Sports

Figure skating: A sport? Some famous personalities weigh in

Figure skating: A sport? Some famous personalities weigh in

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Student attacked on Jadwin C-floor by unknown masked individual

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Coaching changes exposed: Walters starts own 'Survivor'

The smoke leaping off the torches was stifling ? even in the cavernous confines of Jadwin Gym.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

UCLA left stunned as Gloger transfers in middle of game

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Young expresses interest in returning to men's hoops if Pitino can pull strings

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Vitale hails possible Pitino hiring, calls coach 'DYNAMITE,' proceeds to digress, baby!

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

NBA's Celtics tap Thompson as new head coach

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Bo knows Tecmo: Raiders top Patriots in AFC Championship

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.

SPORTS | 01/18/2001

Wythes report poses potential problems for athletic program

Last April, the University Board of Trustees approved the Wythes report, which stated that incoming Princeton undergraduate classes should be increased by 125 students.

SPORTS | 01/16/2001

Men's and women's fencing cruise through weekend

The men's and women's fencing teams had meets tucked awkwardly into their reading period schedules.

SPORTS | 01/16/2001

Men's track finishes third as women take fifth place at Armory Invitational

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.

SPORTS | 01/16/2001

Wealth of experience and freshman phenom lead men's volleyball

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.

SPORTS | 01/16/2001

Freshman Van Beusekom's 42 saves give women's hockey weekend split

A hockey game lasts for 60 minutes, and the team that plays the best for most of those minutes wins most of the games.

SPORTS | 01/16/2001

Taking care of business: Men's hoops cruises past Cornell, Columbia to start Ivy slate

Surprises have been a large part of the men's basketball team's season thus far. But in its Ivy League opening weekend at Jadwin Gym, the Tigers showed that little has changed in the league hierarchy.Playing their final two games with Bill Clinton in the White House, the Tigers ended the term doing exactly what they had been doing for most of it ? winning.

SPORTS | 01/14/2001

Harvard, Brown losses extend men's hockey's losing streak to eight games

After dropping two more games this weekend, the men's hockey team earned a rematch. The Tigers again play an opponent that has plagued them for a month, buzzing like a gnat around their heads.

SPORTS | 01/14/2001

The Streak continues: Women's hoops winless after 14 games

In basketball, it is often said that the season is split up into three separate mini-seasons: the pre-conference schedule, the conference games and the postseason.If this is the case, the women's basketball team started off its second season much the same way the first started, and, barring a miraculous turnaround, it seems unlikely the Tigers will even see the third season.Going into this weekend's games, Princeton was looking to snap a dozen-game losing streak.

SPORTS | 01/14/2001

Sophomore Parker excels for wrestling, placing sixth at Midlands Tournament

Despite aggravating his left knee after his sixth match, sophomore Greg Parker fought through two more, placing sixth at the Midlands Tournament in Evanston, Ill., Dec.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Men's hoops opens Ivy slate hampered by injuries, inexperience

They say persistence is a virtue.But according to Webster's, the word "nagging" means "to be a persistent source of annoyance or distraction."Most of the men's basketball team has nagging injuries going into this weekend's games, and the Tigers probably side more with the dictionary in this case than the adage.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Goalies Nomeland, Stathos hope to return to early-season form

A look at the overall record of the men's hockey team is not encouraging for Tiger fans. Currently riding a six-game losing streak, five of which were non-conference affairs, Princeton sits at 5-9-3 ? one of the worst overall records in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.A quick glance at the ECAC standings, however, shows that the Tigers are in third place with a respectable 4-4-2 conference record that gives them 10 points.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Swimming teams combine for 3-0 record over break

The men's and women's swimming teams completed a successful Winter Break as both squads beat Rutgers last Friday and then the men traveled to Hanover, N.H., on Sunday and cruised past Dartmouth, 149-89.In the Tigers' 164-136 win over Rutgers, the women were led by junior Kate Conroy and freshman Lauren Rossi, both of whom won two events ? Conroy in the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes and Rossi in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Most Popular