Panache. That's It.

Do you remember the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes?"

Calvin was a mischievous six year old who was constantly getting into trouble and sparring with his parents and friend/nemesis Susie. His partner was Hobbes, a seemingly stuffed Tiger who comes to life when only Calvin is around. 

Hobbes is more of an intellectual than Calvin. He's also very proud of his genus. 

The strip is one of the best ever created. It ran in daily newspapers (remember those?) from 1985-95, back in a time when TigerBlog's reading over his Corn Flakes went 1) comics and 2) sports. 

TB stumbled upon some of the old strips online the other day, and he couldn't help but laugh. They're hilarious, after all, and they've held up well for all these years. 

He also found a few panels that he would like to share with you:

How could a Princeton fan not smile at that? That's great stuff. 

So what should TigerBlog do next? Brag about Princeton's athletic success, or "stay humble," as Hobbes has said? Or just leave it here for today? 

He would leave it at that, but then there are some other Princeton Athletics stories that deserve a humble mention. 

The first Ivy League wrestling tournament came to Jadwin Gym Sunday. Princeton had two individual winners — Marc-Anthony McGowan at 125 pounds and Luke Stout at 197.

Because 125 pounds is the lowest weight class, McGowan made history of sorts, becoming the first ever Ivy League tournament individual champion. As you recall, the Ivy League schools until this year wrestled at the EIWA championships, and from there bid were earned to the NCAA tournament. 

This year, the Ivy League was allocated 26 automatic bids into the NCAA field, and Princeton took five of those. In addition to McGowan and Stout, the Tigers who will advance directly into the NCAA brackets are Eligh Rivera (141), Ty Whalen (149) and Kole Mulhauser (184). 

The NCAA wrestling championships will be held March 20-22 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

The NCAA fencing regionals were this past weekend as well, and Princeton competed at the Mid-Atlantic/South event at Drew University in North Jersey. Of the six weapons between men and women, Princeton came home with four individual titles. 

Sophomore Hadleigh Husisian won her second epee title in two tries, though she didn't compete last year as she took time off from Princeton to qualify for and compete at the Paris Olympic Games. Princeton's other three winners were sophomore epee Alec Brooke, junior foil Brandon Lee and sophomore saber Alexandra Lee, all of whom were first time regional champs. 

The regional results count for 60 percent of the formula that determines NCAA championship selections, while regular-season results count for the other 40 percent. Selections for the NCAA championships, which will be held March 20-23 at Penn State, will be announced today.

Also, TigerBlog sends out his congratulations to Billy Pate, the men's tennis coach, who picked up win No. 200 this weekend with a 4-3 victory over over Pacific. Princeton is currently ranked 17th, while Pacific was 59th. 

Against Pacific, Princeton came back after dropping the doubles point to get singles wins from Evan Wen, Fnu Nidunjianzan and Paul Inchauspe, evening things at 3-3. The deciding point came from Ellis Short, who won his first set 7-5, lost his second set 0-6 and then won the deciding set 6-4. 

How hard is it to come back from 6-0? 

Congratulations to Billy Pate as well. TB has played squash with Pate, and he can tell you that Pate is one competitive person. 

Anyway, as you should know, Pacific — like Princeton and Hobbes — has the same Tiger thing going.

What was the word Hobbes used? Panache. What a great word. 

The Cambridge dictionary defines it thusly: a stylish, original and very confident way of doing things that makes people admire you.

It's good to be a Tiger.