05/16/08 5:00am
Boy, did I get gypped.
The Daily Pennsylvanian, like most other campus student organizations, is of the hierarchical sort. You put in the time, you make the commitment, you work your way up and then the perks start rolling in.
Well, I put in the time. I made the commitment - half the guys in my fraternity didn't even know me by the time my term as sports editor had finished.
04/14/08 5:00am
Yesterday's early triumph in the resumed game saw the visiting Cornell Big Red undergo a visible transformation in the second doubleheader.
All of a sudden, a team that hadn't been hitting hit. A team that hadn't been pitching pitched. And most importantly, a Cornell team that hadn't been winning grabbed a pair of convincing victories - 8-1 and 16-5 - to leave the Quakers stunned at Meiklejohn Stadium.
04/10/08 5:00am
If, as Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine so eloquently put it over a decade ago, chicks dig the long ball, then the Penn baseball team will be going stag this spring.
The Quakers have struggled in the power department, making runs hard to come by despite several players batting well over .
03/31/08 5:00am
This early in the season, the mound is no place for freshmen.
Tell that to the trio of young right-handers who stifled Penn's opponents this weekend. Freshmen Jeremy Maas, Paul Cusick and Sam Gilbert combined to pitch 20 innings over three games and gave up zero earned runs - one unearned run on Maas against Yale the only blemish.
03/31/08 5:00am
Midway through yesterday afternoon at Meiklejohn Stadium, the Penn baseball team was staring a completely fruitless weekend dead in the face.
Having lost and tied in their two Saturday games against Yale - the nightcap was suspended due to darkness in extra innings - the Quakers had started off the Sunday twinbill with yet another loss to Brown.
02/29/08 5:00am
There's nothing like opening day in the springtime. Soon enough, the baseball team will be soaking up the rays on its annual trip to the Sunshine State to kick off the season.
But before that happens, the Quakers will play their first game right here in Philadelphia, when West Chester makes the short trip to Meiklejohn Stadium.
02/27/08 5:00am
Last year, a Penn team picked by Baseball America to finish last in the Gehrig Division rode a remarkable season on the mound from Rookie of the Year Todd Roth to prove the pundits wrong. The Quakers played themselves to the brink of NCAA Tournament qualification, winning their division before falling in the Ivy playoff to Rolfe Division champion, Brown.
02/19/08 5:00am
Penn may be guilty of its share of faults this season, but it can't be accused of lacking intensity during Ivy play. This weekend's two games at the Palestra were no exception.
Coming off last Tuesday's foul-fest of a win against Princeton - in which the teams combined for 52 fouls and four technicals - Penn's game lost none of its physical character.
02/18/08 5:00am
When Brown came into the Palestra on Friday, 3,642 people witnessed something they hadn't seen in a long time: an Ivy loss for the Quakers in their home gym.
The Bears escaped with a 66-61 win, withstanding a furious Penn comeback despite not scoring a field goal in the game's final eight minutes.
02/11/08 5:00am
ITHACA, N.Y.-
As Penn slogged through its non-conference schedule, Glen Miller and his players expressed similar sentiments after some of the rougher blowouts.
Wait 'til the Ivy League, they'd say. That's where the real season begins, that's where the NCAA berth lies, that's where our season can take a positive turn.
01/30/08 5:00am
Now that second semester has rolled around, this senior is getting ready to bid farewell to a lot of things. Somewhere high up on that list, situated just under $3.75 food cart lunches and in a dead heat with the shortcut near the Rotunda, are Penn sports.
01/29/08 5:00am
Marty, Doc Brown and the DeLorean may not be involved, but the history of the Penn wrestling team's season has been rewritten.
Last week, the NCAA Wrestling Committee announced that results for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational - in which the Quakers participated, and placed 14th, on Nov.
01/24/08 5:00am
A determined second-half effort proved too little too late for the Quakers, who got off to a familiar nightmare start last night against Temple and fell, 80-64, at the Liacouras Center.
Penn (5-12, 0-4 Big 5) lost its third contest in a row - all city-series matchups - to go winless in the Big 5 for the first time since the 2000-2001 season.
01/23/08 5:00am
Throughout its history, the Penn wrestling program has built a reputation for producing top heavyweight wrestlers.
Most recently, heavyweight Matthew Feast made his run on the Quakers record books. The three-time All-American currently resides at third on Penn's all-time win list, with 118.
01/18/08 5:00am
Whether it was rocking the gym at local high school powerhouse Neumann-Goretti, or playing Division I at Saint Joseph's, Hawks sophomore D.J. Rivera has been playing basketball for quite some time.
But for the first semester of this school year, he had to do something he'd never done before - he had to leave the court.
01/17/08 5:00am
Behold, the wonders of modern technology!
I spent my winter break halfway around the world in China, and thanks to the live streaming video service provided by PennAthletics.com, the basketball teams' mid-vacation action made the trip with me. But as the feed stuttered and the audio came and went at its own whim, it became clear that a new limiting factor had replaced distance: technical kinks.
12/06/07 5:00am
The only two wins for the men's basketball team so far this season have been against military academies - The Citadel and Navy.
That's just so un-American. If it hasn't already, the NSA should hurry up and get a wiretap in Glen Miller's house.
In all seriousness, though, Penn's two lone victories highlight a jarring truth: This non-conference schedule is beating up on the Quakers.
12/03/07 5:00am
The Penn wrestling team had hoped for success in the desert, but it came home with a valuable lesson instead of hardware.
The No. 22 Quakers placed two wrestlers at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational en route to a 14th-place finish after taking third at the event last year.
11/30/07 5:00am
After a disappointing loss this week to Lafayette, the men's basketball team won't have to wait for a chance to atone thanks to a quick turnaround.
Unfortunately for the Quakers (2-5), atonement will not be easy to come by as they travel to the Main Line to take on Villanova in this season's Big 5 opener tomorrow night.
11/29/07 5:00am
No more afternoon practices. No more Saturday games. No more road trips, no more victories and no more losses.
No more football.
You likely won't see this year's graduating seniors in the NFL, so with the close of their Penn careers comes the close of their football careers.
