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Men's Squash: Tigers gear up for another run at Potter Cup

Men's Squash: Tigers gear up for another run at Potter Cup

What the 1990–1993 Buffalo Bills are to the Super Bowl, the men’s squash team is to the Potter Cup, the trophy awarded to the winner of the national team championship. Like the Bills teams of that era, Princeton has lost in the final match of the national tournament four years in a row. Each of those losses came at the hands of Trinity, a team that brings a streak of 221 wins and 11 national titles into this year’s tournament, which takes place this weekend at Yale.

SPORTS | 02/17/2010

Men's Basketball: Keeping the legacy humming

Freshman forward Ian Hummer is no stranger to Princeton basketball. His father, Edward Hummer ’67, played three seasons on the men’s basketball team, as did his uncle, John Hummer ’70. The Hummer family represented the Tigers well: Edward ranks 10th in program history with 550 career rebounds, while John’s 15.4 points per game place him seventh.

SPORTS | 02/17/2010

Men's Soccer: Marsch makes move to sidelines

Ironman is a perfect nickname for Jesse Marsch ’96. Like baseball’s Cal Ripken Jr., Marsch excelled in his ability to endure on the field. Marsch’s unbelievable longevity in the sport of soccer will not go unnoticed.

SPORTS | 02/17/2010

Column: Avoiding the sports doldrums

February. it’s a month that traditionally strikes fear — or boredom — in the heart of every sports fan. Football is done, baseball hasn’t started and the basketball and hockey seasons are dragging on, seemingly with no end in sight.

SPORTS | 02/17/2010

Feature: Limitless Luis

We’ve all seen it: Cases of kids groomed to be serious athletes from the age of five. Luis Ramos is decidedly not one of those kids, but at the rate he’s progressing, he may as well be.

SPORTS | 02/16/2010

On Tap with ... Carl Hamming

Since arriving at princeton, senior outside hitter Carl Hamming has been a vital member of the men’s volleyball program. The tallest member of the team — at 6 feet, 7 inches — Hamming possesses enormous strength and power on the court. He has hit his stride recently, achieving double-digit kills in every contest since the team returned from Intersession.

SPORTS | 02/16/2010

Column: Bilodeau’s Valentine better than mine

Too often in this day and age we find ourselves looking for the negative while watching sports. For example, former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow devotes hours of his time to charity and has tremendous faith in God, yet he gets criticized for his annoyingly pompous persona.

SPORTS | 02/16/2010

Men's Basketball: Tigers down Penn in Philly

PHILADELPHIA — With just over five minutes to go, sophomore guard Doug Davis sent up a stray shot. It missed the basket, but freshman forward Ian Hummer was there with the rebound and the put-back, giving the men’s basketball team a 45-40 lead over Penn and renewed momentum for the final stretch.

SPORTS | 02/16/2010

Men's Basketball: Princeton looks to rebound in Philadelphia

An old rivalry will be renewed when the men’s basketball team travels to the Palestra to face Penn tonight. While the rivalry has been dormant in the past few years as both teams have gone through a rare period of struggle, Princeton’s recent successes this year appear to have infused it once again. Despite the Quakers’ poor record, it may not be as easy to bounce back from Saturday’s tough loss to Ivy-League-leading Cornell as the Tigers would like.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Squash: Trinity too much for men

Eleven straight national titles, a 221-match win streak and the top national ranking: The Trinity Bantams are nothing short of dominant in men’s college squash. The men’s squash team has played second fiddle to the Bantams recently, losing the national title match to Trinity each of the last five years. Last year, Princeton was within points of beating them both during the season and in the national championship but came up short both times. The result was the same last weekend.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Basketball: What can Red and Blue can do for you

For a one-hour span on Saturday night, I was unsure how I would write this column. The Princeton men’s basketball team had just suffered a painful 48-45 loss to Cornell. The previous night, your Penn Quakers handed the Big Red a 79-64 loss — its first in the Ivy League. Hard to talk trash in that situation.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Tennis: Both teams win first of three

According to senior tennis captain Charlie Brosens, the Eastern College Athletic Conference is the place to make a statement.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Basketball: Tigers will falter at Palestra in tonight’s game

If the Tigers win tonight, we’re blaming it on the snow. After all, when Penn beats Cornell and the Tigers are sitting in second place in the Ivy League, Hell must be freezing over.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Men's Volleyball: Weekend split highlighted by win at Harvard

The men’s volleyball team (3-4 overall, 0-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) proved its resilience on the road this weekend, coming back with a vengeance after a 3-0 loss to Springfield (5-4, 1-2) on Friday night to down Harvard (0-5) 3-0.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Fencing: Seven Tigers return from productive Junior Olympics trip

For the men’s and women’s fencing teams, the games in Vancouver, Canada, weren’t the only type of Olympic competition occurring this weekend. Seven fencers traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to participate in a four-day competition in the Junior Olympics.

SPORTS | 02/15/2010

Princeton falls in heartbreaker to first-place Cornell

With seven seconds remaining in the game and with the men’s basketball team trailing by three points, sophomore guard Doug Davis shook his defender and brought the ball up the court, looking for a clean shot that could force overtime. He passed the ball off to senior center Pawel Buczak, who dropped it back off to Davis. The shot went up as time expired, but it was long.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Grapplers clinch winning Ivy season

The wrestling team guaranteed its first Ivy League winning season in the past 23 years with a 28-13 victory over Columbia on Saturday. Despite a tough 46-3 loss to No. 6 Cornell later in the day, Princeton (9-9-0 overall, 3-1-0 Ivy League) is still looking like one of the best the University has seen this decade.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Rasheed & Co. extend unbeaten streak to 14

The women’s basketball team made its annual trip to the Empire State last weekend, taking on Ivy League foes Columbia and Cornell on back-to-back days. Though it was their first full weekend on the road, the Tigers (19-2 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) suffered no ill effects from the travel, cruising to a pair of 20-point victories. At the halfway point of league play, Princeton has now defeated every opponent by a double-digit margin and is the clear favorite to win the conference championship.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

Princeton continues unbeaten streak at DeNunzio

Since DeNunzio Pool's construction over 20 years ago, the men’s swimming and diving team has never lost one of its 107 home dual meets. And with “the streak” on the line for the last time this season, the stakes were high. But the stakes were also invisible. Princeton surmounted the pressure to win 15 of 16 events, crushing Columbia 174-117.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

DiCesare’s OT goal tops No. 4 Clarkson

The women’s hockey team approached the close of its season with two consecutive shutout victories, raising the team’s conference rank as the postseason draws near.

SPORTS | 02/14/2010

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