Northwestern will play 20 home games at Welsh-Ryan Arena this season. The Wildcats' full schedule was announced yesterday.
Will Venable may have been 0-4 at the plate in San Diego's extra inning loss to Arizona last night, but on Sunday Venable had two hits, including his eleventh home run of the season (video) as the Padres beat the Rockies 7-3.
Will Venable hit his 10th home run of the season (video), a solo shot to center in the top of the seventh inning, as San Diego came back to beat San Francisco, 4-3.
Lafayette announced their 2009-10 basketball schedule. In addition to a game at Princeton, the Leopards will visit Georgetown on November 28th.
Richmond has released the dates for their Atlantic 10 slate, completing their schedule for the upcoming season.
A 6'2" guard from western Pennsylvania who "also drew interest from Princeton" committed to Cornell.
Soft Pretzel Logic goes one-on-one with new Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris.
Got plans on Friday? Going to the California State Fair? You can meet Sacramento Kings GM Geoff Petrie at the County Exhibits Building from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
A California center who played for Scott Greenman at the 2009 Maccabiah Games has decided to play collegiately for Yale.
San Diego swept a three game series against Washington with a 7-0 victory yesterday afternoon. Will Venable was 2-4 on the day and drove in the game's final run.
Related to the link I shared on Friday about St. John's retaining someone to use Twitter during basketball games comes this piece on colleges hiring official "Sportswriters".
Denver head coach Joe Scott has signed a three year contract extension that will keep him with the Pioneers through the 2014-15 season.
Another addition to the highlight reel for Will Venable, who followed up an outfield assist (video) on Monday with a diving grab (video) last night.
The charity auction that John Thompson III and his wife were involved in raised over $39,000 for the Sullivan Center for Breast Health.
One name to add and one name to remove from your recruiting radar - A 6'7" North Carolina forward says Princeton is one of the schools that have made him an offer, while a 6'9" post player from Arizona who had previously listed the Tigers among his suitors verbally committed to Weber State.
Finally, there was a post on TigerBlog on Monday called "Jon Solomon, Media Member?" that I'd be curious to hear your opinions on. While, as I said in that site's comments, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with my name being the focal point for this discussion - I think both this post and the Washington Post article I shared here that inspired it raise some interesting, important issues. I had only hoped that by this point I would have earned a period in the subject line, not a question mark.
Forward Konrad Wysocki has signed with the Polish team PGE Turow Zgorzelec of the Liga Koszykówki.
Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson spoke at Friday's Albany Beaver Huddle.
A decent weekend for Will Venable, who had two hits in the second inning on Friday night as the Padres scored six times versus Florida. Venable followed that up with a solo home run (video), his ninth of the season, in San Diego's 7-4 victory over the Marlins on Saturday. While his team was unable to pull of the sweep yesterday afternoon at Land Shark Stadium, Venable made another great diving catch (video) and raised his average to .274 with a pair of singles.
Cornell became the fifth Ivy League school to release their 2009-10 men's basketball schedule, joining Princeton, Brown, Harvard and Yale.
I was fortunate to receive another set of pictures this morning of Will Venable in Atlanta. Venable drove in San Diego's lone run last night with a home run to right center in the ninth inning (video), his eighth of the season.
More photos follow after the jump.
A reader in Atlanta sent me some pictures they took of Will Venable from last night's Padres/Braves game. Venable was 0-5 at the plate in San Diego's 2-1 extra inning victory, but did make a nice rolling catch (video) in the fourth inning.
More photos follow after the jump.
Will Venable was at the center of a bench-clearing incident during yesterday's game between the Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals. Venable grounded out to first baseman Albert Pujols and Pujols felt Venable gave him an elbow when Pujols tagged him out in the baseline. After the game, Venable considered the matter over. Pujols, not so much.
Gonzaga's Cedrick Lindsay has accepted an offer to play at Richmond. Lindsay's teammate Malcolm Lemmons is considering an offer from Princeton, among other Ivy schools.
Former Northwestern guard Craig Moore is blogging about his first year playing overseas for the Dutch team De Friesland Aris.
An article from the Times Dispatch on the anatomy of the basketball schedule at Richmond gives readers a better idea of how hard it is to create and coordinate a full campaign.
Bill Bradley will be speaking at Cornell on September 10th as part of a panel called "Loves on the Run: Sports, Service and Leadership."
Did you miss the Will Venable full extension diving catch that was the Top Play on Friday night's Sportscenter? Watch video of the grab here. Venable also had a pair of doubles, his second career game with more than one extra base hit.
Last night Venable was one for three at the plate as San Diego was shut out by St. Louis, 7-0.
ESPN Chicago thinks the future is looking bright for Northwestern basketball.
The Princeton Packet talks with Padres outfielder Will Venable.
CBS Sports' Fantasy News lists Venable as one of baseball's luckiest hitters.
Former Northwestern guard Craig Moore will play professionally in Holland.
Wildcat center Kyle Rowley has a fracture in his left foot and will be out indefinitely.
Chris Young expects to be 100% by spring training.
Doug Gottlieb responds to Dick Vitale's Top 40 on espn.com with his own list of teams worth watching and discussing in 2009-10. Included: Northwestern, Oregon State and Richmond.
Scott Greenman (pictured third from the left with the rest of the USA coaching staff) talks to the Town Topics about his experiences coaching in Israel.
According to Paul Westphal, Pete Carril will be focusing on improving the Sacramento Kings' shooting.
Will Venable was picked off first base with the bases loaded in the top of the seventh inning on Saturday, ending the Padres' hopes of rallying past St. Louis.
A piece in the Providence Journal on the recruitment of Harvard commitment Matt Brown mentions that part of Tommy Amaker's recruiting pitch is "he’s trying to make Harvard basketball what Princeton basketball used to be."
Chris Young will have an arthroscopic debridement procedure on his right shoulder on Monday. He will not pitch again in 2009.
Will Venable drove in two runs for the Padres on Wednesday. Here's video of his RBI single to right that opened the scoring. Venable picked up two more base hits last night in San Diego's 9-2 loss at St. Louis.
Northwestern forward John Shurna talks about his time with the USA U-19 team, who won the gold medal at the Under-19 World Championships in New Zealand.
Sports Illustrated has a piece about three different top 100 prospects who are showing a strong interest in playing basketball at Harvard.
