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Men's Hockey: Tigers score pair of upsets against New York foes

Halfway through overtime during the men’s hockey team’s game against Cornell on Saturday night, freshman forward Will Ford snagged a loose puck and made a beeline to the net, hoping to best Big Red goaltender Andy Iles. He fired off a shot, which was blocked. Not to be deterred, Ford took another only a few seconds later, putting his first collegiate goal into the back of the net and delivering to the Tigers (3-3 overall, 3-1 ECAC Hockey) their second goal of the game and their second upset of the weekend.

Live Blog: Women's Basketball vs. Farleigh Dickinson

Men's Soccer: Tigers aim to cement best Ivy season ever

With last weekend’s strong 2-1 victory over Penn, the men’s soccer team fulfilled its main goals for the present: winning at least a share of the Ivy League title and securing a berth in the NCAA tournament. But in Saturday’s matchup against Yale, the last regular-season game of the year, the Tigers (12-3-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) have a chance to make history.

Football: Strong Yale team with championship aspirations to host football team in 132nd edition of storied rivalry

For the Yale football team, Princeton is an orange-and-black nuisance standing between the Bulldogs and a potential share of the Ivy League crown. For Princeton, Yale is one of two remaining opportunities to avoid a winless league record — an unprecedented fate.

Live Blog: Men's Basketball vs. Rutgers

Men's Basketball: Rutgers, Duke are immediate tests

The men’s basketball team opens its season this weekend with a home game against Rutgers at Jadwin Gymnasium tonight before heading to Durham, N.C., to face No. 1 Duke on Sunday.

Field Hockey: Wake Forest looms in 1st round of NCAA tournament

With a tough nonconference schedule survived and another undefeated Ivy League campaign on the books, the field hockey team now looks to make a deep run into the NCAA tournament and contend for the national championship. No. 6 Princeton (13-4 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) will take on No. 13 Wake Forest (10-8) on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Charlottesville, Va., in the first round of the tournament.

Women's Basketball: Banner to be unfurled as team opens with Fairleigh Dickinson

When the women’s basketball team opens its season with a game against Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday, much may seem similar to last year’s historic 26-3 squad. The team will still be led by head coach Courtney Banghart, still have the same five starters and still play in Jadwin Gymnasium.

Swimming & Diving: Strong freshman classes will be key to defending Ancient Eight crowns

How do two teams riding off undefeated seasons and Ivy League championship titles prepare this season? According to the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, by getting lean, mean and tan.

Women's Volleyball: Princeton needs sweep, help from Columbia for shot at title

After falling out of first place a few weekends ago with a loss to Yale, the women’s volleyball team is hoping for a little bit of luck and a pair of wins against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend to stay in the race for the Ivy League title.

Men's Hockey: Upstate New York foes await Princeton

Going in to this weekend, the men’s hockey team is looking to maintain and redeem — their game record, that is. In its second weekend of league play, Princeton will travel to upstate New York this weekend to face Cornell (1-3 overall, 1-1 ECAC Hockey) and Colgate (2-3-1, 0-1-1). Coming off their first win of the season against Brown last Saturday, the Tigers are looking for a positive weekend while relying particularly on work ethic.

Column: Crazy NFL season has new surprise each week

Are there any good teams in the National Football League this season? It’s hard to tell. This past week certainly did not help at all.

Wrestling: Communale, Frey to power young Tigers

After 23 consecutive losing seasons in the Ivy League, the men’s wrestling team entered last year with some moderately optimistic expectations. With a strong recruiting class coming in, the Tigers were hoping to improve on their two wins from the 2008-09 season.

Women's Ice Hockey: Romanchuk, DiCesare to lead squad against league’s best

After a rough opening stretch to its season, the women’s hockey team (3-4 overall, 3-2 ECAC Hockey) returned from its weekend on the road with two wins. Without much time to prepare, the Tigers jumped right into game play three weeks ago. In its opening exhibition game versus McGill, Princeton had a slow start that caused it to fall behind early and never score for the equalizer, ending the game with a 4-3 loss. The next day, Princeton hosted Yale and Brown for an Ivy League preseason round robin in which the Tigers beat the Bulldogs 4-2 but fell to the Bears 3-0.

Men's Basketball: Johnson '97 keeps legacy alive

Jadwin Gymnasium, home to Princeton basketball for 41 years, is a puzzling sort of place. A mess of orange and black and Astroturf green, it sits tucked away in a far-flung corner of campus, hidden from the sight of all but the most dedicated of travelers. Its buttressed ceilings and dreary, gray walls, only rarely filled by the thousands it was designed to hold, suggest something of an industrial bent — a silent acknowledgement of a time when efficiency was king and aesthetics the court jester.

Men's Hockey: Tigers hope for return to better form

The Class of 2010 gave Princeton nine men’s hockey players who would collectively become the winningest class in the program’s history. They had more than 20 wins their sophomore and junior seasons and qualified for bids in the NCAA tournament those years. With that class gone, this year’s team aims to return to winning form following a disappointing injury-ridden season last year.

Column: In praise of NBA's overlooked superstar

Eight straight All-NBA first teams beginning with his rookie season (and a first, three seconds, and a third after that with no appearances outside the top 15).

Men's Basketball: Davis, Mavraides to lead Princeton

It has been seven full seasons since the men’s basketball team won its last Ivy League title. But this year could change that, as preseason predictions expect the Tigers to wrest back control of the Ancient Eight.

Women's Basketball: Women return 5 starters from 26-3 team

On Saturday, the women’s basketball team will watch a banner fall from the rafters at Jadwin Gymnasium, marking the team’s historic 2009-10 season. The Tigers won 21 consecutive games from December to March, went a perfect 14-0 in the Ivy League and earned the program’s first-ever NCAA tournament berth.

Feature: Juggler speaks best with projectiles

If Bilesh Ladva ’11 were born in India a hundred years ago, his caste might have relegated him to a life of making clay pots. His ancestors were Kumbhars, or potters, and belonged to a class in the middle of the social hierarchy of ancient India.