Zachary Levine
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Zachary Levine: Giving my first editor her due
After working for 15 of them, I should know by now: What makes a good editor? They should come up with the best story ideas. They should be supportive of the good writing, critical of the bad. They should push me when I should be working harder, but more importantly, they should tell me to take a breath when I'm in a little too deep.
Penn Relays: Making 1,500 miles away taste like home
Group aids Jamaican runners in simplest of ways: lunch money
Zachary Levine: As year draws to a close, let's Penn an overdue ode
With 25 days to go until graduation, it's time for you to do that one thing that you've always wanted to do, yet have never gotten the chance. For some of you, maybe it's having sex under the button, or it's a five-course meal at Le Bec-Fin. For me, it's writing a column in poetry.
Zachary Levine: Now isn't the time to talk sports
As my editors requested, I had my column for this week written 24 hours in advance. It was, of course, about sports. And it was, as my columns often are, a joke both in substance and tone. But this morning is not a time for joking. This morning isn't even a time for sports.
Zachary Levine: Hey, five outta nine ain't bad
It's hard to believe how far we've come since Sept. 6. Back when Penn had only won six of the last nine Ivy League basketball titles, Joe Scott still coached Princeton, and Steve Irwin was still alive. But it was that day that I made 10 predictions for the year in Penn and Ivy League sports, and now it's time to see how I did.
Zachary Levine: The Missing Link
Why Harvard's search for a new hoops coach should be about more than finding a winner.
Zachary Levine: The poor fan's April itinerary
The two sure signs of spring have arrived on campus. Not red robins and baseball, but that horse-farm smell on Locust Walk and students participating in the annual game of real-or-fake known as "Name That Tan." And it's always been my opinion that while football and basketball seasons get all the glory, there's no better time for a sports enthusiast than April.
M. Baseball: Low-flying Hawks offer a healthy diversion
The Quakers open the single-elimination tournament sponsored by the Philadelphia Phillies with a home game against Saint Joseph's.
Baseball: Pitching staff calls for backup, but cavalry a no-show
It's been like a deal with the devil gone wrong. When the Penn pitching staff traded in its double-digit ERAs of the Florida trip for sterling sub-2.00 marks back in the Northeast, all of a sudden it found the run support missing. Now if only they could put the two phases of the game together.
Zachary Levine: After A&M; loss, crystal ball gets a bit clearer
The Ivy League title clincher and the first round of the NCAA Tournament aren't supposed to feel like preseason tryouts. For Brennan Votel and Justin Reilly, they may have been just that. We sit eight months away from the Penn basketball team's first rebuilding effort in four years.
A tribute to the Greats
One hundred sixteen games, 79 wins and three Ivy League titles - that's a pretty impressive accomplishment for the senior class of Stephen Danley, Adam Franklin, Ibrahim Jaaber and Mark Zoller. But how do they stack up with the greats from Penn - and the rest of the League - who have graced Ivy gymnasiums over the past four years?
Quakers stroll to the tipping point, then walk away
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 15 - Virginia Commonwealth did it, and the Rams moved on. Penn didn't do it, and the Quakers went home. Penn, in its loss to third-seeded Texas A&M; Thursday, failed to do what so many underdogs fail to do in chalky first rounds. They couldn't capitalize at the tipping point of the upset.
Zachary Levine: This duo shouldn't need a marquee win
In the final minute of two careers filled with so many graceful steps, it was time for Mark Zoller and Ibrahim Jaaber to take their final ones. It was time for the keystones of the Class of 2007 to leave the hardwood and make the longest steps of their career.
Crippled Danley proves to be a big handicap for Penn
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 15 - Stephen Danley's mark was felt in his absence, as the Quakers, sans big man, had a hard time dealing with the size of Texas A&M; forwards Antanas Kavaliauskas and Joseph Jones.
Zachary Levine: After three trips, they finally own the place
LEXINGTON, Ky. Two years ago, there would have been no "Sugarlips." The chorus of teammates would not be heckling Stephen Danley as he conducted an interview after the selection show. And Mark Zoller and Ibrahim Jaaber would not have been putting schoolgirls to shame with their giggling during the press conference.
Miller 'optimistic' about Danley
LEXINGTON, Ky., March 14 - With Stephen Danley's status for today's game still up in the air, Quakers coach Glen Miller said yesterday he's "optimistic" about the big man's return to the lineup. Danley sat out the last 38 minutes of Penn's season finale at Princeton with a bad back and missed a good deal of practice leading up to today's NCAA Tournament game.
Feeling lucky in Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. It's surrounded by the land of bluegrass, thoroughbreds and bourbon. But at the heart of Lexington is one thing - the basketball scene. While divided loyalties make Philadelphia a special hoops town, in Lexington, there is no argument. The city bleeds Kentucky blue.
After early struggles, Miller sold his system
History put Glen Miller in an unfortunate spot. Win, and he did what he was supposed to do. Lose and he was the second coming of Joe Scott. Get your seniors to roll with the changes, and it was just another Ivy title. Suffer a mutiny, and it was a disappointment of historic proportions.
M. Hoops: Robinson just can't get enough of the Palestra
Brown coach Craig Robinson is a glutton for pain. He spent four years as a player at Princeton getting heckled by the rabid fans of the Palestra and went 1-3 in his four games there.
Zachary Levine: The Anatomy of an All-Ivy
Nobody seemed to know if he even belonged at this level, but four years later, Mark Zoller is a favorite for Ivy League Player of the Year.
