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W. hoops crushed in road games

Basketball coaches constantly preach the importance of beginning games with second-half intensity, and this weekend the women's basketball team (10-11 overall, 4-3 Ivy League) found out the rough consequences of a flatfooted start.With the three best teams in the Ivy League playing one another, the weekend unfolded as a chance for any of the three to firmly establish itself atop the league standings, but cold shooting and early turnovers doomed the Tigers.

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Sklapsky secures shutout, Tigers split games

For the men's hockey team (10-12-3 overall, 7-9-2 Ivy League ), this season has been full of new players, new strategies and new problems.

Teams sweep Harvard for Ivy titles

On Sunday afternoon, droves of Princeton faithful filled the galleries of the Jadwin Gymnasium squash courts in anticipation of the men's and women's showdown with Harvard.While both the men's and women's teams, boasting identical undefeated records, were playing to claim the Ivy League championship, the women's team was also competing for the dual-match national championship.And both teams took full advantage of the opportunity.Beginning the afternoon, the first round of matches appeared ominous for the No.

Tigers remain in hunt for playoff home ice

During their hotly contested weekend games against Clarkson (16-13-3 overall, 8-10-2 ECAC Hockey) and St.

Title road runs through Dartmouth

Nearly one month ago, the women's basketball team (10-9 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered a tough 70-66 loss at home to Cornell (8-11, 4-2). The game was only the team's third Ivy League matchup and the last before its three-week Intersession break.

Live blogging of the men's basketball weekend

Prince reporters begin live blogging of the men's basketball team's game against Harvard on Friday night at 7:20 p.m.

Ivy League tests loom for Princeton

Amateur skaters are out in droves, happily partaking of the ice on Carnegie Lake for the first time in years.

An Ivy showdown on Jadwin's C Floor

Both the men's and women's squash teams have enjoyed tremendous success this season, sporting a flawless combined record of 12-0.

Reeling Tigers return home

At 0-4 in the Ivy League, the men's basketball team is down ? but with 10 conference games yet to be played, it is anything but out.

Johnson GS '72 buys into NBA

Many of the prominent Princetonians in the sports world were once Tiger athletes themselves: Sacramento Kings executive Geoff Petrie '70 was a basketball standout, while U.S.

Top recruit Peterson decommits from Early Decision

Despite reports that Jeff Peterson ? one of the top recruits for the men's basketball team in the last decade ? has backed out of his early-decision commitment to Princeton, the University insists he will be joining the Tigers in the fall.Head coach Joe Scott '87 said that the high school star would join the team and the University as a member of the Class of 2011."He has not decommitted to Princeton," Scott said in an interview.

Tigers head to upstate New York

For every team, playing at home has its perks. The women's hockey team (13-10-2 overall, 11-6-1 ECAC Hockey) won't be playing at Baker Rink this weekend, but it does have the opportunity to gain enough momentum to move up to fourth in the league ? a position that would earn Princeton home-ice advantage in the first round of the league playoffs.The Tigers are currently ranked fifth in the ECAC ? just two standings-points out of fourth ? and will face Clarkson (15-12-3, 7-9-2) in Postdam, N.Y., and St.

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In the pool or on the court, Tigers count on Joseph

"I started playing water polo for the ladies primarily," senior Reid Joseph said. "Volleyball was just something to do on the side to avoid off-season training ? swim season.

Hesham El Halaby picks up where Yasser left off

The surname El Halaby is one of the most famous in the rich tradition of Tiger athletics. Yasser El Halaby '06, a native of Cairo, Egypt, is primarily responsible for this distinction, as he spent his four years at Princeton compiling the most impressive record of any male in collegiate squash history.Though Yasser has since graduated and is now pursuing a career as a professional squash player, the El Halaby name lives on at Old Nassau, as his younger brother, sophomore Hesham El Halaby, is in the midst of his second season with the Tigers.While he admits that his brother has left rather large footsteps in front of him, Hesham has embraced the role of successor, focusing more on the opportunities it affords rather than the pressures it may carry."Hesh is very proud of his brother's accomplishments," sophomore teammate Kimlee Wong said, "but he also takes great pride in establishing himself as a successful competitor in his own right."Through his first season and a half, El Halaby the younger has made tremendous strides in achieving this goal.

Tigers fuse frosh, veterans

The giant orange banners draped on the walls of DeNunzio Pool hint at the storied legacy of the women's water polo program.

Lewis dives into Wall Street and home plate

Most Princeton students with an interest in Wall Street should be at least somewhat familiar with "Liar's Poker," a book that has entered the canon of finance literature.

For Princeton, a Meadowlands massacre

The hoops debacle that will go down in Princeton lore simply as "the Seton Hall game" will, to me, always be remembered as "the seat-in-hell game."That's because, when people talk about the day the men's basketball team's 2006-07 season went up in flames, I'll be able to say I was there to feel the heat ? senselessly exposed to every second of a scalding 79-41 loss to the host Pirates, the Tigers' most lopsided defeat since 1946.Having learned that Princeton would travel to East Rutherford, N.J., on the Monday of Intersession for a matchup with its in-state "rival" Seton Hall, I opted not to absorb the affair through the relative safety of a radio broadcast.Instead, I secured a press pass and valiantly followed the Tigers to the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which includes both Giants Stadium ? home to the NFL's East Rutherford Giants and East Rutherford Jets ? and Continental Airlines Arena ? which Seton Hall shares with the New Jersey Nets of the NBA.My transportation for the evening was a New Jersey Transit shuttle bus that left from the Port Authority bus terminal in New York City to bring me and a couple dozen diehard Pirate fans across the Jersey border for the game.Two buses had originally been scheduled, but when I arrived at the terminal for the "Event Shuttle," the bus operator on duty coldly informed me that the earlier bus had been cancelled.

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