The men’s soccer team travels out to sunny California this weekend for the San Diego Central Tournament, hosted by San Diego State.

Home of Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union, PPL Park will host Penn and Villanova Friday in the Red and Blue’s first game in a pro stadium since facing Loyola-Chicago at Toyota Park in 2007.

Replacing second-team All-Ivy graduate Ben Berg, rookie goalie Max Kurtzman hasn’t skipped a beat since being named starter.

Perhaps more important than the 97 Ivy wins and the eight Ivy championships is the manner in which Bagnoli has conducted himself throughout. More specifically: his honesty.

Entering her second season, coach Colleen Fink believes last year, although difficult, was a necessary step in the direction of building a winning team.

The women’s soccer team started off the season with a bang, but for coach Darren Ambrose, the going is only just getting tough.

It will be the ultimate David versus Goliath matchup in South Bend, Ind., come December.

Although the Quakers (2-0) eventually ran away with the match, things didn’t start well for the Red and Blue as they fell behind the Hawks (0-2) early on a 19th-minute goal by freshman Jake Nelson.

The event — which remains unofficial — is the brain child of NBA player and Philadelphia native Hakim Warrick.

To enter the prediction business, you have to risk looking like a dead-wrong fool. Keep that in mind as I publish a Penn-centric forecast for 2011.

A lot has changed for Ivy champion Penn volleyball. But when it comes to the Big 5 tournament at the Palestra, this year’s result was much the same.

During the offseason, Senior Thomas Brandt, a two-time captain, was nominated as a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS award and named as a second-team Preseason All-American.

Faced with the daunting prospect of the Manchester United Fitness Test during preseason, the Penn women’s soccer team offered the coaches a deal.

The Penn volleyball team has won two straight championships. But it will have to go for a three-peat with a new-look roster.

By the time Major League II rolled into theaters in 1994, five years after the release of one of the greatest baseball movies ever made, the cracks in the franchise were showing.

Sophomore Miles Cartwright and senior Tyler Bernardini ushered in freshmenPatrick Lucas-Perry and Greg Louis to Penn basketball on the Delaware County Pro-Am summer league’s Trad Jazz team.

If there was anything easy about Penn football’s run to a second straight Ivy League championship last year, it was finding a source of motivation.