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Women's Volleyball: Tigers turn away Temple

Women's Volleyball: Tigers turn away Temple

The women’s volleyball team made its home debut with a bang last night, knocking off Temple and halting a three-game losing streak. Close sets and long volleys kept the fans on the edges of their seats. In the end, Princeton took three of the night’s four games to send the Owls home with a loss. The Tigers prevailed 25-19, 16-25, 25-22, 25-19.

SPORTS | 09/22/2010

Postcard: Watching the 'Zenit' of Russian soccer

I always seemed to be confused or disoriented whenever I was in St. Petersburg, Russia, this summer. After a hasty cell phone conversation with a Russian friend, Tanya, between classes one afternoon in late July, I emerged from a metro station on the outskirts of the city wondering how I would be spending the evening. Unsurprisingly, the conversation had been a jumbled mush and the only word I had understood was “ticket.” Perhaps we were going to some kind of theater?

SPORTS | 09/22/2010

Column: Feature backs no longer a feature of NFL

If you own a fantasy football team (and really, why wouldn’t you?) you know the word that strikes fear into the hearts of owners just as it strikes hope into the hearts of would-be condominium renters: timeshare. More and more teams are no longer designating a starting running back and backups, but are instead using a more nebulous system in which there may or may not be a lead back who gets a plurality of the carries. But you can never really be sure who is going to get the most carries in a given game. Some teams, like the Patriots, employ an endless stream of running backs with names like BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Fred Taylor in such a way that knowing which one to start on your fantasy roster is an impossible and frustrating crapshoot.

SPORTS | 09/22/2010

Postcard: Summer in the minor leagues

Summer jobs can’t get much better than this. Every morning for more than three months, I woke up and made the half-hour drive from my home to a gorgeous minor league ballpark, where I spent the entire day talking, writing about and watching baseball.

SPORTS | 09/21/2010

Football: As offense emerges, Peacock struts

Trey Peacock’s father wanted him to play baseball. Fortunately for the Princeton football team, though, Peacock insisted on joining his local Pop Warner league instead.

SPORTS | 09/21/2010

Column: Stop blaming it on the manager; it’s not his fault

For a long time, I have believed that managerial firings are vastly overrated when based on a team’s performance. The announcement last week that this will be Joe Torre’s last year managing the Los Angeles Dodgers makes this a good time to analyze this assumption.

SPORTS | 09/21/2010

On Tap with ... Brandon Busch

This week, The Daily Princetonian goes On Tap with senior forward Brandon Busch to learn the good, the bad and the amusing sides of life on the men’s soccer team.

SPORTS | 09/21/2010

Field Hockey: King prepared to reclaim her crown behind the net

With a full slate of games, one final year to finish a B.S.E degree and an onslaught of job interviews on her plate, senior Jennifer King, the starting goalkeeper for the field hockey team, doesn’t have much time to rest.

SPORTS | 09/21/2010

Women's Volleyball: Young squad falters at Penn State

The women’s volleyball team struggled through the Penn State Classic, dropping three consecutive games to fall below .500 for the first time this season. The team put up strong fights against St. John’s and George Washington universities but was powerless to stop Penn State, the three-time defending champions.

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Golf: Both home and away, men’s and women’s squads clinch second-place weekend finishes

The men’s golf team traveled to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., this weekend to compete in the McLaughlin Invitational, which was hosted by St. John’s University. The Tigers played two rounds on Friday and one on Saturday on the par-70, 6,734-yard Red Course. At the same facility that hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open championships, the Tigers played to an exciting second-place finish in a field of 15 teams.

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Men's Water Polo: Defense dominates tourney

After securing a No. 2 seed entering the 12-team Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship this weekend, the men’s water polo team finished third in the tournament by defeating No. 20 Bucknell on Sunday 9-6.

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Football: Linebacker Cody out for rest of season

The football team announced the bad news it was expecting on Monday, confirming that senior co-captain and inside linebacker Steve Cody would be out for the season with a broken leg.

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Tennis: Men's team fights through to finals

The men’s tennis team had a strong showing this weekend as four Tigers made it to the final day of play at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational.

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Sprint Football: Late-game touchdowns not enough to overcome Quakers

With a new season that begins with four consecutive home games and includes an all-new opponent (Post University), the sprint football team is looking toward a fresh start.“We think we can get a couple wins before the year’s over, and that’s what we’re driving at,” head coach Thomas Cocuzza said. “After the last couple years it’d be easy to say, ‘OK, the game’s close’ and call that a success, but we’re looking at it to get a couple of wins.”

SPORTS | 09/20/2010

Field Hockey: Cesan strike tops Orange

With an offensive bang against Dartmouth and more of a whimper against rival No. 8 Syracuse, the field hockey team swept its most important weekend of play yet.The No. 4 Tigers (5-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) dominated the Big Green (4-1, 0-1) by a score of 9-1 on Friday evening and followed with a nail-biting 1-0 finish against the Orange (5-3) on Sunday afternoon. Princeton emerged from the weekend as one of just five undefeated teams in the nation.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

Football: Another trip to Lehigh, another co-captain felled by serious injury

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — At 12:37 p.m. on Saturday, the Surace era officially began. As the ball sailed into the hands of junior cornerback Ivan Charbonneau in the opening play of Princeton’s season, first-year head coach Bob Surace ’90 readied himself on the sideline for the Tigers’ first offensive drive of the year.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

Women's Soccer: Pair of 1-0 losses puts damper on previously hot beginning to 2010 campaign for Tigers

Coming off a three-game win streak that saw the women’s soccer team’s offense net 10 goals, the Tigers suffered two 1-0 losses to Long Island opponents over the weekend, bringing their record back to .500.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

Football: Around The Ivies

Ivy League football teams other than Princeton’s had considerable success in their first weekend of play. Five of Princeton’s seven conference foes won their season opener, many in exciting fashion.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

Football: Princeton bounced from Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Football team head coach Bob Surace ’90 has preached a fast and furious style, and the Tigers displayed some offensive fireworks in his first game at the helm on Saturday. Princeton (0-1) put up 528 yards of total offense, outgaining Lehigh (2-1) by more than 200 yards. But the Tigers lost the field-position battle and found the end zone only once, enabling the Mountain Hawks to pull out a 35-22 victory.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

Men's Soccer: Big East teams live up to hype

The men’s soccer team continued its rickety start to the season this weekend, drawing 1-1 with Georgetown on Friday night at Roberts Stadium before dropping a 2-0 contest to Villanova on Sunday in Philadelphia. Despite coming into the season ranked 27th in the country, the Tigers (1-3-1) have yet to win since they began their season with a victory two weeks ago.

SPORTS | 09/19/2010

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