Chris Young makes his third post-injury start today at 3:05 pm ET in Colorado versus the Rockies.
Noah Savage returned from California just in time to score a team-best 17 points as George's/Ivy Inn won the deciding game three of the Princeton Summer League championship series.
Since I can't tell what is being broadcast when/where on the NBC family of networks, I'll avoid Olympic spoilers, but play-by-play for games involving Konrad Wysocki and David Blatt can be found here.
Also in China, Sean Gregory, who posts about the experience on the Ivies In China site.
Another confirmed contest for the 2008-09 non-conference schedule: Princeton at Lafayette on Tuesday, December 30th. There are now 15 games on the tentative schedule we've pieced together. Dates for home games against Rutgers and South Carolina and a trip to Army are expected to be added soon.
Sources tell princetonbasketball.com that Lincoln Gunn has decided not to return to the Princeton basketball team for his junior year. The 6'3" guard from Orinda, California started 23 games for the Tigers last season but did not play in Princeton's final three contests of the year. Gunn, who averaged 8.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per-game his sophomore year, is expected to stay enrolled at Princeton. We wish him the best.
Is Will Venable too slow to play center field in the pros or is he like "a young Jim Edmonds?" Padres' vice president of scouting and development Grady Fuson thinks the answer is the latter. Venable hit his 12th home run of the season in Portland's 4-1 loss to Albuquerque.
Chris Young tells The Temecula Valley News about how his rehab stint with the Lake Elsinore Storm helped prepare him for his return to the major leagues.
Highlights from the Phoenix Suns' final game of the 2008 NBA Summer League, plus some behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the Suns' coaching staff. Judson Wallace is wearing #3 in the clips.
C. Young (4-4) - 5.0 IP 2 H 0 ER 2 BB 8 K 4.12 ERA. 88 pitches, 53 strikes.
Chris Young struck out six of the first seven batters he faced in his return to the Padres rotation, but his performance was overshadowed by Diamondbacks starter Doug Davis' flirtation with a perfect game. Young left with the scoreboard blank and Arizona went on to win 3-0.
Before the game, Young spoke to the North County Times about the 'perks' of being hit in the face with a line drive.
The Princeton Packet interviewed Judson Wallace after the NBA Summer League had wrapped up.
Princeton coach Sydney Johnson was on hand to watch Session IV of The Hoop Group Elite Camp in Ewing.
The Old Spice Classic bracket has been released. Georgetown will play Wichita State on Thursday, November 27th at 2:00 pm ET.
Former Princeton basketball player and current Time Magazine scribe Sean Gregory '98 conducted a recent sit-down interview with LeBron James that you can watch over on the Time site. Gregory and James also played a game of P-I-G that Gregory describes in greater detail on Henry Abbott's excellent TrueHoop blog.
A reader sent us an oversized trading card featuring the pride of Perth Amboy that we did not have in our collection. It is 1977 Topps trading card #73. If you missed our scans of trading cards featuring Princeton stars of the 1970s last summer, click here to enjoy the series.
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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
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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
