While many of you spent the lazy days of June tuning into (or perhaps TiVo-ing) Euro 2008, you may not have realized that something a little closer to home was happening north of the Danube.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?A: It was on my recruiting trip. I made out with a hefty girl that night, and it has become a running joke on the team that has lasted my whole career.Q: What?s your funniest story about a coach?A: At Southern Championships two years ago, we were mid-game, and [head coach] Luis [Nicolao] called a timeout.
Five years ago, in a pregame warm-up before Princeton?s season finale against Dartmouth, linebackers coach Don Dobes was fired up.
In the stands in the Bronx on Sunday night, one man held a sign that read, ?I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee fan.? It was a sentiment that was probably in the heart of every person who has ever worn a navy blue baseball hat with the interlocking ?NY.? As I watched the final outs of the last ever game at Yankee Stadium (barring a miraculous intervention by the baseball gods and Bill Buckner?s return to active status), the realization that my future tickets will be for a seat north of 161st Street began to sink in.
Bill Rasmussen, the founder of the ESPN cable sports network, described his experience starting ESPN and encouraged his audience of about 50 students to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams in a lecture hosted by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club on Wednesday night in Frick Hall.Rasmussen, ?the father of cable sports,? said he?s still awed by the success of his start-up cable company, which now claims more than 100 million subscribers and brings in more than $3 billion a year for its parent company, Disney.?It?s been an amazing ride for ESPN,? Rasmussen said, ?and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.?ESPN aired its first show, ?Sportscenter,? at 7 p.m.
The sprint football team traveled to Pennsylvania this past Saturday to take on Mansfield in a preseason scrimmage.
With five returning starters and the top recruiting class in the nation, the women?s tennis team is confident that it can be one of the most successful teams in school history.
There were many positives for the men?s water polo team to take out of this weekend?s Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship despite its loss in the first game to bitter rival and eventual tournament winner No.
Editor?s note: This is the fourth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
Mimicking its movement up the U.S. News college rankings, Harvard edged past the women?s golf team at the Princeton Invitational this weekend, winning the tournament by two strokes.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 20 ? Princeton had a lot going for it heading into Saturday?s season opener at The Citadel.
Sometimes it comes down to the wire. For the women?s soccer team, it happened twice in one weekend.Princeton played through a pair of nail-biting contests this weekend, eking out a 1-0 overtime win against Towson (3-5-0 overall) on Friday and rallying late for a 1-1 tie against St.
Though the men?s soccer team returned from the Chicago Classic empty-handed, a pair of slim losses to two top-20 teams proved that the Tigers have the ability to compete against the nation?s best.Princeton (1-4-0 overall) fell 2-0 Friday evening to No.
Coming off a tough mid-week loss to Temple, members of the women?s volleyball team knew that turning things around meant cutting out the hitting errors that are common to any team early in its season.
On a spectacular Saturday afternoon, the field hockey team had its home opener in Class of 1952 Stadium.
On a team that most expected would draw its strength from a veteran senior class, it was freshman middle blocker Cathryn Quinn who kept the women?s volleyball team in its Wednesday night game against Temple.With the outcome of the match resting on the Tigers pulling themselves together in the fourth set and playing like an Ivy League champ, they came out of the gates running.
For only the second time in the storied program?s 140-year history, the Princeton football team will board a plane to fly to a game this weekend, as the Tigers take on No.
The men?s and women?s soccer teams find themselves at similar junctures early in the season, with both looking to build momentum heading into Ivy League play.This weekend, the men?s soccer team (1-2 overall) travels to the Windy City, where it will take on two nationally ranked teams.
After its first loss of the season came in devastating fashion ? a 3-2 double-overtime loss to No.
After a tough outing at the Princeton Invitational, the men?s water polo team heads up to Harvard for the ECAC championship this weekend.
