They both eyeballed each other for a second and then both backed up a bit — one faster than the other. Then they seemed to assess that the other posed no danger and went about their business.
TB was going to ask if the fox wanted to get a picture together, but he thought better of it. Instead, he settled for a candid of the fox, who strolled by, flashed TB a paw bump and then turned left towards the lake.
Foxes, by the way, actually pose very little threat to humans unless they're attacked. They're actually more afraid of people than the people are of them. This little fact meant nothing to TigerBlog when he first saw his little friend of course, and nor does he recommend trying to go up to one to make a friend.
TigerBlog can't help but wonder where that fox is right now. Does he have a fox family somewhere in the area? Or is he a lone wolf, er, fox?
It turns out that foxes are in fact loners. Who knew? Perhaps this is the start of something for TB: "In addition to his work with Princeton Athletics, TigerBlog has also become one of the world's leading authorities on the social habits of the fox. His books include the history of women's athletics at Princeton, a novel and his recently released 'Of Fox and Men.'"
Yeah, no.
TB will just leave it as hopefully that guy found something to eat and is now enjoying some fox downtime.
And back to Princeton Athletics, there have been 18 total events between Dec. 7 and today, which is Jan. 8. After that lull, there will now be 23 events between today and tomorrow alone.
Where will more of them be held than anywhere else? If you said "the Naval Academy," you would be correct.
By the way, TigerBlog will give a shout-out to his longtime friend and colleague Stacie Michaud, with whom he has worked along with Loyola's Ryan Eigenbrode and Johns Hopkins' Ernie Larossa on the NCAA men's lacrosse statkeeping manual.
They all got together this past summer for lunch. Judging them to be no threat, TB did in fact get a picture with the group.
Stacie works with Navy football and Navy men's lacrosse, among many other teams, and she is now looking at a remarkable first: the Midshipmen will be playing football and men's lacrosse in the same month.
Yes. Navy defeated Cincinnati 35-13 Jan. 2 in the Liberty Bowl, and the men's lacrosse team plays its first regular season game on Jan. 31 against High Point.
Crossover season is supposed to be fall/winter or winter/spring, not fall/spring. That's 29 days from the last football game and first men's lacrosse game.
Again, it takes a lot of effort from a lot of people on a lot of campuses to keep all these teams able to compete. Most of those people do their work anonymously and only get noticed if something goes wrong, but there are so many hard workers out there who do this out of love.
If Stacie is looking for something to do in her brief time in between, she can go see four different Princeton teams compete on her campus this weekend. The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will be there, along with the host Mids, Division III powerhouse Kenyon and Delaware, for a meet that will run tomorrow and Saturday.
The men's and women's track and field teams will also be at Navy for a meet Saturday.
The men's and women's squash teams will be at Virginia Saturday, while the wrestling team is at Franklin & Marshall tomorrow.
There is also, as TB wrote earlier this week, home men's hockey (RPI and Union tomorrow and Saturday, both at 7) and away women's hockey (at Union tomorrow at 6 and at RPI Saturday at 3). There is also home men's basketball against Yale and away women's basketball at Yale, both Saturday at 2.
This weekend is just the start of the mad rush that starts shortly. Between the end of this weekend and the end of January, there will be 96 Princeton athletic events. And then the spring teams start to play in February.
By the time everyone exhales, it'll be summer again.
That's what makes all this fun.
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