"I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." Sound familiar?To most, these words conjure an image of Christopher Walken encouraging a belly-baring Will Ferrell to explore the studio space in a Saturday Night Live skit.
The Tigers just wrapped up an undefeated Ivy League season, something that hasn't been done since 2003.
Senior forwards Darroll Powe and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller are members of the men's ice hockey team.Welcome-to-college-sports moment?GGZ: I guess it was the first weekend of our freshman year, on the road against St.
Stepping onto the ice to perform a three-minute-long program is daunting enough when the skater is competing solo.
It's been said that the least comforting part about winning a championship is its transience ? come next season, a title signifies nothing about the strength of the team defending it.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. ? When rivals meet, the setting is always intense. And when the game is intense, a team that plays good defense will almost always be the winner.Unfortunately for the men's basketball team (10-11 overall, 1-6 Ivy League), its stellar defense was outdone by an even better Penn defense, guiding the Quakers (15-8, 6-1) to a 48-35 win in a slugfest last night at The Palestra.After the Tigers rallied to tie the game at 29 with 11 minutes and 24 seconds remaining, Penn sealed Princeton's fate with a long second-half run maintained by stifling pressure defense.The Orange and Black shot a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, including 21 percent from beyond the arc, but was kept in the game by Penn's 35 percent field-goal and 13 percent three-point shooting.
Most sibling rivalries extend to all sorts of quarrels. For the water-polo-playing duo of senior utility Elyse Colgan and sophomore driver Brendan Colgan, however, their fights center on just one issue."We only fight over the car," Brendan said.The two siblings, who share a passion for water polo, actually get along so well that they cooperate in a musical venture at home."I actually have a band back home," Brendan, who hails from Annapolis, Maryland, said.
Professors always tell students to think outside the box because creativity and individuality keep them from being confined to any one space.
Princeton's wrestling team (0-16 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) hit the road to face New York Ivy League rivals Columbia (6-3, 2-1) and Cornell (6-5, 3-0) this past weekend.
On Friday, the men's basketball team overcame Harvard, proving it can compete with an average Ivy League team.
In tournament competition, one starts to see whether a team will sink or swim.The No. 18 women's water polo team kept afloat this past weekend against some of the top water polo teams in the nation at the Triton Invitational in San Diego.
Whoa there, Princeton.Just take a deep breath.You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us.When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit.You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.Well, Princeton, what I should do with this column is tell you to get over yourselves right now.But no.
As far as starting off on the right foot goes, the Tiger tennis players seem to be doing pretty well.
So, you guys are probably gonna beat us tonight.We're 1-5 in the Ivies. We lost to Dartmouth Saturday night.
West to East, ups and downs ? that's one way to describe how the men's volleyball team has been playing recently.After returning from the West Coast, the Tigers (2-4 overall, 1-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) took a weekend road trip to face two Pennsylvania teams, one ranked No.
After losing its first four Ivy League games, the men's basketball team hit the court with something to prove Friday night.
One week ago, the swimming and diving teams set a high bar for Princeton athletics by sweeping both the men's and women's annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meets.
