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Senior Spencer Gloger will play for Louisville in this weekend's Final Four, Rick Pitino confirmed in an exclusive interview with the 'Prince' last night."Illinois is going to be tough, so we thought Spencer's outside shooting skills would help us pull off the upset," Pitino said.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Dartmouth, Cornell top challengers for Princeton

Dartmouth, Cornell top challengers for Princeton

The women's lacrosse team entered the season ranked No. 2 in the nation, while perennial rival Virginia entered in first.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Mariner talks MLB business

Selected to be the first speaker in Business Today's annual Princeton Seminar Series, Jonathan Mariner spent over two hours on Wednesday infecting his audience with baseball fever.Mariner, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Major League Baseball, produced this effect naturally while detailing the ins and outs of his profession.

SPORTS | 03/31/2005

Dixon and Gerken enjoy yoga, gophers

Recently, "Daily Princetonian" senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with a pair of men's golfers, juniors Jason Gerken and Jesse Dixon, to chat about nicknames, "Caddyshack" and yoga.Daily Princetonian: How did you get into golf?Jason Gerken: My dad played golf, and when I was growing up he kind of dragged me along several times, and I got to like it, got to practicing and started playing when I was four or five and started playing in tournaments when I was 10.Jesse Dixon: My dad bought my sister and me a set of clubs when I was like seven, but I didn't really play with him that much until I was like 10.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Facing man-down, 'D' must step up

It's a common sight in men's lacrosse: an overzealous defenseman checks an attackman in the head, a flag comes out of the referee's pocket and both coaches begin scheming about how to take advantage of the forthcoming situation.Well, not exactly both coaches.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Miller earns first career win

A baseball game just seemed appropriate on a glorious spring Wednesday, and those who made it down to Clarke Field were rewarded with a great game.Princeton (5-11 overall) met with Route 1 rival Rutgers (12-9) for the Tigers' final non-conference tuneup before league play gets underway.The contest was tight throughout, but it was the Tigers who scored two in the eighth and survived a ninth-inning Scarlet Knight rally to secure a 3-2 victory. Freshman hurlersFreshman pitcher Christian Staehely got the start for Princeton, only the second of his career.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Same game, different place

As freshman roommates at Princeton, Rich McKay '81 and his two best friends watched football every Sunday.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Amo scores winner in overtime

The last time the women's lacrosse team was forced into overtime, a 14-13 loss to Penn State on March 19, freshman attack Ashley Amo was not a starter.

SPORTS | 03/30/2005

Tigers host No. 8 Hoyas under lights

The women's lacrosse team's version of March Madness concludes tonight as the No. 4 Tigers host No.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Better watch out, Michelle Kwan, you got nothing on me

And you thought I was joking. Shame on you.Those of you who glanced at the 'Prince' sports page on March 1 may have taken a gander at my scribbling about my outing with the taekwondo club team.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Snyder hurls perfect game

In an afternoon that featured back-to-back home runs, a perfect game and many firsts, the softball team swept Fairfield in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Princeton prognosticators participate in pools

For a few minutes, at least, junior T.J. Barry was on top of the world.Like millions of people across the world, Barry took part in the annual tradition of "filling out a bracket" ? prognosticating the results of the men's basketball NCAA tournament ? and entering a pool with friends.Barry entered his picks in ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge, an online pool that several million college hoops fans enter each year.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Long way back

As the lone seniors on a squad of 19 players, women's water polo captains Maddy McCarthy and Kathryn Parolin are bound to be close.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Schoenig, DeSantis do battle in face-off circle

As No. 13 men's lacrosse has trudged through its four consecutive losses to start the season, head coach Bill Tierney has unendingly stressed the need for improvement on three aspects of the game: goalie play, shooting and face-offs.

SPORTS | 03/29/2005

Slamming the door: the art of the save

It's the bottom of the ninth inning, and the baseball team is clinging to a tenuous 3-2 lead. The pressure is heavy on the Tigers, and, like so many times before, they rest the game in the hands of senior pitcher Brian Kappel, the team's closer.

SPORTS | 03/28/2005

Tiger men, women top Rutgers

In the annual battle for the sought-after title of the best tennis team in New Jersey, Princeton scored a crushing knockout blow last week.On Wednesday, the women's team (6-6 overall) handed Rutgers (5-8) a 7-0 defeat at Jadwin Gym.

SPORTS | 03/28/2005

DeMond takes 15th place at NCAA champs

Sophomore diver Kent DeMond finished 15th in the nation in the platform event on March 26 at NCAA championships in Minneapolis, Minn.Despite his impressive performances so far this year, DeMond's preliminary round score of 457.25 was not enough to qualify him for the final round of competition.

SPORTS | 03/28/2005

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