We caught up with fifth-year senior Sam Chwarzynski at Media Day Monday about his pursuit of a fourth outright Ivy championship in his Penn football career.

The Penn football team looks spruced up in its new white uniforms as the players gather for its annual team picture, and despite it being his first go-round for football’s Media Day, junior Max Kurtzman fits right in.

Fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone walks us through the last nine months of his life, from his gruesome ankle injury of the fourth quarter of Penn’s Ivy title share-clinching win over Harvard on Nov. 10 through Monday’s Media Day scrum.

The first words Penn coach Al Bagnoli uttered at Monday morning’s annual Media Day served as a sobering reminder that in Ivy football, the worst way to finish on top is to start there.

Thursday morning, we confirmed that former Penn running back Lyle Marsh will miss the 2013 season due to academic issues. So what is a Quakers’ running attack without Lyle Marsh missing?

As Billy Ragone’s Penn football career reaches its conclusion in 2013, he’ll give the Quakers a far greater chance of winning their fourth Ivy crown in five years than any other quarterback in the conference.

After upsetting Harvard last season, the Quakers are in yet another dog fight to take the throne this year.

Penn football begins the year as the preseason favorites to earn an unprecedented fourth Ivy title in five years. But this year, the Quakers won’t be sneaking up on anyone, as they return much of last year’s squad.

The Ivy League Preseason Media Poll released Tuesday revealed that Penn is the favorite to win the 2013 conference title, with the Quakers collecting 11 of 17 first-place votes.

The 2013 NFL Draft came and went, and though three Ivy League players were selected, no Penn players went. But it didn’t take much time past pick No. 254 for the Baltimore Ravens to call up senior DE/OLB Brandon Copeland to sign him as a free agent.

There’s a movement afoot in the National Football League to sanitize the game. High-dollar fines for helmet-to-helmet hits make headlines. Snazzy commercials with Ray Lewis, Tom Brady and men in white lab coats dazzle viewers. But everything the NFL does today comes with a tacit admission that football is an inherently violent sport.

To see if football has a future, I know I have to go inside the game. From the people who have been there. Who know that there’s something more to the game than just violence…

After balancing school and athletics for three and a half years, nobody would blame senior football players C.J. Mooney and Dave Twamley for relaxing their last semester. Instead, they decided to double up and play for the lacrosse team this spring.

On Monday, they will participate in an NFL pro day at Villanova with 15 other college players, where they hope to impress various NFL and Canadian Football League (CFL) scouts.

I was disheartened to see so many fellow students in the crowd show support to someone who presented a case to ultimately break up a huge part of what contributes to Penn tradition based largely on their admiration of his personal status.

Malcolm Gladwell — the British-Canadian journalist and author of The New York Times bestsellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers” — raised a controversy and a trail of questions Thursday night after his lecture at the Harrison Auditorium in the Penn Museum.

Back when college football players didn’t wear shoulder pads and the most popular national sports were boxing and horse racing, Notre Dame and Penn were both competitive gridiron programs.