It's been like a deal with the devil gone wrong. When the Penn pitching staff traded in its double-digit ERAs of the Florida trip for sterling sub-2.00 marks back in the Northeast, all of a sudden it found the run support missing. Now if only they could put the two phases of the game together.

As the losses continued to pile up, confidence somehow never wavered for the Penn men's tennis team, though lately it has not translated to positive results on the court. Perhaps all it needed was some home cooking, when its confidence off the court finally turned into a dominating performance.

Sponsored by some To the Editor: I am a member of the Political Science faculty. I have also been a tenured member of the Penn faculty for something like thirty years. In all the time that I have been at Penn, this is, in fact, the first time that I have ever found that academic standards and values have been so seriously violated in connection with a singularly academic matter.

Joe Scott was escorted to his new job by an eye-catching cheerleader with CBS's NCAA Tournament theme song blasting in the background. He may have thought he was dreaming, but he wasn't. And there was plenty more where that came from at Denver's Magness Arena yesterday, where Scott was introduced as Denver's new basketball coach.

National and state regulations on stem cell research are forcing ground-breaking research to take place elsewhere.

Lakshmi Mittal will deliver the keynote address at the Wharton School's MBA Commencement on May 13, Wharton officials announced yesterday. Mittal is the president and CEO of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company. Mittal is a former member of the Wharton Board of Overseers - an advisory group predominantly composed of Wharton alumni - and many of his relatives, including his daughter-in-law, niece and nephew graduated from the School.

The Ivy League title clincher and the first round of the NCAA Tournament aren't supposed to feel like preseason tryouts. For Brennan Votel and Justin Reilly, they may have been just that. We sit eight months away from the Penn basketball team's first rebuilding effort in four years.

10 Million unsold flu vaccine doses that will be destroyed on June 3; 110 million were produced this year. Source: The Associated Press

So the Athletic Department fired offensive coordinator Shawn Halloran after just one year at the position, and hired former Alabama-Birmingham tight ends and running backs coach Bill Schmitz to fill the vacancy.

When students return to campus this fall, it may be a whole new SEPTA experience. Having previously announced that fares will increase from anywhere to 11 to 31 percent, SEPTA will also eliminate transfers between two modes of transportation - between the bus and subway system, for example - and reduce the number of Regional Rail and suburban transit zones this summer, SEPTA spokesman Richard Maloney said.

Penn students should expect more than a semi-charmed life during this year's Spring Fling. Third Eye Blind will join the annual Friday Fling concert, playing a full-length supporting act before Ben Folds, Social Planning and Events Committee officials announced in a press statement released this morning.

Houston, we have a problem. A power outage forced Houston Hall's eating establishments to shut down for almost an hour yesterday afternoon. The outage was caused by a mechanical problem in the building's transformer room, said Thomas Hauber, director of Vice Provost for University Life facilities.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

It's been a bad couple of weeks for casinos in Philadelphia. Last week, City Council unanimously voted to put a proposed amendment to the city charter on the ballot in the May mayoral elections that would, in effect, ban slots parlors in Philadelphia. And in a memo written to Mayor John Street on Friday, City Solicitor Romulo Diaz warned that the mayor had no legal way of stopping the charter amendment from being put to the voters.

In a world that emphasizes political correctness, Nonie Darwish is not afraid to speak her mind - even if the ideas she expresses put her life in danger. Last night, as part of Penn Israel Coalition's Israel Advocacy Night in Huntsman Hall, Darwish spoke about what she sees as the threat of radical Islam.

After three years of disappointment, Princeton basketball may be in for another upheaval. Head coach Joe Scott will be announced as Denver's new coach at a 5 p.m. press conference today, sources told ESPN.com yesterday. Denver's Sports Information director would not confirm the hiring to The Daily Pennsylvanian last night, but he confirmed the press conference.

U.S. Rep. Bob Brady isn't the only one facing challenges to his candidacy in Philadelphia politics. The congressman-turned-mayoral candidate is currently facing an attempt by rivals Dwight Evans and Tom Knox to end his candidacy over problems with his financial-disclosure forms.