Well, check out what the men's golf team has been up to lately.
Here's one:
— Princeton Golf Team (@princetongolf) February 20, 2018Here's another:
— Princeton Golf Team (@princetongolf) February 19, 2018
There's a series of them on the men's golf twitter feed. They're all really good. TigerBlog gives them high marks for creativity, initiative and execution.
The videos also take him back to the glory days of the "Who's the Tiger" videos.
They're leading up to the season opener, which takes place in Arizona starting Sunday. If you couldn't get to Arizona, by the way, there was always Central New Jersey the last few days, where the temperature has been in the 70s.
The men's golf team will be one of, by TigerBlog's count, 17 Princeton teams who will be competing this weekend. There will be everything from season openers to big early season matchups to late-season regular season games with championship impacts to league championship meets all the way to the national championship in men's squash.
As is the case this time of year, there's something for everyone. See for yourself HERE.
Speaking of teams that will be playing this weekend and videos, there is the men's hockey team. The Tigers honored their 1998 and 2008 ECAC championship, and the event was captured in THIS video.
The current men's hockey team has just this weekend left in the regular season and is one of five teams competing for four spots to host next weekend's ECAC first round playoff series. The Tigers are currently tied for seventh with Yale with 19 points, two out of fifth, one out of sixth and one ahead of Quinnipiac, who is ninth.
Princeton is at Clarkson (third place) tomorrow and St. Lawrence (12th place) Saturday. Every point in the standings is critical. Should it come to it, Princeton would have the tiebreaker over Quinnipiac.
If Princeton does finish in between fifth and eighth, then it will be home next weekend, March 2-4, in a best-of-three series. Last year's was incredible, with three thrilling games against Colgate that ended with the Tigers' advancing.
The women's season is one week ahead, which means that the playoffs are this weekend. Princeton will be at Cornell, tomorrow at 6, Saturday at 3 and then Sunday if necessary at 3.
As for as championships go, the will be at least three Ivy titles that will definitely be celebrated this weekend, two in indoor track and field and one in men's swimming and diving.
The Heps track and field championships will be held at Dartmouth Saturday and Sunday. The Ivy League men's swimming and diving championships will be DeNunzio Pool, running through Saturday.
There are other events. TigerBlog will have more on lacrosse and basketball tomorrow. For now he'll just say that the men's basketball team is home against Harvard tomorrow and Dartmouth Saturday and the two lacrosse teams both play Virginia, with the women at home and the men on the road.
Besides, he wanted to mention two more Winter Olympics things.
First of all, the U.S. men's hockey team was eliminated with a quarterfinal loss to the Czech Republic. The game was decided in a shootout after the teams were even at 2-2 through regulation and a five-minute overtime.
Here's TB's question - why in the world would that game go to a shootout? Why wouldn't they just play until someone scored a goal?
How long could that possibly have taken? Yes, every now and then there will be a game that goes on and on and on, but for the most part, someone will end it.
And lest you think TB is being a hypocrite, the American women shouldn't have won a gold medal in a shootout either.
TigerBlog hates shootouts as much as he hates PKs in major soccer elimination events. Actually he hates them more, because hockey goals are easier to come by than soccer goals for the most part.
On the other hand, his favorite event - the cross country skiing sprint relay - was epic yesterday, as the U.S. just slipped past the heavily favored Swedes and Norwegians to win the gold.
If you saw this, American Jessica Diggins made an all-out charge up the last hill and then down into the stadium and ultimately to the finish line, winning by 0.19 seconds.
It was certainly riveting. It was also so indicative of what the Winter Games so often are - events that nobody watches except for two weeks every four years that are decided by the smallest fractions of seconds.
That's TB's way of saying he's really enjoyed watching them.
As for events you can watch every year, there's the weekend in Princeton Athletics.
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