Dr. Rolle Speaks And The Coming Weekend For The Tigers

Have you turned your heat on yet? 

This is like the air conditioning when it gets hot in April. You know you probably would be more comfortable if you turn it on. You also know you're opposed to doing so before a certain date — and that date has not yet been reached.  

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TigerBlog met Myron Rolle at a reception when he was a football player at the Hun School in Princeton. 

Even though Rolle was 17 or so at the time, there was no doubt that this was someone who was special. He was the top high school football player in the country. He was a student with few peers. He carried himself in a humble manner, despite those two qualities. 

TB only met him that one time, but he's followed his career ever since. He has not been surprised at all at Rolle's trajectory, which has taken him from Hun to Florida State, where he was an All-American defensive back, to Oxford as a Rhodes' Scholar, to the NFL draft and then back to Florida State medical school. 

Whose resume does that sound like? Does the name Bill Bradley ring a bell?  

These days, Rolle is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla. If TB went back to that day he met Rolle, he wouldn't have been surprised at all by that. 

You can hear Dr. Rolle speak tonight as in McCosh 10 at 7:30 as part of the Mills The Sports, Race and Society Lecture, made possible by the Stephen C. Mills '81 Fund. It is co-sponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Department of Athletics, in partnership with the Princeton Black Pre-Medical Society.

For more information and to RSVP, click HERE.

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What's the most intriguing game on the Princeton Athletics weekend schedule? TigerBlog gives you two options. 

First, there's the women's rugby game against Dartmouth Saturday at 11 am on Rickerson Field. The upstart Tigers are 4-0 on the season and have outscored their opponents by a combined 328-17. 

Dartmouth is the establishment, at least as far as Ivy women's rugby teams. The Big Green have outscored Princeton 253-17 in the three games between the teams to date. 

What will happen Saturday? It'll be fascinating to see. 

The other intriguing game will be Sunday at noon, when the field hockey team hosts Northwestern. A year ago, these two played in the NCAA championship game, won by Northwestern 2-1 in double overtime. 

Princeton is also home tomorrow at five against Dartmouth. Northwestern, who is home tomorrow against Iowa, is 39-1 in its last 40 games, with only a 3-2 loss to Princeton in Evanston a year ago in the regular season. 

Princeton enters the weekend 6-4 — with its four losses all in shootouts, to No. 2, No. 4, No. 7 and No. 9 in this week's poll. 

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It is still ridiculously early in the Ivy League women's volleyball season. Right now, after each team has played only three league matches, there are four 2-1 teams (Princeton, Yale, Brown and Harvard), with a 3-0 team (Cornell), a 1-2 team (Penn) and two 0-3 teams (Columbia, Dartmouth). 

Princeton is home this weekend, against Yale tomorrow (6) and against Brown Saturday (5). 

Meanwhile, the Ivy League soccer races are heading into their midpoints, with very bunched standings as well. 

On the women's side, Princeton is in a four-way tie for third place, along with Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell, with three points apiece. Harvard is in first now with six, followed by Brown with four. Princeton is home Saturday at 7 against Penn, who is in seventh place with one point. 

So much can change, actually will change, weekend to weekend. The same is true on the men's side. 

Princeton is at Columbia tomorrow at 5. Here's how it looks on the men's side right now: Cornell has six points, Penn has four, Princeton as three (as do Dartmouth and Harvard), with Columbia, Brown and Yale with one each. 

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The complete weekend schedule is HERE.