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On the Prowl: October 24, 2010

Sports editors Vikram Rao and Gabriel Debenedetti talk about the football team's loss to Harvard, field hockey's win over Harvard but loss to Penn State, the men's soccer team 2-1 win over Harvard and the women's soccer team's loss to Harvard this weekend. 

Live Blog: Football vs. Harvard

Men's Water Polo: Gaels, Colonials travel to DeNunzio

Last weekend, the men’s water polo team lost consecutive games on the East Coast for the first time all season. On Saturday, No. 18 Princeton (11-7 overall, 6-2 College Water Polo Association Southern Division) looks to right itself before the start of the postseason.

Men's Soccer: Tigers excited for national spotlight

Some people will do anything to get on national television. They’ll dress up like lunatics and warble through an “American Idol” tryout or pretend their son is stuck in a giant balloon. All that the players on the men’s soccer team will have to do is play their game against the Harvard Crimson (4-4-5 overall, 1-0-2 Ivy League) on Sunday in a match that will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU.

Women's Hockey: Regular season opens with Huskies, Friars

The women’s hockey team heads to New England this weekend to take on Northeastern (3-1-1) and Providence (5-1) in its first regular season games of the season. 

Field Hockey: Princeton looks to return to form against Harvard, No. 9 Penn State

From now on, it’s all business for the field hockey team.After suffering another loss to No. 4 Connecticut on Sunday, the No. 5 Tigers (10-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) are working on revamping their practice methods.

Women's Soccer: Chase for league title in jeopardy

With three games left in the season, the women’s soccer team finds itself pitted against Harvard after a history of struggle on its path to take the Ivy League title. 

Women's Volleyball: Rudnick, Quinn lead resurgence in Ancient Eight

The women’s volleyball team is dominating its Ancient Eight competition this fall. After a rocky string of losses in the last four weeks of September when Princeton (10-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) lost six of eight matches, the Tigers have fallen back in stride. It appears Princeton must have been saving energy for the Ivy League season, since the team has not lost an in-conference match yet.

Football: Dixon to record 1st career start

As the NFL moves toward an 18-game season, injuries are the biggest concern for players and fans alike. Only five weeks into Ivy League football season, many teams in the conference find their depth charts shot by an unusually injury-ridden year.

Sprint Football: Princeton hopes for 1st points in 5 years at Navy

The sprint football team was shut out by Army last weekend, and the Tigers are no strangers to being shut out by their next opponent. Princeton (0-5 overall, 0-3 Collegiate Sprint Football League) will travel to Annapolis, Md., to take on the Navy Midshipmen (3-1, 1-1) tonight at 7 p.m. The Midshipmen have held the Tigers scoreless in their previous five meetings, with a cumulative score of 333-0. The shutout streak includes a 98-0 battering in 2005, the largest margin of defeat in Princeton’s program history.

Men's Soccer: A sophomore stalwart

At first, sophomore Mark Linnville never considered Princeton — or any Ivy League school for that matter — as a possible destination when he was being recruited two years ago for the men’s soccer team. Linnville, a standout high school player from Hendersonville, N.C., was focusing on a number of large Division I programs when Princeton came knocking late in the recruitment process.

Field Hockey: Shootin’ with Sharkey

Field hockey is a sport I know next to nothing about. So as I stood in front of the goal — wearing pads twice my size and staring out at a resolute-looking Kat Sharkey — I began to wonder what I was doing there. I also began to wonder just how hard a field hockey ball is. During my time “shootin’ With Sharkey,” I found an answer to the second question.

Men's Hockey: Lohry’s late goal puts Tigers over the top in season-opening exhibition

The men’s ice hockey team kicked off its season last night with an exhibition game against the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres. The Tigers defeated the Patriotes with a final-minute goal to earn the 5-4 win.

Feature: Iraqi crew program trains in Princeton

The blue waters of Lake Carnegie regularly wash back and forth peacefully, only slightly jostled by the ripple of oars slicing through its surface in a synchronized effort by the men’s and women’s crews. In the last week of September, though, the lake welcomed newcomers, less experienced in their techniques.

Column: The top 5 sports video games

Boomshakalaka!Video game simulations of sports have become a part of America’s collective sports consciousness. The annual release of the new Madden football game every August draws crowds to Best Buys across the country. But the best sports video games have always been the ones that did not try to stay completely faithful to the sport by turning the sport’s best qualities into a fun game to play. These arcade sports titles are still fun today, even though many of these series have not been updated in quite some time. Without further ado, let’s count down the top five arcade sports games of all time.

Cross Country: A light-footed legacy

The women’s cross country team has large shoes to fill. Peter Farrell has trained some astounding athletes in his 33 years as the team’s head coach. Since its first competition in 1978, Princeton has captured seven Heptagonal Championship titles, including the last four.

Tennis: Pecotic falls in ITA final

It was a remarkably successful weekend for the men’s tennis team, as it sent players to the finals in both singles and doubles at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Tournament hosted by Yale. The Tigers had a strong start to the tournament on Friday, with victories coming from freshman Dan Richardson and senior Alex Faust in singles. Sophomores Matija Pecotic, Matt Siow and Matt Spindler received first-round byes.

On Tap with ... Tim Wenzlau

With his signature blond hair and NorCal lingo sophomore attack Tim Wenzlau, one of two sophomores from California on the men’s water polo team, certainly has his quirks. The Forbes resident enjoys spending time in his residential college when not in the pool. He is often a little wild, but in the pool he is all focus.

Column: NFL overlooks small schools

What do I have in common with the NFL’s leading rusher, besides 225 pounds of muscle and a tie for the Houston Texans’ team single-game rushing record? If you guessed “neither of you were drafted by an NFL team,” you’d be right.

Football: Mixed results meet Perry's new offense

A black jersey slips past several defenders before it is finally brought to the turf, safely clutching the ball as a whistle blows. He finds the referee and flips the ball, getting his bearings and quickly running to his spot at the line of scrimmage. Five linemen quickly march downfield and set up as junior quarterback Tommy Wornham barks out a play call. He looks over to the sideline, where backups senior Andrew Dixon and sophomore Tim Dondanville are side by side issuing identical signals, like a third-base coach standing by a mirror. Wornham reaches his position, flanked by a single running back. He gives one quick call and the ball is back in motion, mere seconds after the last play ended.