The men's ice hockey team squares off against No. 6 Notre Dame tonight at 7 p.m. at Baker Rink, looking to pull off an upset.
Four weeks into basketball season and eight weeks until the Tigers begin conference play, the Ivy League is as unpredictable as it was previously.
Hockey is a Canadian game.It may have been invented in Europe, and the world's premier league may be here in America, but those familiar with the game know the truth.Canada is the home of Wayne Gretzky, the first official ice hockey game ? played in Nova Scotia in 1886 ? and home of one of the most enjoyable and time-honored traditions in sports: the junior hockey leagues."The life of a junior hockey player is the best thing in the world," said senior captain and defenseman Mike Moore, who spent two years playing in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). "The teams are very community-based, tight-knit groups of guys, and everyone in town knows your name.
The cross country season may be over, but look for the same familiar distance standouts to be a force on the track this winter.
After being dominated by an Egyptian in a Tiger uniform for four years, Princeton foes are getting little rest with another foreigner leading the men's squash team.
On the nationally televised stage of Sunday Night Football, in a city where the game is a religion, in front of a sea of black and gold and high-flying Terrible Towels, Jon Dekker '06 made his long-anticipated debut in the National Football League as a Pittsburgh Steeler last weekend."I've been [on Heinz Field] for preseason games, but it's not the same," Dekker said.
The best word to describe the Bowl Championship Series match-ups in college football this season cannot be printed in a newspaper.
The New Orleans Saints, New York Knicks' head coach Isiah Thomas, Disney's Wide World of Sports and General Mill's Wheaties ? these are just a few clients that have employed Frank Vuono '78 over the years.
In tonight's matchup, the men's basketball team, coming off a loss against the familiar foe of last weekend, Rutgers, will face a team that it has never faced before, the Evansville Purple Aces (2-5 overall). At 8:05 p.m., Princeton (2-5) will try to break its five-game losing streak in Evansville, Ind.Despite the recent slump, there are reasons to be optimistic, such as the double-doubles of sophomore guard Lincoln Gunn against Rutgers and sophomore center Zach Finley against Seton Hall.
Tonight, the women's basketball team (2-6 overall) will travel to Newark for a showdown against instate rival New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) at 7 p.m.
Most teams have home-court advantage every few games, but for the men's and women's fencing teams, that edge only comes once every several years.This past Saturday, the Tigers competed in their first dual meet of the season, hosting six other schools at Jadwin Gym.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams did more than just swim with Penn State this weekend ? they raced them until the very end.
After this weekend's effort on Jadwin Gym's squash courts, the No. 1 women's squash team moved one step closer to achieving its dream of repeating as national champions.Head coach Gail Ramsay's squad defeated both the Brown Bears and the Williams Ephs, keeping the Tigers' (3-0 overall) record perfect.
When the Princeton wrestling team traveled to State College, Pa., this weekend to take part in the challenging Nittany Lion Open, it knew the competition would be stiffer than it had been at the first two tournaments of the season.
When a team's top player is sidelined, it's not uncommon for the rest of the squad to feel the effects of his loss.
Unfortunately for the men's basketball team, lady luck showed up on time but left early in its interstate rivalry game against Rutgers this Saturday.
