In fact, he hasn't been to the movies in a long time. Like, a long, long time, long enough that he can't remember the last movie he saw in a theater.
That's in contrast to about a 20-year stretch from 1976 or so until around 1996 or so, when he saw basically every movie that came out.
He did watch the show Sunday long enough to see Lady Gaga sing with Bradley Cooper, which led him to conclude that 1) Bradley Cooper can actually sing and 2) he's not in Lady Gaga's universe. Perhaps lost in all of Lady Gaga's public persona is the fact that there aren't too many singers with a voice like hers.
TB also heard someone who won an award thank Michelle Eisenreich, or at least that's what TB thought. Of course, Michelle Eisenreich is the head coach of women's track and field at Princeton, which led TB to think "wait, did he just say Michelle Eisenreich?"
As it turns out, it wasn't Princeton's Michelle Eisenreich. It was the Michelle Eisenreich who has worked on visual effects for 62 movies according to her IMDB page. TB, by the way, has seen exactly one of those 62 - "White Oleander," a really depressing movie with Michelle Pfeiffer as a mother who is in prison for murder and the effect that has on her daughter.
Fred Samara, Princeton's men's track and field coach, didn't get mentioned on the Oscars, but he was still having a pretty good day nonetheless. Samara's indoor track and field team won the Heptagonal championship, making it five straight and eighth in 10 years. That's not a bad decade.
Princeton is on a big-time "run" in track and field, having now won seven straight Heps titles between cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field.
Overall, it was the 45th Heps championship in Samara's remarkable career. Do you think he takes any for granted?
Check him out here:
Princeton finished with 139.5 points, easily outdistancing second-place Penn, who had 111.40 years,— Princeton Track/XC (@PrincetonTrack) February 25, 2019
45 Ivy League Heps Championships,
and still totally invested in his guys and passionate about his program #PrincetonLegend #FredSamara pic.twitter.com/MjvDo3vRSV
Adam Kelly was named the Outstanding Male Field Performer after winning his second straight weight throw title. The complete recap is HERE.
That's six Ivy League championships this academic year for Princeton - football, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's cross country, women's hockey and now men's indoor track and field.
As far as teams who have not yet had their league champion determined, the women's basketball team is at Penn tonight in a game that will go a long way in determining that outcome. The Tigers enter the game 7-2 in the league, one game back of the 8-1 Quakers. The math is fairly easy to decipher.
Princeton goes into the game after a rare weekend in which Bella Alarie was not the Ivy League Player of the Week, which is actually a pretty sign, since the Tigers didn't need her to break 40 points to get a win. In fact, Princeton got steady contributions from players up and down the lineup, which is a good way to go into a big game.
One player who was honored by the Ivy League this week was Ryan Schwieger, who was named the Player of the Week for the first time in his career after his 23 points against Cornell and 20 more against Columbia. His previous career high had been 15.
For the weekend, he shot 16-24 overall and 6 for 10 from three-point range.
While TB is doing a little housecleaning here, the women's hockey team will be home this weekend for the first round of the ECAC playoffs, hosting St. Lawrence at 6 Friday, 3 Saturday and then 3 Sunday if necessary.
The men finish the regular season at Brown and Yale before the ECAC playoffs being next weekend. Is it possible that the Tigers can still be home for the first round?
Princeton currently has 14 points, which trails Union by four for eighth place, which would be the final host spot. Should Princeton sweep, that would leave them with identical records of 8-10-2, and they split their two meetings, which means how you did against the top four is the next tiebreaker.
There are five teams in the running for the top four, but Union would win the tiebreaker regardless of how that plays out. That means that Princeton's only hope would be a three-way tie or four-way tie, with Colgate (now with 17 points) and/or RPI (with 16).
Princeton wouldn't win a three-way tiebreaker with Union and Colgate or Union and RPI. As for a four-way tiebreaker, TB doesn't think that Princeton can win that either, but it's getting a little complex to figure it all out in his head.
No matter where those games are played, though, Princeton is as capable as any team of getting hot right now. It'll be interesting to see.
And, back at men's track and field, there's more coming later this week, and TB guarantees you'll like it.
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