Chris Young is still on track to come off the disabled list and start Thursday against the Cardinals.
Princeton's first round opponent for the Maui Invitational? Duke. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2 at 9:00 pm ET. The Tigers' second opponent will be either Arizona State or Illinois.
Will Venable was 1-3 with a run scored in San Antonio's 5-1 victory over Frisco.
Former Princeton star and current Brown head coach Craig Robinson will be the special guest at the Hoops. Action. Change. basketball tournament finals in New Hampshire.
1981 was the last year until the early 1990s that Topps made basketball trading cards. Each card in this set had three players on it, with perforations that allowed for division into three smaller cards. This Brian Taylor card was #221 in the ill-fated series, from Taylor's penultimate NBA campaign.
Will Venable was named the minor leagues' tenth best corner outfielder by Baseball America. Venable's San Antonio team has lost three of four since our last update.
August 2nd: 2-5 in a 4-3 loss to Corpus Christi.
August 3rd: 1-4 with a run scored in a 5-0 win over Frisco. Venable also made two big catches in the game to keep the RoughRiders scoreless.
August 4th: 1-3 in a 4-1 loss to Frisco.
August 5th: 0-5 in a 7-2 loss to Frisco.
Check your local listings for NBA TV's rebroadcast of the sixth game of the 1976 ABA finals. I happened upon the second half of this program late Saturday night. Former Nets Brian Taylor and Julius Erving are in-studio for the whole show.
Back from my annual vacation in Canada. Here's the week in review...
Another game from the tentative 2007-08 schedule has a date. Princeton will play at Penn State on December 12th. Joe Scott's Denver team will be in Happy Valley three days later for a meeting with the Nittany Lions.
Dan Connelly is Princeton's new Director of Basketball Operations.
The Padres placed Chris Young on the Disabled List on Saturday, retroactive to July 25th.
An anonymous American League scout sees Will Venable as one of six or seven San Antonio Missions players that project as future major leaguers.
Venable's team has lost five straight in Texas League play.
June 26th: 0-3 with a run scored in a 9-5 loss to Midland.
June 27th: 0-4 in a 7-1 loss to Midland.
June 28th: 2-4 with a run scored and a double in a 7-5 loss to Midland.
July 31st (game one): 1-4 with a double in a 4-3 loss to Corpus Christi.
July 31st (game two): 1-4 in an 8-4 loss to Corpus Christi.
C. Young - 2.0 IP 0 H 0 ER 0 BB 1 K 1.82 ERA. 28 pitches, 16 strikes.
Chris Young pitched two shutout innings on Tuesday before leaving the Padres' game versus Colorado with an oblique strain. Young is listed as day-to-day and it is not yet known if he will miss his next scheduled start on Sunday.
"I've never had anything like it ... I didn't even know what the sensation I was feeling," said Young, who breezed through his first two innings before leaving when he couldn't make his warm-up tosses in the third inning without pain. "It could be minor, it could be severe. Hopefully, it won't be too bad."
The Padres have lost four of five, and Chris Young looks to fix that trend tonight in Colorado against the Rockies. First pitch is at 9:05 pm ET.
The Denver Post has an article about Chris Young in today's paper, including quotes from Joe Scott.
"He still has the same calmness about him," Scott said. "He knows who he is and sticks to doing what he does best. I wish I could be there (tonight), but I am out here [in Las Vegas] trying to find Chris Youngs for our program."
1981 was the last year until the early 1990s that Topps made basketball trading cards. Each card in this set had three players on it, with perforations that allowed for division into three smaller cards. This Armond Hill card was #21 in the ill-fated series. We have a few other "trios" cards from Princeton alums to scan in the next few weeks.
Will Venable went hitless in San Antonio's doubleheader on Saturday against Frisco. In game one, a 6-0 Missions loss, Venable was 0-3. In the nightcap Venable was 0-4 but San Antonio got the best of the Rough Riders 5-2. Yesterday Venable was 3-4 at the plate with a double and two runs scored in an 8-5 win over Frisco.
Epic Carnival tries to come up with a nickname for Chris Young.
C. Young (9-3) - 7.0 IP 2 H 0 ER 3 BB 6 K 1.85 ERA. 116 pitches, 77 strikes.
Chris Young outperformed fellow All-Star Cole Hamels by the slimmest of margins on Thursday night in San Diego. Young pitched seven innings of two-hit shutout baseball as the Padres took the first game of their series with Philadelphia 1-0. Young has started all five of the games this season that San Diego has won with just a single run.
Faced with the same decision he had the last time Young was on the mound, manager Bud Black decided to leave Young in for the seventh inning despite a pitch count in the high nineties. Young struck out two and retired the side in order in the seventh, his 116th pitch a lazy fly ball to left field.
Will Venable was 2-4 a double and a run scored in San Antonio's 9-5 win over Frisco. The Missions are 16-9 in the second half of the season, with a 2.5 game first place lead.
Gonzaga junior center Ian Hummer is the son of former Tigers notable Ed Hummer. He's on the recruiting radar for several Ivy programs, but Princeton is not mentioned by name.
Lt. Pete Hegseth was on MSNBC's Hardball recently. Here's a transcript.
Tonight, Chris Young faces the Phillies for the first time as a Padre. Philadelphia visits San Diego for a four game series. First pitch is scheduled for 10:05 pm ET.
Will Venable was 0-5 in San Antonio's 4-1 victory over Frisco.
The Princeton Summer League completed its regular season schedule last night. Where2Ball.com defeated George's Roasters & Ribs. Rich Simkus tallied nine points for George's, who finished play with a 4-4 record. The playoffs start Sunday evening at Community Park.
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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
