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Basketball: Entering the Tigers’ den

Basketball: Entering the Tigers’ den

It lacks the enclosed, arena-like feel of Penn’s Palestra or Yale’s Amphitheater. Its large size precludes the kind of intimacy found at Dartmouth and Cornell. Even on the day of a big game, a packed row of side bleachers cannot conceal the indoor track in the background, a subtle reminder that basketball is only a small part of its function. But it is home, and the members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams would not prefer to play anywhere but Jadwin Gymnasium.

SPORTS | 02/02/2011

Column: Time for the NBA to oust Donald Sterling

Superman has been dethroned. For the past few years, Dwight Howard was the most spectacular dunker in the NBA, but anyone paying attention to the league this year realizes that his Lex Luthor is Blake Griffin. After being forced to sit out an entire season due to injury, Griffin came back better than ever and went to town on the league. His greatest dunk this year, literally right over the New York Knicks’ 7-foot-1-inch center, Timofey Mozgov, might be the most iconic moment of this season.

SPORTS | 02/02/2011

Women's Hockey: From Hudson to Hobey Baker, a presence between the pipes

Women’s ice hockey head coach Jeff Kampersal calls standout junior goalie Rachel Weber “a threat.” This description stems not only from Weber’s impressive run in the goal this season, but also from her demeanor and her talents.

SPORTS | 02/02/2011

Fencing: Scanlan prepares to enter national stage

Junior fencer Susie Scanlan loves to fight. In fact, the fencer is taking two years off so that she can do just that. Scanlan, an epeeist, will be competing around the world for the next two years, hoping to make the U.S. national team and compete in the 2012 Olympics in London.

SPORTS | 02/01/2011

Column: Answering all your lockout questions

I was going to write a column about how nobody pays attention to the Pro Bowl, but then I realized that nobody would pay attention to the column. They might as well just get rid of the Pro Bowl. I don’t think anybody would miss it. But would people miss the NFL and the NBA if they had no seasons next year? Yeah, I’d say that’d be a problem.

SPORTS | 02/01/2011

Men's Basketball: Writing his own story

The 2007-08 season was a tough one for the men’s basketball team. With a new head coach, Sydney Johnson ’97, the Tigers finished the year 6-23 and at the bottom of the Ivy League. A freshman at the time, Kareem Maddox was a year young for his grade and frustrated in his attempts to help the team.

SPORTS | 02/01/2011

On Tap with ... Kila Pickering

Sophomore Kila Pickering is probably the only swimmer whose full name, Beau Perkins Kukilakila Pickering, contains more than 10 syllables. Pickering is also the only athlete on the men’s swimming team from Hawaii, where he was the 2009 state champion. As a Junior National Qualifier in high school, he was also an All-America and Scholastic All-American. Pickering and the swim team will face off against nationally acclaimed Navy to defend their perfect all-time record at home this weekend.

SPORTS | 02/01/2011

Track & Field: At Princeton Relays, hosts claim victory

When people say that Princetonians are on the fast track, rarely are they referring to the track and field team. But as a result of the Tigers’ performance over Intersession, that may change. At both the Princeton Relays and New York Road Runners, the Tigers distinguished themselves by earning medals in multiple events and leaving the arenas as victors.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Wrestling: Grapplers take only two matches, fall to Cavaliers

After a two-week layoff, the wrestling team traveled to Charlottesville, Va., and took on the Cavaliers to tune up for their Ivy League campaign. Princeton dropped the match at favored Virginia (15-5), 30-6, falling to 3-7 on the season.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Men's Volleyball: Tuminelli, rookies crush Hope’s hopes

Last year, the men’s volleyball team opened the 2010 season with three losses during a California trip over Intersession. Despite last season’s slow start, Princeton fought its way through 10 five-set matches to win the program’s first Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association semifinal since 1998.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Column: Losing teams do not deserve playoff bids

The Seattle Seahawks made history this year. As pumped as they were to make the playoffs, they became the first team to advance to the NFL playoffs with a losing record (7-9). They made the playoffs by being the best team in a losing division. The four teams in the NFC West went a combined 25-39, easily earning the title of the worst division in football right now.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Swimming & Diving: Women sweep annual HYP meet

The women’s swimming and diving team found historic success at this weekend’s annual double-dual meet with Harvard (6-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) and Yale (5-3, 4-2), sweeping all 16 events and securing victories of margins greater than 100 points over both schools. Princeton’s (5-0, 5-0) strong performance extended the team’s dual meet winning streak to 37 and will likely accord the Tigers strong consideration for a national ranking.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Tennis: Tigers down No. 71 Nittany Lions

The men’s tennis team (1-0) started its season off well this weekend by defeating No. 71 Penn State 4-3 on Saturday at Jadwin Gymnasium. It was a full-team effort, as eight different Tigers earned victories in either doubles or singles.

SPORTS | 01/31/2011

Men's Hockey: Weekend wins extend hot streak to 9 of last 11

The No. 19 men’s hockey team traveled to upstate New York to gain a pair of ECAC Hockey league wins over the Intersession weekend. After defeating St. Lawrence 5-3 on Friday, Princeton (14-6-1 overall, 9-4-1 ECAC Hockey) scored nine seconds into the first overtime period to earn a 4-3 overtime victory against Clarkson (12-11-2, 6-6-1).

SPORTS | 01/30/2011

Women's Basketball: Micir, Edwards key 2 road victories

After defeating Penn with one of its most dominant second halves of the season nearly three weeks ago, the women’s basketball team returned from the long break with two convincing road victories to continue its strong start to the Ivy League season.

SPORTS | 01/30/2011

Squash: Bulldogs dash hopes for undefeated season in 5-4 thriller

For the second consecutive year, the match between the men’s squash team and No. 2 Yale came down to the final shift. While the locale had changed, the result stayed the same. No. 3 Princeton (6-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) fell to the Bulldogs, 5-4, in a pivotal match in New Haven, Conn.

SPORTS | 01/30/2011

Men's Basketball: Tigers open with sweep

By the end of January, most men’s basketball teams are already well into conference play. Due to the program-wide exam break, however, Princeton's team is different: as of Friday morning, it was one of only two schools that had not played a league game out of 339 conference-affiliated Division 1 teams. When the Brown Bears visited Jadwin Gymnasium that evening, sophomore center Brendan Connolly won the jump ball and senior guard Dan Mavraides walked it across midcourt, officially kicking off the Tigers’ 14-game Ivy League season.

SPORTS | 01/30/2011

Women's Hockey: Princeton settles for split despite career-high 41 saves from Weber

It had been three weeks since the women’s hockey team last competed when they stepped back onto the ice this weekend and hosted conference rivals St. Lawrence (12-13-2 overall, 7-8 ECAC Hockey) and Clarkson (11-13-3, 8-6-1). The Tigers (11-11-1, 8-7-1) entered the weekend on a seven game winning streak. They extended it to eight on Friday night when they defeated St. Lawrence 4-0. But on Saturday afternoon, Clarkson defeated the Orange and Black 3-2, ending the run at a crucial point in the season.

SPORTS | 01/30/2011

Men's Basketball: Ivy season kicks off against Bears

After winning nine of its last 10 games to earn the No. 21 ranking in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll, the men’s basketball team is set to begin its Ivy League campaign during Intersession, with back-to-back contests against Brown (6-7) and Yale (7-7) in Jadwin Gymnasium. Five days before it begins conference play, Princeton (11-4) will take on The College of New Jersey (3-11) in its last nonconference game of the season.

SPORTS | 01/13/2011

Track & Field: Season continues with Princeton Relays

For most students at Princeton, Intersession will be a vacation — a chance to cool down after the marathon of reading period and finals week. For the men’s and women’s track and field teams, however, the work is far from over. Before the next semester begins, Princeton’s track and field athletes will compete as close as Jadwin Gymnasium and as far as Seattle.

SPORTS | 01/13/2011

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