Joke Issue: Darien Nelson-Henry forgets beard at Palestra
The 2015-16 season featured many high-profile returns at the Palestra. Steve Donahue, who came back to the program after over a decade spent coaching other teams.
The 2015-16 season featured many high-profile returns at the Palestra. Steve Donahue, who came back to the program after over a decade spent coaching other teams.
Two for two. After a 9-6 victory over Cornell this past Saturday at Franklin Field, Penn men’s lacrosse remains undefeated in the Ivy League.
Perfection is hard to reach in sports. To be able to play an entire game without a single blemish is something that few can claim to do.
While most of Penn’s campus was rejoicing over a beautiful spring weekend, Penn women’s tennis headed to Princeton, N.J., with the hopes of doing something they have failed to do since 2008: Beat the Tigers.
Two for two. After a 9-6 victory over Cornell this past Saturday at Franklin Field, Penn men’s lacrosse remains undefeated in the Ivy League.
Perfection is hard to reach in sports. To be able to play an entire game without a single blemish is something that few can claim to do.
No matter the team, it is commonplace to worry about the potential for trap games. Regardless of the opponent’s record, an Ivy League contest is a battle with a rival, and wins never come easy.
Lafayette offered a chance for Penn baseball to tune things up a bit before heading into Ivy play next weekend.
Every senior hopes for a storybook ending when they get ready to compete for the last time, and that’s just what Penn men's swimming senior Chris Swanson got at this weekend's NCAA National Swimming and Diving Championship.
You should never dig a hole that you can’t crawl out of. Unfortunately for Penn women’s lacrosse, the hole that they dug for themselves in the first part of Wednesday’s game was just a bit too deep. The No. 14 Quakers squared off with the top team in the nation under the lights at Franklin Field, falling to Maryland by a score of 12-8 in a game that appeared to be a comfortable win for the Terrapins (7-0) until about 10 minutes in to the second half.
The toughest steel is forged in the hottest fire. That is clearly the belief of Penn men's lacrosse coach Mike Murphy, who, in crafting this year’s schedule of play, ensured that his young team would have to stand the heat.
Wednesday night was a lesson in getting halfway there for the Quakers. Despite recording hits in nearly every one of the 14 innings played against La Salle at home on Wednesday night’s doubleheader, Penn (9-7) couldn’t manage to bring most of those eager runners on base home.
It’s championship season, and while most eyes are on the basketball this week, Penn has a chance to make the podium nationally in the pool.
They say the enemy of your enemy is your friend, but do not go telling that to either Penn or Princeton when they meet for Ivy openers this weekend.
After a 2-6 performance during this year’s break, the comeback kids are rolling again.
The game of football tends to dominate a lot of conversation around Franklin Field, but the game of life is so much more important.
There’s no other way of putting it — it’s the end of an era. Penn men's swimming legend Chris Swanson has one meet left to bear the colors Red and Blue.
While the season may be over for Penn’s basketball teams, the awards keep coming in.
If all goes as planned for senior men’s track and field stars Thomas Awad and Sam Mattis, this June’s NCAA National Championships won’t mark the end of their respective 2016 seasons.
Penn track and field has its fair share of stars, and in 2015 all of the stars aligned.