After an eight-year hiatus, a familiar ally has returned to Penn wrestling. Brian Dolph, who first joined the Quakers coaching staff as an assistant in 1994, left to pursue work as a high-school coach and physical education teacher in 2003.

Currently at 1-1, the team will have to win both of its matches this week to reach its goal of heading into winter break with a winning record.

To ban rollouts is a sin, and the powers that be at Villanova should make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Though the Penn women’s basketball team is off to its hottest six-game start since 1980-81, the team’s true test lies ahead.

Long before Connecticut and Tennessee emerged as national powerhouses, it was Immaculata University — a small Catholic college just 20 miles outside Philadelphia — that was the unlikely winner of the first three national championships in women’s basketball from 1972-1974.

The Quakers have a fever — and the only prescription? More Zack Rosen.

Harvard basketball team is ranked in the national basketball for the first time in program history and Crimson DT Josue Ortiz won the award for Ivy Defensive Player of the Year.

Men’s Squash loses all of its matches against Princeton on Sunday.

Even the momentum from a 4-1 start wasn’t enough to carry the Quakers to victory against one of the nation’s top teams — as they fell, 69-38, to No. 3 Notre Dame.

Sunday’s wrestling match against the rival Mountain Hawks displayed the two teams’ complementing weight classes, but Lehigh prevailed, 21-15.

Penn’s battle down low was lost before it even began.

No. 5 Penn upsets No. 3 Princeton for its first win of the year.

Penn men’s basketball fell, 73-65, to Big 5 rival Villanova Saturday night. THE BUZZ: The Good, Bad and Ugly from Villanova

On Saturday, when the Quakers take on Big 5 foe Villanova, the man who might be tasked with stopping Rosen is junior point guard Maalik Wayns.

While the Quakers certainly expect the same atmosphere that comes with any Big 5 game, when they play the Wildcats’ Saturday night, Penn will be facing an entirely different team than last year’s Villanova squad. LIVEBLOG: Penn men’s hoops vs. Villanova, brought to you by the Blarney StoneVIDEO: This Week on 33rd Street

A large group of students, faculty and baseball enthusiasts filled Houston Hall Thursday to discuss the importance of baseball parks in revitalizing communities. The panel included Phillies President and CEO David Montgomery, a 1968 College graduate and 1970 Wharton MBA recipient.

In an action-packed weekend, Penn wrestling will have a chance to establish state supremacy as they face two local foes.