Calder Silcox | A new shade of Big Green
To steal a line from the ’80s sci-fi classic The Fly, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
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To steal a line from the ’80s sci-fi classic The Fly, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
While the Penn-Villanova matchup came out just as the 99-year history would have indicated, there were some surprising results around the Ivy League this weekend.
Here’s one storyline you can cross off the list for the 2010 Penn football season: Lyle Marsh.
Rev. Katherine Brearley, mother of deceased Penn football player Owen Thomas, testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor Thursday morning, discussing legislation that she and other witnesses believe could help more safely manage the short- and long-term effects of concussions.
Though current Ivy basketball players are looking to the upcoming season, college hopefuls are beginning to put their futures in order. And while it is still early in the year, one standout high-school player has already made up his mind.
Once upon a time, Penn students would shout “Hey Rowbottom!”, gather en masse — particularly after football games — and tear through West Philadelphia, lighting fires, sending bricks through windows, pulling down trolley wires.
As the members of the Penn football team went back to class Monday, accolades for their weekend performance came rolling in.
Playing in the Ivy League/Big East Classic, Penn was upset 1-0 by Villanova (3-2-1) on an eighth-minute goal by Daniel Gonzalez. Missing from Penn’s dominant defense was senior Jake Levin, who did not play Friday.
Five weeks after being picked over Penn as the Ivy preseason favorite, Harvard will finally get its chance to show whether it has the skill to win this season’s Ivy title.
In memory of Owen Thomas, Franklin Field will observe a moment of silence before Saturday’s home opener against Lafayette.
The revelation that Owen Thomas was found to be the first active college football player with chronic traumatic encephalopathy adds a twist to the growing body of research of the degenerative disease.
Raised by a Jewish mother and a baseball-enthused father, I learned at an early age the story of Sandy Koufax’s refusal to pitch in the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
A brain autopsy of Penn football player Owen Thomas, who committed suicide in the spring, revealed that the standout lineman had developed a disease caused by repeated head trauma. Commonly experienced by football players, the disease has also been linked to depression.
Here we are again. The start of another school year — and more importantly, the start of another year of Penn sports. The fields have been neatly mowed and chalked, helmets polished, backboards windexed, nets restrung and Jerome Allen’s pocket squares have all been cleaned and neatly folded.
Last season, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli ended a five-year championship drought — the longest of his Penn career — with a rotating cast of often-injured quarterbacks.
Penn’s last taste of a Final Four came in 1979 when the basketball team played in Salt Lake City, Utah. When the next Final Four comes to Philly, though, it won’t be on the hardwood.
Love it or leave it, the Ivy League’s policy on scholarships and recruiting is, well, dynamic. Here’s a list of pros and cons to a massive incoming freshman class like the one Penn announced yesterday.
Those of you with the dedication to get up early enough to watch this summer’s World Cup games in South Africa have probably noticed one common thread in every game, showing up in virtually every super-slow mo camera shot ESPN has to offer.
With over 20 players set to be on the Penn men’s basketball team’s roster next season, the Quakers could certainly use all the coaching they can find.
Survival of the fittest. Darwin may not have known much about Penn Basketball when he used the term in 1869, but that phenomenon may be an apt way to describe the Quakers’ ballooning 2010-11 roster.