This weekend, the women's golf team got a boost from two players - both of them freshmen. Led by Lisette Vitter and Meredith Kotowski, the Quakers placed fifth overall out of fifteen teams this weekend at the Rutgers Invitational in New Brunswick, N.J. The Invitational consisted of one round each on Friday and Saturday.

I don't know how Columbia coach Norries Wilson usually interacts with the media. But I had the privilege of sitting in on the first-year coach's press conference the other day after Penn's 16-0 win over the Lions, and in short, it was the most entertaining one I have ever been to.

Twin sisters Stacy and Claire Kim have been standout performers for the Penn women's cross country team all season. It was no different on Saturday, when they took two of the top three places, propelling the Quakers to a win at the Lafayette Leopard Invitational.

Seems like just yesterday, but it was one year ago this weekend that several PrognostiQuakers sat in a crowded room on Columbia's campus for the symposium on losing. We listened as grumpy old Colum-ni whined about their alma mater's losing ways and what to do about it.

After a year of waiting, the Penn sprint football team is more than ready to put some dents into the Army Black Knights' seemingly indestructible armor. After a tough loss at Army last season, the Quakers get a shot at revenge in their home opener. In the pouring rain at West Point last season, the Quakers put on a strong defensive showing, but it was no match for Army's relentless offense.

The Penn women's soccer team finally got its offense going with a 6-0 explosion against Robert Morris, just in time to face the toughest defense it will see all season. On Sunday, the Quakers (7-3-1, 1-2 Ivy) travel to Hanover, N.H., to meet Dartmouth, the only remaining undefeated team in the Ivy League.

Coach Rudy Fuller has had Oct. 15 circled on his calendar for a long time. At noon on that day, his Penn men's soccer team (7-2-1, 3-0 Ivy) will head up to Chase Field in Hanover, N.H., for a showdown against defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth (3-5-3, 1-1-1).

When a celler-dwelling team undertakes a rebuilding effort after firing its old coach, the talk around the program is usually focused on the future, not the present.

Columbia kicker Jon Rocholl was just a freshman when he launched a 47-yard field goal between the posts in a game against Penn last season. Despite his efforts, the Lions were blown out - their eighth loss in a row to the Quakers. But the kicker would continue to have his own success throughout his first season, making 11 of 15 field goals, including 5 of 7 from the 40-to-49-yard range.

This weekend, the Penn men's and women's golf get one last shot before the snow hits, and a victory would help the Quakers get through a cold winter. Penn's men host the Big 5 Invitational tomorrow and Sunday, while the ladies head to Rutgers for the final match of the fall season.

Through the men's locker room of Hutchinson Gym, past the squash courts and down a fire escape, is the path that leads you to the basement.

Tonight, the Princeton high-school football team will be away at Ewing, and the Hun School travels to Blair Academy. But that doesn't mean there will be no football played under the lights in Princeton tonight. Brown (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) at (24) Princeton (4-0, 1-0) In the first Friday night game in Ivy League history, the Tigers put their undefeated record on the line against the defending conference champions.

When the 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan, they brought with them a curious sport that quickly caught on as a fad in the United States.

The coaching carousel fueled by Fran Dunphy's departure to Temple has finally come to a stop. New Brown coach Craig Robinson filled out his coaching staff by hiring Jesse Agel and former Bears guard Douglas Stewart as assistants. Agel, a 1984 Vermont graduate, was an associate coach for the Catamounts under Tom Brennan for eight years and an assistant for 17 in total.

Every year, the Penn Relays attract over 15,000 athletes and 100,000 fans to Franklin Field for one of the country's greatest amateur athletic events. For Frank Dolson, a longtime Philadelphia sportswriter who passed away last weekend at age 73, there was little better in the world than the Penn Relays.

If you thought the Patriot League was too good to lose more than one game to the Ivy League this weekend, you would have been right - were it not for Tom Methvin. The Princeton defensive end stuffed Colgate quarterback Mike Saraceno just outside the end zone to deny the Raiders the two-point conversion on the game's final play on Saturday as the Ivy League continued its dominance in matchups between the two conferences this year.

Phillies fans may have wanted to miss the baseball team's most recent late-season collapse, but if you live in a college house, it is not like you had a choice. Comcast SportsNet, the premier network for all things Philadelphia sports, is currently not offered to anyone living in a college house at Penn.