"The third time's a charm."It's a familiar refrain. It's inspiring. It gives us hope in seemingly hopeless situations.
"Any Given Sunday" was not Oliver Stone's best work. Cameron Diaz was borderline ridiculous as an obnoxious young owner, and Al Pacino, despite flashes of brilliance, was overall pathetic as a football coach on the edge.But the movie had one redeeming moment.
Baseball Ivy Overall Gehrig division 1. Princeton 11-5 17-19 2. Columbia 8-8 14-24 3.
In a sport where the better team usually prevails, the No. 3 Princeton women's lacrosse team should not have lost to No.
One week after the Harvard heavyweight crew team became No. 1 on the East Coast, Princeton knocked them aside Saturday at Carnegie Lake.The Tigers finished in five minutes, 31.3 seconds ? two seconds ahead of the Crimson.
Men's golf proved Princeton mighty in the Ivy League jungle this weekend with a win at the Ivy Championships in Jackson, N.J.
It was all on the line for the men's lacrosse team. In a battle of Ivy unbeatens, No. 1 Princeton trailed No.
Coming into this season the softball team was very optimistic about its chances for an Ivy League title.With a new coach, Maureen Davies '97 ? a former star pitcher at Princeton ? and with a lineup packed with experienced upperclassmen, the sky seemed to be the limit early in pre-season training.But things haven't turned out exactly as planned ? after winning its first two games the team has since been inconsistent, earning a sub-.500 overall record at 12-13 after being swept yesterday by Hofstra.
Kick back and relax. Cast your mind back to about a year ago. The spring air brought new life to campus, a life epitomized by the women's lacrosse team for most of its season.
Princeton and Penn dominate men's basketball in the Ivy League. Princeton and Harvard dominate baseball.
If the baseball season were a football game, winning three of four games last weekend against Columbia ? who was tied with the Tigersfor the league lead ? was the tiebreaking touchdown.
Four years ago the 'Prince' ran an article on the women's golf team. The headline read "Trio of freshman stars look to help women's golf ease loss of all-time great Moan." Those freshmen are now seniors and they have a much bigger responsibility than easing the loss of Mary Moan.
The Ivy League has held a women's golf championship for four years. Yale has won three times, Princeton once.Of the four individual champions, two have come from Princeton and two from Yale.The first Ivy individual champion, Princeton's Mary Moan '97, is now the head coach at Yale.Yes, more than two teams do have women's golf teams, it just doesn't seem that way."As always, it's going to be another shootout between us and Yale," senior Julia Allison said.
EAST RUTHERFORD, Apr. 17 ? The last time Steve Goodrich '98 played a regular season game at Continental Airlines Arena, he was the leader of a team that would enter the postseason with a .963 winning percentage.Things have changed quite a bit since then for the 11th-leading scorer in the history of Princeton men's basketball.
As returning champions of the upcoming Ivy League tournament, the men's golf team feels the climate favorable for another victory.
If you haven't been following the men's lacrosse team this season, you've missed some excellent lacrosse, but it isn't too late to jump on the bandwagon.
For 30 minutes, the women's lacrosse team's perfect Ivy League record, high national ranking and nine-game winning streak were all under serious assault from a highly unlikely opponent.Penn trotted off the field in Philadelphia at halftime holding a 3-2 lead over Princeton, which is ranked No.
Two early mishaps may have contributed to the women's track team's loss on the scoreboard, but they could not overshadow several impressive early-season individual performances.Penn stole last week's dual meet at Weaver Track and Field Stadium from Princeton, 89-61, due in part to a pulled hamstring and a flub by the 4x100 meter relay team.Freshman long jumper Hassina Outtz reaggrivated an old hamstring injury and the 4x100 team was disqualified in back-to-back events early in the meet."We had a couple of mishaps," head coach Peter Farrell said.
After digging itself an early hole, the baseball team rallied late to top Long Island in a difficult midweek matchup.The Tigers trailed 5-2 in the middle innings but rallied with seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings to pull out a 9-5 win.
Welcome to spring!It is spring, isn't it?Well, it seemed to be last weekend for at least a few sunny hours when I looked out my window and realized that my JP could be put off for another day.So I grabbed my mitt, called a friend and headed out to Clarke Field to watch the baseball team take on Columbia while I stood on the hill and had a catch.It was up on the hill overlooking the field that I realized that each Princeton athletic facility has its own flavor and that the atmosphere at an event is based not only on the fans, but also the field or building which houses it.So, here are my choices for the places where I like to watch games the most here on campus. 1) Baker RinkPros: There is no cooler, more overlooked sporting event at Princeton than a hockey game, and much of the credit goes to Baker Rink.
