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Minority Report

By Andrew Sweet · Nov. 9, 2006

While the Penn men's basketball team is one of four Ivies without a black coach, the Red and Blue is still doing its part to support diversity. This weekend, the Quakers will compete in the Black Coaches Invitational, an event sponsored by the Black Coaches Association.


High-profile basketball recruiting prospect Josh Owens has chosen to play his college ball at Stanford, rather than at Penn or Vanderbilt, the other two teams on his list. According to a source close to the situation, the Austell, Ga., native is expected to sign a national letter of intent to play for the Cardinal.

Former Penn football coach John Stiegman died of cancer in his home in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Oct. 31, at the age of 83. The Buffalo, N.Y., native spent time as a head coach at Rutgers and at Iowa Wesleyan, as well as Penn, during a coaching career that spanned three decades between the 1940s and the 1970s.

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With five games to play in the fall season, Penn's teams have an overall record 43-37-5 and will not bring home any Ivy League titles. Some teams have been disappointing, some have played up to mediocre expectations, and some have demonstrated that there are reasons to have high hopes for the future.



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High-profile basketball recruiting prospect Josh Owens has chosen to play his college ball at Stanford, rather than at Penn or Vanderbilt, the other two teams on his list. According to a source close to the situation, the Austell, Ga., native is expected to sign a national letter of intent to play for the Cardinal.


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Former Penn football coach John Stiegman died of cancer in his home in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Oct. 31, at the age of 83. The Buffalo, N.Y., native spent time as a head coach at Rutgers and at Iowa Wesleyan, as well as Penn, during a coaching career that spanned three decades between the 1940s and the 1970s.


Penn the EIWA favorite in three weightclasses

For reigning NCAA champion Matt Valenti, it will be impossible to improve on last year's results. But for this year's wrestling team, a top-20 ranking means that Valenti is not the only one who will compete strongly at the national level. Penn's most competitive sport in the NCAA begins this season ranked No.


Quakers looking to rebound after Princeton debacle

With Penn out of the running for the 2006 Ivy League football title, the team must now try to end the year on a positive note. "It's the same motivation you would have in Week 1," Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. "We never talk about titles." Playing under any circumstances is "something that you've been trained to do," he added.


Bodybuilders strut their stuff in contest

Zellerbach Theatre was rocking as the 15th annual Mr. and Ms. Penn Bodybuilding Contest kicked off. The Mr. Penn prize was awarded to College junior Ian Barrett, while College junior Jesse Carlin was dubbed Ms. Penn. The crowd enthusiastically did the wave while anxiously anticipating the first competition.


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Club sports roundup

By Krista Hutz · Nov. 8, 2006

n Women's Rugby. The team emerged victorious during the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union championship weekend. Defeating Bloomsburg University, Penn finished on top in the White Division and undefeated for the season. At the semifinal game on Saturday, Penn dominated Saint Joseph's for a final score of 29-5.


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When most athletes tear their rotator cuff and spend six months avoiding heavy physical training, they don't usually return to garner the highest accolade in their sport. But Matt Valenti isn't most athletes. In March 2006, Valenti became the first Quakers wrestler since Brent Matter in 2000 to capture the NCAA title.



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When the Penn men's basketball team traveled to Cornell last season, all that Khaliq Gant could do was listen to the game from his bed in a spinal-rehabilitation center in Atlanta. But when the Quakers host Cornell this coming February, Gant will have a much better view of the action - he'll be sitting on the bench at the Palestra next to his teammates and coaches.


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Four thousand, seven hundred and sixty-four minutes of Dan Cepero's life were spent in a very familiar place. For more than 79 hours in the last four years, he was in goal for the Penn soccer team, putting his name all over the record books. But yesterday, he was in a very unfamiliar place - the men's basketball lounge of the Palestra, watching as team after team filled the rapidly dwindling number of spots in the NCAA Tournament bracket.



Football: Offense showed some signs of life in devastating loss

PRINCETON, N.J. - When the dust had settled at Princeton Stadium on Saturday, the Quakers had earned themselves yet another overtime loss. Understandably, nobody on the Penn side was lining up afterwards to discuss the positives of the game - after a loss like that, there certainly wouldn't seem to be any.


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It took 99 years, but the rivalry between Harvard, Yale and Princeton came out of the classroom and onto the football field. The H-Y-P trifecta, mainstays at the top of the U.S. News & World Report's academic rankings, were all 7-1 at weekend's end, marking the first time this has happened in almost a century.


Wasted chances push match into overtime

PRINCETON, N.J. - Any weaknesses the Penn men's soccer team showed on Saturday were briefly forgotten when Kevin Unger's overtime winner rippled the net. But only a few minutes later, coach Rudy Fuller knew his team needed to improve, even in spite of its dramatic victory.


Soap opera continues for Penn kicking unit

When kicker Peter Stine took the field for a 23-yard field goal attempt against Princeton in the first quarter, the stage was set for the sprint football call-up to be the hero. Coach Al Bagnoli hoped that the senior would bring the Quakers out of their kicking slump, but when the ball hit the right post, it was clear that Penn's kicking woes could not be solved so easily.


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The Penn sprint football team ended its season on a high note, especially for senior quarterback Mike Loguidice. The team ended its season with a second win over Princeton 35-12 at Franklin Field, as Loguidice became the all-time passing quarterback in Penn history.