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W. hoops bus accident foreshadows weekend

W. hoops bus accident foreshadows weekend

After last weekend, the women's basketball team thought it was on the right track. It had won its first Ivy League game, 55-52 over Brown, bringing its season total for wins to four.Princeton (4-17 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) has run into lots of problems over the first part of its season, but on Thursday night the Tigers took that to a new level.As the team bus traveled through southern Connecticut, a car and an 18-wheeler bumped yards ahead of Princeton's bus.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

M. hockey bounces back with wins over RPI, Union

Men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon has tried many things this season to turn his team around.This weekend, it was not the new power play scheme or any tweak in the lineup that boosted Princeton.

SPORTS | 02/13/2000

Track prepares for H-Y-Ps

The men's track teams on campus ? cross country, indoor track and outdoor track ? have dominated the Heptagonal championships the last two years.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

Men's hockey looks to end five-game losing streak

Two weekends ago, the men's hockey team stepped back onto the ice after a three-week hiatus from league play.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

No rest for the weary: M. hoops hosts Dartmouth, Harvard

Members of the media spoke with Dartmouth men's basketball coach Dave Faucher Wednesday via telephone at a press conference in Jad-win Gym.

SPORTS | 02/10/2000

W. hoops forms strong relationship with fan club

Sometimes when one is watching the women's basketball team effortlessly sink a perfect basket or sneak a sly pass past the opposition, it is hard to imagine that the Tigers have not been playing basketball forever.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

National Felons' League? Don't be so quick to judge

When athletes make the jump from college or high school to the professional ranks, their lives are bound to change.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

M. volleyball sends NYU packing in four games

Reeling from a surprising loss to George Mason Friday to open its Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association season, the men's volleyball team reinvented itself for last night's matchup against NYU.A new lineup and a more aggressive attitude produced the change head coach Glenn Nelson and the Tigers were looking for as they rebounded with a 3-1 victory over the Violets.Princeton (2-3 overall, 1-1 EIVA) dominated visiting NYU (2-4, 2-3) early in the match, winning the first three points on its way to a quick 3-0 lead.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

NCAA changes initial eligibility rules for athletes

It was not a big problem for most Princeton student-athletes. No one was ever prevented from playing.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

Strong and steady,Peter Zavodny patrols the blue line for men's hockey

If you look at the score sheet after the game you probably won't see his name.Actually, if you look at all the score sheets for the entire season, you still won't see his name.

SPORTS | 02/09/2000

History not on men's hoops' side after loss to Yale

There's an interesting fact about Ivy League men's basketball ? one that only the conference's closest followers are aware of: Since 1992, the league's representative in the NCAA Tournament has never lost a league game to a team whose name does not begin with 'P.'Either Princeton or Penn has advanced to the NCAAs every year.

SPORTS | 02/08/2000

Athletic Robins provides spark for ailing men's basketball Profile

The theme to this year's men's basketball season thus far has been injuries. The almost plague-like spread through the team has gutted the starting lineup, and head coach Bill Carmody has been forced to look for help from an unfamiliar place: the bench.And maybe somewhat surprisingly, the reserves have demonstrated that they can not only contribute minutes on the court, but points on the scoreboard as well."Everyone is working hard, and we're trying to just forget about the injuries because, like I told my players, 'I recruited you because I thought you could play, and now you're playing,' " Carmody said last week.Sophomore forward Ray Robins is one of the players making those injuries a little easier for the Tigers to deal with.Robins, a six-foot, seven inch forward from Paso Robles, California, literally erupted on the Princeton basketball scene Jan.

SPORTS | 02/08/2000

W. fencing tops Columbia, St. John's

Punxsutawney Phil may have recently seen his shadow, indicating six more weeks of dark winter days.

SPORTS | 02/08/2000

For wrestling's Reinhardt, Pasquini, Bunt and DeBartolo, Saturday's match against Duquesne marks a return to their roots

As the wrestling team prepares to compete in Pittsburgh for the first time, Pennsylvania pride is showing itself in full force.

SPORTS | 02/08/2000

M. swimming finishes 2nd at H-Y-Ps

Harvard is always the thorn in the side of the men's swim team. No matter how much Princeton strategizes and takes full advantage of the weak spots in the Crimson lineup, Harvard's talented swimmers just seem to be able to exploit their advantages more so than the Tigers.This was especially the case this past weekend at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, Mass., where, despite strong early efforts by the Tiger squad, Harvard was able to rally and defeat Princeton by the score of 192.5 to 160.5, thereby clinching the Ivy League title.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

Men's squash drubs Yale

An hour before the men's squash match against Yale, Dan Rutherford and Peter Yik were exchanging fears.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

Spirited Tigers cap perfect Ivy season

Of all the obstacles facing the Princeton women's swim team at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet this weekend in Cambridge, Mass., no one thought that traffic would be one of them.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

Women's squash squeaks past Yale to avoid repeat of Penn loss

After falling to Penn for the first time ever Jan. 26, the women's squash team hoped that a return home would signal the start of a resurgence ? a final push that would propel Princeton to its third consecutive national championship.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

Wrestling drops three despite Clarke's undefeated weekend

Although the wrestling team got swept under the mats once again this weekend, freshman Joe Clarke pulled out a broom of his own, recording an undefeated 3-0 record in the team's losing efforts.For the Tigers, the weekend sweep at the hands of Harvard, Brown and Drexel in Cambridge, Mass., highlighted once again the team's mounting troubles.For Clarke, the weekend sweep of his three 141-pound foes showed the promise of future individual glory.Against Ivy-rival Harvard Friday, the Tigers were crushed to the tune of a 37-3 loss.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

Athlete of the Week: John Mack

Once again, senior sprinter John Mack staked a claim to the title of fastest man on campus. This time, the event was men's indoor track's Penn State-Princeton-Connecticut Triangular meet held Sunday in University Park, Pa.Mack's performance in the 400 meters bettered the previous meet record, posting a time of 48.17 seconds, Mack, who also competes in the 200 and in relays, has been a vital part of Princeton's success over the past few years.

SPORTS | 02/07/2000

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