The true character of a team is not always determined by how it wins, but rather by how it reacts in the face of defeat.
Welcome-to-college-sports moment?Having to carry the extra equipment bag that weighs about 50 pounds to our first away games freshman year.Greatest highlight in sports?Scoring from center ice against currently ranked No.
The men's hockey team is approaching the halfway point of the season, a good time for looking back at what's been done and what's yet to come.
The men's basketball team hasn't had anything handed to it on a silver platter this year ? its last five contests have been decided by an average of 3.6 points, and half of its victories have come by a margin of two points or fewer.
For the women's basketball team, the break from classes will serve as a way to get the final kinks out of a machine that hopes to be in contention for an Ivy League title come early March.
Let's count down the top 10 most interesting bowl games and see which teams are going to end the year on a high note.
While many Princeton students spend their free time pretending to legislate, watching serial television shows or playing instruments, a select few are learning the art of self-defense.There are four main martial arts club sports at Princeton: karate, aikido, shotokan karate and taekwondo.
Tuesday night the struggling wrestling team (0-8 overall, 0-1 EIWA) was hoping to turn its season around and capitalize on the fact that its opponent, Rutgers, was riding a losing streak of its own.
Imagine running 85 miles in one week ? that's a marathon every two days. Now imagine running 85 miles a week, 50 weeks a year, in addition to shouldering a Princeton-sized workload.
When Lee speaks, people listen," sophomore forward and roommate Brett Wilson explains. "It usually means he has something important to say."Lee Jubinville, also a sophomore forward, has played a major part in the recent resurgence of the men's hockey team, which has won four of its last five games.
Correlation may not always imply causation, but in Ivy League women's basketball, there are certainly some interesting regressions to run.
In a highly competitive matchup Saturday, the Brown men's hockey team (6-4-2 overall, 3-3-1 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League) faced Yale (6-5-1, 3-4-1) on its home ice.
The full scope of the legacy of Bill Bradley '65 isn't captured by his plaque in the Basketball Hall of Fame or his retired New York Knicks' jersey hanging next to Patrick Ewing's from the rafters of Madison Square Garden.
The women's basketball team never gave 'em a chance last night. In an easy home win, Princeton cruised to an early lead and never looked back.
"Success makes you slow to learn and quick to forget."That's a favorite saying of Roger Hughes, head coach of the football team, but in this particular instance, it may be the fans who have forgotten ? not the football team.Four years ago, when present seniors such as quarterback Jeff Terrell and defensive back Tim Strickland were still freshmen, the football team trudged off the field following its final game with a dismal 2-8 record, one of the worst in Tiger history.
As the NFL regular season approaches its end, the usual rumblings and exclamations over who should be named the league's Most Valuable Player have begun in earnest.
When the women's hockey team arrived in Detroit on Friday for its weekend series with Wayne State, temperatures were close to 10 degrees.
