One of my absolute favorite annual (free!) area events is Art All Night, happening from now until 3:00 pm ET tomorrow in Trenton. If you haven't been before, I can't recommend stopping by highly enough.
Among the hundreds of paintings, sculptures, installations and displays at the Roebling Wire Works is "From The Key" by Carl Frankel, the first canvas I can think of depicting a moment in a hypothetical Penn/Princeton basketball game.
Stephen Goldsmith and I attended the final night of a four game series between NL East-leading Philadelphia and the first place San Diego Padres at Citizen's Bank Park on Monday.
The Padres won a crisp 3-1 decision behind seven shutout innings from Wade LeBlanc to retain the best record in the National League and win the back pair of their only trip to Philly this season.
Photos of Chris Young, Will Venable and game action can be found after the jump.
June 1, 2008.
June 1, 2009.
June 1, 2010.
Lover of "ba-ba." Enemy of mascots. Climber of bleachers. Rarely still for photos. Missed during road trips. Two years old today.
Happy Birthday, Maggie!
I love ya kiddo.
The shirt you were given the day you were born somehow still fits (as a dress).
An undated, uncredited headshot of former Princeton head coach Butch van Breda Kolff. This print was purchased for the site last week on eBay.
van Breda Kolff now has his own category on princetonbasketball.com, so you can see all past posts that mention him here.
After an exceptionally frustrating 30+ hour ordeal where our service provider caused numerous databases to go screwy and took this site's functionality down to "non-existant," everything appears to be working as it should.
Phew.
I apologize for a lack of updates in the back half of this week, but a jam-packed Saturday News awaits subscribers tomorrow.
For your patience, enjoy a photo you almost certainly have never seen before: Gabe Lewullis, Chris Doyal and Steve Goodrich after the final buzzer at the RCA Dome taken by the staff photographer of the Indianapolis Star for their March 15, 1996 edition.
I don't remember how I talked them into it, but on the first Saturday of March in 1989, I somehow convinced my parents (and extremely skeptical younger sister) that we should load up the car and go to the Princeton/Harvard game outside Boston as a family.
We didn't head all the way up to Dartmouth the previous night, where the Big Green had been victorious 53-43 over the Tigers. Now the losers of two straight, Princeton needed to win their final conference game to claim the program's first Ivy League championship in five years.
A loss to the Crimson (who beat the Tigers by six at Jadwin Gym a month previous) combined with a Dartmouth win over Penn and the two teams would end the season tied at 10-4 for the 1988-89 Ivy crown.
Perhaps it was impending history that sold my folks on making this trip? Perhaps I just begged to the proper degree? Whatever it was, this is a game that cemented my teenage love affair with Princeton basketball.
While my memories of the contest two decades later consist solely of the gym at Harvard being extraordinarily dimly lit and the dogpile of orange and black at center court after the final buzzer, I've always been glad the 15 year-old me captured three blurry pictures after the game on my tiny camera and kept these grainy documents tucked away in my old bedroom.
The first, of Princeton senior captain Bob Scrabis (#34) talking to WHWH broadcaster David Brody, is scanned above.
Two more pictures and some notes about the game can be found after the jump.
As always, click to enlarge.
Chris Young has been tentatively cleared to pitch on Thursday for San Diego AAA affiliate Portland.
Will Venable was 0-3 at the plate last night, striking out three times. The Padres fell 10-1 at Florida.
Northwestern is still in the mix for a point guard from Las Vegas.
It was 15 years ago this week that Gabe Lewullis chose Princeton.
Congratulations to our own Stephen Goldsmith, who had a picture from this site selected as one of last season's most memorable photos by College Hoops Journal.
Today is Princeton head man Sydney Johnson's birthday.
Let that serve as an excuse to scan the above image from a February 1996 program and transcribe a short feature about Johnson written during the conference portion of his junior year.
The piece by Jerry Price takes on a different light than it did when originally published knowing what was to come both the next month and a decade down the line.
I pride myself on many things, one of which is my status as "king of the $0.99 eBay purchase." Here's the latest find, a program from Princeton's game against Penn at Jadwin Gym in the 1981-82 season.
Highlights from this 46 page booklet are scanned after the jump. Click on any image to enlarge.
This framed image of the 1990-91 Princeton Tigers was sitting outside the men's basketball office when I went by Jadwin Gym this morning to interview Sydney Johnson.
I had to take a snapshot. Seeing it brought back a lot of fond memories.
Enjoy this photo while I edit some forthcoming audio. You can click to enlarge.
I've been nothing short of thrilled with the work Stephen Goldsmith has done for this site over the past three years, but I think he outdid himself in 2009-10.
Stephen's images have helped enhance my game stories and analysis. His shots have given members unable to regularly attend Princeton contests a better understanding of specific situations involving this year's team and have often been the only pictures capturing many moments, both home and away.
As part of a series of posts reviewing this past season, I've hand-selected my favorite 15 photos Stephen took covering games for princetonbasketball.com.
It is a tribute to Stephen's talent that I hemmed and hawed all weekend trying to pair down over two dozen top choices to these selections.
Jon Solomon
princetonbasketball.com
Like what you see? You can always review the site's complete library of photo essays here.
