June 13, 2007 at 9:58 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Today's News, Will Venable
Will Venable was named to the 2007 Texas League South Division All-Star Team. The game will be played on June 26th at Corpus Christi.
On the field, Venable was 1-4 last night as San Antonio lost their sixth straight by a score of 4-2 to Corpus Christi. Monday night saw Venable go 0-4 in a 2-1 loss to the Hooks.
ESPN has introduced a new MLB Player Rankings system. According to this formula, Chris Young is one of the top four pitchers in the National League.
Mike Maker, who interviewed for the Princeton head coaching position, has landed as an assistant coach at Creighton.
June 11, 2007 at 9:26 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
C. Young (6-3) - 6.2 IP 7 H 3 ER 1 BB 3 K 2.34 ERA. 109 pitches, 75 strikes.
Chris Young nearly made it through seven innings against Seattle. With the Padres holding a two run lead in the top of the seventh, two on and two out, Young hit Ben Broussard with a pitch that loaded the bases and brought the always dangerous Ichiro Suzuki to the plate. Suzuki tied the game with a single to center, the second run scoring on a extremely close play at the plate. Young's day was done and the Padres would go down 4-3 on an unearned run in the ninth.
Will Venable was 1-4 with two runs scored on Friday in a 6-3 loss to Frisco. On Saturday Venable's ten game hitting streak came to an end and Venable made his first error of the season in a 5-0 loss at home to Corpus Christi. Venable's weekend concluded with a 0-3 performance at the plate and a run scored as San Antonio fell to the visiting Hooks 4-2.
Princeton recruit Kareem Maddox was named Ventura County Boys Athlete of the Year.
The Tigers will have a new play-by-play man for men's basketball this season. Dan Loney has been replaced by John Sadak, who had been the voice of Princeton women's basketball.
Georgetown's Jeff Green held a private workout in Washington for the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, but still has not signed with an agent.
June 8, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Filed under Armond Hill, Basketball, Princeton, Trading Cards
This week's card features former Princeton star and current Boston Celtics assistant Armond Hill. 1979 Topps card #70 for those of you keeping score at home.
June 4, 2007 at 10:05 am
Filed under Basketball, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
Will Venable was 1-3 with a walk in a 3-2 San Antonio loss to Arkansas on Saturday. Venable went 2-4 on Sunday in a 6-5 Missions victory. His average is back up to .291.
5-23 UC Davis will be switching to the "Princeton offense" this season.
"We really took all the information that we collected from the transition period and made a critical analysis of that information. And then, [we] did that with last season as well and came up with definitive ideas as to how we are going to proceed," said head coach Gary Stewart. "We really feel like we have something that fits our program and gives us the best chance to be successful long-term, something that we can tweak but don't have to blow up and start over. We've got something that we can recruit to, that we can coach to, that we feel more comfortable about."
June 1, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Filed under Basketball, Brian Taylor, Princeton, Trading Cards
The second in a princetonbasketball.com series of trading cards featuring former Princeton players. This is 1974 Topps card #226.
May 25, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Filed under Basketball, Geoff Petrie, Princeton, Trading Cards
The first in a princetonbasketball.com series of trading cards featuring former Princeton players. This is 1977 Topps card #78. I'll try and add a new image every few days.
May 18, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Filed under Basketball, Brian Earl, Princeton
Newsom, Earl Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coaches at Princeton
Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications
Release: 05/18/2007
PRINCETON--Tony Newsom and Brian Earl ’99 have been named assistant men’s basketball coaches at Princeton, head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 announced today.
Before joining Johnson’s staff, Newsom spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach on the Princeton staff under head coach Joe Scott.
“I am pleased that Tony has decided to continue working with Princeton basketball,” Johnson says. “His leadership, enthusiasm and basketball knowledge will be an asset to our program moving forward.”
From 2001-04, Newsom was a member of the coaching staff at Holy Cross under Ralph Willard. He was the associate head coach in 2003-04 and an assistant coach the previous two seasons, helping the Crusaders to a pair of Patriot League titles and NCAA berths.
A Metuchen native, Newsom was an assistant coach at Rider from 1997-2001 and at Siena for two seasons prior to that. He played collegiately at Niagara before graduating with a degree in Business Commerce in 1993.
Earl, who played in more winning basketball games (95) than any player in Princeton history, returns as an assistant coach following a professional basketball career in Europe and the United States and a subsequent career in the corporate world with Sallie Mae.
The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year and the leading three-point shooter in league history, Earl helped the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances in his four seasons, including trips to the second round in both 1996 and 1998. The Tigers also advanced to the NIT quarterfinals his senior season.
“As Brian’s teammate at Princeton, I could always tell that he saw the game like a coach,” says Johnson. “I have a great deal of trust and confidence in Brian’s ability to make an outstanding contribution to the future of Princeton basketball.”
In addition to his team-record 281 three-pointers, the Medford Lakes native ranks fifth all-time at Princeton with 1,428 career points. He is also seventh in Princeton history with 263 assists and eighth in program history with 140 steals.
Earl also holds school records for games played (116) and games started (113) in a career. After graduating with a degree in economics, he played professionally in Germany and England as well as in the USBL and EBA in the United States.
May 11, 2007 at 10:55 am
Filed under Basketball, Coach Johnson Interview, Princeton
interview audio - 17:05
New Princeton men's basketball coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met early this morning at Jadwin Gym to talk for the first time about Coach Johnson's first three weeks on the job. Johnson and Solomon discussed a variety of subjects in this interview. Some of the topics they talked about include:
-If the events of the last month have finally sunk in.
-How much Coach Johnson has seen of Princeton over the past three seasons. Before the first workouts he held with the team, how much did he know much about the individual players he inherited?
-What the workouts Coach Johnson conducted immediately after his press conference showed.
-In a program with a storied and intertwined history, how does Coach Johnson keep a connection to Princeton’s past while still creating his own identity?
-As someone intertwined with this history over the last 15 years, does that put Coach Johnson in a unique position moving forward?
-Coach Johnson’s defensive philosophy.
-The type of players Coach Johnson wants to come to Princeton.
-If there have been any additions to Coach Johnson’s staff.
-Prior to his hiring, did Coach Johnson know assistant coach Tony Newsom well?
-Last summer many players stayed around Princeton. With so little time to work together, is that something Coach Johnson would like to see happen again this year?
-Does inheriting a nearly complete schedule make Coach Johnson’s job easier?
-If Princeton has named its captains for next season.
-Coach Johnson’s thoughts on the proposed change to the distance of the three point line.
-Does Coach Johnson expect to be at Princeton for longer than his three predecessors?
This interview is donor-only.
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May 10, 2007 at 10:11 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
Princeton Alumni Weekly brings us a feature on David Blatt '81, head coach of Benetton Treviso.
The Towson Times, once the hometown paper for Sydney Johnson, writes about his recent hire.
Georgetown has issued a press release stating that sophomore forward Octavius Spann intends to tranfer to an as-yet-unnamed school.
San Antonio is going through a bit of a power outage. Last night Will Venable was 0-4 in a 5-2 loss. On Tuesday the Missions dropped a 1-0 duel to Corpus Christi. Venable was 0-1 as a pinch hitter.
May 7, 2007 at 9:07 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
Chris Young is back at it for San Diego, getting the start as the Padres head to Atlanta for a four game series. 7:05 pm ET first pitch.
Over the weekend, Will Venable and the San Antonio Missions took two out of three. On Friday Venable was 0-3 in a 10-1 loss to Frisco. Saturday saw Venable go 0-3 in a 6-2 victory against Corpus Christi and on Sunday Venable picked up one hit in four attempts as the Missions snared their second game against the Hooks 10-3. Venable's batting average sits at .312 through 30 games.
A surprise for Princeton women's basketball, as head coach Richard Barron stepped down unexpectedly to take an assistant coaching position at Baylor.
May 4, 2007 at 9:58 am
Filed under Basketball, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
The NCAA men's basketball rules committee has elected to move the three point line back one foot to a distance of 20' 9" starting in the 2008-09 season. This decision still needs to be approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Committee on May 25th.
The Washington Times writes about John Thompson III's lack of a new contract with Georgetown.
San Antonio drops two games in two days, Will Venable going 0-7 in the process.
May 1, 2007 at 10:11 am
Filed under Basketball, Chris Young, Georgetown, Princeton, Today's News, Will Venable
Stephen Goldsmith/princetonbasketball.com
Two different Q&As to read today, one with Princeton coach Sydney Johnson conducted by the Daily Princetonian and one with members of Georgetown's Final Four team from The Hoya.
Chris Young is throwing for San Diego tonight as the Padres host the Washington Nationals at 10:05 pm ET.
Will Venable picks up two more hits in four plate appearances as San Antonio wins their series with Midland. Venable is batting .341 on the season, good for seventh-best in the Texas League.
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