The news that Gene Hackman died had to touch almost everyone from each generation.
Has there already been a more appreciated film star? If there were, the list of those ahead of Hackman is not very long.
Hackman was great in so many different roles – the brother of “Bonnie and Clyde”, the preacher in “The Poseidon Adventure”, the New York Truck in “The French Connection”.
His best role? This was to be the Norman Dale high school basketball coach in “Hosiers”, for which he did not even receive an icar nomination. What is Devil?
Paul Newman won that year (1986) for “The Color of Money”, and the other nominees came from roles long forgotten in films long forgotten: Dexter Gordon for “Round Midnight”, Bob Hoskins for “Mona Lisa”.
Do you know these stories where they make a straightening of the NFL or the NBA from five years later? If there was a straightening for the films of 1986, Hackman would have won (no offense, Mr. Newman).
The only problem that Tigerblog had with Hackman is that he was not the best play coach. Yes, he had his team ready to play and yes his players played hard for him.
But need one of his players to tell him that he thinks that Jimmy could take his guy? And then want to use Jimmy as a lure for the last blow?
Ah, but it’s a bit. Gene Hackman was as tall as he did. The news yesterday was sad.
“HOOSIERS”, of course, came from a winter sport, and TB spent the weekend in Princeton for the winter teams yesterday. Today is for Princeton’s spring sports.
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The buttress team defeated the 15-14 Delaware on Wednesday afternoon, obtaining a goal from Jami Macdonald with 10 seconds to play for the winner. It was an extraordinary match, which saw the Tigers score the first six goals, lead 7-1 at the end of the first, then the 14-13 trail in the fourth before McKenzie Blake equaled it with 1:18 to travel, then Macdonald won.
Macdonald ended the match with four goals and two assists. Is it too simplistic to say that Macdonald goes, so go the tigers? It was excluded during the opening defeat of the season against Virginia, but scored four goals in each of the following two games, the two victories (Loyola and Delaware).
Macdonald’s four goals were two less than the six Blake. His two assists were five less than the seven that Haven Dora had, giving Dora the school record for the assists in a match.
As TB said, it was an extraordinary game.
The next step for Princeton is a home game tomorrow against Hofstra (start of noon). Pride came with a record of 4-0 on the young season, with victories on Liu, Manhattan, Marist and Fairfield.
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The male butt team flew from Philadelphia yesterday afternoon for the short trip (but very, very bumpy) to Raleigh Durham. This weekend will see Princeton, eighth face the No. 7 Duke today at 6 am, then the n ° 4 of the North Carolina Sunday at 11 a.m.
Princeton has a 1-1 file, with a victory on the No. 9 of Penn State and a defeat against Maryland No. 2. This weekend is part of an ACC / Ivy event, with Penn in North Carolina this evening and Duke on Sunday. A year ago, the four teams went 1-1 this weekend.
One of the highlights of the weekend will be the match between the cable of North Carolina Michael Gianforcaro, a former princeton who was the most remarkable player of the Ivy League tournament in 2023 and who helped Princeton in another title of the Ivy tournament a year ago.
Gianforcaro plays for the Tar Heels as a graduate student. His replacement in Princeton is Ryan Croddick, the safeguard of Gianforcaro in the past two years. Croddick between the weekend at the head of the country in arrest per game with 17.5.
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Princeton’s Cross Career Career Records are both seriously challenged this season. The six against McKenzie Blake’s Delaware give him 16 for the season and 158 for his career. If she maintained her average of 5.3 goals per game, she would finish the regular season with 222; The school file is 209, held by Kyla Sears (class of 2022).
On the men’s side, Coulter Mackesy has 131 goals, one tied by Mikey Macdonald, Jami’s brother, for third place in Princeton, behind Jesse Hubbard (163) and Chris Massey (146), both in the 1998 class.
If Mackesy maintained his current rate of 4.0 goals per game, he would have 175 goals at the end of the regular season.
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The male butt team is not the only one to have jumped on a plane this weekend. The softball team is in College Station, Texas, where a monster field is waiting.
It started last night when Princeton faced the No. 8 Texas A&M, the host school for the weekend. Princeton will play two other games today, against Texas Tech and Texas State N ° 13, then two others tomorrow, against Idaho State and George Washington.
What’s new next weekend for Princeton? A spring trip to California.
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The baseball team is also in North Carolina State this weekend.
Princeton is in Wake Forest for four games, although only two of them are against the demonic deacons. Princeton’s calendar has a match at noon today against Maryland, followed by another match at 4 against Wake Forest.
The Tigers then play Maryland tomorrow at 1, then wake up Sunday at 9:30 am.
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There is also tennis for men and women at home this weekend, which means another chance to discover the new tennis center on the Meadows campus.
The calendar is:
Men against Binghamton today (1)
Men vs Middle Tennessee today (6)
Women against Penn State tomorrow (10)
Women vs temple tomorrow (3)
Men against Tulsa Sunday (12)
Men against Saint Joseph Sunday (5)
It’s a lot of good tennis.
There is also male volleyball at home, against Njit tonight at 7 and Lincoln Memorial tomorrow at 4 years old.
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The full schedule is HERE.