Sports Features
Reliving Steve Yerkes’ 1912 World Series-winning run
Former Penn baseball shortstop Steve Yerkes quickly rose up through the ranks of the Red Sox organization, and in 1911 he won a starting spot in the infield.
Tracing Karl Racine's path from Penn men's basketball to D.C. Attorney General
Serving as the Attorney General for the District of Columbia since 2015, the former Penn men’s basketball standout was a valuable member of Penn’s Ivy League-winning teams during his freshman and senior seasons.
Wharton grad Mark Ein continues to make impact in D.C. sports world
It wasn't until his forties that Ein began playing in professional tournaments, and he is the oldest person to ever receive an ATP doubles ranking.
Checking in with Big 5 basketball
Penn's men's basketball has been on pause since last March with the cancellation of Ivy League sports into the winter of 2021 and is the only Big 5 program currently not playing basketball. We take a look at how Penn's peers are doing this season.
Checking in on every Ivy League player currently in the NFL
Football and the Ivy League have been married since the beginning of the game itself. Currently, there are 13 active Ivy League alumni in the NFL, hailing from Harvard, Penn, Yale, and Princeton.
Analyzing Penn's MLB Draftees: When were they drafted and how successful were they?
In our third article in the series about Penn players who have played in pro sports leagues, we take a look at Quakers who have played in the MLB and how their careers stack up to that of an average MLB player.
Analyzing Penn's NBA Draftees: When were they drafted and how successful were they?
In our second article in this series on Penn players being drafted to play in professional sports leagues, we are analyzing Quakers who have been drafted into the NBA and how their careers stack up to that of the average pro basketball player.
From student to professor, Nakia Rimmer has seen it all as a Penn basketball fan
Rimmer is among the Math Department's most beloved professors, but one of his largest claims to fame has nothing to do with differential equations or taking derivatives. Outside the classroom, Rimmer is one of Penn men's basketball's biggest fans and supporters.
Penn receives approval to resume athletic activity on Feb. 1; Pottruck to gradually reopen
In a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, a Penn Athletics representative also wrote that these plans would change if the City of Philadelphia issues updated guidance.
Nia Akins named Today’s Top 10 by the NCAA
As the first Quaker and 12th Ivy League athlete to receive the NCAA's prestigious Today's Top 10 Award, Akins is no stranger to receiving recognition.
Flashback: The time Penn challenged the NCAA's ban on televised college football
In 1948, the University was in desperate need of bolstered revenue streams. President Harold Stassen believed that televising the Quakers’ home football games had the potential to solve its financial qualms.
Penn men's soccer's Alex Touche signs professional contract with hometown team
Alex Touche, the Quakers' senior and New Mexico native, will make a homecoming on the pitch in Albuquerque after signing with New Mexico United.
Landau | The Ivy League could be playing basketball right now
If the one and only goal of the Ivy League presidents was to mitigate COVID spread, they would indeed cancel the season. But that clearly isn’t the case.
NFL player Brandon Copeland returning to Penn as a professor this spring
Copeland, who played for the New England Patriots this year, teaches a course on financial literacy with Dr. Brian Peterson.
Trump commutes sentence of Medicare fraudster involved in Penn basketball bribery scandal
Philip Esformes, who orchestrated a $1 billion Medicare scheme, used proceeds to pay former Penn men's basketball coach Jerome Allen a $300,000 bribe to ensure his son's admission to Wharton.
A tale of two Olympians: Penn in the Winter Games
Penn and the Olympics have had a long and storied relationship. Since the start of the Olympics in 1900 in Paris, Penn seized every opportunity to send many of its star athletes to compete for their country.
Penn Athletics Year in Review
March 10, 2020 was a fateful day for Ivy League athletes, and, as we would later find out, an omen of things to come not only for the sports world, but the planet as a whole.
Penn men's basketball Ivy League title look back: 1996
After losing stars Jerome Allen and Matt Maloney to the NBA, however, there were big questions about how the Red and Blue would hold up in 1995-96.
Penn women's soccer's Raun and Wilensky empower women athletes through Voice in Sport
Both Raun and her senior teammate Jadyn Wilensky are active contributors to Voice in Sport, an advocacy platform based in New York and launched by Stef Strack in 2019.