The men’s and women’s track teams posted impressive results throughout the weekend at the Larry Ellis Invitational. The meet, which spanned Friday and Saturday, featured 35 teams from across the northeast.
Despite the adversity it has faced this season, the men’s lacrosse team is still in the running for the postseason after a disappointing 9-8 loss to Harvard this weekend.
One of the keys to succeeding in fantasy sports is making unfair trades. A good exchange is often thought to be one that is mutually beneficial. This concept is a dangerously politically correct idea that you can use to your advantage but should never accept at face value. The trade you really want to pull off, in the words of well-respected Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, is a “fucking-A trade.”
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In 2002, the Yale and Princeton men’s rugby teams established a yearly game between the two schools, renewing a storied rivalry that had petered out during the 1990s. Flanker Rob Koranda ’02 was on the field for that first contest, which ended in a Princeton victory.
Men’s hockey head coach Guy Gadowsky has been hired as the head coach at Penn State, the athletics department announced in a release on Sunday.
The men’s and women’s golf teams concluded their seasons at the Ivy League Championship this weekend. Though the men lost steam after a strong start to finish fifth, the women’s team recovered from a rough first day to place third.
The women’s lacrosse team suffered a disappointing loss at No. 14 Dartmouth (9-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) on Saturday. The No. 15 Tigers (7-6, 4-2) fell to an early deficit and never recovered as the Big Green cruised to a 15-10 victory.
This weekend, the baseball team will finally return to Princeton after an 10-game road trip during which it went 6-4. The Tigers will kick off their seven-game homestand with doubleheaders against Columbia on both Saturday and Sunday. The Lions (16-18 overall, 6-6 Ivy League) are third in the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division, just three games behind the division-leading Tigers (15-17, 9-3).
The annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament is always to be filled with surprising upsets in the middle rounds, and Thursday’s event was no exception. But the team left standing in the end was one many could have predicted: the football team. Football dominated Cap & Gown Club in the championship match, storming to an early advantage and closing out the 20-man match with seven players still on the court to claim the title.
Rarely, at the start of baseball season, does any event of particular intrigue come to light. Typically the commencement of every team’s 162-game march begins with some disappointing performances, other surprising ones and the realization that current standings likely have no bearing on the playoff outcomes in September.
In what has become a season-long battle with the weather, the softball team lost to Mother Nature again when the threat of thunderstorms forced the cancellation of its weekday doubleheader against Monmouth. In addition to countless reschedulings and postponements, it was the third time this season a game was cancelled due to inclement weather.
The women’s lacrosse team heads into the weekend to play the first of its three finals games left in its 2011 regular season. No. 15 Princeton (7-5 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) will play at No. 14 Dartmouth (8-3, 4-1) on Saturday in a game that could determine the Ivy League champion.
Mitch Henderson ’98 was formally introduced as the next men’s basketball head coach in a press conference on Thursday, one day after it was announced that he would succeed Sydney Johnson ’97. Henderson sat next to Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 in the Princeton Stadium press box while dozens of members and friends of the athletics department watched the ceremony.
There is a group of competitors on the Princeton campus that is rather mysterious and never accepts interview requests. Psychoanalysts have suggested that this is a direct result of their secluded training exercises. While traditional sports teams practice on freshly cut grass or glossy gym floors, these athletes often prefer to practice and compete in the comfort of their own dorms, where there are minimal distractions from the task at hand. No, this is not the chess club’s 15 minutes of fame. The following is dedicated to the numerous gamers on campus.
This weekend, the men’s lacrosse team will look to extend its two-game win streak when it hosts Harvard on Saturday. The game against the Crimson (7-5 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) is the last home game of the season and must be won by the Tigers (4-6, 2-2) if they hope to play into the postseason.
The women’s lacrosse team sought vengeance when it traveled to Penn’s Franklin Field last night. Remembering a tough loss 13-9 to the No. 9 Quakers (9-4 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) in the conference tournament last season as well as a devastating 9-8 defeat in the game against Harvard last weekend, No. 19 Princeton (7-5, 4-1) was determined to win. The Tigers did just that, never trailing in an 11-7 road victory.
On April 12, 2011, former Princeton defender Teddy Schneider signed a contract with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. For an undersized 5-foot-6-inch defensive prospect without blinding pace or truly exceptional ball control, the achievement was impressive, if not perhaps a case of predestination.
It is a commonly known fact that college basketball, particularly at the Division I level, is a lucrative enterprise. CBS and Time Warner bought joint ownership of the NCAA Tournament television rights for $10.8 billion, and athletic departments around the nation dedicate hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to support their programs. Much of the legwork for this fundraising falls on booster and friends groups.
Thursday marks the annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament, when thousands of students compete for hundreds of teams to determine one champion. Check out the bracket and follow the action this evening with our live blog!
As you may know, Thursday marks one of Princeton’s biggest annual events: the annual campus-wide dodgeball tournament. In the afternoon, thousands of undergraduates will flock to Dillon Gymnasium and hurl foam balls of various sizes at each other, with 101 teams narrowed down to one champion.
