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Summer Postcard: A futbol rivalry in Cochabamba

Summer Postcard: A futbol rivalry in Cochabamba

When I first arrived at my home-stay in Cochabamba, Bolivia, my host mother told me to use the soccer stadium as a landmark if I ever got lost. Located just a few blocks from where I was staying, the stadium lies right on the river that divides the city into north and south and is quite hard to miss.

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Field Hockey: No. 3 Terrapins thrash Tigers

Almost exactly one year ago, the field hockey team notched a momentous upset of then-No. 1 University of Maryland. But the Tigers could not recapture that magic on Tuesday night, losing to the No. 3 Terrapins in College Park, Md.

SPORTS | 09/27/2011

Men's Soccer: Team drops lead, falls to shorthanded Hawks

Luc Cohen

The men’s soccer team had hoped that the come-from-behind victory over Villanova on Sept. 16 would turn their season around for the better. Instead, Princeton has suffered two frustrating losses since then, making the Villanova game seem like a distant memory.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Tennis: Women win doubles event, take 3 singles flights

Chris Scherer

The women’s tennis team opened its fall season this weekend, heading to Providence to compete in the Brown Invitational. Three Princeton players claimed victories in their respective singles groups, and the team won the tournament doubles title.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Golf: Princeton takes disappointing sixth at host tournament

Though a troublesome forecast portended rain all weekend, Springdale Golf Club avoided the elements for most of Saturday and Sunday, allowing the women’s golf team to complete the Princeton Invitational, its yearly host tournament, without any major hiccups. In a field packed with 11 other schools from the East Coast, the Tigers finished sixth, trailing four of five Ivy League rivals and finishing 20 strokes behind champion Harvard.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Field Hockey: Rookies team up to stop Princeton slide

Kevin Whitaker

Twice in the first six games of the field hockey team’s young season, freshman midfielder Sydney Kirby set up freshman striker Allison Evans to score. Twice on Saturday afternoon, Evans returned the favor. Those goals made the difference between a win and a fourth consecutive loss for the Tigers, who snapped their skid with a 3-2 victory over Yale at Class of 1952 Stadium.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Men's Water Polo: Tigers lose perfect mark but edge Navy

Kathy Qu

Muhammad Ali once said, “I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right ... We all have to take defeats in life.” Despite the fight against Johns Hopkins (9-4) on Friday, the No. 13 men’s water polo team suffered their first loss of the season.

SPORTS | 09/26/2011

Sprint Football: Mansfield cruises to 40-2 victory

Teddy Schleifer

The Mansfield University sprint football team has only won five games in its three years as a full team. Four of those victories have come against Princeton. The Tigers continued a losing trend on Saturday afternoon in a 40-2 loss to the Mountaineers.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Soccer: 36-second stretch drops Tigers in Ivy opener

Eric Levenson

A 36-second stretch of game time was all it took to decide the winner of the women’s soccer team’s match against Yale. The Bulldogs scored twice in the 57th minute and played shutdown defense the rest of the way as Princeton fell 2-0 in its Ivy League opener.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

On the Prowl: September 26, 2011

Associate Editor for Sports Eric Levenson '13 and Executive Editor for Sports Kevin Whitaker '13 discuss the football team's disappointing loss to Bucknell and women volleyball's victory over defending Ivy League champs Penn.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Six turnovers doom Tigers in 34-9 defeat

Shayan Rakhit

The defense may force stops and the running game may start to heat up, but when a team turns the ball over six times, nothing else really matters. The football team found itself in that very position on Saturday night, as Princeton dropped its second game 34-9 to Bucknell.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Football: Defense not to blame

Kevin Whitaker

There is plenty of fault to be had in the football team’s 10th consecutive defeat, the culmination of a full season’s worth of losses. But the defense should rank low on that list, after it was placed in an unwinnable position by a series of failures from the other units on Saturday night. In fact, the Tigers would have allowed more than the nine points they scored even if the defense had never conceded a single yard.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Women's Volleyball: Hosts upend defending champions in thriller

Beth Garcia

Fans packed the bleachers at Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night to watch as the women’s volleyball team defeated Ivy League rival and defending champion Penn in the opening conference match of the season. Last year when the Tigers took on the Quakers, each team won one very close match, so anticipation was high leading up to the weekend’s contest.

SPORTS | 09/25/2011

Live Blog: Football vs. Bucknell

The football team looks to snap its nine-game losing streak under the lights at Princeton Stadium as it takes on Bucknell in its second game of the season. Follow the action at 6 p.m. with our live blog!

SPORTS | 09/23/2011

Women's Volleyball: Defending champs visit Dillon

Vyas Ramasubramani

The end of this week will mark the beginning of the Ivy League season for the women’s volleyball team, which will host defending conference champion Penn in Dillon Gymnasium on Friday night.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Column: Top college athletes deserve compensation

Brennan Robbins

One bizarre feature of American life is that perhaps our most highly publicized labor disputes are between rich athletes and super-rich sports team owners. Rarely do the plights of the athletes or owners inspire much sympathy. The average fan roots for a restoration of play, not for upper-income professional athletes to win a decisive victory for labor against management.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Football: Tigers look to rebound in week 2

Eliza Kontulis

Despite losing its season opener, the football team showed some areas of improvement last week and is optimistic for a successful outing at home against the Bucknell Bison on Saturday night.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Women's Soccer: Princeton hosts Yale in league premiere

Shmuel Dresner

The women’s soccer team opens up its Ivy League season against Yale on Saturday, playing the Bulldogs at Roberts Stadium at 3:30 p.m. The Tigers (1-5-1) hope to bounce back from a rough beginning to their non-league season, which has included just one win in seven frustrating games.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Field Hockey: Potent Bulldog offense will challenge struggling hosts

Stephanie Gati

After two heartbreaking losses last weekend, the field hockey team is looking forward to recovering some lost territory in the Ivy League when it hosts Yale at noon on Saturday.

SPORTS | 09/22/2011

Column: Drafting an Ivy League fantasy team

Bryant Jones

Fantasy football is a fun way to make games not involving the football team you support interesting, but it also allows those of us who like to delve deeper into the intricacies and statistics to try to secure an advantage for draft day. Still riding the high of the NFL fantasy draft, I decided to apply the same rules to the Ivy League and determine the first round draft picks for an eight-team fantasy league, drafting only players in the Ivy League.

SPORTS | 09/21/2011

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