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Column: A mockery of mock drafts

Column: A mockery of mock drafts

This Thursday, the NFL will gather in New York City to draft for the 2011 season that may or may not happen. The players may or may not show up. Every analyst worth his or her salt has come out with a mock draft, but since my salt is so ridiculously expensive I’m going to have to settle for mocking mock drafts. The following is my best estimate of how the draft will go later this week.

SPORTS | 04/26/2011

Feature: Ussery '81 leading Mavs

Ussery had to interact with and accommodate many different parties while putting together 2010’s All Star Weekend. It was held at the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium to make room for as many Mavericks fans as possible. He had to negotiate not only with other members of the Mavericks organization, but also with NBA Commissioner David Stern and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to make the event successful.

SPORTS | 04/26/2011

Crew: Top-ranked lightweights, women’s open crew join men’s heavyweights as victors

Even with the recent downpour, Princeton crew has had no trouble demonstrating its impressiveness across the board. All four teams, women’s lightweight and open, and men’s lightweight and heavyweight, raced against tough competitors, with the men’s heavyweights at home at Lake Carnegie. With the exception of the women’s lightweight, who raced against its biggest rival, Radcliffe, the three other teams competed against Ivy opponents.

SPORTS | 04/25/2011

Baseball: Tigers clinch share of division

With four games still left to play in the Ivy League regular season, the baseball team has already clinched at least a share of the Lou Gehrig Division title for the first time since 2006. Princeton (18-18 overall, 12-4 Ivy League) eliminated third-place Columbia (17-21, 7-9) by winning three out of four games on Sunday and Monday. Second-place Penn — which is currently four games behind with four to play after dropping three of four to Cornell — is hanging on by a thread.

SPORTS | 04/25/2011

Column: X factors for the remaining 1st-round playoff games

A term that sports writers and analysts love throwing around during the playoffs is “X factor.” An X factor is a player whose performance directly correlates to his team’s success. Usually the X factor is not the star player of a team, because the star player will always be expected to produce for his team. Instead, the X factor shows flashes of good or great play that coincide with the team’s playing well, but when the X factor does not execute for his team, it severely hurts the team’s chances of winning.

SPORTS | 04/25/2011

Football: Team prepares to rebuild in spring game

The football team concluded its spring practices last Saturday with its annual spring game. With its disappointing 2010 campaign, in which the Tigers went 1-9 overall and winless in the Ivy League, behind them, Princeton now looks ahead to build a successful 2011 season.

SPORTS | 04/25/2011

Track & Field: Tigers host Larry Ellis Invite

The men’s and women’s track teams posted impressive results throughout the weekend at the Larry Ellis Invitational. The meet, which spanned Friday and Saturday, featured 35 teams from across the northeast.

SPORTS | 04/25/2011

Men's Lacrosse: Princeton defeated at home

Despite the adversity it has faced this season, the men’s lacrosse team is still in the running for the postseason after a disappointing 9-8 loss to Harvard this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Column: Dominate your fantasy league with 4 trade tips

One of the keys to succeeding in fantasy sports is making unfair trades. A good exchange is often thought to be one that is mutually beneficial. This concept is a dangerously politically correct idea that you can use to your advantage but should never accept at face value. The trade you really want to pull off, in the words of well-respected Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, is a “fucking-A trade.”

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Men's Rugby: Yale claims Koranda Cup in hard-fought match

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In 2002, the Yale and Princeton men’s rugby teams established a yearly game between the two schools, renewing a storied rivalry that had petered out during the 1990s. Flanker Rob Koranda ’02 was on the field for that first contest, which ended in a Princeton victory.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Men's Hockey: Gadowsky to coach at Penn State

Men’s hockey head coach Guy Gadowsky has been hired as the head coach at Penn State, the athletics department announced in a release on Sunday.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Golf: Women’s team places 3rd, men’s team takes 5th at Ivy League Championship

The men’s and women’s golf teams concluded their seasons at the Ivy League Championship this weekend. Though the men lost steam after a strong start to finish fifth, the women’s team recovered from a rough first day to place third.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Poor 1st half dooms Tigers at Dartmouth

The women’s lacrosse team suffered a disappointing loss at No. 14 Dartmouth (9-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) on Saturday. The No. 15 Tigers (7-6, 4-2) fell to an early deficit and never recovered as the Big Green cruised to a 15-10 victory.

SPORTS | 04/24/2011

Baseball: Tigers drop nonleague road game

This weekend, the baseball team will finally return to Princeton after an 10-game road trip during which it went 6-4. The Tigers will kick off their seven-game homestand with doubleheaders against Columbia on both Saturday and Sunday. The Lions (16-18 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) are third in the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division, just three games behind the division-leading Tigers (15-17, 9-3).

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Web Update: Football wins 2011 Dodgeball Tournament

The annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament is always to be filled with surprising upsets in the middle rounds, and Thursday’s event was no exception. But the team left standing in the end was one many could have predicted: the football team. Football dominated Cap & Gown Club in the championship match, storming to an early advantage and closing out the 20-man match with seven players still on the court to claim the title.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Column: A melancholy blue: Fall of the Dodgers

Rarely, at the start of baseball season, does any event of particular intrigue come to light. Typically the commencement of every team’s 162-game march begins with some disappointing performances, other surprising ones and the realization that current standings likely have no bearing on the playoff outcomes in September.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Softball: Team to host Lions for pair of doubleheaders

In what has become a season-long battle with the weather, the softball team lost to Mother Nature again when the threat of thunderstorms forced the cancellation of its weekday doubleheader against Monmouth. In addition to countless reschedulings and postponements, it was the third time this season a game was cancelled due to inclement weather.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Princeton playing for Ivy League title

The women’s lacrosse team heads into the weekend to play the first of its three finals games left in its 2011 regular season. No. 15 Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) will play at No. 14 Dartmouth (8-3, 4-1) on Saturday in a game that could determine the Ivy League champion.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Men's Basketball: Henderson ’98 introduced at press conference

Mitch Henderson ’98 was formally introduced as the next men’s basketball head coach in a press conference on Thursday, one day after it was announced that he would succeed Sydney Johnson ’97. Henderson sat next to Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 in the Princeton Stadium press box while dozens of members and friends of the athletics department watched the ceremony.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

Column: The virtual playing field

There is a group of competitors on the Princeton campus that is rather mysterious and never accepts interview requests. Psychoanalysts have suggested that this is a direct result of their secluded training exercises. While traditional sports teams practice on freshly cut grass or glossy gym floors, these athletes often prefer to practice and compete in the comfort of their own dorms, where there are minimal distractions from the task at hand. No, this is not the chess club’s 15 minutes of fame. The following is dedicated to the numerous gamers on campus.

SPORTS | 04/21/2011

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