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Love baseball? Sabermetrics may be for you

Love baseball? Sabermetrics may be for you

To misquote Yogi Berra, 90 percent of the game is physical. The other half is math.In 2002, the Red Sox management, including Larry Lucchino ?67, the team?s president and CEO, hired sabermetrician Bill James as a senior baseball operations advisor.

SPORTS | 04/17/2008

Live updates for today's men's and women's lacrosse games

Tune into the Daily Princetonian's sports blog for live updates on today's men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse and men's volleyball contests.

SPORTS | 04/17/2008

EIVA playoffs kicking off after inconsistent season

If the men?s volleyball team (11-9 overall, 6-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) has a favorite book, it must be Robert Louis Stevenson?s ?The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.? At the very least, this oft-read classic is rather symbolic of Princeton?s rollercoaster season.

SPORTS | 04/16/2008

Rookie comes with hype and delivers in full

When you come from the Delbarton School ? which has produced dozens of great lacrosse players, most recently Princeton senior All-Americans Alex Hewit and Dan Cocoziello ? are named the lacrosse state player of the year in a high school lacrosse hotbed and are ranked the No.

SPORTS | 04/16/2008

Perfect run ends vs. Penn

As the buzzer sounded on the women?s lacrosse team?s 9-5 loss to Penn, the Quakers screamed in triumph and surrounded their fiercest, most impressive player of the night: goalie Sarah Waxman.

SPORTS | 04/16/2008

Lineman Brielmaier '06 signs with CFL

Leave it to a Princeton alum to discover that the world of Canadian professional sports extends beyond hockey.

SPORTS | 04/16/2008

Tigers not content to settle for splits

Each season, every team has a make-or-break weekend. For the baseball team, that weekend has come, in the form of a four-game series against Ivy League rival Penn (12-15-1 overall, 4-7-1 Ivy League).In the pair of doubleheaders the Tigers (14-17, 6-6) will play at Clarke Field on Saturday and Sunday, they will attempt to break their habit of splitting weekend series.

SPORTS | 04/16/2008

A few solutions to the Dillon Gym dilemma

There?s only so many times I can wait in line for a machine in Stephens Fitness Center without becoming overwhelmingly bored with watching other people run, bike and ellipticalize (I don?t think English has a real word for what you do on an elliptical machine). And though it may be tempting to dismiss this problem, the bottom line is that overcrowding will not fix itself.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Princeton plagued by errors

The baseball team received solid pitching from sophomore Langford Stuber and a quartet of freshman relievers yesterday afternoon but was unable to overcome an early deficit in an 8-4 loss to in-state rival Seton Hall (20-13 overall) at Clarke Field.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Hugh ’09 a double champion

Of Princeton?s many nationally competitive teams, fans ought not forget the Table Tennis Club, which again neared the national title this year.Junior Adam Hugh led Princeton to the finals of the team competition, in which the Tigers fell to Texas Wesleyan for the third consecutive year.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Future on display in annual Spring Game

After three months of early-morning conditioning and three weeks of practice, the football team finally took to Powers Field at Princeton Stadium on Saturday afternoon for its annual Spring Game.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

Tigers host Quakers in battle of league unbeatens

Since 1991, the women?s lacrosse team has not lost an Ivy League match at home to any team besides Dartmouth.

SPORTS | 04/15/2008

No. 2-seed sewn up with win over G.W.

The women?s water polo team had a tough weekend on the road, splitting its last two games of the regular season by clinching an important 10-6 win against George Washington but falling 12-9 to a strong Maryland squad.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Trio of Tigers shares 11th at Princeton Invitational

All good things must come to an end, or at least they did for the women?s golf team. After sweeping the 14-team Hoya Invitational, the Tigers seemed poised to be major players during the Ivy League Championship.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Unfamiliar waters are undaunting

No Princeton team is more deserving of complementary frequent-flyer miles than the women?s crew.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Blowouts balanced by losses

The baseball team continued to live and die by the bat in its four-game series against Columbia this weekend, exploding for 23 runs in a doubleheader sweep on Saturday before cooling off at the plate in a pair of Sunday losses.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Childs Cup still in Tiger hands

There was no child?s play at the misleadingly named Childs Cup. In a riveting race, the men?s heavyweight crew ? which won last year by a margin of more than 10 seconds ? beat Columbia and Penn on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to defend its prize.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

Small ball enough to win four

Mike Scioscia, manager of the 2002 World Series champion Anaheim Angels, espoused a baseball rationale known as ?small ball.? The tactic emphasizes getting runners on base, moving them over and driving them in, one step at a time ? more commonly ?get?em on, get?em over, get?em in.? The softball team has benefited from many home runs this season, but the small-ball approach and an emphasis on each play are the reasons for its 12-0 Ivy League start.Princeton (13-19 overall, 12-0 Ivy League) completed a home-and-home doubleheader series against the Columbia Lions (12-23, 3-9), sweeping all four games.

SPORTS | 04/14/2008

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