Sports

Princeton dominates at HYP meet

After a week of intense training, the men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams finished their weekends strongly, taking on Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale over Intersession.The men?s and women?s teams easily defeated Dartmouth, 149-94 and 152-89, respectively, as they prepared for Harvard-Yale-Princeton, one of their biggest meets of the season.

Wins bookend close loss against Union

The men?s hockey team?s 4-3 loss at Union this past Friday night marked the end of Princeton?s longest winning streak since the 1933-34 season.

Introducing the Threejay triple option

In the beginning, there was David Baumgarten ?06.Only two-and-a-half years ago, three misguided freshmen ? deluded by dreams of limitless wealth and glory, not to mention a possible trip to Durham to see Princeton get clobbered by Duke ? signed up to write for The Daily Princetonian sports section.

Tigers fall in league standings

The women?s basketball team hoped that Ivy League victories would balance out its win-loss record, but over Intersession, the scales continued to tip against the Tigers.Despite impressive rebounding, Princeton?s (4-15 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) dismal shooting percentage enabled Dartmouth (6-12, 3-1) to run away with a 68-55 win on Friday in Hanover, N.H.

Three blowouts boost confidence before Yale

The men?s hockey team?s 4-3 loss at Union this past Friday night marked the end of Princeton?s longest winning streak since the 1933-34 season.

Princeton Men's Basketball perfect in Ivy play

For a program that hasn?t always had the best luck with tune-up games, the men?s basketball team sure made the most of its Jan.

League play gets rolling

If the women's basketball team's victory against Penn was any indication, the Ivy League might be a cure for the Tigers, who struggled in non-conference play before taking down the Quakers to begin the league season undefeated.

Tigers hope to get over the hump

Despite balancing exams and hockey practice, with the final stretch of the season in sight, the women's hockey team is digging deep to find the will to win."This is the end of our season, and we need to finish strong," senior forward Brittany Salmon said.

The sunny side of the net

According to a recent piece on "20/20," a person's happiness is determined not by genetics or the events that occur in one's life, but rather by one's relative state of mind.

One memorable year as the eye of the Tiger

A s our time as sports editors for the 131st board of The Daily Princetonian grinds to a halt, we're trying to find meaning in the 12,586,221 hours we've spent working at this paper in the last year, which is technically impossible but entirely true.

February brings fresh start in Ivies

In the men's basketball team's Jan. 9 loss to Lafayette, the Tigers built a formidable lead in the first half before fading down the stretch and falling in overtime, 76-71.

Tigers hunting for first ECAC title of decade

For most students, Intersession is a time of unwinding and much-needed relaxation. But for winter athletes, the season's midpoint is a perfect vantage point both to reflect on the past and prepare for the future.As the ECAC Hockey League's first-place men's squad, it is difficult for the Tigers (12-8-0 overall, 8-4-0 ECAC) to tell which is more promising, the team's 8-4 conference start or the extraordinary chance to do what no Princeton hockey team has done in over 10 years ? win the ECAC Hockey League.In the season's early weeks, this seemed unlikely.

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Hugh plays for 2008 Olympics

For Princeton students, the weekend before Dean's Date is a prime time for procrastination. The University's sly scheduling of Dean's Date on a Tuesday lures students into thinking, "Well, there's always Monday." Due to this tendency, Saturday and Sunday are often filled with unproductive hours spent YouTube-ing, Facebooking and playing beirut rather than working on 20-page research papers that, in hindsight, should have been started over winter break.While most students procastinated accordingly, junior Adam Hugh had a slightly more legitimate excuse for not focusing on his work.

Spring season commences with high hopes

If preseason results are any indicator of future success, then the 2008 season looks to be one of the most promising in recent memory for the men's and women's tennis teams.Both squads are currently nationally ranked, and each team has individual players who hold national rankings.

Tigers bag four-star linebacker

When it comes to recruiting, Ivy League schools are said to be at a disadvantage because they are unable to offer television exposure and a well-worn path to the pros.

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Former Star takes on AFL

During the football team's 2006 Ivy League Championship season, newspapers focused mostly on the contributions of Princeton's high-powered offense and its headline-grabbing cast of quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs.Few, however, showered attention on players like William "J.J." Artis '07, the Tigers' star defensive back.

Cheek a little lonely at Cap 'Olympian night'

Taking cues from Cottage's 'Country Western night', Tiger Inn's 'State Night,' and Quadrangle's 'Anyone, please, night', officers from the Cap and Gown Club decided to fulfill fantasies of their own when they scheduled 'Olympian night' at their club for Saturday evening.In a move described by many upperclassmen as "typical," a male freshman was the only student to attend."When my friend at Cap told me about the night, I got really excited," freshman Joey Cheek, the lone attendee, said while munching on a small box of Wheaties in Frist afterwards.

Johnson '97 to Billikens:'How low can you go?'

Last week, the men's basketball team's NCAA record was wiped from the books, as the St. Louis Billikens scored 20 points in a loss to George Washington to break the Tigers' modern Division I record for fewest points scored in a game.