The schedule said Penn versus La Salle, but swimming coach Mike Schnur noticed another, more personal, competition occurring. "We have a lot of guys who know some guys from La Salle and had a lot of local bragging rights on the line," the coach said of his men's team.

Streak ended - two words that the Penn women's swimming team would not like to see in the recap of its meet with La Salle tonight. The Explorers (5-3) will be trying to do something they haven't in five years -- beat Penn - when the two teams meet at La Salle's Kirk Pool.

After helping Cornell win its first Ivy League title in 20 years while earning league Player of the Year honors, what can Louis Dale do this year for an encore? How about increase his average by 1.0 to 14.8 points per contest while shooting .548 from the field (.

Mike Schnur is getting bored. In the men swimming team's final dual meet of the season, the coach is making his distance swimmers sprint and his breaststrokers swim freestyle. Schnur's explanation? Just for the hell of it. Today, the Quakers (6-5) will finish up their regular season at LaSalle (3-5) before the ECAC, EISL and NCAA championships.

Let's be blunt: Glen Miller's line about Remy Cofield, the one Penn used to break the news that he was leaving, was contradicted by Cofield himself. Miller's statement read, in part: "Remy has been dealing with some ongoing family situations, and has reached a point where he feels it is in his best interests to spend more of his time focusing on them.

Nothing adds fuel to the fire of a fraternal rivalry like a little game of one-on-one. No blood, no foul. Usually the older brother will do whatever it takes to hold off his younger sibling. Columbia's freshmen point guard Steve Egee learned this reality all too well from growing up with his brother Kevin, Penn's senior two-guard.

Punxsutawney Phil may have just decreed that six more weeks are left in the winter season, but Penn wrestling coach Rob Eiter sees things a little differently. Eiter knows that both he and his Quakers (8-5, 3-1 EIWA) are capable of keeping their season rolling well into the seventh week after the famous groundhog's February 2 prediction.

Bob Klein was overcome with emotion after the conclusion of the final college sporting event that will ever take place at the Wachovia Spectrum. The Penn club hockey coach took his sweet old time leaving the ice, intent on soaking in every moment of the historic day.

Forgive Cameron Lewis. He hardly seems like the type to hold a grudge. In fact, draped in a cotton T-shirt and baggy practice shorts before an afternoon shootaround, the Quakers' six-foot-eight, 225-pound big man looks about as innocuous as anyone with the job description "lane-clogger" possibly can.

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If there was a turning point in the women's basketball season, it was probably the turning of the calendar from 2008 to 2009. On Dec. 31, the Quakers (3-14, 0-3 Ivy) defeated St. Francis for their third win in four games. Since then, Penn has lost seven straight, including three in the Ivy League.

Everyone knew Cornell was the favorite to win the Ivy League title this year. But who knew they could be this good? At least that's the question after this past weekend, when Cornell (14-6, 4-0 Ivy) followed up its sweep of Columbia by smoking Brown and then Yale at home by a combined margin of 60 points.

Hanover, N.H., - Wow, what an exciting weekend. In my five-plus semesters here at Penn, I have gone to all but two of the men's basketball Ivy League road games as part of the Penn Band. And in no single weekend have two games been as close and intense as the two I witnessed this weekend in New England.

The seniors on the Penn women's tennis team went to Norfolk, Va., Saturday looking for a sweep. The Red and Blue had beaten Old Dominion three years in a row. Saturday, though, the tables turned. In their first match of the year, the Quakers fell to the Monarchs, 7-0.

Women's basketball coach Pat Knapp's scouting report warned that Harvard sophomore Christine Matera was a deadly shooter, but going into Friday's game against Penn she had shot only 15-for-63 from behind the arc, a 23.8 percent clip. Matera found her shooting stroke against the Quakers, as she shot 5-for-5 on three-pointers, several of them from well behind the line.

Penn senior 141-pound wrestler Rick Rappo takes a very zen approach to dealing with crunch-time pressure. He seemed totally focused and undaunted in tackling his enormous task in an 18-16 home upset by the Quakers (8-5, 3-0 EIWA) over No. 21 Hofstra (7-4, 4-1 CAA) on Saturday.