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Television visionary, ESPN founder speaks

Television visionary, ESPN founder speaks

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.

SPORTS | 09/23/2008

Scrimmage shows flashes of potential

The sprint football team traveled to Pennsylvania this past Saturday to take on Mansfield in a preseason scrimmage.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Tennis teams have successful weekend in out-of-state competitions

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Tigers’ title run cut short

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Summer trek in Tetons strains body to the limit

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Crimson nabs Princeton Invitational

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.

SPORTS | 09/22/2008

Football team falls to second-half surge

CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 20 ? Princeton had a lot going for it heading into Saturday?s season opener at The Citadel.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Thrilling goals earn win, draw for women's soccer

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Men's soccer's stretches of solid play fail to yield goals against ranked opponents

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Women's volleyball's hot hitting spikes Colgate off court in victory

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.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Field hockey shuts out Big Green

On a spectacular Saturday afternoon, the field hockey team had its home opener in Class of 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 09/21/2008

Temple trumps torpid Tigers

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.

SPORTS | 09/18/2008

Season starts with rare long-distance road trip

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.

SPORTS | 09/18/2008

Pre-Ivy games test team resolve

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.

SPORTS | 09/18/2008

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