Associate Editor for Sports Eric Levenson '13 and Executive Editor for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 discuss the football team's disappointing loss to Bucknell and women volleyball's victory over defending Ivy League champs Penn.
The defense may force stops and the running game may start to heat up, but when a team turns the ball over six times, nothing else really matters. The football team found itself in that very position on Saturday night, as Princeton dropped its second game 34-9 to Bucknell.
There is plenty of fault to be had in the football team’s 10th consecutive defeat, the culmination of a full season’s worth of losses. But the defense should rank low on that list, after it was placed in an unwinnable position by a series of failures from the other units on Saturday night. In fact, the Tigers would have allowed more than the nine points they scored even if the defense had never conceded a single yard.
Fans packed the bleachers at Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night to watch as the women’s volleyball team defeated Ivy League rival and defending champion Penn in the opening conference match of the season. Last year when the Tigers took on the Quakers, each team won one very close match, so anticipation was high leading up to the weekend’s contest.
The football team looks to snap its nine-game losing streak under the lights at Princeton Stadium as it takes on Bucknell in its second game of the season. Follow the action at 6 p.m. with our live blog!
The end of this week will mark the beginning of the Ivy League season for the women’s volleyball team, which will host defending conference champion Penn in Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night.
One bizarre feature of American life is that perhaps our most highly publicized labor disputes are between rich athletes and super-rich sports team owners. Rarely do the plights of the athletes or owners inspire much sympathy. The average fan roots for a restoration of play, not for upper-income professional athletes to win a decisive victory for labor against management.
Despite losing its season opener, the football team showed some areas of improvement last week and is optimistic for a successful outing at home against the Bucknell Bison on Saturday night.
The women’s soccer team opens up its Ivy League season against Yale on Saturday, playing the Bulldogs at Roberts Stadium at 3:30 p.m. The Tigers (1-5-1) hope to bounce back from a rough beginning to their non-league season, which has included just one win in seven frustrating games.
After two heartbreaking losses last weekend, the field hockey team is looking forward to recovering some lost territory in the Ivy League when it hosts Yale at noon on Saturday.
Fantasy football is a fun way to make games not involving the football team you support interesting, but it also allows those of us who like to delve deeper into the intricacies and statistics to try to secure an advantage for draft day. Still riding the high of the NFL fantasy draft, I decided to apply the same rules to the Ivy League and determine the first round draft picks for an eight-team fantasy league, drafting only players in the Ivy League.
Twins Jason and Devin McCourty both play cornerback in the NFL: Who does mom like best? What position does Hall of Famer Deion Sanders play during flag football? If NBA 7-footer Brook Lopez could be a Disney character, who would he be? (Answers at the end.) I asked many of these sorts of questions in my job this summer at Sports Illustrated Kids.
Over the past two tumultuous years, junior linebacker Andrew Starks has been a constant and reliable force for the Princeton defensive squad, playing in every game since the start of his freshman year and developing into a running back’s worst nightmare.
The women’s soccer team had familiar troubles when it faced Lafayette at home on Wednesday. The Tigers, who have struggled to find the net early this season, attacked with a passion throughout the match, taking a season-high 29 shots. Although the Leopards took only three shots during the contest, two found the net, dealing the Tigers a disappointing 2-2 tie.
The women’s volleyball team lost its 2011 home opener to Seton Hall in three highly contested games, 27-25, 26-24, 25-23. In their last match before the commencement of the Ivy League season, the Tigers found themselves in large deficits before rallying to tie the score late in each game but finished on the wrong end of three close sets.
Whenever I leave my house, I pass my high school, right across the street from where I live. As I left home for work one morning this July, I noticed the parking lot full of vehicles and golf carts roaming between the rows of cars. It was an unusual sight for my high school in July — too early for freshman orientation, and definitely not football season yet.
Senior attack Nick Pugliese and sophomore attack Matt Pugliese share brotherhood and spots on the men’s water polo team, which is off to a red-hot 8-0 start to the season. The ‘Prince’ recently got together with the brothers to dish about fun times playing against Navy, bringing old traditions back to campus and popular Tiger Inn social events.
In 10 days, the men’s soccer team will begin conference play, searching for a second consecutive Ivy League championship and a third straight NCAA Tournament appearance. But for the Tigers (1-3-1) to top the Ancient Eight again, they will have to come out on top of a stacked conference with a lot of returning talent.
On Friday, the Tigers traveled to William & Mary to face the Tribe (5-1-2) but fell in a 2-0 shutout, Princeton’s first defeat of the season. The Tigers then returned to Roberts Stadium on Sunday to host their home opener against the Explorers, where they were handed a 1-0 shutout. With the two weekend losses, the Tigers’ record sunk to 1-5 this season.
The women’s volleyball team traveled to the Lehigh/Lafayette Crosstown Tournament last Friday and Saturday, finishing the weekend with two wins and a loss. The Tigers (7-4) defeated Hartford 3-2 in a close match to open the tournament. On the following day, Princeton split the matches, falling 3-1 to Lehigh in the morning before rallying to beat La Salle 3-0 later that day.
