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After months of complaints on Twitter from the six people who care about these things, the Ivy League has finally caved to the pressure and signed a national TV deal for its football and basketball teams.
*This story appeared in the 2010 Joke Issue.
Penn women's track coach Gwen Harris likes to talk about her practices as "coming to the party."
The final day of the 2006 Penn Relays has come to an end, and a crowd of 49,771 was on hand to watch the stars of track and field compete in the USA vs. the World races. The United States won every race except the inaugural distance medley relay, won by Kenya in a thrilling finish.
Arianna Lambie wasn't going to let Marina Muncan catch her again.
After Penn freshman long jumper Whitney Tagliavini completed her final jump in the Eastern section of the long jump competition, she had no idea what place she was in. She did know, however, that her top jump of 5.86 meters (3 feet, 3.37 inches) was a personal best, and that was enough for her, especially because it was her first time competing in the Penn Relays.
With the Ivy League championship banners in the Palestra's rafters as a backdrop, Glen Miller officially took over the Penn men's basketball team on Wednesday afternoon.
Louisiana State track and field coach Dennis Shaver makes a point to teach his athletes about "being in control of the things which you have some control over."
After a two-week search, Brown's Glen Miller will be introduced as the new head coach of the Penn men's basketball team at a press conference at 2 p.m. today at the Palestra.
Although the process of hiring a head coach in college athletics often receives considerable attention, the work that goes on behind the scenes is rarely glamorous.
The Penn Relays begin two weeks from today, and preparations for the 112th running of the nation's oldest and largest outdoor track meet are almost complete.
There are a couple of ways to interpret Fran Dunphy's remarks after being introduced as Temple's new basketball coach on Monday.
It's official.
The word went out as soon as Connecticut guard Denham Brown's three-pointer clanged off the Verizon Center rim at the end of overtime.
In the somber Penn locker room after the Quakers lost to Texas in this year's NCAA Tournament, senior guard Eric Osmundson drew inspiration for the future from a team with which he is quite familiar.
Any track squad which sets five school records is bound to have high expectations.
On a Friday night in which Penn's motion offense and stingy defense were textbook definitions of a team effort, there was one Texas player whose game literally stood head and shoulders above everyone else's on the floor.
DALLAS -- When the halftime buzzer sounded for Penn's game against Texas, the scene was as surreal as it gets during the NCAA Tournament.
DALLAS -- When the halftime buzzer sounded in Penn's game against Texas at the American Airlines Center, the scene was about as surreal as it gets during the NCAA Tournament. The No. 15 seed Quakers held a 23-22 lead over the No. 2 seed Longhorns, and the few hundred Penn fans in one section of the arena were cheering louder than the sea of Longhorn burnt orange around them. But could the momentum last for another half, and produce what would surely have been one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history? It almost did. At the very end, though, Texas was finally able to break out of the Quakers' clutches. With a few fast breaks and 19-of-22 shooting from the free throw line in the second half, the Longhorns were able to overcome Penn's tight defense and walk off the floor with a 60-52 win. "We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes and then we could come away with a great victory," a visibly tired Penn coach Fran Dunphy said after the game. Of course, that is easier said than done. But for all of Texas' vaunted athleticism, especially in its frontcourt, the Quakers controlled the tempo throughout the first 20 minutes of play, methodically running the shot clock on each possession and flustering Texas with one of the most efficient defenses in the nation. And whereas Penn struggled late in a number of games this season, this time the Quakers refused to quit. Although Texas led for most of the second half, Penn never trailed by more than nine points, and cut the deficit to 41-40 on a three-pointer by sophomore guard Brian Grandieri with 6:30 remaining. Penn only made five field goals for the rest of the game, though, while Texas was able to finally raise the tempo of the game and pull away. On the whole, neither team shot terribly well from the field ƒ_" Penn made 17 of its 53 field goal attempts, including 10 of 27 three-pointers, while Texas shot 18-of-45 from the field and 2-of-10 from beyond the arc. But Longhorns coach Rick Barnes praised Penn for other areas of its game. "This is an extremely well-coached team, a team that can really pass, a team that is going to run down and scrap to get rebounds," he said. "Instead of making excuses about how we played, let's give Penn credit ƒ_" if we made mistakes, they had a lot to do with it." LaMarcus Aldridge, the 6-foot-10 Texas center who will likely be one of the top picks in this year's NBA Draft, also left an impression. Although he had struggled of late before the NCAA Tournament, Aldridge stepped up in a big way against Penn. He scored eight of Texas' first nine points and finished with a game-high 19, along with 10 rebounds. Longhorns forward P.J. Tucker also recorded a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds. Tucker was on the Texas team that got a first-half scare from Princeton in the 2004 NCAA Tournament. Had Penn guard Ibrahim Jaaber hit the second of two free throws he attempted with six seconds remaining in this year's first half, the score at halftime would have been exactly the same as it was two years ago ƒ_" 24-22 in the Ivy League champions' favor. Tucker said that the two squads shared mental strength and resilience. "Those teams, you know they are going to come in and play hard, they are going to play all 40 minutes of the game and they are never going to give up," he said. "They come in with the expectation of winning and they try their hardest to win." Barnes said, though, that the two games did not have much in common. In preparing his team to face Penn, he said that he "never once compared Penn to Princeton ƒ_" I think they are two different styles of team, really." Yet with the exception of Penn's aggressiveness on rebounds, the Quakers' deliberate ballhandling and preference for three-point shots seemed at times to be quite similar to the famed offensive system of their longtime rivals. Dunphy said that clock management was not the point, though. "It was, I think, more let's take care of each possession, and I think that's how the game was dictated early," he said. "I think it was hard-fought early and well-played defensively early, so each possession became critical and it did wind up that we were taking care of the basketball." This was Penn's seventh straight loss in the NCAA Tournament, and it has now been an even dozen years since the Red and Blue last won a game on college basketball's greatest stage. But senior guard Eric Osmundson said that the team will be in very good shape after he graduates in May. "We've proven that we can play with the best in the nation, and I know these guys gained some valuable experience" from playing teams such as Villanova, Duke and Texas, he said. "I hope this feeling that we have in our heart about losing this game sticks around with them, drives them to work their butts off this summer." For Dunphy, who has now been to the NCAA Tournament nine times as Penn's head coach, the work will begin even earlier than that. "It's a long, arduous task" to make it to this point each year, he said. "It doesn't start in October ƒ_" it starts probably in two or three weeks." And like so many previous years, when the time comes to open the doors of the Palestra again there will also come hopes that next season will be the one when the wait for postseason glory finally ends.
DALLAS -- To most people in Philadelphia, Dallas is probably best known for the Cowboys, its football team. But this weekend the city will play host to the Penn men's basketball team, and while most Quakers fans who venture out West will spend a few hours at the American Airlines Center, there are plenty of other things to do with one's spare time.