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Softball to play Brown, Yale in crucial league games

Softball to play Brown, Yale in crucial league games

This weekend the softball team will cross the Rubicon, as they host Brown and Yale in two doubleheaders that could send the team to another glorious Ivy League title or see the team's title hopes dashed.With Harvard, who swept the Tigers in a doubleheader last Saturday, sitting atop the league standings with a perfect 4-0 record, the die most certainly has been cast.Princeton (16-13 overall, 3-3 Ivy League) currently finds itself in a disappointing fourth place in the league and in the midst of a four-game losing streak.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

M., w. golf head to Ivy Championships

If spring ever decides to roll back the rain clouds and shed a little sunshine on New Jersey, this weekend the men's and women's golf teams will compete in the most important tournament of their season ? the Ivy League Championships.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

'Apprentice' over — NBA playoffs best reality show left

My dog hates NBA playoff time. He always watches with me, and when the Minnesota Timberwolves make their annual first-round exit I enter into my postmortem crestfallen rage and throw things in his direction (not at him, PETA).But this year I'm downright giddy.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

Baseball has begun: Top 10 things that need to be fixed

" . . . Cause it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the ol' ball game."For those of you living under a rock, or seniors who are still working on their theses, let me inform you that baseball season has officially begun.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

Rutgers romps past baseball in Piscataway

The baseball team was soundly shellacked in an intrastate matchup with Rutgers yesterday afternoon, as the home-standing Scarlet Knights roughed up three Princeton hurlers en route to an easy 15-6 victory.Although the Tigers (14-13 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) managed to bang out 15 hits, it did them little good, as they stranded runners on base nearly every inning.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

W. lax shows Ivy dominance with 10-3 pounding of Penn

It was a night for the record books.With last night's 10-3 win over unranked Penn (7-6 overall, 3-2 Ivy League), No.

SPORTS | 04/15/2004

Top outdoor track athletes to compete in California

The men's and women's outdoor track and field teams look to take their early-season successes across the country this weekend to the Mt.

SPORTS | 04/14/2004

Harvard, Dartmouth next foes for tennis teams

After two wins in their first three Ivy League matches, the men's tennis team will take its act on the road ? a long way on the road ? when it travels to Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend as Princeton (8-9 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) try to keep pace with the league leaders.Tomorrow the men will be in Cambridge to take on the first-place Crimson (12-6, 2-0). Harvard is coming off a rousing 6-1 win in Ithaca against Cornell, the only loss coming from Jonathan Chu at No.

SPORTS | 04/14/2004

Three crew squads in New Jersey this weekend

With a forecast calling for sun and temperatures in the 60s this weekend there will be no excuse to not go out and enjoy one of the three crew races Princeton teams will be competing in here in New Jersey.Both the open women and lightweight men's teams will be at home Saturday while the women's lightweight team will be competing in Camden, N.J.

SPORTS | 04/14/2004

Princeton hurler Pauly makes major league pitch

It's not often that a Princeton student complains about having too much free time. So when senior Thomas Pauly says he misses "staying busy with work," you assume he's joking.He's not.But Pauly isn't your average just-finished-with-his-thesis senior.

SPORTS | 04/14/2004

Quaker shaker: m. lacrosse ekes past Penn

When Penn defenseman Joseph Shanagan scooped up a loose ball deep in his own territory, darted downfield and poked a shot past Princeton sophomore goalkeeper Dave Law early in the fourth quarter Tuesday at Class of 1952 Stadium, what had begun as a routine league matchup on a dismal weekday afternoon suddenly turned into the most important game of lacrosse the Tigers have played all season.No.

SPORTS | 04/14/2004

W. water polo falls to Team U.S.A.

How does it feel to go up against an Olympian?Daunting, intimidating and scary would probably top most people's list.

SPORTS | 04/13/2004

Going for a record 21-straight wins, w. lacrosse hosts Penn

For women's lacrosse fans, 21 is the number to keep in mind tonight as the Tigers (11-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) find themselves one victory away from setting a new program record for consecutive wins.

SPORTS | 04/13/2004

Giving NASCAR, golf and racing a sporting chance

A few weeks back, I was scrambling for a column topic, so I turned on the TV to find the most sizzling sports news of the day.Trusty ESPN will help me out.

SPORTS | 04/13/2004

Softball tries to recapture winning touch at Towson

E.M. Forster once said, "Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars.

SPORTS | 04/13/2004

Negron to fight for place on Under-21 national team

Is Esmeralda Negron the next Mia Hamm?It's too early to tell. But maybe her participation in the U.S.

SPORTS | 04/13/2004

Men's volleyball no match for Nittany Lions on road

As April reaches its midway point, the men's volleyball team is reaching the end of its long season.

SPORTS | 04/12/2004

Heavyweight m. crew wins Childs Cup over Penn, Columbia

Heavyweight men's crew triumphed over two Ivy League teams last weekend to come home with the Childs Cup, the oldest colnegiate rowing trophy in the country.This was the 125th anniversary of the competition between Princeton, Penn and Columbia.

SPORTS | 04/12/2004

Men's golf wins only home meet

With the end of school barely visible on the horizon, the men's and women's golf teams headed their separate ways this weekend to compete in their last regular-season tournaments.The men rounded out the regular season with their first win of the year, which they hope will give them an extra boost of confidence heading into the Ivy League Championships next weekend.The women's squad was slightly less successful, placing fourth in the highly competitive James Madison Invitational.The Tiger men, hosting the 2004 Princeton Invitational last weekend, beat some of the nation's top competition to emerge victorious.

SPORTS | 04/12/2004

Rooting for Lefty: Mickelson sheds monkey at Masters

Forgive me. With all due respect to the older generation, I don't remember the '86 Masters. I wish I could've seen a 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus close with a back-nine 30 on Sunday to win his sixth green jacket.

SPORTS | 04/12/2004

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