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So TigerBlog has a television that is clearly on its last legs. 

In fact, he turned it on the other day and nothing happened. Nothing at all. 

He figured that the inevitable had happened, and so he went online to get a new one. It even came with free one-day delivery.

And there it was yesterday, delivered right to his front door. He took it out of the box and went to move the old TV out of the way, when he noticed something that may have contributed to the fact that the old one wasn't working: It wasn't plugged in.

Anyway, he now has a TV that is still on its last legs and a brand-new one all ready to take its place. Still, he can't help but think that he didn't exactly cover himself in glory with this process.

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If this video doesn't get you hyped for Princeton Wrestling, well, then you're just not hypable (if that's a word):

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— Princeton Wrestling (@tigerwrestling) September 17, 2024

TigerBlog has been around Princeton Athletics for a long time. He is pretty sure he hasn't met anyone here who has the energy of Princeton head wrestling coach Joe Dubuque. 

The 2024-25 season begins for the wrestling team Nov. 3 in Jadwin Gym for the Princeton Open. Once again, Dubuque's team will take on all comers, anywhere, anytime. 

For essentially everything you need to know about the coming Princeton Wrestling season, including season ticket information, click HERE.

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This week has been National Equipment Managers Week. If you work in the equipment office, then you know everybody always needs something from you, at all times, and they need it, like, yesterday.

Here's a look at Princeton's group, which is 1) unsung, 2) hard-working, 3) central to the Department of Athletics and 4) worthy of public acknowledgement:

The faces of @PUequipment @T_Bow83 #Brendan #Brian#Nicole @Cliftoncp @EquipGuyD11 #EQWeek2024 #SafetyServiceSwag @PUTIGERS @AEMA_74 @AEMA_District1 #EquipmentFam pic.twitter.com/PsILU5vEKX

— Princeton Equipment (@PUequipment) September 16, 2024

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The first official Ivy League matchup of the 2024-25 academic year takes place tomorrow in Philadelphia, where the field hockey team will take on Penn at 3.

This will be the second time this season that the teams cross paths, since they were both in Louisville two weeks ago for the ACC/Ivy Crossover Challenge. 

Princeton is 2-2 on the young season, with wins over Louisville and Miami (Ohio) and losses to North Carolina and, most recently, Penn State this past Sunday. Penn, who was swept in Kentucky by Louisville and North Carolina and then defeated Temple before losing to St. Joe's, knocked off Princeton 3-2 in two overtimes last year, ending a 17-game losing streak to the Tigers.

Princeton features a dynamic freshman class, with six different newcomers who have played considerable minutes. One of those freshmen, Molly Nye, had a brilliant goal just before halftime, after she took a long pass from Ottilie Sykes, dribbled into the circle, cut back to her left, made one more move and then reversed it into the top corner of the cage.

So this was the first career goal for Molly Nye.

It's definitely worthy of the #NFHCAPlay @NFHCA pic.twitter.com/1iBPgA3tyJ

— Princeton FH (@TigerFH) September 16, 2024

Princeton has started either three or four freshmen in each of the four games to date. There have been at least two freshmen on the field at all times so far. 

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The women's hockey team has added Cierra San Roman to its staff as Director of Video and Analytics. 

When TB saw that, he immediately thought back to the earliest days of women's athletics at Princeton, when positions with titles like that would have seemed ridiculous. Hey, the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams in the 1970s shared jerseys, with a field hockey stick and lacrosse stick crossed on the front. 

San Roman comes to Princeton from a year in the Professional Women's Hockey League, where she worked in a similar role. 

She's a 2021 graduate of Colby College. This is from the goprincetontigers.com story: 

San Roman played for the Colby College Women's Ice Hockey team (2017-21) and was named the Team Rookie of the Year and Team MVP during her collegiate career. As a senior, she was awarded the Colby College Athletics Patty Valavanis Award, given to a female student-athlete who exhibits academic and athletic excellence and personal leadership and sportsmanship.

Speaking of Colby College, congratulations go out to Amanda DeMartino, who is leaving her role as the Director of Athletics at the College of New Jersey to become the new AD at Colby.