadium clock when Pablo Battuto Punyed found the net, giving St. John’s a 3-2 win.

SPORTS | 09/28/2011

On Tap with ... Jennifer Palmquist

Standing at an intimidating 6 feet 2 inches, junior volleyball player Jennifer Palmquist is one of the tallest female athletes at Princeton. She played a crucial role in the Tigers’ thrilling 3-2 victory over Penn in their Ivy League opener last weekend, racking up 12 kills and seven blocks during the match. The ‘Prince’ sat down with Palmquist to hear her views on the California weather, her first campus memories and the volleyball team’s rendition of “Sweet Caroline.”

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Column: Settling the debate: Rugby vs. Bhangra

It is undeniable that this first week is a short period during which Princeton University rapidly transitions from a humdrum, humid summer research lab to an energetic, though still humid, Ivy League campus. Lampposts, treated as billboards, are prime real estate. Before long, bathroom stalls become home to unsolicited advertisements. Every group on campus from Footnotes to Princeton Faith and Action contributes to the chaos. This year, the “most abundant poster” award, hands down, goes to Princeton Bhangra, followed by Princeton Rugby.

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Summer Postcard: A futbol rivalry in Cochabamba

When I first arrived at my home-stay in Cochabamba, Bolivia, my host mother told me to use the soccer stadium as a landmark if I ever got lost. Located just a few blocks from where I was staying, the stadium lies right on the river that divides the city into north and south and is quite hard to miss.

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Field Hockey: No. 3 Terrapins thrash Tigers

Almost exactly one year ago, the field hockey team notched a momentous upset of then-No. 1 University of Maryland. But the Tigers could not recapture that magic on Tuesday night, losing to the No. 3 Terrapins in College Park, Md.

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Men's Soccer: Team drops lead, falls to shorthanded Hawks

Luc Cohen

The men’s soccer team had hoped that the come-from-behind victory over Villanova on Sept. 16 would turn their season around for the better. Instead, Princeton has suffered two frustrating losses since then, making the Villanova game seem like a distant memory.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Tennis: Women win doubles event, take 3 singles flights

Chris Scherer

The women’s tennis team opened its fall season this weekend, heading to Providence to compete in the Brown Invitational. Three Princeton players claimed victories in their respective singles groups, and the team won the tournament doubles title.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Golf: Princeton takes disappointing sixth at host tournament

Though a troublesome forecast portended rain all weekend, Springdale Golf Club avoided the elements for most of Saturday and Sunday, allowing the women’s golf team to complete the Princeton Invitational, its yearly host tournament, without any major hiccups. In a field packed with 11 other schools from the East Coast, the Tigers finished sixth, trailing four of five Ivy League rivals and finishing 20 strokes behind champion Harvard.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Field Hockey: Rookies team up to stop Princeton slide

Kevin Whitaker

Twice in the first six games of the field hockey team’s young season, freshman midfielder Sydney Kirby set up freshman striker Allison Evans to score. Twice on Saturday afternoon, Evans returned the favor. Those goals made the difference between a win and a fourth consecutive loss for the Tigers, who snapped their skid with a 3-2 victory over Yale at Class of 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Men's Water Polo: Tigers lose perfect mark but edge Navy

Kathy Qu

Muhammad Ali once said, “I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right ... We all have to take defeats in life.” Despite the fight against Johns Hopkins (9-4) on Friday, the No. 13 men’s water polo team suffered their first loss of the season.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Sprint Football: Mansfield cruises to 40-2 victory

Teddy Schleifer

The Mansfield University sprint football team has only won five games in its three years as a full team. Four of those victories have come against Princeton. The Tigers continued a losing trend on Saturday afternoon in a 40-2 loss to the Mountaineers.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Soccer: 36-second stretch drops Tigers in Ivy opener

Eric Levenson

A 36-second stretch of game time was all it took to decide the winner of the women’s soccer team’s match against Yale. The Bulldogs scored twice in the 57th minute and played shutdown defense the rest of the way as Princeton fell 2-0 in its Ivy League opener.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

On the Prowl: September 26, 2011

Associate Editor for Sports Eric Levenson '13 and Executive Editor for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 discuss the football team's disappointing loss to Bucknell and women volleyball's victory over defending Ivy League champs Penn.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Six turnovers doom Tigers in 34-9 defeat

Shayan Rakhit

The defense may force stops and the running game may start to heat up, but when a team turns the ball over six times, nothing else really matters. The football team found itself in that very position on Saturday night, as Princeton dropped its second game 34-9 to Bucknell.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Defense not to blame

Kevin Whitaker

There is plenty of fault to be had in the football team’s 10th consecutive defeat, the culmination of a full season’s worth of losses. But the defense should rank low on that list, after it was placed in an unwinnable position by a series of failures from the other units on Saturday night. In fact, the Tigers would have allowed more than the nine points they scored even if the defense had never conceded a single yard.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Volleyball: Hosts upend defending champions in thriller

Beth Garcia

Fans packed the bleachers at Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night to watch as the women’s volleyball team defeated Ivy League rival and defending champion Penn in the opening conference match of the season. Last year when the Tigers took on the Quakers, each team won one very close match, so anticipation was high leading up to the weekend’s contest.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Live Blog: Football vs. Bucknell

The football team looks to snap its nine-game losing streak under the lights at Princeton Stadium as it takes on Bucknell in its second game of the season. Follow the action at 6 p.m. with our live blog!

SPORTS | 09/23/2011

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