Championship teams everywhere follow the time-honored ritual of soaking their coach with a celebratory shower.
Saturday ? season opener ? national title expectations ? No. 2 vs. No. 3 in the nation.
PROVIDENCE, RI ? It's rainin' three's! Hallelujah, hallelujah! Three-pointers were flying into the basket Friday and Saturday nights as the men's basketball team went 1-1 over the weekend, which potentially ruined the Tigers' chances for an Ivy League title.After defeating Yale (12-13 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) on Friday night, Princeton (14-10, 8-3) needed to steal a victory from Brown (15-11, 10-2) in order to stay realistically in the Ivy League race.The Tigers jumped out to an early lead against the Bears, leading, 11-4, with 15 minutes, 48 seconds left in the first half.
This weekend 254 fencers descended on Boston College for the 106th meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships.
This weekend of men's basketball could decide everything in the Ivy League or nothing. Princeton (13-9 overall, 7-2 Ivy League) sits squarely in third place in the Ivy standings ? on the outside looking in.The two big dogs on top are Penn (17-5, 9-0) and Brown (14-10, 9-1), both of which defeated the Tigers earlier in the season.
One of the beautiful things about Ivy League women's basketball is that each team plays every other team twice.
The postseason tournament is still two weeks away, but what happens this weekend, the final weekend of regular season play, will largely decide how the 2002-03 women's hockey team will go down in the history books.Saturday, Princeton hosts one of its most formidable foes in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference ? Dartmouth, currently second in the conference and No.
Tomorrow will be March. Somehow, it doesn't feel that way. Snow blankets the ground, with the only reprieve coming from the ugly paved walkways that endlessly adorn our campus.
Jesus of Nazareth, Yasser El Halaby and King Charlemagne the Great. What do they have in common? They all have six syllables in their name.And they're all ranked first in the respective fields of their time.This weekend, 64 men chosen by the coaches from the eight participating colleges and universities will compete with one another for the Intercollegiate Squash Association Individual Championship at Trinity College.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sarah Kiernan sat down with junior forward Chris Owen of the men's hockey team.'Prince': So, are you mad that I'm late?Chris Owen: No, not at all.
When one thinks of the nation's oldest, annually contested collegiate championships, visions of Army/Navy or perhaps Harvard/Yale football come to mind.
The Heptagonal Championships will take place this weekend at Dartmouth's Leverone Fieldhouse. All eight Ivy League schools plus Navy will square off for an intense two-day, team-scored battle.
Last weekend, Princeton University, unbeknownst to many of its students, hosted the Intercollegiate Squash Association championships.Big deal?It actually was a big deal.Hosting college squash's version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, albeit with far less teams, gave Princeton the unique privilege to witness firsthand the nation's top college squash players.College squash is one of those few sports here at Princeton, according to the humble opinion of this lowly sports writer, where its players are nearly as good as professional ones; where action is seldom dull; and where a day spent literally holed underground in Jadwin Gym's C-Floor, even on a dreary late Sunday morning, is not wasted.Sunday's top three finals matches were seemingly the three most entertaining matches one might find in all of men's college squash.The first found senior David Yik, who won the national championship in 2001 as a sophomore, playing Trinity's Nickolas Kyme.The catlike Yik came alive in the second game after a slow start, bearing a smile less the result of quirky fan cheers than the fact that Kyme seemed to be gradually losing his shorts on the court as the match unraveled.
Every season, the women's track team ventures forth in hopes of striking fear into the hearts of its foes and reigning victorious at the Heptagonal Championships.Occasionally they are rebuffed and sent home bereft of any sort of compensation for their efforts or pride.
With Alumni Day festivities occupying Jadwin Gymnasium, the final indoor home meet of the season for both the men's and women's track and field teams was relegated to the posh facilities of Lawrenceville Prep, four miles down Route 206.The Heptagonal Championship, an antiquated name for the championship contested by the Ivy League and Navy, are this upcoming weekend and as such, the past weekend's competition was downplayed.
It is said that when a person goes blind, his other senses are heightened. If a person loses a finger, the rest of the hand gets stronger to compensate for the loss.
"Relax." ? the word that triggered male model Derrick Zoolander to become a killing machine might as well be senior Jesse Gage's personal motto.
Crushing Rutgers in the first game, the Scarlet Knights came back and won three of the final four games, to beat the Tigers, 3-2..Going into the final game tied, 2-2, the Tigers had the chance to win their second straight, but Rutgers was too strong in the fifth game, and pulled out a 15-13 win.Sophomore Blake Robinson led the Tigers with 21 kills on the night.
From the looks on the Tigers' faces late Sunday, it was hard to tell they had just lost.The men's squash Class of 2003 ended its career at Jadwin Gym this past weekend in the Intercollegiate Squash Association Team Championships.
In a meet the wrestling team had awaited all season, Penn did not fail to challenge Princeton. Always one of the top Ivy League teams, the Tigers wrestled well, but could not claim enough points to beat the always powerful Quakers.Princeton won four of the meet's ten matches to keep it close, but the depth of the Quakers ? No.
