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Advice to kids: Learn to use your left hand — it's worth it

Advice to kids: Learn to use your left hand — it's worth it

With baseball season in full swing, young children and their parents are looking at major leaguers in admiration and thinking how great it would be to be a baseball star.While I do not pretend to be a superb baseball player, I have played a great deal and am an avid fan.

SPORTS | 04/05/2005

Hit 'em where it's legal

The first thing almost anyone playing men's lacrosse for the first time asks is, "When do we get to hit them?" Lacrosse is a contact sport, and hitting is a big part of the game, but the rules are well-defined and take skill and training to manipulate to your advantage.There are three legal means of contact, as broken down by the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Rulebook: body checking, stick checking and offensive screening.

SPORTS | 04/05/2005

Princeton sweeps Quakers

Opening its Ivy League season yesterday afternoon with a doubleheader against Penn (9-13 overall, 0-2 Ivy League), the softball team (19-7, 2-0) earned a pair of convincing wins, fueled by complete-game shutouts from junior pitcher Erin Snyder and freshman pitcher Kristen Schaus.After Snyder (10-2) pitched the Tigers to a 4-0 win in the opener, Schaus took the mound and looked equally impressive in a 3-0 win to secure the sweep.Snyder's team-leading fifth shutout of the season came on the heels of the perfect game she pitched last week in the team's home-opener against Fairfield.

SPORTS | 04/05/2005

Chasing the Dream

Three Princeton football players took a step toward extending their playing careers on March 31. The University hosted a "Pro Day" for seniors Brandon Mueller, Zak Keasey and Branden Benson, as well as one player from Fordham University.Pro Day is the name given to what is essentially the NFL's version of an interview.

SPORTS | 04/05/2005

Night Owls

When No. 16 Temple comes to face the women's lacrosse team tonight at 7:30 p.m., it'll be bringing its "A" game to Class of 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 04/05/2005

Tigers overcome weather

This past weekend, the men's and women's golf teams faced not only tough opponents, but also 40 mile-per-hour winds and 30-degree temperatures.Nonetheless, the women's team took second at the Hoya Women's Invitational at the Raspberry Falls Golf Course, only 13 strokes behind first-place Yale.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

Tigers win second straight at home

Late Friday night at Dillon Gym, with an emphatic kill on match point by freshman outside hitter Peter Eichler, the men's volleyball team achieved something it had not yet experienced this season ? a winning streak.Princeton (5-11 overall) built upon a dominant 3-0 victory over Stevens Tech (20-7) to claim its second win in a row by defeating St.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

Craton's serve proves dangerous to family jewels

When I left my room in the illustrious 1940 Hall on a recent afternoon and headed down to Lenz Tennis Center, I did so armed only with my dignity and a Wilson HyperHammer 4.3 tennis racket.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

No. 1 ranked heavyweights ease by Rutgers

This weekend, men's heavyweight crew showed why it is ranked No. 1 in the country. The Tigers topped their local rival Rutgers in a resounding victory, finishing with nearly a 12-second advantage at Lake Carnegie on Saturday.With the top ranking, Princeton goes into every race this season with the psychological edge.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

Men fall to Penn, women pull upset

There was no love lost between senior Josh Burman and his opponent, Mikhail Bekker, on Friday afternoon in the annual men's tennis grudge match between Princeton (11-5 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) and Penn (13-3, 1-0).Tempers flared as Bekker made some questionable line calls during the first set.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

Desperate Tigers visit Quakers

The last time men's lacrosse opened a season 0-5, most of the current players were in diapers, the Soviet Union was still going strong and the Tigers ended the season with a dismal 1-14 record.Fans of Princeton lacrosse thought those days were over, and, since that terrible season in 1986, they have been correct.

SPORTS | 04/04/2005

Another OT thriller

For the second game in a row and the third in the past 15 days, 60 minutes was not enough for the women's lacrosse team.

SPORTS | 04/03/2005

Tigers' swoon continues

"I'm bewildered," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said after his team dropped its fifth straight game in a demoralizing loss to Yale in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday.The Bulldogs (5-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) upset the Tigers (0-5, 0-0), 9-8, pushing them into a hole the usually phenomenal team is unaccustomed to inhabiting.

SPORTS | 04/03/2005

Loving the Cubs despite the pain

When I was three years old, my mother bought me a tiny Chicago Cubs uniform. Though she's a Chicago native, she hates baseball and couldn't have cared less about turning me into a fan at an early age.

SPORTS | 04/03/2005

An abundance of riches for Yanks

After being born in New York City and swaddled in pinstripes, perhaps it's ironic that one of my favorite musicals is "Damn Yankees," a phrase often muttered by long-suffering baseball fans originating east of Hartford.

SPORTS | 04/03/2005

Foul weather wreaks havoc on weekend schedules

As citizens across New Jersey were evacuated because of rising waters and flash flood warnings, the lives of Princeton athletes were likewise disrupted by the monsoon that hovered over the tristate area this weekend.

SPORTS | 04/03/2005

Winless Tigers open League slate

The Ivy League may be familiar territory for the Tigers, but there's something less familiar about this season: Princeton's men's lacrosse team isn't accustomed to starting league play winless.The Tigers (0-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) have not started a lacrosse season 0-4 since 1986.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale lead pack of emboldened Ivy challengers

No. 13 men's lacrosse has won the Ivy League title for 10 consecutive years. On Saturday, league play commences once again for the Tigers (0-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) when they travel to New Haven to play Yale.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Tigers host Penn, visit Rutgers this weekend

Riding this week's success against Fairfield in its home opener, the softball team ends its home stand with a doubleheader against Penn on Saturday.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Tiger Nine hosts Bulldogs, Bears

Although the regular season for Major League Baseball does not start until Sunday, the unofficial spring training for the Tigers ends Saturday as they host Yale for a doubleheader at Clarke Field to begin the defense of their Ivy League Championship.The Elis (9-7 overall) come into the game on fire, having won eight of their last nine games including a 1-0 thriller over Connecticut on Wednesday.Princeton (5-11) is coming off a close Wednesday game of its own, as the Tigers held off a ninth inning Rutgers rally to take the game, 3-2.Both Yale and Princeton started the season similarly, traveling to the South over spring break and facing tough competition with limited success.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

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