Will Venable finished the first half of the season on a strong note, picking up the first four hit game of his career and swatting his first home run of the season in San Diego's 10-4 win over San Francisco. Venable also scored four runs. After a terrible June that finished with a .156 batting average, Venable is batting .321 through 10 games in July and has pushed his average up to .233.
The United States Juniors team that Scott Greenman is coaching at the Maccabiah Games decimated Germany 96-18.
Today's Sacramento Bee has more on Pete Carril and Tyreke Evans.
On the third day of the NBA Summer League, Sacramento lost by three to Golden State in overtime. Above, Coach Carril assesses his team's play. Fanhouse writes about the odd couple of Carril and Kings point guard Tyreke Evans.
A large group of friends and family are on hand in San Francisco to watch Will Venable play against the Giants this weekend. Last night they saw Venable go 1-4 at the plate as the Padres were shut down for the third straight game.
The United States won the gold medal over Greece at the FIBA U19 World Championship. It was the USA's first title in this tournament since 1991. Northwestern's John Shurna played seven minutes and scored one point in the finals.
The Kings lost their 2009 NBA Summer League opener to Detroit on Carril's 79th birthday, 86-77. Georgetown's DaJuan Summers led the Pistons with 24 points.
It looks like Chris Young may not be coming off the disabled list until August.
Georgetown will host Old Dominion on December 19th.
Northwestern sophomore John Shurna scored nine points for Team USA versus Lithuania in the FIBA U19 World Championships.
I haven't read the piece, and you need to be a subscriber to view the full article on-line, but Pete Hegseth is apparently quoted repeatedly in this week's New Yorker.
Princeton junior Dan Mavraides traveled to Greece this summer as an Athens Fellow, "the first international leadership program for outstanding U.S. undergraduate and graduate students which focuses on Greece." Mavraides is interviewed above about his experience.
The Padres traded outfielder Scott Hairston last night, freeing up more playing time for Will Venable. Earlier on Sunday, Venable was 1-2 with a run scored, plus a leaping catch to keep the game tied in extra innings.
Chris Young doesn't mince words when talking about Manny Ramirez's return from a 50 game suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy.
An anecdote from Butch van Breda Kolff is part of Allen Barra's piece in today's Philadelphia Inquirer calling for Dick Allen's enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sacramento Kings' GM Geoff Petrie is interviewed about his team's first round draft pick - Omri Casspi.
...is a picture by David Zeft of the Princeton coaching staff during the 1995-96 basketball season - Bill Carmody, Joe Scott, John Thompson III and Pete Carril.
It is a picture of four men that to-date have combined for 1036 wins as collegiate head coaches, the three assistants close to collectively equalling their mentor's 525 wins.
It is a picture of four men that manned the sidelines for an even 700 victories as head coaches at Princeton (against 363 losses - a winning percentage of .659), and who are together responsible for all but 19 of the Tigers' wins since 1967.
Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who got permission to take this photograph off the wall, bring it home and scan it!
Judson Wallace will not be following Carril to Vegas. Wallace had his contract with Benetton Treviso renewed with an buy-out clause if the NBA comes calling, but he will pass on the 2009 Summer League.
President Obama had a few words to share about Craig Robinson during an interview with the Oregonian.
Will Venable knocked in a run with the first pinch hit of his career, a double in the bottom of the seventh, as San Diego rallied to defeat Houston 4-3.
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Sun. 11/10 vs. Florida A&M
Sat. 11/16 at Butler
Wed. 11/20 vs. Lafayette
Sat. 11/23 at Rice
Tue. 11/26 vs. George Mason
Sat. 11/30 at Bucknell
Sat. 12/7 vs. FDU
Wed. 12/11 at Rutgers
Sat. 12/14 at Penn State
Fri. 12/20 vs. Portland*
Sat. 12/21 vs. Pacific*
Tue. 12/31 vs. Kent State
Sat. 1/4 at Liberty
Sat. 1/11 at Penn
Sun. 1/26 vs. Kean
Fri. 1/31 at Harvard
Sat. 2/1 at Dartmouth
Fri. 2/7 vs. Columbia
Sat. 2/8 vs. Cornell
Fri. 2/14 at Brown
Sat. 2/15 at Yale
Fri. 2/21 vs. Dartmouth
Sat. 2/22 vs. Harvard
Fri. 2/28 vs. Yale
Sat. 3/1 vs. Brown
Fri. 3/7 at Cornell
Sat. 3/8 at Columbia
Tue. 3/11 vs. Penn
2,503 - B. Bradley, 1962-65
1,625 - I. Hummer, 2009-13
1,550 - D. Davis, 2008-12
1,546 - K. Mueller, 1987-91
1,451 - P. Campbell, 1959-62
1,441 - C. Robinson, 1979-83
1,428 - B. Earl, 1995-99
1,365 - B. Scrabis, 1985-89
1,321 - G. Petrie, 1967-70
1,292 - H. Haabestad, 1952-55
1,277 - G. Lewullis, 1995-99
1,239 - B. Taylor, 1970-72
1,207 - S. Goodrich 1994-98
1,133 - F. Sowinski, 1975-78
1,130 - R. Hielscher, 1991-95
1,122 - C. Thomforde, 1966-69
1,099 - T. Manakas, 1970-73
1,090 - J. Wallace, 2001-05
1,088 - C. Belz, 1956-59
1,079 - B. Hauptfuhrer, 1973-76
1,076 - B. Roma, 1976-79
1,071 - C. Mooney, 1990-94
1,064 - A. Hyland, Jr., 1960-63
1,062 - L. Brangan, 1957-60
1,057 - A. Hill, 1973-76
1,054 - D. Mavraides, 2007-11
1,044 - S. Johnson, 1993-1997
1,031 - J. Hummer, 1967-70
1,010 - W. Venable, 2001-05
