Let me be the only person this week writing about the Eagles who spares you the history lesson.Yes, the history of Philadelphia sports is long and painful.
Come Super Bowl Sunday, David Maass '08 will be a man on a mission."Since the object of the Super Bowl party is to recreate the experience of actually being at the big game, I plan to conclude the night fleeing naked from my friends at Public Safety with a bottle of malt liquor in one hand and a Patriot fan's wallet in the other," says Maass, who describes himself as "not a Patriots fan."He is a weekend warrior, determined, along with hundreds of fellow Princetonians, to enjoy Super Bowl XXXIX to the fullest.And the mechanism of fun this Sunday?
I know, I know, I'm not supposed to be doing this anymore. You weren't supposed to still have to read my mindless Boston sports fan drivel.
For guard Will Venable, center Judson Wallace and the three other seniors on the men's basketball team (10-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League), victory is the only outcome associated with the Tigers' annual road trip to Dartmouth and Harvard.Although Princeton has swept its away games against the Big Green and the Crimson each of the past three seasons, the senior leaders cannot allow the team to become complacent.
Chances are, you've seen Howard Levy.Maybe the six-foot, 10-inch Class of 1985 Princeton graduate and former standout basketball center has blocked your view at a men's basketball game ? you, seated behind the home bench, and he, now an assistant coach, seated to the right of head coach Joe Scott '87.Or, perhaps while lunching in the Wilcox dining hall, the Wilson College faculty fellow has loomed large over your shoulder as you waited in line for some "vegetarian vegetable" soup.But while Levy's height makes him memorable, it does not make him approachable.
Sitting at his usual post behind the backboard, legs awkwardly bent backwards at the knees, Lior Levy intently follows every play of the men's basketball game."Oh no," he whispers under his breath when the Tigers' opponent hits a three-pointer.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata Leclerc sat down with two long distance runners, freshman James O'Toole and senior Dan Antalics, to discuss topics ranging from running to Bill Brasky.Daily Princetonian: How is the team doing?James O'Toole: I like the direction that the team is heading because people are starting to take the lifestyle a little more seriously after cross-country.
The blizzard that blanketed the East Coast with snow over intersession had a rival in ferocity: Princeton's squash teams.Battling poor travel conditions, injuries and post-exam fatigue, Princeton's squash teams fought their way to a split record in Ivy League competition over the break.The men's team defeated Penn, 6-3, this past Wednesday, and the women routed the Quakers by the impressive tally of 9-0, with all nine wins coming in three games."It was really big to beat Penn as far as getting a good seeding for the national championships this March," freshman No.
After winning its season opener against Georgia State, 5-2, the men's tennis team lost its next two matches by a wide margin.
Harvard and Princeton have dominated Ivy League men's swimming and diving since 1972, the last time a team other than those two powerhouses won the conference championship.The Tigers (4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, 6-1 overall) and the Crimson (7-0, 7-0) battled again this past Saturday and Sunday in the annual H-Y-P meet.
While most of the track team spent intersession running circles around weaker opponents, two of the women's team's top distance runners took on the country's best in Boston.Juniors Cack Ferrell and Meredith Lambert ran in the Boston University Invitational on Friday evening and proved to be up to the task.
Working in her spacious office in the tower of Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton women's soccer coach Julie Shackford thinks of her team's brilliant run to the national semifinals this past season chiefly as it pertains to the task at hand ? planning for the future of her program.
Down two points with two seconds to play in the second overtime last night, freshman forward Meagan Cowher stepped to the line to shoot two free throws.
The Princeton wrestling team hit the road this past weekend, traveling to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on Cornell Friday night and then heading south to the Big Apple to face off against Columbia.
The last time the Princeton women's swimming and diving team lost in Ivy League dual-meet competition, Bill Clinton was President, current senior captain Stephanie Hsiao was a freshman in high school and college students managed to procrastinate without thefacebook.com.Princeton, Harvard and Yale gathered this past Friday and Saturday in a clash of three undefeated swimming powerhouses.
Breaking news! Terrell Owens will play in the Super Bowl!Breaking news! We were wrong! He's not playing!Gag me.
The sabers were flying in Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday when the men's and women's fencing teams squared off against St.
When frustration about the overcrowded Stephens Fitness Center peaks or when the wintry weather conditions abate, many students lace up their sneakers and hit the sidewalks and trails around campus for a great workout.
I'd like to begin with an important announcement: the Boston Red Sox are no longer the official baseball team of this sports section.With this issue, a new set of editors takes the reins at The Daily Princetonian.
No one ever accused Mike Stephens of having a complex game.Saturday night, the senior center's ability to keep things simple was just what the doctor ordered for the ailing men's basketball team.
