Sometimes, one can feel the momentum of something special in the air at a sporting event in its very first moments.
For me, it began quite inauspiciously. On a whim, really. Though I was a sports junkie, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision that made me add my name to the sports list for The Daily Princetonian at the freshman Activities Fair.
The Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet is always circled with a big red marker on the men's swimming team's schedule.
Completely focused and set on starting his run for an NCAA championship, senior Ryan Bonfiglio confidently defeated No.
Beep, Beep, Beep.The alarm blared loudly in my ear as I rolled over and groaned. My roommate threw a pillow down at me from the bunk above and mumbled, "What the hell are you doing getting up at eight o'clock on Saturday morning?""Good question," I responded while turning off the alarm and slowly crawling out of bed.
I wasn't expecting it to be the best sports moment of my time at Princeton. Not when I first started walking toward Jadwin Gym that Saturday afternoon in March.It was the second semester of my freshman year, and as the 1997-98 men's basketball season wound down, head coach Bill Carmody and his team had decided to have an intrasquad scrimmage at Jadwin.
The thing about journalists, someone once said, is not that they know what they're talking about.
CrewThe Princeton crew program was disbanded this past week following an NCAA scandal.
Kurt Kehl, Associate Director of Athletics ? Public Affairs:"I'd ice dance with Mario Lemieux any day."Jerry Price, Assistant Director of Athletic Public Affairs:"Nope."Jeff Dinski '99, former sports editor at the 'Prince':"No, no, no way.
An unidentified University student was attacked with some sort of sword by a masked assailant on the C-floor of Jadwin Gym Saturday morning.According to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser, the incident was preceded by the attacker and the victim ? both clad in all-white padded pants and shirt outfit ? eyeing each other from across the room.
The smoke leaping off the torches was stifling ? even in the cavernous confines of Jadwin Gym.
TEMPE, Ariz. ? Steve Lavin was tired. The UCLA coach, after weeks of answering questions about Rick Pitino's potential future involvement with the Bruins, had thought the worst was behind him.
You may not have seen him, but he was there. Shirking the spotlight, he remained hidden in the background, feeling out what it would be like to be back playing for his former team.
The news of former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino's preliminary discussions with Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 completed an extraordinary two weeks at ESPN.
The lights of the Fleet Center shimmered off his neatly glued strands of hair like the bright sun off the slopes of a snow-covered mountain.
A single bead of sweat hung tantalizingly from a strand of Arnold Malachian's greasy hair. The salty spheroid grew fat with fluid before falling quietly on to the worn carpet below.
Last April, the University Board of Trustees approved the Wythes report, which stated that incoming Princeton undergraduate classes should be increased by 125 students.
The men's and women's fencing teams had meets tucked awkwardly into their reading period schedules.
Early in the season, everyone knows that training hasn't fully sunk in yet, and the team's best performances lie somwewhere in the not-too-distant future.But this did not stop the Princeton track and field team from making itself a major player in the two-day Armory Invitational in New York City this past weekend in both the men's and women's competitions.
In January 1997, Jason Morrow '00 ? then a freshman ? laced up his sneakers, put on his knee pads and stepped onto the court for the first time as the starting setter for the men's volleyball team.
