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Flegenheimer | Starting to look like a safe bet
Brushing past a collection of scantily-clad cocktail waitresses in a Las Vegas casino last month, my father and I stopped to stare down the cyber-wall of sports odds.
Feeling the Blues at Palestra
Penn couldn’t hold a 15-point second-half lead against the Delaware Blue Hens, falling 97-94 in double overtime in its home opener.
Basketball Preview | The Price of Inheritance
In his first season, Miller led the Quakers to 22 wins, an Ivy title, and a riveting near-miss against Texas A&M in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
Redefining a spectator sport
Men's basketball player Jack Eggleston, known for cheering on his roommates from the women’s basketball and soccer teams, plans to attend a game for every 2009-10 varsity sport at Penn.
Flegenheimer | Time to wean off the screen
Penn's defense played great. But unless the offense gets its act together, the team won't achieve its goals.
Remembering a Daly delight
May 9 - Legendary college, professional and Olympic coach Chuck Daly, who steered Penn to four Ivy League and Big 5 titles in his six seasons at the helm, died Saturday after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Though perhaps best known for directing the Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys" teams to back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 and earning Olympic gold with the "Dream Team" at the 1992 Barcelona games, Daly will forever be remembered in West Philadelphia for his successes on the Palestra's vaunted hardwood.
Former Penn Basketball coach Chuck Daly dies at 78
May 9, 8:43 p.m. Legendary college, professional and Olympic coach Chuck Daly, who steered the Quakers to four Ivy League and Big 5 titles in his six seasons at the helm, died Saturday after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 78.
Marion Jones speaks in Huntsman about Title IX and her time in prison
In a sport where half a second can separate first from last, 10 years might feel like a long time. Maybe even a little longer for Marion Jones. Two grand-jury testimonies, five doomed-to-be-stripped Olympic medals and six months in jail longer. A full decade after anchoring the Nike International team to victory in the 4x200 meters at the 1999 Penn Relays, the former track star returned to West Philadelphia last night to headline the latest installment of the "Race and Sports" lecture series in Huntsman Hall Auditorium, a program co-sponsored by the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and the Center for Africana Studies.
Baseball | Looking to thrive in the '215'
Over the past couple weeks, the Penn baseball team has had, to borrow from the immortal axiom of last year's Spring Fling headliner, woes in different area codes. Since last playing at Meiklejohn Stadium over two weeks back, the Quakers have dropped a doubleheader to Brown in the "401" of Providence, R.
Athletes show off their SAAC talent
What do you get when you blend a fake afro, a Celine Dion video, a cookie monster mask and a human banana? Besides a phenomenal theme party, of course. The answer: a third-place finish at the Student Athlete Advisory Committee's athlete talent show, revived for the first time since 2006 at the Zellerbach Theater this past Monday evening.