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Men's Water Polo: Tigers lose perfect mark but edge Navy

Men's Water Polo: Tigers lose perfect mark but edge Navy

Kathy Qu

Muhammad Ali once said, “I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right ... We all have to take defeats in life.” Despite the fight against Johns Hopkins (9-4) on Friday, the No. 13 men’s water polo team suffered their first loss of the season.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Sprint Football: Mansfield cruises to 40-2 victory

Teddy Schleifer

The Mansfield University sprint football team has only won five games in its three years as a full team. Four of those victories have come against Princeton. The Tigers continued a losing trend on Saturday afternoon in a 40-2 loss to the Mountaineers.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Soccer: 36-second stretch drops Tigers in Ivy opener

Eric Levenson

A 36-second stretch of game time was all it took to decide the winner of the women’s soccer team’s match against Yale. The Bulldogs scored twice in the 57th minute and played shutdown defense the rest of the way as Princeton fell 2-0 in its Ivy League opener.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

On the Prowl: September 26, 2011

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.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Six turnovers doom Tigers in 34-9 defeat

Shayan Rakhit

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.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Defense not to blame

Kevin Whitaker

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.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Volleyball: Hosts upend defending champions in thriller

Beth Garcia

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.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Live Blog: Football vs. Bucknell

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!

SPORTS | 09/23/2011

Women's Volleyball: Defending champs visit Dillon

Vyas Ramasubramani

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Column: Top college athletes deserve compensation

Brennan Robbins

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Football: Tigers look to rebound in week 2

Eliza Kontulis

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Women's Soccer: Princeton hosts Yale in league premiere

Shmuel Dresner

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Field Hockey: Potent Bulldog offense will challenge struggling hosts

Stephanie Gati

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Column: Drafting an Ivy League fantasy team

Bryant Jones

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2011

Summer Postcard: Real answers to silly questions

Eric Levenson

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2011

Football: Becoming a 'true linebacker'

Luc Cohen

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2011

Women's Soccer: Comeback propels Tigers to draw

Kevin Henneck

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2011

Women's Volleyball: Tigers drop close match to Seton Hall

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.

SPORTS | 09/20/2011

Summer Postcard: A major golf tournament invades the sleepy suburbs

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.

SPORTS | 09/20/2011

On Tap with ... Nick (Pugie) and Matt (Pugitang) Pugliese

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.

SPORTS | 09/20/2011

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