After over a month of speculation, Georgetown finally officially poached men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 from Princeton yesterday.Air Force head coach Joe Scott '87 stands as the frontrunner to replace Thompson on the Tigers' bench.
Although women's lacrosse has seen a number of impressive players in recent years, the Tigers have always stressed team accomplishments over individual accolades.
The women's and men's crew teams took on top national competition this past weekend, and came away with mixed results.
An Ivy League title is something every Princeton team dreams of and few actually achieve. Out of those that have claimed the Ivy crown, even fewer can boast multiple victories.
Having dropped three of their last four Ivy League games, the softball team stood like a wavering army, seeing their hopes of a third consecutive Ivy League championship about to disappear in a rout.
It's not too often that a team can split its roster, send a group of its strongest athletes to a competition focused on individual results, send the rest of the squad to a team competition and be successful in both.
The results were the same, even if the means were different.After exploding for 33 runs to take both ends of a video-game-style doubleheader Saturday afternoon, the baseball team notched two more victories on Sunday in far more conventional contests.With the four-game sweep, Princeton (18-13 overall, 7-5 Ivy League) leapfrogged their hosts for the weekend, Columbia (9-21, 6-10), to grab the top spot in the Lou Gehrig division, turning a one-game deficit into a three-game lead and putting the Tigers in the driver's seat in the race to qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series."We always set our sights on three wins, and getting the fourth is a great bonus," head coach Scott Bradley said.
The Harvard men's lacrosse team was left shaking its head on Saturday at the 13-4 parting gift given to it by the Tigers.
With a victory over Harvard on Saturday, women's lacrosse is now just two games away from a perfect league season and sole possession of the Ivy League title.After dominating their contest against the Crimson (5-7 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) in Cambridge, Mass., the Tigers (13-0, 5-0) emerged with a 17-7 win.The victory essentially ensures that Princeton will remain the unanimous choice as the nation's No.
The globetrotting of the Montreal Expos may be over soon.The "major league" franchise has long been the breeding grounds for some the best talent in baseball but has never been able to capitalize on that.That's what happens when you don't have any money.
The men's and women's tennis teams split their matches this weekend, with both teams losing to Harvard, but coming back to defeat Dartmouth.
Women's water polo bulldozed its way through the Southern Championships at Villanova this weekend.
It was a night for the record books.With last night's 10-3 win over unranked Penn (7-6 overall, 3-2 Ivy League), No.
The baseball team was soundly shellacked in an intrastate matchup with Rutgers yesterday afternoon, as the home-standing Scarlet Knights roughed up three Princeton hurlers en route to an easy 15-6 victory.Although the Tigers (14-13 overall, 3-5 Ivy League) managed to bang out 15 hits, it did them little good, as they stranded runners on base nearly every inning.
" . . . Cause it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the ol' ball game."For those of you living under a rock, or seniors who are still working on their theses, let me inform you that baseball season has officially begun.
My dog hates NBA playoff time. He always watches with me, and when the Minnesota Timberwolves make their annual first-round exit I enter into my postmortem crestfallen rage and throw things in his direction (not at him, PETA).But this year I'm downright giddy.
If spring ever decides to roll back the rain clouds and shed a little sunshine on New Jersey, this weekend the men's and women's golf teams will compete in the most important tournament of their season ? the Ivy League Championships.
It's "go time" in the pool again.This weekend the women's water polo team travels to Villanova, Pa., where Princeton (19-8) will try to win the Southern Championships.
This weekend the softball team will cross the Rubicon, as they host Brown and Yale in two doubleheaders that could send the team to another glorious Ivy League title or see the team's title hopes dashed.With Harvard, who swept the Tigers in a doubleheader last Saturday, sitting atop the league standings with a perfect 4-0 record, the die most certainly has been cast.Princeton (16-13 overall, 3-3 Ivy League) currently finds itself in a disappointing fourth place in the league and in the midst of a four-game losing streak.
The men's and women's outdoor track and field teams look to take their early-season successes across the country this weekend to the Mt.
