For the past three years, ever since he left the San Francisco 49ers, Terrell Owens had convinced me that he was singlehandedly destroying professional sports.
This weekend's home match against perennial rival Brown was a must-win for the men's soccer team.
Napoleon invaded Russia, the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth and I picked the football team to finish 3-7.
HAMILTON, N.Y., Oct. 7 ? Just when everyone else at Andy Kerr Stadium was gearing up for a second exhilarating period of college-format overtime, the Colgate Raiders decided they had seen enough of the Princeton football team.They got their wish, trudging off their home field Saturday with an abrupt 27-26 loss.After the Tigers (4-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) found the end zone on the opening overtime possession and kicked the extra point for a 27-20 lead, Colgate (2-3) responded with a touchdown to draw within a point of extending the game.
Senior and three-time all-Ivy punter Colin McDonough broke his elbow in an unspecified incident during practice this week and is listed as day-today.
Last year, when the football team had every reason to smile, Colgate took the polish off the Tigers' pearly whites, leaving anything but a minty taste in their mouths.Princeton posted its worst performance of 2005 against the Raiders, a 16-10 loss that ruined what had been a cavity-free record through three games.
Most of the fans for the men's soccer game on Wednesday left after the 24th minute, but not because the game was out of reach for either team.
Five of Yale's varsity athletes were arrested in New Haven early Sunday morning after allegedly breaking a window at the Gourmet Heaven convenience store during a fight.
Last week wasn't a terrible one for Pwang, but it wasn't perfect either. My boys from Rutgers were up by eight on South Florida with 15 seconds to play before impressive freshman Matt Grothe tossed his first touchdown of the game to pull the Bulls within two.USF failed on the two point conversion and Rutgers won the game 22-20, but they failed to cover the four point spread.
Unfortunately for the women's soccer team, intrastate bragging rights won't belong to Princeton (4-5-1 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) this year.
Princeton's recent decision to abandon early admissions has raised many questions, ranging from the socioeconomic and moral ramifications of the sudden change to the move's national effect on college admissions.
Senior center Nicholas Seaver is the men's water polo team's leading returning scorer from last season.
Ever wanted a chance to try your game against Tiger Woods? Playing with the best of the best is the stuff of dreams for anyone who has ever picked up a golf club.
The 2005-06 school year marked the 20th consecutive year that Princeton finished first in the Ivy League's all-sport standings.
Princeton rowers know no off-season. Tigers spent the summer grabbing Henley, Under-23 World Championship and World Championship titles, not to mention a world record.The university rowers did not have a monopoly on the awards this summer ? open coach Lori Dauphiny took one home as well.
As anyone who has spent a weekend at Reunions can attest, Princeton proudly celebrates the identification of its students and alumni as family ? and the men's soccer team over its 100-year history is no exception to this rule.From the Kavanaghs to the Whites to the Joneses to the Piersons to the many other familiar names in the program, Princeton has often welcomed multiple representatives of the same family to be part of the Tiger soccer program.Three players on the men's squad this season hail from such dynastic families ? freshman Max Hare and sophomore Jason Adams both had two older brothers in the program and sophomore Pat Farrell joins his sister, senior Meghan Farrell, in donning an Orange and Black jersey this season."There's been a great tradition of families coming through Princeton soccer, which is something that we think is special," head coach Jim Barlow '91 said.
Coming off of two successful seasons, the men's club rugby team has high expectations. Ivy League champions in 2004, the team lost last year in the semifinals to a Dartmouth team that went on to place eighth nationally.The Big Green team that foiled the Tigers' aspirations last year lost 12 seniors, however, and Princeton looks primed to take back the title of Ivy League champion."All of that is looking pretty far ahead, but we are definitely optimistic about our chances," team captain and senior Mike Dreibelbis said.Princeton isn't waiting for the other powerhouses of the Ivy League to fall down to their level, however.
