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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CrewThe Princeton crew program was disbanded this past week following an NCAA scandal.
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.
The smoke leaping off the torches was stifling ? even in the cavernous confines of Jadwin Gym.
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.
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.
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.
A hockey game lasts for 60 minutes, and the team that plays the best for most of those minutes wins most of the games.
Last April, the University Board of Trustees approved the Wythes report, which stated that incoming Princeton undergraduate classes should be increased by 125 students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
