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Women's Volleyball: Princeton needs sweep, help from Columbia for shot at title

Women's Volleyball: Princeton needs sweep, help from Columbia for shot at title

After falling out of first place a few weekends ago with a loss to Yale, the women’s volleyball team is hoping for a little bit of luck and a pair of wins against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend to stay in the race for the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 11/11/2010

Men's Hockey: Upstate New York foes await Princeton

Going in to this weekend, the men’s hockey team is looking to maintain and redeem — their game record, that is. In its second weekend of league play, Princeton will travel to upstate New York this weekend to face Cornell (1-3 overall, 1-1 ECAC Hockey) and Colgate (2-3-1, 0-1-1). Coming off their first win of the season against Brown last Saturday, the Tigers are looking for a positive weekend while relying particularly on work ethic.

SPORTS | 11/11/2010

Column: Crazy NFL season has new surprise each week

Are there any good teams in the National Football League this season? It’s hard to tell. This past week certainly did not help at all.

SPORTS | 11/10/2010

Wrestling: Communale, Frey to power young Tigers

After 23 consecutive losing seasons in the Ivy League, the men’s wrestling team entered last year with some moderately optimistic expectations. With a strong recruiting class coming in, the Tigers were hoping to improve on their two wins from the 2008-09 season.

SPORTS | 11/10/2010

Women's Ice Hockey: Romanchuk, DiCesare to lead squad against league’s best

After a rough opening stretch to its season, the women’s hockey team (3-4 overall, 3-2 ECAC Hockey) returned from its weekend on the road with two wins. Without much time to prepare, the Tigers jumped right into game play three weeks ago. In its opening exhibition game versus McGill, Princeton had a slow start that caused it to fall behind early and never score for the equalizer, ending the game with a 4-3 loss. The next day, Princeton hosted Yale and Brown for an Ivy League preseason round robin in which the Tigers beat the Bulldogs 4-2 but fell to the Bears 3-0.

SPORTS | 11/10/2010

Men's Basketball: Johnson '97 keeps legacy alive

Jadwin Gymnasium, home to Princeton basketball for 41 years, is a puzzling sort of place. A mess of orange and black and Astroturf green, it sits tucked away in a far-flung corner of campus, hidden from the sight of all but the most dedicated of travelers. Its buttressed ceilings and dreary, gray walls, only rarely filled by the thousands it was designed to hold, suggest something of an industrial bent — a silent acknowledgement of a time when efficiency was king and aesthetics the court jester.

SPORTS | 11/10/2010

Men's Hockey: Tigers hope for return to better form

The Class of 2010 gave Princeton nine men’s hockey players who would collectively become the winningest class in the program’s history. They had more than 20 wins their sophomore and junior seasons and qualified for bids in the NCAA tournament those years. With that class gone, this year’s team aims to return to winning form following a disappointing injury-ridden season last year.

SPORTS | 11/10/2010

Column: In praise of NBA's overlooked superstar

Eight straight All-NBA first teams beginning with his rookie season (and a first, three seconds, and a third after that with no appearances outside the top 15).

SPORTS | 11/09/2010

Men's Basketball: Davis, Mavraides to lead Princeton

It has been seven full seasons since the men’s basketball team won its last Ivy League title. But this year could change that, as preseason predictions expect the Tigers to wrest back control of the Ancient Eight.

SPORTS | 11/09/2010

Women's Basketball: Women return 5 starters from 26-3 team

On Saturday, the women’s basketball team will watch a banner fall from the rafters at Jadwin Gymnasium, marking the team’s historic 2009-10 season. The Tigers won 21 consecutive games from December to March, went a perfect 14-0 in the Ivy League and earned the program’s first-ever NCAA tournament berth.

SPORTS | 11/09/2010

Feature: Juggler speaks best with projectiles

If Bilesh Ladva ’11 were born in India a hundred years ago, his caste might have relegated him to a life of making clay pots. His ancestors were Kumbhars, or potters, and belonged to a class in the middle of the social hierarchy of ancient India.

SPORTS | 11/09/2010

Field Hockey: Tigers matched up against Wake Forest in first round of NCAA

Following much anticipation, the NCAA revealed the bracket for the 2010 NCAA field hockey championship during its selection show Tuesday night.

SPORTS | 11/09/2010

Women's Golf: Women capture first tournament victory in 18 months in Hawaii

The women’s golf team took first place in the final tournament of its fall season last week. The Tigers traveled to Kahuku, Hawaii, to compete in the Turtle Bay Resort Collegiate Invitational a seven-team tournament that included Hawaii; Brigham Young University; University of British Columbia; Portland State; Southern Illinois; and University of California, Irvine.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Men's Hockey: Tigers drop 3 of 4 over break

The men’s hockey team earned its first victory of the season Saturday night against Brown, regaining some momentum after a 5-3 loss at No. 5 Yale on Friday. The Tigers (1-3 overall, 1-1 ECAC Hockey) battled back from a two-goal deficit to beat the Bears (1-2-1, 0-1-1) 4-3 and split their first weekend of league play.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Crew: Boats roll through competition at Princeton chase

The crew program performed well for the second week in a row at the Princeton 3-Mile Chase on Halloween. The heavyweight eight, men’s lightweight eight, open eight and open four all took first place in their divisions, and the program also claimed titles in the pair and double competitions. The heavyweight eight race was the first event of the morning, and Princeton’s boat began in first, as is traditional for the defending champion.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Sprint Football: Squad suffers worst loss of season to rival Quakers, giving up more than 600 yards

The sprint football team was shut out for a third straight game on Friday in its final game of the season, this time by Penn. The Quaker offense dominated the Tigers (0-7 overall, 0-5 Collegiate Sprint Football League) in a 70-0 win in which the Quakers (6-1, 4-1) scored touchdowns on 10 of their 13 possessions.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Garrett '89 takes over as head coach of Cowboys

Jason Garrett ’89, one of Princeton’s greatest quarterbacks, has been named the interim head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Garrett, who was the team’s offensive coordinator and assistant head coach, was promoted following the firing of head coach Wade Phillips on Monday afternoon.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Women's Hockey: Tigers take 3 wins over tough foes

It was far from a relaxing fall break for the women’s ice hockey team. Princeton (3-4 overall, 3-2 ECAC Hockey) opened league play with three wins in five games, only losing 5-1 to No. 2 Cornell (6-1, 4-0) and 5-2 to Quinnipiac (7-4-1, 2-3). In their other three games, the Tigers beat Colgate (3-7, 1-3) 2-0, Rensselaer (3-6-2, 2-2) 2-1 and Union (1-9, 0-4) 3-2 in overtime.

SPORTS | 11/08/2010

Cross Country: Runners trounce opposition

In the near-non-stop athletic news cycle, it’s rare to catch history being made. Injuries and upsets can break otherwise perfect seasons. Dumb chance can blow flawless games. But when Princeton’s cross country teams entered the Heptagonal Championship in New York City on Oct. 29, history could have gone either way.

SPORTS | 11/07/2010

Football: Princeton drops 6th straight

After the clock stopped running and the crowd had thinned, when the children had rushed the field to burn what energy they had left before their parents took them home, all that remained of the Team That Could Have Been was a group of men in orange and black, standing solemnly at attention as they mustered what little spirit they had left to sing the school alma mater: “Our hearts will give while we shall live; three cheers for Old Nassau.”

SPORTS | 11/07/2010

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