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St. Joe's suffers rare second loss at home

A strange thing has been happening at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse this month -- Saint Joseph's has been losing basketball games.

Battering Rams

Temple upsets ranked 'Bama while St. Joe's falls to Ohio St.

Local college basketball fans had a feast of games to choose from on Saturday, with four of the six Division I teams in the area playing home games.

For one Duke player, Penn's team full of familiar faces

Big names showcased at Palestra

You could pick from any number of moments to symbolize the first game of Saturday's Big 5 Classic.

Quakers drop to 1-5 after blowout loss to 'Cats

Memories from a half century of hoops

In 1955, five Division I basketball programs in the Philadelphia area -- Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, Villanova and La Salle -- came together and decided that they would all play each other in a round-robin format each season.

Hawks ride solid defense in sluggish game

Last season, Drexel and Saint Joseph's took center stage on the city's basketball scene when they faced off in the nightcap of the Big 5 Classic. This year, they met in the first game of a doubleheader, and while the setting wasn't as glamorous, the game was just as intense.

Dragons move on; Owls go home

Yes, it's the 50th anniversary season of the Big 5. But so far, Drexel has taken over the spotlight from the city's traditional basketball rivals.

Bagnoli shoulders blame for bad play

For the first time in a decade, Al Bagnoli had to spend a Saturday evening as the head coach of a football team with a three-game losing streak.

It's all over

BOSTON -- For about two and a half minutes on Saturday, the Penn football team had reason to believe that it had snapped out of whatever had been ailing it during losses to Brown and Princeton.

Ex-Penn hoopster making strides on Palestra movie

If you saw someone walking around the Palestra with a video camera during "The Line", you might be about to appear in a movie.

Students on edge to learn secret spot for 'The Line'

Mourners overflow student's funeral

The impact that Kyle Ambrogi had on the world could be measured in some form by the size of the crowd that attended his funeral Monday.

Mourners overflow church at Ambrogi funeral

The impact that Kyle Ambrogi made on the world could be measured in some form by the enormous crowd which came to his funeral on Monday. The chapel of St. John Neumann Church in Bryn Mawr was packed to the walls, and on three sides of the building mourners craned their necks around every open door and window they could find. They came to pay last respects to the 21-year-old Wharton senior who committed suicide in his Havertown, Pa. home last Monday night. They came by whatever means they could from all over the Philadelphia region. Some came from Havertown, the small Philadelphia suburb where Ambrogi grew up. Some came from Saint Joseph's Prep at 18th and Girard in North Philadelphia, where Ambrogi went to high school and won all manner of awards for his exploits in a Prep football jersey. Many came from University City, from Franklin Field where Kyle played his last football game for Penn on October 8, and from many other campus points. They assembled at 11 a.m., and they all stood together to remember a life which ended far sooner than anyone wanted it to. As the mourners prayed, they listened to a soulful rendition of "Amazing Grace," sung by a choir with accompaniment from a piano and a lone trumpeter. In his homily, Rev. David Sauter -- who was president of St. Joe's Prep when Ambrogi was there -- praised Ambrogi for his character, his academics and his touchdowns. People such as Ambrogi "tell us that we do not settle for anything less than our best," Sauter said. "You knew the gifts God had granted him were not taken for granted." Sauter added that "we rejoice to have been among those who were able to know Kyle." When the service ended, everyone filed out past the neatly trimmed trees and hedges around the chapel. Even as they tried to console each other and remember the good times in Ambrogi's life, not even the sunshine or Dan "Coach Lake" Staffieri's traditional gameday red suit and hat could brighten the mood. There was a sense of tranquility in the air, but a significant presence was clearly missing. The last act of the service was perhaps the most poignant. As the back of the funeral hearse opened, Ambrogi's casket was carried out of the church by the men who coached Ambrogi and blocked for him as he carried the ball down the field. This time, they cleared a path towards a far less celebratory end zone.

Deafness cannot stop Columbia OL Walcker

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Is Penn's Quaker offensive?

When the NCAA passed new rules regulating the use of Native American mascots in collegiate championship events this past summer, there was a mild outcry over whether other ethnic or religious groups should be similarly considered.

The NHL returns, and so do the fans

Until last night, the collective fuse of hockey fans in Philadelphia had sat untouched for exactly one year, four months and 12 days. It was that long ago that the Flyers last left the ice after losing the seventh game of the 2004 Eastern Conference Finals to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

M. Hoops gets new voice on the radio

The death of longtime Palestra public-address announcer John McAdams this past summer meant that fans at college basketball's most historic gym would have a new voice narrating their winter evenings.

Want to watch the NHL? You can't in Penn dorms

The Philadelphia Flyers will begin the 2005-06 hockey season at the Wachovia Center tonight against the New York Rangers. Although most of the nation will be able to watch the game live on their televisions on the Outdoor Life Network, anyone who lives in a Penn dorm will have to go elsewhere.