Four Zones

TigerBlog was looking through the archives yesterday in hopes of finding a picture that he never did end up finding.

On the other hand, he found about 1,000 other pictures that took him back in time. There was one, for instance, of his former colleague and longtime friend John Cornell after he got whacked in the face with a softball one day. TB will not share that picture so as not to upset the squeamish.

He did send the picture to John, who is living in Florida these days. Within seconds, he got this return message: "I returned to the game."

Here's one he will share with you, though he's not 100 percent sure what year it was:

That's Ford Family Director of Athletics Emeritus Gary Walters on the left. TB isn't quite sure who the tall guy is who is flanked by baseball coach Scott Bradley and former softball coach Maureen Barron. 

Just kidding. That's Cal Ripken Jr., the baseball Hall of Famer. Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played with 2,632; no current player in Major League Baseball has an active streak of 400 straight games. For that matter, Ripken once played 8,264 consecutive innings. Nobody will ever break his record.

He also had 3,184 hits, 431 home runs and 1,695 RBIs, as well as 19 All-Star Game appearances, two Gold Gloves and two American League MVP awards.

There are tons of photos like this, all saved on an old server. At some point, TB will get lost for a whole day or so going through them and picking out some others, but not today.

It's too busy a weekend for Princeton. And don't worry, Princeton has all four Continental US time zones covered. 

Of course, it's nothing like what's coming up in a few weeks. At the Office of Athletic Communications meeting this week, the main topic was the schedule for February and March, and it's very, very busy, but in a very good way.

In the meantime, there's this weekend.

TB will go by time zone.

The Pacific Time Zone? That would be the U.S. Pole Vault Summit, where the Guttormsen brothers Sondre and Simen figure to compete. Sondre won the indoor and outdoor NCAA titles last year, and Simen was fourth in both. 

Central Time Zone? That's wrestling. Princeton will be taking on Oregon State in Austin at the FloWrestling Showcase tonight at 8 Eastern.

Mountain Time Zone? That's also wrestling, as the Tigers go from Texas to Tempe to wrestle against No. 8 Arizona State Sunday at 4 Eastern. TB wasn't sure if Tempe was Mountain or Pacific, but he's pretty sure it's Mountain.

The rest is in the Eastern Time Zone. If you're looking for games actually in Princeton, you have a few choices. 

The men's hockey team is home tonight against LIU in the first of two meetings this year between the teams at Baker Rink. LIU comes in at 6-13-1, and the most impressive of all of those is probably the "1." 

The Sharks have a 2-2 tie against Quinnipiac, the No. 1 team in the country, on their record. That alone gets your attention.

Princeton is off from ECAC games this weekend. The Tigers will be back on the Baker Rink ice Tuesday, when Providence is in town. Both games start at 7.

If you come to Jadwin Sunday, you can see home women's tennis (vs. Richmond at noon), home women's squash (vs. Cornell at noon) and home men's squash (vs. Cornell at 2:30). 

The only other Princeton team at home this weekend is the women's basketball team, which hosts Brown at 2 tomorrow and then Penn Monday, also at 2. Penn is the lone Ivy unbeaten in women's basketball right now at 3-0 as the race starts to take shape.

There is also men's and women's swimming and diving, women's hockey, men's basketball and men's and women's track and field on the road. 

If you want to see Princeton swimming and diving and track and field, then you'll want to be heading to Annapolis. All four of those teams compete at the Naval Academy.

The full schedule for the weekend is HERE.