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Football team trounces Lafayette 40-7 in season opener

Football team trounces Lafayette 40-7 in season opener

Miles Hinson

2006. The last year the Princeton football team opened its season with a victory. It seems, however, the Tigers had had enough of this ignominious streak. What was for a bit a neck-and-neck game soon turned into a rout, as the Tigers demolished the Lafayette College Leopards 40-7.

SPORTS | 09/21/2015

Q&A: Mark Shapiro ’89, former Princeton offensive lineman and MLB front office executive

Miles Hinson

With the baseball postseason approaching, the Daily Princetonian thought it might be interesting to look at one of Princeton’s own who is currently influencing the big leagues.

SPORTS | 09/20/2015

Sprint Football falls to Chestnut Hill in season opener

Andrew Steele

A road trip to nearby Chestnut Hill College ended in disappointment for the men of sprint football, as the Tigers fell to the Griffins by a score of 48-13.

SPORTS | 09/20/2015

Q&A: Mason Darrow '17, the first openly gay player in Princeton football

Miles Hinson

As the Princeton football team prepares for its season opener against Lafayette, one of its players is preparing to be the first of a different sort.

SPORTS | 09/19/2015

Men's and women's soccer teams head back home to Roberts Stadium

Miles Hinson

Fans of Princeton soccer will get the weekend they’ve been waiting for. The men’s and women’s soccer teams will be hosting opponents on their home field this weekend — the men on Saturday against Boston University, and the women on Sunday against William & Mary. In their home debut, the men’s team (1-2-0) looks to right the ship after a tough trip through Florida, in which they went 0-2.

SPORTS | 09/17/2015

Football hopeful yet focused for game against Lafayette

David Liu

This Saturday, Princeton football will travel to Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium to finally begin its 2015 season.

SPORTS | 09/17/2015

Men's tennis team experiences ups and downs in three-day Penn Invitational

Tom Pham

After a great season where the Princeton men’s tennis team qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 17 years before losing out to Minnesota in the Round of 64, the Tigers will look to repeat such success this season. The Tigers opened their season in Philadelphia as they played in a three-day Penn Invitational against players from many different schools, including St.

SPORTS | 09/17/2015

Tigers at 1-3 after dominant victory against Bucknell and close loss to Delaware

Gordon Moore

The Princeton field hockey team has had a difficult schedule so far this year. The Tigers dropped their season opener to No.

SPORTS | 09/15/2015

Women's team rebounds to victory, while men's team hits rough patch

Miles Hinson

Women’s Soccer The first skid of the season came to a halt for the women’s soccer team.

SPORTS | 09/15/2015

Tigers see success as season kicks off

Chris Grubbs

On Friday, Sept. 11, the men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Boston to participate in the second annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet.

SPORTS | 09/15/2015

Sports Shorts: Fall Season

David Liu

Men’s Water Polo Diving into a fresh season while riding last ones’s monumental success, the men’s water polo team (3-0) traveled to Annapolis, Md., for the annual Navy Invitational. Opponents facing the No.

SPORTS | 09/09/2015

Women's soccer kicks off season with wins

Miles Hinson

The Princeton women’s soccer team started out their 2015 campaign incredibly strong, as they swept this weekend in games against Howard University and Fordham University. The Tigers (2-0 overall), looking to make their first postseason bid since 2012, made a thunderous statement on Friday evening, as they hammered the Howard Bisons (1-2 overall) 6-0.

SPORTS | 08/31/2015

Princeton University enters partnership with sports marketing giant IMG College

Sydney Mandelbaum

In an unprecedented move, the University and IMG announced a new multi-year rights representation agreement on Aug.

SPORTS | 08/13/2015

Bray '14 part of New York Knicks' Summer League roster

David Liu

Earlier this month, the New York Knicks selected Princeton basketball alum TJ Bray ’14 for the Las Vegas NBA Summer League.The NBA Summer League offers an opportunity for newly signed rookies, undrafted prospects and a few international players to demonstrate their skills in front of NBA front offices and coaches.

SPORTS | 07/12/2015

The trophy wife: understanding women's role in modern professional sports

Miles Hinson

A trophy wife. It’s a notion both archaic and shockingly sexist. It reduces a woman from human being to a possession, a glittery object a man can tote around for all to see.

SPORTS | 06/16/2015

Soerens, Ratcliffe among strong performers for Tigers at Track and Field NCAA Championships

Miles Hinson

Soerens and Pons cap careers at NCAA Championships After serving as the hero in a thrilling Ivy League Heptagonal Championships meet, senior Stephen Soerens was able to showcase his skills on the national stage.

SPORTS | 06/16/2015

Q&A: Sara Hendershot '10, 2012 Olympian

Miles Hinson

Sara Hendershot ’10, a standout rower at Princeton, came in fourth place at the 2012 Olympics by an incredibly slim margin and is now getting ready to compete one more time at that level in Rio de Janeiro next year.

SPORTS | 06/01/2015

Q&A: Soren Thompson, Olympic Fencer

Sydney Mandelbaum

While at Princeton, Soren Thompson '05 managed to balance academics with dominating the fencing world both in the NCAA and on the international stage, making his first Olympic campaign before graduation.

SPORTS | 05/29/2015

A Q&A with Carol Brown, and a look at the early stages of Princeton women's athletics

Sydney Mandelbaum

Carol Brown ’75 was a trailblazer for women’s sports both at Princeton and on a national scale.

SPORTS | 05/29/2015

Coaches and alumni gather to discuss state of Princeton men's basketball

Miles Hinson

Men’s basketball coaching staff and alumni gathered in Robertson Hall atnoonon Fridayto discuss the state of the team and plans for improvement going into the 2015-2016 academic year. After head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 made opening remarks for the event, president of the Friends of Princeton Basketball group, Jesse Rosenfeld ’97, pointed out that the league is getting more and more competitive with each year.

SPORTS | 05/29/2015

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