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

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

NEWS AND NOTES

On Jan. 8, senior Melanie Meerschwam became one of 18 players to be named to the U.S. National Team.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Women's hockey begins push toward playoffs against St. Lawrence, Cornell

For most students, two months may represent the time that remains between now and Spring Break. For the women's hockey team, though, these eight weeks have added meaning.

SPORTS | 01/11/2001

Freshman Anderson leads women's hockey to three key wins

After scoring only two goals in the first 13 games of the women's ice hockey team's season, forward Gretchen Anderson finally found her scoring touch.

SPORTS | 01/09/2001

Tough times in Carolina: Womens' hoops winless in southern road trip

Always within sight but just barely beyond reach, the first win of the season continues to evade the women's basketball team.

SPORTS | 01/09/2001

Baker blues: Men's hockey struggles to find answers in five losses

The men's hockey team was Sisyphus, rolling the unyielding boulder up the mountain of nationally-ranked opponents.

SPORTS | 01/09/2001

Men's hoops tops Holy Cross, falls to three nonconference foes

NEW YORK - As St. Nick prepared for his long journey, the men's basketball team began an arduous trip of its own.

SPORTS | 01/09/2001

Josh Sims '00 first Princetonian ever to win NCAA Top VIII award

Josh Sims '00 stared as Chris Massey's shot rebounded off the goal, then he streaked forward. The game was in overtime against perennial lacrosse power Johns Hopkins, the score knotted at 6-6.

SPORTS | 12/14/2000

W. hoops looks for first win of season on North Carolina swing

It may be Christmastime, and this may be the season when wishes come true, but the women's basketball team is not just sitting around imagining its own version of dancing sugar plums ? that tantalizing first win."We've been practicing more intensely and working harder," sophomore forward Lee Culp said.

SPORTS | 12/14/2000

Seeing red: Men's basketball stumbles in loss to Scarlet Knights

With 4.3 seconds remaining, Ed Persia took the pass, lost his footing momentarily, then dashed upcourt before firing a desperation shot that boomed off the backboard as time expired.

SPORTS | 12/14/2000

Men's hockey battles larger foes, wider rinks at UNH, Wisconsin

Fifteen feet. Five yards. A distance shorter than the length of a Butler double. Two VW Beetles. One quarter the distance from the mound to home plate.

SPORTS | 12/14/2000

Platooning Van Beusekom, Ahlquist works for w. hockey

In ice hockey, the position of goalie is different from any other. The goalkeeper does not serve penalty time, nor does she change lines with the rest of the team.

SPORTS | 12/14/2000

$alaries $kyrocket, robbing $ports of their innocence

Anyone that has read espn.com or watch SportsCenter has seen the staggering numbers:$25.2 million per year.$155,555 per game.$17,284 per inning.$3,000 per out.$520 per pitch.That's right ? a $252 million contract spread out over the course of ten years.That's enough money to buy six different major league franchises ? the Cubs, the Giants, the Cardinals, the Tigers, the Phillies and the Twins.That's enough money to purchase most of the stadiums used by Major League Baseball and the National Football League.That's more than the GNP of many small countries, and guess what ? it's all going to be deposited into the bank account of one single person, Alex Rodriguez.Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to question the abilities of the most well-rounded player in baseball.

SPORTS | 12/13/2000

Carmody's new team learning the ropes

PHILADELPHIA? It is a scene that most Philadelphia basketball fans have seen before. Bill Carmody sits at the end of the bench, legs crossed, intently watching the action on the floor of a modest college basketball arena.On the far side of the court, his team executes the vaunted Princeton offensive system.

SPORTS | 12/13/2000

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