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M. soccer needs win, help to make NCAA tournament

M. soccer needs win, help to make NCAA tournament

It's crunch time. With the postseason looming and one game left, men's soccer (8-4-1 overall, 3-1-2 Ivy League) is hoping to beat Yale and sneak into the playoffs.Even if the Tigers beat Yale (6-10, 3-3), Brown must also take down Dartmouth for Princeton to win a share of the Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

No. 6 Syracuse next for m. hoops

SYRACUSE, N.Y. ? After taking care of business against Bucknell, 61-48, the men's basketball team will get the opportunity it came here looking for: a chance to play No.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

Title hopes on line as w. volleyball faces Dartmouth, Harvard

Here's a quick game of good news, bad news. Good news ? the women's volleyball team is still alive in the race for the Ivy League title heading into this weekend's action.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

O'Brien forges trail for w. basketball

As Princeton students scan the Course Offerings catalogue over the next few weeks, most will keep their eyes peeled for the perfect class ? one that combines some extracurricular interest with the area of study they have chosen to pursue.Unfortunately "Transatlantic Approaches to MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This' " and "Beirut and the Human Response" will exist forever only in the imagination.One can then imagine the sense of serendipity that Katy O'Brien, a junior pursuing a degree in Political Economy and the starting point guard for the Princeton women's basketball team, must have felt upon learning at the beginning of this school year of a course to be taught in the Fall semester called "The Political Economy of Sports.""It is very relevant to my experience as a student-athlete," O'Brien said of the class.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

Out of Ivy championship race, football limps to Yale

For the seniors on the football team, the time has come when the word legacy seems very important.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

W. soccer opens NCAA tourney vs. Central Conn.

Senior forward Esmeralda Negron carried the ball upfield, played it out to the right after the Penn keeper came out of the box and sent it into the back of the net over the diving goalie's body.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

Eastern Championship up for grabs for men's water polo

The men's water polo team is undoubtedly the barracuda in a small pond. The No. 12 Tigers handily won the Southern Championship and have dominated their opponents with a 22-4 overall record this year.

SPORTS | 11/11/2004

Contention over Ivy football rules

Although every other Princeton sport competes in the postseason, football, a Division I-AA sport, must content itself with contesting only for an Ivy League championship.In 1951, the emerging coalition of Ivy League athletic programs adopted an eight-point code of amateurism to govern its collegiate football teams.

SPORTS | 11/10/2004

W. hockey to host two ranked teams

Beat up, banged up and in the middle of one of the more grueling parts of its schedule, the women's hockey team now faces a key weekend series the Tigers hope can set the tone for the rest of their season.Princeton, currently No.

SPORTS | 11/10/2004

Men's basketball tips off season against Bucknell

The men's basketball team tips off a new season in Syracuse, N.Y., nearly seven months after their season came to an abrupt end in Denver.

SPORTS | 11/10/2004

Hunt on for replacement cross country course

If history has shown one thing, it is the certainty of change. For Princeton's cross country runners, then, it is not surprising that historic Princeton Battlefield Park will no longer be their home course.While the Tigers have been running meets at the park since 1992, the New Jersey State Department of Parks and Recreation has decreed that the Tigers cannot hold competitions there any longer because of its historical significance.The Princeton women's teamwon the last meet held at the Battlefield against Harvard and Yale.

SPORTS | 11/10/2004

M. hoops welcomes back old friend

"I am the teacher of athletes. He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

Jadwin Jungle enters second season

For basketball fans at UConn, Stanford or Duke, seeing thousands of zealous students at a game is the norm rather than the exception.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

Junior varsity develops skills of younger players

Although senior center Judson Wallace is now a captain of men's basketball, a team which is forecast to handily win the Ivy League and take another trip to the NCAA tournament, he fondly remembers the humble beginnings of his freshman year.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

The pressure is on for men's hoops, Joe Scott

No bonfire. Eh, how many of us can actually say that they expected one before the football season started?Is it disappointing?

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

An uphill climb for youthful women's basketball squad

The temperature is dropping, the days are getting shorter and a successful 2004 fall sports season is coming to close here at Princeton.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

Freshmen look to rebuild w. hoops

Freshmen Meagan Cowher of Pennsylvania, Ariel Rogers of Illinois and Ali Prichard of Minnesota hail from all across the country, but they each have two things in common.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

Men's hoops returns four starters, takes on new head coach

It didn't take new head coach Joe Scott '87 long to figure out who the heart and soul of his basketball team would be.Even as he spent four years in Colorado Springs, Colo., resurrecting the Air Force program, he kept tabs on his Tigers back in New Jersey.

SPORTS | 11/09/2004

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