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Women's Basketball: Strong second half propels Scarlet Knights

Women's Basketball: Strong second half propels Scarlet Knights

In a closely fought contest at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday night, Rutgers (5-4 overall) edged ahead in the second half to claim a 60-50 victory over the women’s basketball team. Despite Princeton’s (5-2) early surge — the Tigers scored the first six points of the game — the team could not come away with the victory.

SPORTS | 12/06/2009

Men's Hockey: Team drops two games on the road

In Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Road,” a father and son take a harrowing journey on a post-apocalyptic throughway in search of human life. Confronted by cannibals and other appalling horrors, the two men struggle against the elements for survival.

SPORTS | 12/06/2009

Men's Water Polo: Princeton to open tournament against USC

This weekend, the No. 13 men’s water polo team strives to make history and clinch its first-ever NCAA championship.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Women's Hockey: Tigers will be tested against No. 4 Clarkson

This weekend, the women?s hockey team faces two tough ECAC opponents in St. Lawrence and No.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Squash: Both squads to battle vs. Brown

If past outcomes are any predictor of future performance, the men?s and women?s squash teams should come away from their matches with Brown this weekend undefeated in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Men's Basketball: Tigers fall to Scarlet Knights

Former New York Jets head coach Herm Edwards once said, “You to play to win the game.” Last night, the men’s basketball team did not seem to follow Edwards’ advice.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Men's Hockey: Princeton plays pair of ECAC foes

The men?s hockey team will face ECAC Hockey bottomfeeder Brown on Friday night, and the matchup could not come at a better time for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Women's Basketball: Jadwin streak on line vs. Rutgers

This Saturday, the women?s basketball team will play its second home game in a row, tipping off against Rutgers at 7 p.m. The Tigers are 5-1 in their first six games of the season, and they look to continue their success this weekend.

SPORTS | 12/03/2009

Column: Notre Dame turns desperate to restore glory

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SPORTS | 12/02/2009

Men's Water Polo: Hale is team's calm, confident core

Though he grew up playing tennis, soccer and basketball, and though he tried his hand at rowing, Matt Hale has finally found his place: in the pool, playing water polo.

SPORTS | 12/02/2009

Women's Basketball: Tigers trounce Lehigh

Last night’s game was a tale of two strikingly different halves as the women’s basketball team ultimately cruised to an 86-68 victory over Lehigh at Jadwin Gymnasium.

SPORTS | 12/02/2009

On Tap with ... Dave Letourneau

Last year, junior dave Letourneau helped the men?s squash team to a 13-2 record while earning first-team All-American and first-team All-Ivy honors.

SPORTS | 12/02/2009

Football: Decade of ups and downs ends

At the end of the 1999 football season, Princeton’s squad was in crisis. The Tigers had just finished the year 3-7 overall and only 1-6 in the Ivy League, their worst finish since 1973’s infamous 1-8, 0-7 team. Head coach Steve Tosches had been in charge longer than some players had been playing the sport, and his last four seasons had been disappointing.

SPORTS | 12/01/2009

Football: Nationwide search for new football coach underway

A week and three days after the decision was officially made, the dust surrounding the firing of football head coach Roger Hughes has begun to settle. While the Department of Athletics has not named any of the candidates that it has interviewed thus far, numerous internet reports have surfaced regarding applicants.

SPORTS | 12/01/2009

Column: No love in locker room signals time for change

Roger Hughes needed to be fired. There is no sugarcoating the issues or dancing around the truth. After 10 seasons as the football head coach, Hughes’ time calling the shots at Princeton had to end.

SPORTS | 12/01/2009

Men's Soccer: Strong finish highlights season

It says a lot about the men’s soccer team that, despite reaching its first NCAA tournament since 2001, it wasn’t satisfied with how the season went.

SPORTS | 11/30/2009

Football: Injuries prove too much for Tigers

Last week’s 23-11 victory over Dartmouth wrapped up the football team’s third consecutive 4-6 season. But there was more to the season than the record. While the 2007 and 2008 seasons panned out nearly identically, with Princeton winning and losing games against the exact same opponents, the 2009 season had a much more complicated plotline.

SPORTS | 11/30/2009

Field Hockey: Tourney run just the start

The 2009 field hockey team was young, but its stellar season proved that it was anything but inexperienced.

SPORTS | 11/30/2009

Column: Early season rust explained

The good news is that it’s early. The bad news is that in a year when the men’s hockey team was finally supposed to put it all together, everything has begun to fall apart. To put things in perspective: With its next defeat, Princeton will have lost six games. Last season, the team’s sixth loss didn’t come until Feb. 14.

SPORTS | 11/30/2009

Women's Basketball: Close loss to UCLA avenged against UC-Irvine

Though it dropped a tough decision in its first of two contests over Thanksgiving break, the women’s basketball team showed no signs of a tryptophan hangover in its second game, earning a convincing win to improve its record to 4-1.

SPORTS | 11/29/2009

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