For men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen, running a team is not just about cultivating good basketball players on the court. It’s about building “better men and productive citizens.”

At tonight’s 18th annual Ms. and Mr. Penn Bodybuilding Contest, Penn athletes and some very well-built students will compete for the title of the school’s king and queen of brawn.

The cultural contrasts were distinct as PASA, the Caribbean-American Student Association, Mexico@Penn and the South Asia Society all competed on the pitch.

The PLAAY (Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth) program has helped students at a West Philadelphia discipline school and other community agencies throughout the city practice settling disputes nonviolently in the context of basketball games.

NCAA president Myles Brand, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January, passed away yesterday at the age of 67. The NCAA has not yet named his successor.

It's the Wednesday after Labor Day, which means two things: classes start and we here at the DP make sports predictions. So without further ado:

If Penn Rowing hopes to soon reassert itself at the top of the Ivy League, it will have to do so with two new coaches. With both lightweight head coach Mike Irwin and heavyweight assistant coach Eric Carcich leaving their respective positions, the program has lost two key members of its crew.

Women's lacrosse may have come up short of a national championship, but two of the team's seniors can now say they won their final collegiate contest. Becca Edwards and Kaitlyn Lombardo were selected by coach Karin Brower to represent Penn in the IWLCA/Under Armour North-South Senior All-Star game last Saturday.

When it comes to the running back position, the Class of 2013 recruits are only an added bonus to an already talented Penn backfield. "I think it's our deepest position, certainly on the offensive side of the ball," coach Al Bagnoli said. After bringing in five more skilled runners, Bagnoli is pleased with the depth of "experience and talent and different kinds of running styles" he has in his backfield.

Despite graduating from Wharton in 1965, George Weiss never really left Penn. A generous benefactor of the University and many charitable projects, the charter trustee has stayed intimately involved in the school's affairs. His more than $60 million of donations to the University has already garnered two institutions bearing his name: the Weiss Tech House and the Weiss Center for International Financial Research at Wharton.

I made the trek down to the Big Apple and Citi Field for Tuesday night’s heavyweight bout between the Fightins and the hated New York Mets

In a season in which the men's heavyweight crew team only once posted a sub-six minute time, the three-day IRA National Championship Regatta in Sacramento, Calif., last week capped off a disappointing year with slightly unexpected results. The initial heats last Thursday were the toughest for the Quakers, as the first and second Varsity 8 boats attempted to conserve their energy and posted their slowest times of the weekend at 6:22.

e football by storm over the past three years as the dynamic leader of the Gators, just as much of a threat to run with the ball as he is to throw it. While Penn coach Al Bagnoli isn't expecting national titles or hundreds of rushing yards from his quarterbacks (a la Tebow), he does understand that athleticism and mobility are becoming of increased importance under center.

Looking back on another spectacular season that ended in heartbreak for the women's lacrosse team, coach Karin Brower still has a lot to be happy about.

Man, was that fun. Along with thousands of my Phillies brethren, I made the trek down to the Big Apple and Citi Field for Tuesday night's heavyweight bout between the Fightins and the hated New York Mets - the two contenders in a budding local rivalry that is gaining steam nationally.

Anna Aagenes was just a second away from automatically qualifying for next week's NCAA Track and Field Championships. Now, she'll have to wait a whole year before she can redeem herself. The junior competed at the NCAA East Regional Championships in Greensboro, N.