How does Penn baseball plan on ending its recent slump? Easy. Look no further than coach John Cole's desk. "We're bringing it into the dugout tomorrow," Cole said, pointing at a bona fide Easy Button from the Staples commercial. After migrating to Florida for its first eight games, Penn returns north, looking for an win in its home opener against Temple this afternoon at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Wharton professor Kenneth Shropshire was just a teenaged boy selling hot dogs in a park in California when he first saw Sugar Ray Robinson. Though at the time he wasn't familiar with Robinson's achievements, almost 38 years later, Shropshire has come to believe that Robinson is one of the greatest boxers of all time, and he recently wrote a book describing the life of this extraordinary athlete.

LEXINGTON, Ky., March 13 - When Penn's chartered plane landed here yesterday, it was probably the first time in the Bluegrass State for most of the passengers. "I don't know about Kentucky, I really don't," Ibrahim Jaaber admitted after the selection show Sunday.

$17,000Cost of training two dogs - the first ever - to detect fake optical discs, part of the fight against music and movie piracy. Source: The New York Times

When the Penn women's lacrosse team takes on Delaware today at Franklin Field, one thing will be on its mind: revenge. "It's definitely a huge factor," senior tri-captain Sarah Eastburn said. "Last year we weren't supposed to lose to Delaware, and that definitely was one of the biggest disappointments of the season.

Here's a riddle for you: What do you get when a possible lottery pick guard teams up with a pair of uber-athletes, a 6-foot-10 Lithuanian paint-clogger and an all-Big 12 defensive first-teamer? Not a lot of leeway. Penn faces quite a conundrum as it prepares to take on heavily favored Texas A&M; in the first round of the NCAA Tournament tomorrow, but Quakers fans shouldn't give up on their team just yet.

Coming into the 2007 season, Penn women's lacrosse coach Karin Brower believed that this year's freshman class was the team's best ever. Led by Ali DeLuca's team-high 13 points and 10 goals, the Class of 2010 hasn't disappointed thus far. The No. 15 Quakers went 1-1 over spring break, with a 15-7 win over Towson (2-1) on March 3, and a 13-4 loss to No.

Spring Break brought some mixed emotions for the Penn golf teams last week. Both the men's and women's squads were in action, with the men's team competing in the Braveheart Classic in Beaumont, Calif., and the women's team travelling south to Florida for the Springlake Invitational.

Maybe it wasn't the shot heard 'round the world, but junior Kyle Armeny's home run propelled Penn to what coach John Cole called its biggest win in years. In the fourth contest of Penn's eight-game Florida trip, Armeny dug in against Boston College closer Dan Houston.

Philadelphia's campaign to keep graduates has sparked physical and cultural improvements throughout the city.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - They lived by the three-pointer all season long, but the Hawks died by it Thursday night. A team that shoots a blistering 38.4 percent from deep, sixth-seeded Saint Joseph's went cold when it needed to make a few, and fell to No. 3 George Washington, 58-48 in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

March 2 - This was just the way it was supposed to happen for Penn's seniors. On their home floor, seniors Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley led the Quakers to an 86-58 victory over Yale to clinch a third-straight Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth, and avenge their lone conference blemish of the season, a nine-point loss in New Haven a month ago.

The next George Mason? Well, Drexel won't get a shot at replicating that Cinderella run - at least not in the NCAA Tournament this year. The Dragons instead garnered a 3-seed in the NIT tournament and will face No. 6 North Carolina State tonight at the Daskalakis Athletic Center.

The former second-year Law student who faces charges of attempted murder has withdrawn from the Law School.

After a successful fall season, the Penn men's tennis team was on a quest this spring to prove it belongs among the nation's elite. Having lost to all seven ranked teams it faced heading into spring break, the team had come up well short. But after two wins against ranked foes over break, the Quakers may have at least put themselves in the discussion.

Last week, Philadelphia's most colorful mayoral candidate bowed out of the race. But don't worry, Milton Street fans: He's already back in the action. Street announced last week just hours before the filing deadline that he was dropping out of the race to become Philadelphia's next mayor.

Al Bagnoli did not have to wait long to get the man who'll be running his offense next year. Just a few weeks after the athletic department announced the firing of Shawn Halloran, it announced that Bill Schmitz would occupy the vacant position. Schmitz, who has spent the last two years as the running backs and tight ends coach at Alabama-Birmingham, will take over an offense that was fourth in the league in scoring last year.