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Burton and Busch break losing streak

Burton and Busch break losing streak

A tough early schedule may now be paying off for the men?s soccer team. After losing three consecutive games ? two to highly ranked teams Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago ? the Tigers finally broke through on Sunday, overcoming Farleigh Dickinson, 2-1.Princeton (2-5-0 overall) and the Knights (4-3-0) were set to head to overtime with the score knotted at one with only five minutes remaining in the second half.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

Seniors seize first Yale win

Entering the weekend, no player on the women?s soccer team had defeated Yale during her collegiate career.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

Tigers tally two huge wins, fell top-20 opponent

The field hockey team cruised along on its longest road trip of the season, adding two wins over the weekend.

SPORTS | 09/28/2008

Princeton vanquishes ranked rival

Though history was against the Tigers, the field hockey team pulled out an impressive 3-2 win at No.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Tigers fine-tune in last pre-Ivy games

As the women?s volleyball team enters its final weekend of non-conference play, the Tigers are focusing on inching closer to perfection.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Yale and Albany await on tough road trip

Coming off an impressive win against No. 13 Penn State, the field hockey team has a promising outlook for this weekend.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Offense must improve vs. East Coast rivals

With two tournament-filled weeks under its belt, the No. 19 men?s water polo team will be on the road this weekend facing conference rivals No.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Fourteen OT seconds decide match

The men?s soccer team?s offensive struggles continued as the Tigers (1-5 overall) fell 1-0 in overtime at Monmouth (4-1-1) on Thursday afternoon.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Hughes seeks steadier tempo

Princeton head coach Roger Hughes knows that all his players are aware of football?s most basic rules, but heading into this weekend?s home opener ? a 6 p.m.

SPORTS | 09/25/2008

Passion for the game drives Muntz’ success

Soccer is in Devin Muntz? blood.And it is not simply because his father was an All-American at Muhlenberg College, or because his brother played before him, or even because he picked up the game when he was just 3 years old.It is because he has a passion for the game that led him to abandon basketball, baseball and tennis, all the while remaining loyal to soccer.

SPORTS | 09/24/2008

Scoring quickly the key

Throughout the opening games of the 2008 season, the women?s soccer team (3-1-1 overall) made a living by eking out close wins in the final minutes of games.

SPORTS | 09/24/2008

Across teams, new faces teach and train

The field hockey, football and men?s soccer teams have all welcomed fresh faces to the sidelines this season as new assistant coaches have joined each team?s staff.The field hockey team welcomes two new assistant coaches to the staff in Homero Pardi and Allison Nemeth ?07.

SPORTS | 09/24/2008

Seeing stars? Then don’t try to be one

Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson, hockey player Noah Welch and soccer player Cindy Parlow, a starter on the 1999 women?s World Cup championship squad, just became part of the first dozen members of a pretty exclusive club.

SPORTS | 09/24/2008

Germany great place to gain respect for the beautiful game

I?ve never been a big fan of ?the beautiful game.? My parents signed me up for a kindergarten league at age 5, and I hated it.

SPORTS | 09/24/2008

Assistant coaches shoot for gold

While many of you spent the lazy days of June tuning into (or perhaps TiVo-ing) Euro 2008, you may not have realized that something a little closer to home was happening north of the Danube.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

On tap with ... senior utility Alex Edmunds

Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?A: It was on my recruiting trip. I made out with a hefty girl that night, and it has become a running joke on the team that has lasted my whole career.Q: What?s your funniest story about a coach?A: At Southern Championships two years ago, we were mid-game, and [head coach] Luis [Nicolao] called a timeout.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

Dobes celebrates 15th season

Five years ago, in a pregame warm-up before Princeton?s season finale against Dartmouth, linebackers coach Don Dobes was fired up.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

Farewell to our field of dreams

In the stands in the Bronx on Sunday night, one man held a sign that read, ?I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee fan.? It was a sentiment that was probably in the heart of every person who has ever worn a navy blue baseball hat with the interlocking ?NY.? As I watched the final outs of the last ever game at Yankee Stadium (barring a miraculous intervention by the baseball gods and Bill Buckner?s return to active status), the realization that my future tickets will be for a seat north of 161st Street began to sink in.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

Television visionary, ESPN founder speaks

Bill Rasmussen, the founder of the ESPN cable sports network, described his experience starting ESPN and encouraged his audience of about 50 students to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams in a lecture hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club on Wednesday night in Frick Hall.Rasmussen, ?the father of cable sports,? said he?s still awed by the success of his start-up cable company, which now claims more than 100 million subscribers and brings in more than $3 billion a year for its parent company, Disney.?It?s been an amazing ride for ESPN,? Rasmussen said, ?and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.?ESPN aired its first show, ?Sportscenter,? at 7 p.m.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

Scrimmage shows flashes of potential

The sprint football team traveled to Pennsylvania this past Saturday to take on Mansfield in a preseason scrimmage.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

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