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Thompson leaves men's basketball after four years with 69-42 record

Thompson leaves men's basketball after four years with 69-42 record

Men's basketball head coach John Thompson III '88, a stranger neither to Princeton nor Georgetown, leaves behind a legacy at his alma mater as he moves on to Washington, D.C., to become the Hoyas' new head coach.Though he has only been head coach since the 2000-01 season, Thompson has spent a total of 13 years at Princeton ? first as a player, then as an assistant coach and finally assuming the top coaching position.Thompson's deepest roots, however, lie at Georgetown.

SPORTS | 04/20/2004

Biles siblings motivate each other in pursuit of titles

Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Mike Judd sat down with sister and brother Lindsey and Mike Biles, two important members of Princeton's lacrosse teams.

SPORTS | 04/20/2004

Another Thompson at Georgetown

After over a month of speculation, Georgetown finally officially poached men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 from Princeton yesterday.Air Force head coach Joe Scott '87 stands as the frontrunner to replace Thompson on the Tigers' bench.

SPORTS | 04/20/2004

Three members of w. lax nominated for coveted Tewaaraton

Although women's lacrosse has seen a number of impressive players in recent years, the Tigers have always stressed team accomplishments over individual accolades.

SPORTS | 04/20/2004

W. crew teams dominate in Jersey; men's squads both fall

The women's and men's crew teams took on top national competition this past weekend, and came away with mixed results.

SPORTS | 04/19/2004

Men's and women's golf win Ivies

An Ivy League title is something every Princeton team dreams of and few actually achieve. Out of those that have claimed the Ivy crown, even fewer can boast multiple victories.

SPORTS | 04/19/2004

Tigers go 3-1 against Brown, Yale, move up a spot to third in Ivy League race

Having dropped three of their last four Ivy League games, the softball team stood like a wavering army, seeing their hopes of a third consecutive Ivy League championship about to disappear in a rout.

SPORTS | 04/19/2004

Men's, women's track excel in Pomona Invitational

It's not too often that a team can split its roster, send a group of its strongest athletes to a competition focused on individual results, send the rest of the squad to a team competition and be successful in both.

SPORTS | 04/19/2004

Baseball sweeps four road games

The results were the same, even if the means were different.After exploding for 33 runs to take both ends of a video-game-style doubleheader Saturday afternoon, the baseball team notched two more victories on Sunday in far more conventional contests.With the four-game sweep, Princeton (18-13 overall, 7-5 Ivy League) leapfrogged their hosts for the weekend, Columbia (9-21, 6-10), to grab the top spot in the Lou Gehrig division, turning a one-game deficit into a three-game lead and putting the Tigers in the driver's seat in the race to qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series."We always set our sights on three wins, and getting the fourth is a great bonus," head coach Scott Bradley said.

SPORTS | 04/19/2004

Crimson rolls over against men's lax, Sowanick shines

The Harvard men's lacrosse team was left shaking its head on Saturday at the 13-4 parting gift given to it by the Tigers.

SPORTS | 04/18/2004

Sherry scores career-high six goals as w. lax cruises

With a victory over Harvard on Saturday, women's lacrosse is now just two games away from a perfect league season and sole possession of the Ivy League title.After dominating their contest against the Crimson (5-7 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) in Cambridge, Mass., the Tigers (13-0, 5-0) emerged with a 17-7 win.The victory essentially ensures that Princeton will remain the unanimous choice as the nation's No.

SPORTS | 04/18/2004

Scientific analysis of where the Expos should go next

The globetrotting of the Montreal Expos may be over soon.The "major league" franchise has long been the breeding grounds for some the best talent in baseball but has never been able to capitalize on that.That's what happens when you don't have any money.

SPORTS | 04/18/2004

Men's tennis splits two against league foes

The men's and women's tennis teams split their matches this weekend, with both teams losing to Harvard, but coming back to defeat Dartmouth.

SPORTS | 04/18/2004

Women's water polo wins Southerns

Women's water polo bulldozed its way through the Southern Championships at Villanova this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/18/2004

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

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

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

'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

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