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Men's swimming downs opponents

Men's swimming downs opponents

DeNunzio Pool was abuzz this weekend as the men's swimming and diving team hosted its final home dual meets of the 2003-2004 season against Kenyon College on Friday evening and the US Naval Academy on Saturday afternoon, sending both visiting teams home winless.Princeton towered over the Kenyon Lords with a 157-107 win.

SPORTS | 02/08/2004

What defines greatness?

With the race for the men's basketball Ivy League championship in full gallop, I started thinking about the importance of a championship.Obviously, it's a monumental team accomplishment, but what does it mean for how players are viewed, especially professionals?

SPORTS | 02/08/2004

Wrestling drops three matches, falls to 0-4 in league standings

The wrestling team journeyed to Cambridge, Mass. and Providence, RI this weekend to face off against Harvard, East Stroudsburg and Brown.

SPORTS | 02/08/2004

Men's hockey unable to trip up Brown at Baker

"Make Hobey Proud!" proclaims the huge banner hanging at one end of Baker Memorial Rink, and the quality of play in Friday night's contest between Princeton (5-10-1 ECAC, 5-17-1 overall) and Brown (12-3-1, 14-5-4) surely must have had Hobey smiling.Although the Bears finished the evening with a 5-2 victory, the level of intensity and parity between the teams, particularly in the first two periods, was exemplary of competition at its best.The Tigers, currently ranked 11th in the ECAC, surprised both their fans and their opponents in the early stages of the game by abandoning their slow-starting habits and beginning strong.

SPORTS | 02/08/2004

Women's basketball hangs tough with Dartmouth

An upset of Brown and a win over Yale last weekend put women's basketball (5-13 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) in excellent position in the scramble for the Ivy crown leading into this weekend's games against Dartmouth and Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/08/2004

Harvard match to highlight road trip as wrestling rebounds from Ivy losses

Following last weekend's match-ups against Cornell and Columbia, the wrestling team (2-7 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) finds itself up against East Stroudsburg, Harvard (0-8, 0-0) and Brown (3-7, 0-0) this weekend as it travels to Massachusetts and Rhode Island.Last weekend's results proved disappointing for the Tigers as they entered into the real meat of the season, beginning their Ivy League competition and starting to gear up for the approaching the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet at the end of the season.A pair of pins enabled Columbia to gain a quick advantage over the Tigers, including a pin of senior co-captain Brian Kirschbaum in the 133-lb.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

M. hoops takes on two Ivy foes

Junior guard Will Venable's three-point play in the last seconds of Saturday's game against Yale, which gave Princeton a 49-47 win, was a dramatic finish to a close contest.That finish may have given the Tigers huge confidence in their ability to come through in close games.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

Goalie leads Brown against m. hockey

In the words of legendary baseball manager Tommy Lasorda, "the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."The challenge facing the men's hockey team this weekend requires just such extreme resolution and dogged team-wide willpower.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

Kenyon, Navy next up for men's swimming after success at H-Y-Ps

After an invigorating win last weekend at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton competition, the men's swimming and diving team (6-1 overall, 6-0 EISL) will stay home for the weekend while Kenyon and Navy make appearances at DeNunzio Pool.Starting Friday night, the Tigers take on the Kenyon Lords.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

First place at stake this weekend for w. hoops

Mason Cooley once said, "Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge." This weekend, in what has turned out to be one of the biggest ironies of the year, women's basketball, after suffering a more than rocky start, will face the tremendous challenge of both Dartmouth and Harvard with a chance to propel themselves into first place in the Ivy League.In a season that has proven to be anything but simple, the Tigers (5-11 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) will take on the biggest test of their time, first playing league-leading Dartmouth (10-6, 3-0) and then facing a veteran Harvard (8-8, 1-2) team.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

Legends of 'The Streak'

I am a cursed traveler. Odysseus, the S.S. Minnow, none of them have it quite as rough as I do. In the past two-and-a-half years of flights, I have suffered more delays than I care to remember, two canceled flights, five lost bags, a power outage on a train, and a midair attack from a giant wasp creature.

SPORTS | 02/05/2004

M. hoops' Wysocki leaves team due to 'confrontations and conflicts'

The Daily Princetonian received the following letter from recently departed men's basketball player Konrad Wysocki.In response to questions, comments and concerns I have received in the past few days I feel obligated to say a few words of my own.For Princeton basketball the trip to Brown and Yale was a successful Ivy League weekend with very important wins.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Ivy titles on line for m., w. squash on weekend trip

With fewer than half of their regular season matches left, the men's (4-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) and women's (3-1, 3-1) squash teams are looking to tighten their loosening grip on the Ivy League race this weekend as they travel to take on Dartmouth and Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Women's fencing travels to Cornell for tune up before Penn, H-Y-P matches

While the men's fencing team takes a weekend break from competition, women's fencing will make the long and laborious trek to Ithaca, N.Y., this weekend, facing Cornell in the Stifel Fencing Salle.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Women's hockey travels to Union after inconsistent homestand

The No. 9 women's hockey team will look to start another winning streak this weekend, as they travel to New York for back-to-back games against Union.The team previously had a five-game winning streak, stretching back to before Winter Break, that included a surprise victory over No.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Super Bowl is wicked good

The Patriots and the Panthers. There was no reason to care about the Super Bowl this year. There was no controversy ? no Barrett Robbins, no Eugene Robinson, no Ray Lewis.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Tough weekend competition will prepare indoor track for HEPs

There are only a few meets remaining before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, and this weekend's races against two tough opponents should serve as an excellent window for the men's and women's indoor track teams' prospects for the remainder of the season.The men's indoor track team will have its work cut out for it this weekend, as they host two difficult teams, Penn State and Connecticut, at home this Saturday.

SPORTS | 02/04/2004

Three keys to men's basketball's early wins

An Ivy League title cannot be won in a single weekend. But in a span of 24 brief hours, the men's basketball team made a surprisingly early break from the peloton of the league race.In two of their best performances of the young season, the Tigers (9-6 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) swept Brown and Yale on the road.

SPORTS | 02/03/2004

The 'Prince' explores the role of checking in women's hockey

Ask somebody to think of ice hockey, and most people will conjure up images of huge bloody Russian men knocking out each other's teeth into the path of an oncoming Zamboni.

SPORTS | 02/03/2004

Squash legend returns for individual tourney

Women's squash hosted the Betty Constable Invitational from Jan. 23 to Jan. 25 while most of Princeton enjoyed winter Intersession.Named for probably the most well-known figure in women's squash, the Constable Invitational took place over three days and was held all day long.

SPORTS | 02/03/2004

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