Chris Young was encouraged by the simulated game he threw yesterday in Cincinnati.
Inside the lines, Will Venable picked up two hits in the Padres' series opener with the Reds, San Diego's seventh straight win.
The Hoya reports on the Georgetown basketball banquet.
There's a Craig Robinson Q&A in the New York Times and a lengthy in-studio interview with Mike Francesa (.mp3) on the WFAN site.
A benefit for Derek's Dreams is being held on Wednesday night at Nanina’s in Belleville. There will be silent auction items provided by John Thompson III, Armond Hill, Pete Carril, Bill Bradley, Joe Scott and more.
The Trenton Times ran an article about Howie Levy's involvement with Derek DiGregorio's family and his work helping put on this gala.
You can walk alongside the Georgetown basketball coach and Troop Thompson at the 2010 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Washington, DC on May 1st.
Will the shoulder of Chris Young be ok? At this point, nobody is sure.
Will Venable (video) hit a sacrifice fly that scored a run as San Diego won its fourth straight, 3-2 over San Francisco.
Richmond junior guard and Atlantic 10 Player of the Year Kevin Anderson has put his name in for the NBA draft, but will not hire an agent.
There's a short Craig Robinson Q&A in the Chicago Tribune.
Hoopdirt mentions some potential names in the Columbia coaching search.
Georgetown sophomore Greg Monroe has declared for the NBA draft and will hire an agent.
ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has an excellent feature on Padres outfielder Will Venable.
Chris Young may miss more time than originally expected.
A web site called Josh's Sports Journal has analysis of Princeton's recruit T.J. Bray in their final senior rankings.
The Capital Classic was held last night at American University. Princeton recruit Ben Hazel scored 13 points in 14 minutes as the District All-Stars beat the Suburban All-Stars, 109-100.
In the evening's other game, Georgetown recruit Markel Starks was the MVP for the Capital All-Stars, who defeated the U.S. All-Stars, 117-108. Starks had 18 points in 18 minutes of play.
Will Venable (video) hit his third home run of the season in San Diego's 6-2 loss to Atlanta.
Word is that there are five finalists for the open Dartmouth coaching job.
As you may have heard by now, Hartford head coach Dan Leibovitz stepped down to join Jerome Allen's staff at Penn. After just one week on the job as an assistant with Steve Donahue at Boston College, former Penn assistant John Gallagher was quickly hired as the new Hartford coach. Got that?
A big night for Will Venable, who tripled, singled and homered to center field (video) in his first three at bats. San Diego scored 10 times in the fourth inning and crushed Atlanta in the Padres' home opener. Of the team's 17 runs, four were recorded by Venable.
While Venable fell a double short of becoming the first San Diego player to hit for the cycle, he is just one of just 30 players in the modern era to steal a base, leg out a triple and go deep in one of their first 129 career games.
Pawel Buczak is quoted in a Daily Princetonian article reacting to the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski.
Chris Young was placed on the 15 day disabled list retroactive to April 7th.
Here's video of Will Venable clearing the bases with a triple in San Diego's 15 inning win over Colorado on Saturday night.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray can add Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Boys Basketball Area Player of the Year to his resume.
C. Young (1-0) 6.0 IP 1 H 0 ER 3 BB 5 K 0.00 ERA. 86 pitches, 49 strikes.
The return of Chris Young to the mound for the first time in 10 months was a rousing success. Young pitched six innings of shutout, one hit baseball as San Diego defeated Arizona 6-3. You can watch highlights of Young's night here.
Teammate Will Venable provided Young with support, hitting a solo home run to right field in the fourth inning.
Tiger recruit Ben Hazel, who I can confirm did receive official admission to Princeton, was named Honorable Mention 2010 All-Met Boys Basketball.
Northwestern backup center Kyle Rowley is transferring.
Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports just reported that according to multiple sources Steve Donahue will be the next head coach at Boston College.
Chris Young makes his first start of the year for San Diego tonight at 9:40 pm ET in Arizona. Yesterday, in the Padres' season opener, Will Venable was 0-3 at the plate.
There's a MLB Extra Innings free preview happening through April 11th, so you should be able to watch this game gratis on your cable system.
Chris Mooney talks about what led him to take his name out of the BC coaching search.
The schedule arranged for Craig Robinson in April is exhausting. He'll be a guest with everyone from Stephen Colbert to Larry King to Jimmy Kimmel promoting his book.
Denver coach Joe Scott was a guest on ESPN Radio 1600 yesterday previewing the Butler/Duke game.
Alexander Wolff writes about the true reason behind NCAA Tournament expansion.
Princeton recruit Chris Clement scored 20 points for the North team in a 104-93 loss at the 2010 Dennis Johnson Memorial Boys High School All-Star Classic.
The Padres begin their season in Arizona this afternoon with Will Venable starting in right field. Watch video of Venable smacking his third of four home runs this spring training.
Chris Mooney's new contract is believed to include a sizable raise.
Georgetown sophomore Greg Monroe was named Pete Newell Big Man of the Year by the NABC.
Wednesday, March 24th
Princeton vs St. Louis - 9:00 pm ET - HDNet
CBI Tournament
Thursday, March 25th
(12) Cornell vs. (1) Kentucky - 9:50 pm ET - CBS
NCAA Tournament
In addition to our recap, read about last night's wild game on goprincetontigers.com, in the Indianapolis Star, in the IUPUI Examiner, on Student on Sports and on iupuijags.com.
I realized this morning that Princeton's Brian Earl has been involved in each of the Tigers' last six postseason victories. Four as a player, two as assistant.
Also offering articles on the CBI quarterfinal from people who were not in attendance are the Daily Princetonian and the Trentonian.
Princeton's next opponent is a depleted St. Louis team who is down to just eight scholarship players after guard Justin Jordan broke his thumb in Monday's double overtime comeback versus UW-Green Bay.
Richmond's Chris Mooney may interest Seton Hall, among other institutions.
A Tennessee senior forward who had been considering Princeton and Cornell has opted for the Big Red.
Cornell center Jeff Foote had the following to say about the Tigers' defense: "Princeton is one of the best defensive teams I've ever played against...Princeton - not taking anything away from Wisconsin or Temple - is a better defensive team than them. We're used to that style of play and we're ready to play that kind of game."
Will Venable has taken a circuitous route to the major leagues.
Here's a Trenton Times preview of last night's action that I initially missed.
Sunday, March 21st
(12) Cornell vs. (4) Wisconsin - 2:50 pm ET - CBS
NCAA Tournament
Monday, March 22nd
Princeton vs. IUPUI - 7:00 pm ET
CBI Tournament
Congratulations to Cornell (28-4), who recorded the Ivy League's first NCAA Tournament win since 1998 with a convincing 78-63 performance versus Temple. Soft Pretzel Logic has a great post about this game.
With the Big Red and Princeton both winning, 2009-10 is just the second year where two different Ivy men's basketball teams have been victorious in the postseason. Can you name the other time this happened? No peaking at our Twitter feed for the answer...
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray had 25 points, 12 rebounds and three assists as Catholic Memorial advanced to the WIAA Division 2 state finals. If anyone wants to watch it, the championship game versus Maple Northwestern will stream live at 7:30 pm ET tonight here.
Will Venable hit a titanic home run in spring training, while Chris Young labored over four innings of work.
I enjoyed this multimedia piece where Northwestern players and assistant coach Mitch Henderson were asked to share their thoughts on possible NCAA Tournament expansion.
