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Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks

It was 1996. The Cleveland Indians were undeniably my favorite sports team, and Omar Vizquel was my undisputed favorite athlete (he would soon be usurped by Kerri Strug and Dominique Moceanu of the Magnificent Seven, but that wouldn?t happen for at least a few weeks). I was an avid fan, proudly declaring that the Indians would return to the World Series and that this time they would win it.So when my dad told me that after going to visit my grandparents next spring, he had gotten tickets for an Indians game, I was, as you can imagine, ecstatic.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

On Tap with Ashley Higginson

Q: Welcome to college moment?A: I raced at Princeton my senior year at an open meet in the 5K. This race is hardly run in high school, and I did not really run it very often, though I knew I would be [running it] in college.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

From sight unseen to superstar

At the beginning of the season, the men?s tennis team was optimistic about its chances of winning the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

Think you’re tough enough?

For about 30 minutes, we climbed through straight elevation, and upon finally reaching the fifth checkpoint, suddenly realized that we had missed the second checkpoint.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

Tune-up for Heps a success

As Tiger track and field athletes look forward to the Heptagonal Championships next weekend, they can look back at their performances last weekend at the Princeton Elite Meet.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

Brown loss ends Princeton’s season

It seems as if the men?s lacrosse team?s Cinderella story has just about come to an end.

SPORTS | 05/04/2008

Slow second half proves fatal in loss

Last weekend the women?s lacrosse team went head to head with Georgetown in one of its closest and hardest-fought games of the season.

SPORTS | 05/04/2008

Web Update: Tigers make tournament as No. 8 seed

The No. 8-seeded women?s lacrosse team will play host to No. 9 Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the NCAA tournament selection committee announced Monday.

SPORTS | 05/04/2008

Tigers take Ivy crown

When it comes down to it, sports teams can only hope for a shot at the title. In 2006, Ivy League softball changed its format to give that chance to only two teams, the winners of the Ivy League North and South divisions.

SPORTS | 05/04/2008

NCAA bid at stake against Brown

With the first round of the NCAA men?s lacrosse tournament just a little more than two weeks away, the pressure is already on the Princeton squad to perform at tournament-level perfection.

SPORTS | 05/01/2008

Colonial downs Squash for intramural title

With the storm clouds gathering overhead, junior Duncan Roberts fixed senior Tom McKay with a steely gaze.

SPORTS | 05/01/2008

Crimson in way of Ivy League title

In the sports world, athletes often talk about their performances as being 90 percent mental and only 10 percent physical.

SPORTS | 05/01/2008

Tigers face must-win game in D.C.

The women?s lacrosse team looks to rebound this Saturday against No. 7 Georgetown after a tough loss to No.

SPORTS | 05/01/2008

Krongard ’61 seeks pro lax career at 67

Each year, a handful of Princeton graduates pursue the dream of becoming a professional athlete. Though not all succeed, most of them have at least two traits in common: youth and inexperience.Major League Lacrosse (MLL) rookie Howard Krongard ?61 has neither.At 67 years old, Krongard, a former bureaucrat, has dreams of playing in the MLL, the nation?s premier lacrosse league.

SPORTS | 04/30/2008

Senior spring, take the road less traveled

The school year is quickly winding down. For some of us, like yours truly, the same can be said about the entire college experience.

SPORTS | 04/30/2008

Home run queen also a triple threat

In the bottom of the seventh inning, with the softball team trailing Cornell, sophomore first baseman and pitcher Jamie Lettire steps to the plate.The Ivy South title is hanging in the balance, and a loss might force the Tigers into an all-or-nothing tiebreaker game.Lettire clears the dirt, wiggles her bat and calmly knocks a home run out of Class of 1985 Field to secure a Princeton victory.This scenario occurred not once, but twice, this past weekend against Cornell, earning Lettire Ivy League co-Player of the Week honors.Lettire?s versatility and calmness under pressure has sparked the Tigers? success this season.She is the only player on the team who has started all 45 games, and she holds the Tigers? second-highest batting average.

SPORTS | 04/30/2008

Princeton cruises past Rider

There was no Peter Fonda ? and a lot fewer motorcycles ? but if the baseball team?s season finale had been a movie, the title unquestionably would have been ?Easy Rider.?Playing only 10 minutes away from campus in nearby Lawrenceville, the Tigers exploded for eight runs in the second inning yesterday en route to an effortless 14-3 victory over a talented Rider team.

SPORTS | 04/30/2008

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