11/01/06 10:36pm
I didn't go out for Halloween last night. Instead, I sat home and analyzed two hours of film in preparation for the basketball team's opener against the UTEP Miners.Here's what I learned:The Miners possess an all-black starting five and a coach who wants to get them to play "white basketball." They wear their shorts really short, and the players are partial to Smokey Robinson.OK, so I didn't watch the most up-to-date game film.
10/27/06 4:22pm
Now this could have been good. Brown has a great logo to use on its helmet, but alas it doesn't, instead going with the whole word "Brown" instead of this awesome look it used between 2001-2003.
10/27/06 11:10am
Get those tents ready. Duke's Krzyzewskivilles, if only for one day, are coming to Penn.The athletic department announced that for the Saturday, Jan.
10/20/06 6:41pm
Hey Penn fans! Want to see a team that actually looks like Penn State?Well you'll get your chance tomorrow as Penn visits Yale, which looks like this at home.Aside from a few minor differences (Yale's actually more complex, with pants piping, shoulder logos, a slightly different number font, and a helmet with two stripes and a logo instead of a blank helmet with one stripe), the two teams are essentially the same, with the exact same color schemes and basic template.
10/15/06 11:49am
They were seven of the most unreal minutes of my sports-writing life. Following Penn's 16-0 win over Columbia yesterday, Lions coach Norries Wilson absolutely exploded at his post-game press conference, and it was a sight to be seen.Wilson was asked by a reporter from the Columbia Daily Spectator to discuss the inconsistency on offense.
10/11/06 5:23pm
In my estimation, there were four types of Fran Dunphy recruits: the local kid, the Jersey kid, the Cali kid and the miscellaneous.
10/10/06 9:37pm
I was watching the Eagles-Cowboys game Sunday when the announcers pointed out that the Birds had a different leading receiver in each of its five games.Week 1, it was Donte' Stallworth against the Texans.
10/09/06 1:47am
Braden Lepisto's 140 receiving yards were the most for a Penn wideout since Oct. 2, 2004, when Dan Castles caught nine for 145 in Penn's 35-0 win over Dartmouth.Castles also had two other games that season with more than 130 yards receiving...It was a tough call for the play of the game between Joe Sandberg and Joe Sandberg.We went with his 41-yard touchdown run, on which he found a hole, sprinted downfield toward the left sideline, juked a defender, got a big block from Josh Koontz and reached the end zone.But we could have easily gone with Sandberg's play in the closing seconds of the second quarter.
10/06/06 4:40pm
Penn has its final non-conference game tomorrow in Lewisburg, Pa, against Syracuse Bucknell, whose home uniforms look (a lot like the Orange's) like this.This uniform is a more "modern" version of the Bison's previous duds, which Penn saw two years ago. (Notice a field goal actually being made here)I like the change, especially the disapperance of the orange stripes on the pants which looked pretty obnoxious.
10/05/06 2:08am
As a companion to the article about the renewal of the Ivy League football schedule, through 2017 from today's DP, here are three additional questions and answers:1.
09/29/06 8:03pm
Penn starts the Ivy League season this weekend with Dartmouth -- the team with arguably the most interesting uniforms in the league and the most recent changes.As recently as 2001, the Big Green wore this.
I know it's hard to see, but you can see the following attributes -- sleeve stripes, white pants, black socks, "normal" varsity block numerals.in 2002, it was the same design, which was made by Wilson.In 2003, the Big Green switched to Reebok, with this at home, and this on the road in 2004.The big difference is the addition of black, which when it's paired with green together, looks awful.Then, under new coach Buddy Teevens, Dartmouth switched to Nike in 2005, and all green look.
09/29/06 6:42pm
VILLA NOVA OUTCLASSEDSo read the headline of The Pennsylvanian, the predecessor of today's Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday, Oct.
08/04/06 1:25pm
Remember when Penn was just a Division I football program?Life was sure simple then.Then the Quakers moved to Division I-AA when that division was created in 1978.But after 28 years, the leaders of the I-AA schools have had enough of being what they called "second-class citizens".So in typical bureaucratese, the NCAA has decided to reclassify I-A and I-AA.
07/24/06 12:47am
It's a comparison that Penn fans hope never becomes reality. But this basketball off-season has already been filled with three or four distractions that makes me worry about the team's chances in the upcoming season.First there was Temple's unusually drawn-out courtship of former coach Fran Dunphy.
05/09/06 7:39pm
I just got back from Center City, where Philadelphia Mayor John Street held a press conference with members of the United States Olympic Committee touting the city's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.As far as projecting an image of this city goes, they could not have picked a better backdrop: the heart of LOVE Park, a tree-lined Ben Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on an overcast but warm spring afternoon.
05/04/06 1:27am
Nothing gets a college sports fan excited like the NCAA Tournament selection show. OK, so maybe the NCAA tennis selection show isn't quite as exciting as its basketball counterpart in March, but for Penn fans, there was some genuine interest.
04/30/06 6:16pm
For the second year in a row, the Ivy League had exactly one man picked in the NFL Draft. Last year, Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick went in the seventh and final round to St.
04/29/06 5:32pm
Courtney Jaworski had no doubt that his team belonged in the men's 4x800-meter Championship of America race.
04/29/06 1:40pm
Arkansas had been on a bit of a drought, you could say. The Razorbacks went home empty from last year's Penn Relays, and they were on the verge of doing the same this year.
04/29/06 10:03am
It's the start of the final day of the 112th Penn Relays, and people are jamming into the stands early to see all the big races.
