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Passion for the game drives Muntz’ success

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

Tennis teams have successful weekend in out-of-state competitions

With five returning starters and the top recruiting class in the nation, the women?s tennis team is confident that it can be one of the most successful teams in school history.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Tigers’ title run cut short

There were many positives for the men?s water polo team to take out of this weekend?s Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship despite its loss in the first game to bitter rival and eventual tournament winner No.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Summer trek in Tetons strains body to the limit

Editor?s note: This is the fourth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Crimson nabs Princeton Invitational

Mimicking its movement up the U.S. News college rankings, Harvard edged past the women?s golf team at the Princeton Invitational this weekend, winning the tournament by two strokes.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Football team falls to second-half surge

CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 20 ? Princeton had a lot going for it heading into Saturday?s season opener at The Citadel.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Thrilling goals earn win, draw for women's soccer

Sometimes it comes down to the wire. For the women?s soccer team, it happened twice in one weekend.Princeton played through a pair of nail-biting contests this weekend, eking out a 1-0 overtime win against Towson (3-5-0 overall) on Friday and rallying late for a 1-1 tie against St.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Men's soccer's stretches of solid play fail to yield goals against ranked opponents

Though the men?s soccer team returned from the Chicago Classic empty-handed, a pair of slim losses to two top-20 teams proved that the Tigers have the ability to compete against the nation?s best.Princeton (1-4-0 overall) fell 2-0 Friday evening to No.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

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