The cross country season may be over, but look for the same familiar distance standouts to be a force on the track this winter.
After being dominated by an Egyptian in a Tiger uniform for four years, Princeton foes are getting little rest with another foreigner leading the men's squash team.
On the nationally televised stage of Sunday Night Football, in a city where the game is a religion, in front of a sea of black and gold and high-flying Terrible Towels, Jon Dekker '06 made his long-anticipated debut in the National Football League as a Pittsburgh Steeler last weekend."I've been [on Heinz Field] for preseason games, but it's not the same," Dekker said.
The best word to describe the Bowl Championship Series match-ups in college football this season cannot be printed in a newspaper.
The New Orleans Saints, New York Knicks' head coach Isiah Thomas, Disney's Wide World of Sports and General Mill's Wheaties ? these are just a few clients that have employed Frank Vuono '78 over the years.
In tonight's matchup, the men's basketball team, coming off a loss against the familiar foe of last weekend, Rutgers, will face a team that it has never faced before, the Evansville Purple Aces (2-5 overall). At 8:05 p.m., Princeton (2-5) will try to break its five-game losing streak in Evansville, Ind.Despite the recent slump, there are reasons to be optimistic, such as the double-doubles of sophomore guard Lincoln Gunn against Rutgers and sophomore center Zach Finley against Seton Hall.
Tonight, the women's basketball team (2-6 overall) will travel to Newark for a showdown against instate rival New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) at 7 p.m.
Most teams have home-court advantage every few games, but for the men's and women's fencing teams, that edge only comes once every several years.This past Saturday, the Tigers competed in their first dual meet of the season, hosting six other schools at Jadwin Gym.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams did more than just swim with Penn State this weekend ? they raced them until the very end.
After this weekend's effort on Jadwin Gym's squash courts, the No. 1 women's squash team moved one step closer to achieving its dream of repeating as national champions.Head coach Gail Ramsay's squad defeated both the Brown Bears and the Williams Ephs, keeping the Tigers' (3-0 overall) record perfect.
When the Princeton wrestling team traveled to State College, Pa., this weekend to take part in the challenging Nittany Lion Open, it knew the competition would be stiffer than it had been at the first two tournaments of the season.
When a team's top player is sidelined, it's not uncommon for the rest of the squad to feel the effects of his loss.
Unfortunately for the men's basketball team, lady luck showed up on time but left early in its interstate rivalry game against Rutgers this Saturday.
QUEENS, N.Y. ? As the old saying goes, "All good things must come to an end."The women's volleyball team learned that lesson in painful fashion Friday night, as the Tigers (22-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) lost 3-1 to Delaware (31-4 overall) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at St.
On a weekend when the women's hockey team needed to win two games to keep pace in the ECAC Hockey conference, the Tigers went 1-1, beating Colgate handily, 4-2, but dropping a frustrating 3-2 decision to Cornell.The Tigers (5-7-2 overall, 3-5-1 ECAC Hockey) out-shot the Big Red (7-4-1, 4-1-1) 26-18 Saturday night, but were unable to convert when necessary in a scoreless third period.
The men's hockey team may not have gotten the weekend sweep it hoped for, but the Tigers were able to get one major monkey off their backs, picking up their first home victory of the season Saturday night at Baker Rink.After falling to Rensselaer 4-3 on Friday night, Princeton (5-5-0 overall, 4-4-0 ECAC Hockey) came back to defeat Union 4-3 the next day, bringing the team back to .500 for the season.Eager to forget the tough loss to the Engineers the night before, the Tigers came prepared against the Dutchmen (3-6-2, 1-3-2) and were able to jump out to an early lead.Seven minutes, three seconds into the first period, junior forward Lee Jubinville made what appeared to be a perfect pass to junior forward Brett Wilson in the crease.
The women's basketball team succeeds when it's free to run the floor, but over the past week, Princeton (2-6 overall) has seen that approach deliver mixed results.The Tigers out-rebounded St.
