tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62520580961865663462012-01-27T13:37:33.633-05:00TigerBlog will be updated and maintained by the Princeton Office of Athletic Communications. In addition to information from the Department of Athletics, it will also offer an opportunity for fan feedback. The blog will be a supplement to the information available on goprincetontigers.com. Princeton fans are encouraged to check the blog for a less formal look at Princeton sports. Updated every working day, almost always by noon.Princeton OAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06276155026437227396noreply@blogger.comBlogger9201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252058096186566346.post-71467244322119765852012-01-27T09:29:00.003-05:002012-01-27T11:21:32.009-05:00

TigerBlog gets a billion emails a day. Okay, not exactly a billion. Maybe it's just a few million.Most of them are deleted immediately, since they're obviously worthless. They actually make TB wonder how his email address ended up on some of these distribution lists, as in "who sold them TB's email address?" The government has to be involved, right? TB often thinks back to communications he had

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TigerBlog hates when he listens to interviews where the person asking the questions is clearly reading off a script and therefore isn’t able to adjust to the way the conversation is going.This happens all the time. The person being interviewed takes the question to a different tangent, one that suggests a rather obvious follow-up. And what does the interviewer do? Asks the next pre-determined

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Herbert Springer was about as far from being a Princeton man as anyone.A New York guy from start to finish, Herbert - TigerBlog's Uncle Herbie - fought in Europe and the Pacific in World War II, drove a cab in New York City and finally opened a drug store of sorts (cosmetics, candy, greeting cards, that kind of stuff) on the corner of Flatlands and Flatbush in Brooklyn.Yesterday, as TigerBlog was

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TigerBlog was a big geometry fan when he was in high school. His teacher was a woman named Mrs. Mancuso, who was fairly straight-forward about it all, though hey, how exciting can geometry be?TB remembers one test where he solved (proved?) the theorem, even though there was a typo in it and it was said to be unable to be done correctly. As a result, the rest of the class was given the question

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TigerBlog pulled into the parking lot this morning to find assistant football coaches Bill McCord and Andrew Aurich leaving, on their way to the hospital to see running back Chuck Dibilio.By all accounts, Dibilio is making progress and should be able to leave ICU for a private room, probably today. In a world where attention span diminishes every day and the ability to get immediate answers is

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TigerBlog can't see without his glasses, so he wasn't 100% sure he was seeing the words of the early-morning text message correctly.When he put his glasses on to confirm the words, he believed what he was seeing even less.Chuck Dibilio, the 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year in football, had suffered a stroke? At the age of 19? No way. No chance. TB had to be missing something.All fall, TigerBlog

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TigerBlog is a longtime Knicks' fan, dating back to when FatherBlog yelled and then fell off the coach when Jerry West made his game-tying (would have been game-winning had the three-point rule been in effect), buzzer-beating shot from beyond halfcourt in Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals.As an aside, the Knicks somehow regrouped and won that game.The Knicks would win the 1970 NBA Finals and then win

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TigerBlog was in all day departmental retreat yesterday, one that began at 8 am with some really good breakfast sandwiches (TB had the bacon and egg and followed it up with a bagel with lox) and ended around 5 with a nice antipasto.In between was lunch, some snacks and a lot of discussion about the past, present and future of the Princeton University Department of Athletics.It's a twice-a-year

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TigerBlog was driving TigerBlog Jr. somewhere Sunday when he got a text with the final score of the women's basketball game. Princeton 94, Columbia 35.How much did Princeton win by, TB asked TBJ, who answered 59.TB then followed that by saying "are you sure?" To that, TBJ fumbled, as if he'd gotten the original question wrong.Before he could come back with a different answer, TB told him he was

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When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at

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For the last two days, TigerBlog has focused on what the future of writing - in sports in general and specifically to college websites - may or may not be.Of one thing though, who is positive. The more video, the better.TigerBlog was certain of this before he watched the four-part series "24/7," which recently aired on HBO.The documentary, which centered on the Philadelphia Flyers and the New

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Jon Kurian read yesterday's TigerBlog, which asked the question about what it is that people like to read and not read and gave his feedback to TB, which sort of validated the premise.Kurian, who works in the business office (and rarely answers his phone), said that he skipped the part that had the reproduced postgame recap and went straight to the rest.On the other hand, TB did hear from others

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TigerBlog wrote the post-game story for the first 14 women's basketball games this season.He was just looking back at a few of them, and they weren't that bad, if he may say so himself.Here's one, after Princeton's win over UMBC:Just before the under-12 media timeout of the second half, UMBC's Erin Brown threw a one-handed bounce pass to a back-cutting Michelle Kurowski, who finished a reverse

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Raise your hand if 1) you watched the BCS Championship Game, 2) watched more than a few plays here or there of any bowl game and 3) recognize that college football has done everything it can to produce its most legitimate national champion.TigerBlog's hand is down.College football is in a weird place, because unlike any other major pro or college sport, it has the regular-season that matters most

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Back when the Philadelphia 76ers last won an NBA title, TigerBlog was living in the City of Brotherly Love. He remembers clearly the night that the Sixers wrapped it up, defeating the Lakers in four straight, and how cars drove around all night honking their horns while others marched up and down the streets yelling, high-fiving, celebrating. To this day, it's the only time TB has been the in the

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TigerBlog and Jon Kurian were reminiscing about Kurian's first day as a Princeton employee, which by now was a long time ago. Kurian, who works in the business office, remarked that on his first day, nobody took him out to lunch, only to have TB remind him that on his first day, Kurian muscled his way into half of the sandwich brought by John Cornell, Princeton Athletics' second - and last -

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As 45-second spans of college basketball go, it's really, really hard to beat the final buzzers of a Georgetown win in the Big East after being behind by 17 and a Temple win over Duke.Well, really any win over Duke is nice. When it's Coach Dunphy, it's even better.And these 45 seconds ended just in time for a pretty clever episode of "Criminal Minds," which was much more on a human level than a

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TigerBlog was doing the book and the clock/scoreboard at Little Miss TigerBlog's basketball tournament last week - and making very few friends among the other team's parents.For starters, TB figured he was being nice by agreeing to do both jobs. Also, he's done both so many times in the past that it's second nature to him.Lastly, it's not that far from what he does for a living. In many ways,

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TigerBlog figures you don't have to be a Giants fan to like Victor Cruz.For those who don't know, Cruz was an undrafted free agent wide receiver out of UMass who made the Giants last year largely because of a three-touchdown performance in a preseason game against the Jets, only to miss the season because of injury.He barely made the team this year, and he probably wouldn't have had Steve Smith

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There was a stretch back then when New Year's Day for TigerBlog meant brunch/lunch/dinner at the Zucker house.The Zuckers featured a group of five kids separated by six years total, with the oldest sister Leigh three years older than TB and the youngest brother Ed (who played basketball at Rutgers) two year younger than TB.In between are three more boys - Larry, Corey and Brad. TB first met Corey

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TigerBlog left Princeton at 12:30 for the trip to Hofstra for women’s basketball yesterday, and as he did, he remembered the always-sage words of Harvey Yavener:“I have no idea how long it takes to get to Hofstra. It can take an hour; it can take nine hours.”Driving to Long Island is never any fun. The ride yesterday was more brutal than most, and featured all of the following:* two wide-load

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One of TigerBlog's favorite moments in his time at Princeton came back during this week in 1998, which would be 13 years ago already.The men's basketball team was playing in the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu, which interestingly enough is pretty nice this time of year. Anyway, the Tigers defeated Florida State, Texas and Charlotte in three consecutive nights to win the tournament. As TB remembers,

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The entire month of December seems to build to one day - one morning, really - and when Dec. 25 has come and gone, the entire attitude of the country seems to change.It morphs quickly from the Christmas rush and everything that goes along with it - shopping, Christmas songs, Christmas movies, Christmas cards, Christmas lights, and on and on - to a desire to put all of that as quickly as possible

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The best part of TigerBlog's weekend was the card he got from Little Miss TigerBlog, who wrote the following:"Good tidings to you and all of your kin, so since I am part of your family, your kin, I am wishing myself happy holidays."TB's second favorite part was the Giants win over the Jets.For starters, TB's favorite professional sports team is the Giants, and it was a win that eliminated the

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TigerBlog was right. When Harry Bailey said “To my big brother George, the richest man in town,” TB’s eyes teared up. As they always do.Of course, right about the time that Harry was making his toast in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the von Trapp family was winning the festival and making a getaway in “The Sound of Music.” A few minutes after that, Marion the Librarian and Professor Hill serenaded

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All George Bailey ever wanted was to get out of Bedford Falls, and he became more and more miserable as he realized he was never going to leave.Charlie Brown, tortured by the over-commercialization of the season, thought he had gotten a nice tree, and all anyone did was mock him. Bill Murray - TigerBlog can't remember the character's name - was a jerk in the movie where he plays the TV executive.

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Yesterday was TigerBlog's friend William's 10th birthday.For his birthday, his parents told him that he could eat at any restaurant he wanted or have his mother make him anything he wanted for dinner. What did he choose?He asked his mother to make him buttered noodles.Ah, to be 10. The holiday card that TB got from William's parents was among the best of the ones he's received. As an aside, the

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TigerBlog was walking into the Campus Life holiday party yesterday at Chancellor Green when he was asked to write his name on a name tag while also writing an interesting fact about himself.And so TB complied. His name was easy. The interesting fact? Not as easy.Please don't take that to mean that TB finds himself to be filled with so many fascinating possibilities that he couldn't settle on just

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When it comes to TigerBlog's pet peeves, very little can top people who are oblivious to the world around them.TB cannot stand when people are driving along and can't figure out if they are supposed to make a turn here or keep going and therefore simply stop, without caring that there are 10 cars behind them who are not expecting them to stop. Or when someone is pushing a cart in the supermarket

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Apparently, somebody named Sophie won "Survivor" last night. TigerBlog is not a fan of reality TV, mostly because it plays into something that he feels has the most ruinous effect on this country of any cultural phenomenon - and that's the glorification of fame for the sake of fame, as opposed to a by-product of some specific, unique talent.TB has never really watched more than a minute here or

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FatherBlog believes there are two kinds of people - those who live and/or work in New York City and hicks.Back when TigerBlog used to live in Trenton, he took FatherBlog one night to one of the great restaurants in the city's Chambersburg section. His response? "Who would have thought this, a great restaurant in the middle of nowhere."Trenton, N.J., is many things. The middle of nowhere is not

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Mack Darrow said he was just waiting to see Douglas Davis be the hero again. Instead, he found himself at center stage, and his majestic three-pointer as time expired in overtime gave Princeton a 72-71 win over Rider, ending a wonderful night of basketball in Lawrenceville.About 10 minutes after Darrow won it on his only basket of the night, TigerBlog was on the radio with John Sadak interviewing

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TigerBlog has always wondered at what point he reached the tipping point, in this case the tipping point of having spent more time on the Princeton campus than the Penn campus.TB spent four years as a student at Penn, which included living there obviously. He also stayed there for two summers, one when he worked as a vendor at Veterans' Stadium and one when he first started at the newspaper.Of

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When TigerBlog was at the United States Naval Academy Friday night for women's basketball, he asked a few people there which they would rather have for their football team.1) a loss to Army but a trip to a bowl game in Hawaii2) a win over Army and no bowl gameAs it turned out, sentiment was unanimous - everyone wanted a win over Army. And that's how it played out, with a Navy win (amazingly its

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"Broadcast News" was on the other day, and like every other time it shows up, it's hard for TigerBlog to change the channel.The movie is about the inner-workings of a major news network and the people who work there. It's mostly about the relationships that develop from working long hours together, combining great humor and great storytelling, all with nearly perfect character development.It was

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John Doar's senior thesis was entitled "An Analysis of Farmer Cooperatives, 1918-1946."Last night in Dodds Auditorium at the Woodrow Wilson School, Doar was asked what effect that thesis had on his life's work."None at all," he said softly, drawing laughter from the crowd.Doar spoke to the crowd for 90 minutes, or one minute for every year old he is. As he spoke, TigerBlog sat next to him,

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Sherman T. Potter was born and raised in Missouri, and he probably never left the state before he joined the Army. With his love of horses, he served as a Calvary solder in World War I. The timeline is a little fuzzy from there, though he at some point he went to college and medical school, presumably while still in the military.The Korean War was his third, and by then he had risen to the rank

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The face of the civil rights movement was Dr. Martin Luther King. Literally and figuratively.What other person who played a huge role in the struggle has an instantly recognizable face? Everyone knows the name Rosa Parks - how many people know know what she looked like?And so it was with the picture that's on the posters that have been hanging around Jadwin Gym the last few weeks.The black man in

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The football game was seven-on-seven, 14 boys all in the 10 year old or so range. They argued about whether or not they were hit with one hand or two, or whether the big tree was out of bounds. When they said “fourth and one,” they meant they needed one more completion for a first down, as opposed to another yard.It was an unbelievably perfect setting, a bunch of kids playing touch football on a

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TigerBlog was heading down 95 Saturday morning on his way to Baltimore for the women's basketball game at UMBC when he heard a rather unfortunate sound emanating from under his car.He didn't even need to wait until he pulled off to the side a little past the Philadelphia airport to know that he had a flat tire.As he thought about it, the issue might have started back by the Walt Whitman Bridge,

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TigerBlog sat on the Princeton women's basketball bench, the one on the same side where the visiting team warms up before a game and shoots in the first half.It was more than an hour before tip-off between Princeton and No. 24 Delaware, and the building still hadn't opened it doors for the fans. Instead, a handful of Delaware players were on the court shooting around.TB focused only on one, and

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TigerBlog sat next to Lindsay Bates in the west stands for the Princeton-Elon men's basketball game last week.Bates' son Chris is Princeton's head men's lacrosse coach. His 10-year-old grandson Nick was a few feet in front of Lindsay and TB, in his role as a ballboy for the Tigers.Nick's friend was sitting next to him on the floor, a little to the right of the basket. Lindsay joked about the

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A year ago, the East Carolina at Old Dominion men's basketball game would have meant nothing to Princeton's assistant event operations director and its marketing/videostreaming guy.Last night, they were there together, the two Princeton expatriates, one (Steve Kanaby) now the director of championships for the Colonial Athletic Association and the other (Scott Jurgens) the marketing director at

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TigerBlog can program six FM stations (actually 12, since there's FM1 and FM2, as well as six AM stations) on his car radio.Of those six, three are currently playing all Christmas music, all the time, between now and, presumably, Christmas.Actually, one of the stations starting playing the Christmas music shortly before Thanksgiving, to the point were TB was a bit startled by it. Now, instead of

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There was a wide variety to choose from last night, all within a 14-channel range on the TV.As an aside, a 14-channel range seems fairly small these days, whereas back when TigerBlog was watching "I Dream of Jeannie" on the old black-and-white TV a long time ago, there weren't even 14 total channels.Anyway, last night had to pick from "The Music Man," "The Silence of the Lambs," an episode of "

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If a line was extended out from the basket past where Ahmed El-Nokali let his last-ever collegiate shot go, it was have cut TigerBlog in half.As an aside, all lines are by definition extended out, or at least that's how TB remembers Mrs. Mancuso's geometry class. The gym was Freedom Hall at Louisville, and it was the 2002 NIT game between Princeton and Rick Pitino's Cardinals. Ed Persia had

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If TigerBlog was looking forward to any single event on the fall schedule, it was the Iy League Heptagonal cross country championships.The races, usually held at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, were moving to Princeton's West Windsor field course for the 2011 race only, while construction was being completed at Van Cortlandt.TB hadn't missed a Heps cross country race in years. Always the Friday

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TigerBlog recently had a meeting with one of Princeton's ESPN contacts, and of course at one point the conversation turned to how well Princeton's events that the network televises rate.Anyone want to guess which sport does the best?Okay, granted, it's not putting up numbers like the NFL or "American Idol." Still, anyone want to guess?And speaking of the NFL, if you were watching the

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When TigerBlog saw that Delaware's Elena Delle Donne went for 40 points in Delaware's 80-71 upset of No. 12 Penn State last night, his first thought was that he'll get to see the 6' 5" scoring machine in person when the Blue Hens come to Jadwin Gym on Dec. 1.Delle Donne, for those who don't know, originally committed to play at Connecticut after earning multiple high school national player of the

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TigerBlog was at Memorial Field in 1993, on the day that Dartmouth defeated Princeton 28-22 in what could have been the wildest Ivy League game TB has ever seen.That game, which can basically be called the Jay Fiedler/Keith Elias game, was played on the last weekend of the season, as the Princeton-Dartmouth game always is now. As an aside, Princeton and Penn used to travel to Cornell and

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TigerBlog knew Petey the dog for most of his life. Even now that he's gone, TB can still hear his unique bark/howl or see him as he turns his head to the side. For that matter, he can still hear his owner, Princeton men's soccer coach Jim Barlow, call him not by his name but instead "Pal," which is what he almost always called him. Unfortunately, Petey passed away recently at the age of 13, which

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TigerBlog took a few labor history classes while in college. While he's hardly a trade unionist, TB at least could feel empathy for what some of those workers went through on their jobs and how the conditions that they were forced to work under were not only designed to keep them in poverty for their entire lives but also dangerous, in many cases life-threateningly so.TB studied railroad labor,

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William Anderson was on his fourth bagel when Chuck Dibilio reached the 100-yard mark against Yale Saturday afternoon.By that point, William had also had more than his share of those little brownie/mini-cake/cookie things, the chocolate ones with the sprinkles on top. Of course, TigerBlog had had his share as well.TB's Saturday was spent first at the football game and then later at men's soccer

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Today is 11/11/11. TigerBlog isn't sure what the significance of that is supposed to be. It's not that the world is ending, is it? To find out, TB went to google, which took him to a website that had all the answers. He was especially impressed with the fact that the number 11, when multiplied against itself, yields a palindrome, as in:(2 digits) 11 x 11 = 121(6 digits) 111111 x 111111 =

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TigerBlog stood near the pylon at Franklin Field for much of the third quarter of last weekend's Princeton-Penn football game. At one point, No. 4 for Penn intercepted a pass and started down the other sideline before cutting all the way back across the field, to the point where he was sprinting directly at TB, whose instinct was to take a step or two backwards.TigerBlog loves to watch games from

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TigerBlog wanted to write about the whole Penn State situation, except he wasn't sure that Princeton's athletic blog was the right forum for that.Then he read about the students at Penn State and their rally in support of Joe Paterno, and that was too much.If you missed this part of it, there was a rally last night - word spread on Facebook - in front of Paterno's house. The students chanted "We

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TigerBlog recommends the brisket and potato pancake dinner at Fred & Murry's Deli in Manalapan.And of course the matzoh ball soup. Actually, everything on the menu is good. From the time you walk in and are hit with the kosher pickles until you're paying the bill and grab a black & white cookie for the road, you cannot go wrong there. The "Murry" part of Fred & Murry is Murry Chalnick, whose son

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As TigerBlog was driving along yesterday, he couldn't help but notice that there was an amazing sunset over the highway. Unfortunately, it was at 5:00 or so.There are few days that are more generally depressing than the "fall back" day, where clocks are set back an hour and Daylight Savings Time morphs into Standard Time. Even before the clocks are actually set back an hour, it starts to get dark

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TigerBlog was driving on 95 the other night when he noticed a car at a weird angle on the grass between the north and south sides. TB was in the middle lane, heading north. As he glanced away from the first car and looked ahead, the car in front of him was swerving into the left lane, rather frantically. In a split second, TB saw why - there was another car stopped in the middle lane just ahead.

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Ah, the press conference. In the world of sports communications, it's supposed to be a fairly big deal.Here at Princeton, it used to be, at least.TigerBlog remembers being at one in 1992, the night Princeton clinched its fourth straight Ivy men's basketball title. There, in the Caldwell Field House lounge, came this exchange:Writer - So, you're a senior, and you won, and that's four in a row, and

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Back when TigerBlog first started working here, Kurt Kehl - then the Director of Athletic Communications and now a vice president with the Washington Capitals - used to design the world's nicest looking tickets.They were tremendous to look at, especially if you had a season ticket sheet. They had action pictures of Princeton's best players, and so your ticket for the first game looked different

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The nervousness began to appear at about, oh, 7:30 or so, when TigerBlog realized that the trick-or-treaters were coming in larger than normal numbers and he was running out of candy.He had visions of having to turn all the lights out and hide in the dark, like he did the one time he did run out of candy, back when he lived in South Trenton.Trick-or-treaters are so hard to predict. Some years,

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If TigerBlog knocks on your door tonight, his favorite candies are:* Three Musketeers * 100 Grand* Twix (though he hates the commercials with all the crunching)And of course, one half of nature's most nearly perfect food combination - chocolate M&Ms (with chocolate ice cream).He's okay with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, even though he doesn't like peanut butter, a contradiction he's never quite

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If you didn't make it all the way to 12:39 a.m., then you missed quite possibly the single most exciting baseball game ever played and the greatest World Series game of all-time.Given that baseball goes back 150 years and the World Series goes back to 1903, that's saying a lot.Still, what beats last night's unreal 10-9 by the Cardinals over the Rangers, on a night when the Rangers twice were one

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TigerBlog was trying to figure out the history of the United States in Olympic women's field hockey, and so he googled "Olympic field hockey."Of course, there's a Wikipedia page for that.Except that TB can't really figure out the Wikipedia page. And he found, egads, a mistake. On Wikipedia.How is that possible?As Michael Scott said a long time ago, back when "The Office" was in its hilarious

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TigerBlog isn't quite ready to say that he's a better athlete than Mitch Henderson and Brian Earl.After yesterday, though, he'll go out on a limb and say that he's a better squash player. For now, at least.TigerBlog was a longtime participant in the lunchtime basketball game at Jadwin Gym, something that has probably had about 400 or so different players in the last 20 years. TB actually made a

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TigerBlog was watching "Jeopardy" the other day when one of the answers asked what cabinet department Bruce Babbit headed up in the Clinton administration. For some reason, TB knew that it was the Interior.How did TB remember that? Why? He has no idea.It's useless information, the kind that just floats around in his head, bouncing around song lyrics, movie lines, historical dates - and of course

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Princeton's former marketing director Scott Jurgens now works at East Carolina, and there his new team was on Saturday afternoon, playing at Navy. TigerBlog tuned in just in time to see a graphic flash that read that ECU's quarterback, Dominique Davis (apparently Scott only works at schools where arguably the most well-known athlete is D. Davis) was 19 for 19 passing.TB texted Scott, who was not

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Do you know what movie ranks first on the IMDB.com Top 250? No, it's not "The Godfather" or "Citizen Kane" or "Gone With The Wind."It's actually "The Shawshank Redemption," which has a score of 9.2 out of 10 and edges out "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" in the top three."Shawshank" is a great movie, obviously, though TigerBlog isn't ready to call it the greatest movie of all-time.

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Raise your hand if you care about the World Series.Okay. Now raise your hand if you used to care about the World Series.If you're like TigerBlog, then you didn't raise your hand the first time and did raise your hand the second time.There was a time that the World Series was a big deal to TigerBlog, as big as any annual sporting event. It didn't matter who the teams were either.In fact, TB goes

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Little Miss TigerBlog takes cello lessons once a week, at the home of a local high school student who appears in TigerBlog's contact list as "Cello Meg."Each week, when TB drops LMTB off for her 45-minute lesson, Cello Meg's dog Sam - LMTB calls him "Samuel" - comes bounding to the front door, looking for a little affection.As an aside, if you have to drop someone off for 45 minutes, what do you

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TigerBlog's first car was a Dodge Diplomat, which meant he was driving a Chrysler. As TB remembers the car, the lock to the glove compartment wouldn't open, though the locking unit itself also would come off into TB's hand if he moved the key in just the right way. To TB, it was the perfect mechanism, since the lock, while technically stuck in the locked position, was still able to be opened.The

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TigerBlog watched the 1973 Indianapolis 500 on television and saw the carnage that resulted in the deaths of two drivers and one pit crew member, critical injuries to another driver and burns suffered by 11 fans. He remembers that race to this day, nearly 40 years later, as well as the Sports Illustrated headline: "Trial By Fire and Rain."TB has never really been a motorsports fan, though he does

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TigerBlog put on his best suit - actually, it's his only suit - yesterday and made the 20-minute drive to the Holiday Inn in Somerset.The occasion was the College Athletic Administrators of New Jersey annual meeting/awards luncheon. TigerBlog is a vice president in the organization.His role yesterday was to be something of a moderator for the discussion of the educational value of athletics of

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Ever hear of Laura Barito? No? Neither had TigerBlog, not until he became the head of the awards committee for an organization he knew little about prior to last year, when he went to his first CAANJ annual meeting/awards luncheon.Back then, TB knew that CAANJ stood for the College Athletic Administrators of New Jersey - and that was about it.Today, TB goes to his second CAANJ meeting, this time

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TigerBlog was dropping TigerBlog Jr. off at a lacrosse practice this past summer, at a field that's 45 minutes or so away, when he saw something that made him extremely, extremely jealous.As TB was pulling into the parking lot, he saw one of TBJ's teammates - and his older sister, who now had a driver's license and was therefore assigned the task of bringing her brother to the practice.Imagine,

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TigerBlog finally got a chance to watch the ESPN documentary "Catching Hell," which centers mostly on the Steve Bartman incident in Chicago while also spending considerable time talking about (and with) Bill Buckner, a great player for nearly two decades who is remembered mostly for letting a ball get between his legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.Bartman - and TigerBlog is pretty sure that

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In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.Of course, he did it in Spanish-owned ships. After shopping around his idea of of sailing west to try to reach Japan and ultimately India and China and having it rejected by the monarchs of Italy, Portugal and England, Columbus finally got King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to agree to a fairly one-sided contract in Columbus' favor

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TigerBlog had no doubt that Alex Rodriguez was going to strike out when he came up with the bases loaded and one out, his team down by two in the seventh. And he had even less doubt that A-Rod would strike out to end the game, down 3-2, two out, nobody on in the ninth.And TB was right both times.TigerBlog is pretty sure that Rodriguez is the highest-paid player in the history of American team

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TigerBlog was going to write about women's volleyball this morning.He was going to start out by talking about how he knows little about the sport of volleyball and how he's seen less volleyball than pretty much any sport in his time here.He was going to go on about volleyball stat keeping, which is clearly the most difficult of any of the sports for which athletic communications types regular

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So A.J. Burnett won a game in the postseason? Well, that's great, especially considering he's the 20th highest paid player in baseball (though only fourth on his team), with an annual salary of $16,500,000.By the way, if you haven't looked lately, three of the top four highest paid players in baseball are on the Yankees - No. 1 Alex Rodriguez, No. 3 CC Sabathia and No. 4 Mark Texeira.To hear the

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Forgive TigerBlog if he's throwing out too much information this morning. For the last few years, he's had a small skin tag on the side of his tongue, and his dentist has been saying for just as long that he should go to an oral surgeon and get it removed.For some reason, TB woke up yesterday and decided that it was time to go ahead and do it, so he dug out the referral that his dentist had given

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TigerBlog saw, on consecutive days last week, "Spartacus" and "Ben-Hur."If you don't like the whole ancient Rome epic concept, then you can't watch more than two seconds of either. If you are a fan of the concept, then these two are among your favorite movies of all-time.TigerBlog falls in to the second category.As for the American Film Institute, it ranks these two movies second ("Ben-Hur") and

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Princeton entered late October of 1995 as one of two undefeated football teams in the Ivy League. Remember the other?Your hint is that they played on Oct. 28 that year, and both were 3-0 in the Ivy League. Your other hint is that it was no contest, a 44-14 Princeton win.The answer is Columbia, which came to Princeton that day nearly 16 years ago for a showdown for first place in the league. It

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TigerBlog figured that the Boston Red Sox were safe, at least for another day, when the Yankees were still up on the Rays 7-0 in the seventh inning last night.So what did he do? He put on "Criminal Minds" and watched an episode that once again made him wonder what the writers' meetings on that show must be like. Hey, let's have the guy pour sulfuric acid in his victims eyes and mouth and on their

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Pete Carril is being honored by the Joe Lapchick Foundation with its Lapchick Character Award, one he'll share with former Virginia women's coach (and Hopewell Valley High School grad) Debbie Ryan and former Mt. St. Mary's men's basketball coach Jim Phelan.Former winners include Lou Carnesecca, Dean Smith, Pat Summitt, John Thompson (the other one), Bob Hurley Sr., Jody Conradt, the late Kay Yow

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TigerBlog was watching the "Bubble Boy" episode of "Seinfeld" yesterday when one of his favorite moments in the show's history - really in TV history - rapidly approached.If you remember the episode, Jerry and Elaine are in the coffee shop when they're approached by Brian Doyle-Murray, who'd been sitting at the counter and noticed Jerry.Doyle-Murray, whose character drives a Yoo-Hoo truck,

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TigerBlog played the trumpet in high school. Well, at least his last year in high school.He figured as a senior that he would take up a musical instrument, and the band director at the time, a man named Mr. Danielson, suggested percussion. TB wanted something more, well, instrumental and asked what the easiest instrument to learn would be, and Mr. Danielson suggested the trumpet.Mr. Danielson

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For awhile there yesterday, TigerBlog was giving serious thought to the possibility of being clocked on top of his head by a falling satellite.When TB came back from getting lunch yesterday (chicken salad club, wheat toast, no mayo), he was greeted by a discussion in the business office about the impending return to Earth of a dead satellite. As of yesterday, all that was known was that it was

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TigerBlog listens to his iTunes all day, every day. It's the first thing he turns on in the morning when he gets to work, and it plays all day.Back when he was in college, TB used to listen to music (on a record player, with a turntable and needle and all) while he studied, and it was probably from that experience that he developed the habit of not being able to work in total silence.For that

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Joe Susan is a big dude. A funny, soft-spoken one maybe. That doesn't change the fact that he's about 6-4, 6-5 as TigerBlog remembers him.Today, Susan is the head football coach at Bucknell. Back when TigerBlog first working at Princeton, Susan was the offensive coordinator for the Tigers.When TB used to be on the radio, Susan would tell him the first few scripted plays, so TigerBlog could sound

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TigerBlog was talking about the flurry of college realignment that is dominating the landscape with several people yesterday, and he posed the same question to each. Could it affect the Ivy League?"Nope," one person said. "The Ancient 8 will always be the Ancient 8."As an aside, the more TB thought about what he wrote yesterday, the more annoyed he became about Syracuse's move from the Big East

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There were 6,704 people at Princeton Stadium Saturday night for the opening game of the 143rd season of Tiger football.Princeton, in fact, was one of five Ivy League schools to play home on Week 1.Yale drew an announced crowd of 12,246 against Georgetown.Dartmouth - who might be the league favorite right now - had 5,616 at Memorial Field for its win over Colgate.Cornell announced 14,032 for its

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Last night was Back To School Night for both TigerBlog Jr. and Little Miss TigerBlog. TigerBlog ended up at LMTB's school, where he went through her daily schedule, heading from one class to the next in abbreviated 10-minute periods to hear the teachers talk about expectations, policies, etc. When it was over, TigerBlog was amazed that he somehow was able to make it through his own school days

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TigerBlog first met Dana O'Neil when she was Dana Pennett, age 15 or so, and the stat keeper for her high school football team, which was playing a game that TB was covering in his early newspaper days.Subsequently, Dana would work at The Trentonian when TB was at the Trenton Times, and the two often covered the same event. Eventually, TB fixed her up with her husband, Princeton athletic trainer

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The first song by the group Angels & Airwaves that TigerBlog ever heard was called "Heaven" Jeff Taylor - who at one point was the only person around these parts who knew how to do a video and who now has moved on to much bigger projects while everyone else figured out how to use I-movie - used it in a senior banquet video a few years back.Since then, TB has become a big fan of the group, led by

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One by one, the travel party from the women's basketball trip to Paris and Senegal trickled back into Jadwin Gym.The team returned from its 11 days overseas Sunday afternoon, and yesterday was the first day back to work for the staff.As they walked by TigerBlog's office, a few ducked in to say hello and tell a few stories about the experience.After awhile, TigerBlog began to notice something

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TigerBlog was coming out of the supermarket Saturday evening when he saw ticket manager Stephanie Sutton on her way in. She was clearly in a big hurry, stopping only to explain that she had to get home for the start of the Michigan-Notre Dame game. As it turned out, hurrying home for the kickoff wasn't that big a deal. It was staying with the game to the end that would have been better.After all,

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TigerBlog walked down to the end of the driveway. It had just turned to darkness, and it was completely still, completely quiet. Eerily so.TigerBlog had an uneasy feeling. He was scared.It was the night of Sept. 11, 2001. TB's memories of earlier that day are equally as etched in cement in his mind, to stay there for the rest of his life. He dropped off TigerBlog Jr. at pre-school and heard a

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The product, TigerBlog believes, was Chiffon margarine. The commercial featured Mother Nature herself, eating the spread on something, marveling over the butter taste.When informed that it was margarine and not butter, the response was that "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature," followed by a raccoon, TB believes, who covered its eyes, awaiting the ensuing wrath.All these decades later, it's good

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