The other day, I had the privilege of catching one of Reebok's "Terry Tate: Office Linebacker" episodes, and it got me thinking.
Here at the 'Prince' the tendency is to focus solely on our men's basketball team and forget about the rest of the Ivy League.
On the most basic level, basketball is the same game it was fifty years ago, and probably not too far from the game envisioned by Dr. James Naismith over 100 years ago.
Soren Thompson is by no means your average Princeton student. While most of us have spent the last couple of days registering for spring courses and preparing for the relaxation that Winter Break will offer, Thompson ? the No.
In a battle of the preppies versus the hippies, women's squash defeated Brown on Saturday in its first home match and last before Winter Break.
It is not part of a formula for success when a team puts up nearly double its average number of turnovers.The 31 turnovers on the part of Princeton (1-4 overall) played a large role in its 71-47 loss to Sacred Heart (5-1) on Saturday afternoon.
Not since Gabe Lewullis '99 and Brian Earl '99 has men's basketball had goto guys that can compare to junior center Judson Wallace.Wallace showed once again this weekend that he is ready to take on the responsibility of leading the Tigers, pushing Princeton (4-1 overall) to a split in California.On Friday night the Tigers fell to University of California-Irvine, 57-55, but rebounded on Saturday to earn a 72-67 win over host Fresno St.
Most fans present at DeNunzio Pool this weekend were there to cheer on the women's and men's swimming teams as both competed in the Princeton Invitational.
While snow fell peacefully down onto the Princeton campus this weekend, DeNunzio Pool was anything but calm.
Early December almost always brings the year's first snows to the Princeton campus, and December 2003 did not disappoint.
On Saturday afternoon the wrestling team had its second and third home meets of the season.In its first home meet on Nov.
If you can't win a battle when you have an extra fighter, then the war is going to be tough.Women's hockey was 0-9 on power play opportunities in its two games against St.
Men's hockey (4-8-0 overall, 4-6-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) was in the business of surprising this weekend as it demolished Union, 4-0, and unsuccessfully challenged Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 6-4, for what bookies were chalking up as a tough winter weekend for the Tigers.For Princeton, its loss to RPI on Saturday night marked the sixth-straight Saturday on which the Tigers have lost.Friday night, Union (7-3-3, 2-2-1), resting on its laurels, expected to match up against the same Princeton team it had defeated last season by 4-1 and 6-2 margins.
In a season in which men's hockey has already pleasantly surprised its fans and caused the opposition to stop and take notice, each remaining game provides an opportunity for the Princeton players to demonstrate how much they have improved.This weekend, as the Tigers (3-7-0 overall, 3-5-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) travel to New York to face the only two ECAC teams with seven overall wins, their challenge is to prove that the energy and effort displayed thus far are not isolated flukes.
Like many of their Princeton classmates, members of the women's hockey team will spend this weekend sweating while being jostled by a crowd, consuming mass quantities of liquid whenever they get the chance and, most importantly, trying to score.Unlike most other Princetonians, however, these Tigers will do these things on a sheet of ice as they continue with the Eastern College Athletic Conference portion of their schedule.
With the men's basketball team at a perfect 3-0 in the early weeks of the season, every Princeton basketball fan is saying one thing ? "it's too early to tell." At the same time, thoughts of beating Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium and Penn at the Palestra are slowly creeping in.Before any of those hopes come to fruition, however, the Tigers get early tests from UC-Irvine (2-3) on Friday and Fresno St.
After women's basketball's loss to Lehigh on Wednesday night, head coach Richard Barron remarked that his team "played about as poorly as [it] could possibly play."Struggle as it did, the team lost by only three points to Lehigh.
The men's and women's indoor track teams kick off a new season this Sunday with the New Year's Invitational, hosted by Princeton.Jadwin Gymnasium will see an expected field of 10 to 15 teams, all of which will be looking to get an early indication of this year's competition.
It should be an exciting encounter this weekend when the dynasty known as women's swimming throws open the doors of its own Forbidden City for the first time this season and dares six defiant opponents to tread within its imperial walls.Having rested and regrouped for the past two weeks, the Tigers will host the Princeton Invitational at DeNunzio Pool and face off against Rutgers, American University, Boston College, Villanova, Northeastern, St.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the big show. The Princeton men's swimming and diving team dares eight Eastern teams to try their hand against the fierce Tigers this weekend in their home pool.
