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Now that we've lost two more Quakers teams from playoff contention, it's time to look at what some guys are doing after college.

Despite a disappointing 5-5 season, Penn football players Chris Mizell and Sean Estrada are still gunning for another championship, they're just looking in different directions.

Mizell has been signed by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. Instead of playing in the Arena Football League, where tight ends (as well as running backs) don't exist in the 50-yard field, he'll have a chance to utilize his skills in the 110-yard long CFL.

Estrada, on the other hand, will get his shot with the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, where he will fight to impress the team enough to get offered a contract. The former Penn All-Ivy guard (who will likely enter the 49ers minicamp as a center) has always been a San Francisco fan, and was often seen walking around campus in a 49ers hoodie.

The co-captain anchored what Penn Athletics called "the best offensive line" in the Ivy League last season (despite Yale having two first-team All-Ivy picks) that lead the Ivies by allowing only one sack per game. The Quakers did, however, have the fourth-best scoring offense and the fifth-best rushing attack, despite having first-team All-Ivy runningback Joe Sandberg.

Some other notable Ivy players striving to play in the NFL are Princeton QB Jeff Terrell (Kansas City), Harvard RB Clifton Dawson (Indianapolis), Yale OT Ed McCarthy (Tampa Bay) and of course, fourth-round pick, Brown LB Zak DeOssie (New York Giants).

Now, just like The Spin tried to steal our Spring Fling weather previews from Levine, since they're out of commission for the summer, the burden has been placed on me to keep dailypennsylvanian.com readers informed about the May 15 democratic primary for Mayor of Philadelphia.

There were a lot of big fights this past week, Mayweather vs. De La Hoya in boxing, Chuck Liddell vs. Johnnie Drama on Entourage, and now what Michael Nutter called "WWF Smackdown" in the mayoral race.

With just over a week to go, former Councilman Nutter and Tom Knox are at the top of the polls, and the other three are trying to bring them down. At the ABC-televised debate, U.S. Rep Chaka Fattah broke his silence and his "nice guy" image. He began just about every answer with "Michael Nutter," questioning the Penn grad's passion for education and poverty.

Meanwhile, State Rep. Dwight Evans and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady are taking shots at Knox, who's running as the reform candidate against corruption. Evans started it off weeks ago by giving press burgers wrapped from Wendy's that resembled Knox's crime record -- no beef, just a bun.

Then on Friday night, Brady broke out a bombshell, asking why Knox not only gave campaign contributions to Republicans George W. Bush and former Senator Rick Santorum, and even holds stock in Halliburton. Knox, while he still looked like a gravedigger while saying it, came up with the clever reply that his wife, a Republican, gave that $1,500 in contributions (and she deserves to give money to whoever she wants), that he has so many stocks he doesn't know which he owns and that he, himself, has given over $500,000 to Dems.

Brady, even swifter, replied soon after: "Five hundred thousand dollars, I wonder whether that comes under pay-to-play."

While last night's WHYY debate was pretty tame, the final debate tonight, hosted by Hardball's (Philly native) Chris Matthews (NBC 10, 7 p.m.) is bound to be a barnburner.