Sitting in his Quad single one day last spring, Brian Mascarenhas was bored. So the soccer midfielder started drawing in Microsoft Paint and came up with a logo he really liked. A few months later, that design became the icon for Elev8ted Basiks, a startup clothing company "I had never really done any graphic art before," he said.

Cornell quarterback Nathan Ford became the topic of conversation at the biggest watercooler in America. The senior signal caller got a shout-out on last Thursday's episode of The Office on NBC, courtesy of everyone's favorite intensely nerdy paper salesman, Dwight Schrute.

The one bit of significant news from a conference call featuring all eight Ivy League hoops coaches was the revelation by Columbia's Joe Jones that transfer Brian Grimes had injured his knee five minutes into the team's first practice and will miss the upcoming season.

Quarterback Kyle Olson is officially done for the season. The team confirmed that Olson tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the second quarter of Saturday's 34-27 loss to Brown. That game was Olson's first start of the season after battling with senior Rob Irvin for the top job since training camp.

It was a frightful Halloween for the Penn women's and men's cross country teams. The Quakers fell short at the Ivy League Heptagonals on Friday in Van Cortlandt Park in New York, as the men finished in eighth place with 193 points, while the women came in sixth with 179 points.

Quarterback Kyle Olson is officially done for the season. The team confirmed that Olson tore the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in his left knee in the second quarter of Saturday's 34-27 loss to Brown. That game was Olson's first start of the season after battling with senior Rob Irvin for the top job since training camp.

On a day when a young, costumed Quakers fan was booed for donning the garb of Donovan McNabb as part of an Abner's Cheesesteak Giveaway, it was the ghost of another popular Philly punching bag that may have done in the Quakers. "These guys are good receivers, but I think a lot of us came into this game thinking they were Terrell Owens," All-Ivy Penn corner Chris Wynn said.

For five years, the men's soccer team had been humiliated time and time again by Brown, going winless while failing to score in the process. But at Rhodes Field on Saturday, the Quakers returned the favor. Led by two goals from Omid Shokoufandeh, the Quakers beat the Bears, 4-0, in an unexpectedly one-sided affair that propelled them into a tie for first place.

With its Ivy League title chances on the line on Senior Night, the women's soccer team had plenty of motivation in Saturday's matchup against Brown. But as Bears senior Lindsay Cunningham's third game-winning goal of the season soared into the far corner 5:54 into the first overtime, several Quakers could do nothing but sink to the Rhodes Field turf or hang their heads in dismay.

The phrase "adding insult to injury" was never more appropriate. After seeing its quarterback go down with what could be a season-ending knee injury, Penn saw its Ivy title hopes follow suit - the Quakers fell 34-27 at Franklin Field to Brown, which now has sole possession of first place in the conference.

With the decisive fifth set deadlocked at 14, Penn libero Madison Wojchiechowski watched Cornell's hottest hitter, Meagan Tatum, reach high and deliver a hard strike across the court. "Mojo," as her teammates call her, dove to her left, extended her arms just within reach of the ball and popped Tatum's swing straight up for her 40th dig of the match, setting a new school record.

Too many turnovers on offense, poor kickoff coverage and blown coverage in the secondary amounted to what Penn coach Al Bagnoli labeled "a total team loss" on Saturday, which is a fair assessment of what happened. But the real problem with the Quakers this season - a problem that came to a head when Kyle Olson's knee gave out on him in the second quarter on Saturday - is the lack of a steady option at quarterback.

It was a fitting end to Senior Day. Ten minutes into overtime, senior Rachel Eng took a pass from classmate Nina Ferrier on a two-on-one, shimmied around a diving Brown keeper, Caroline Washburn, and lifted the game-winner over an onrushing defender. "Nina gave me a great pass," said Eng, who scored in her fifth-straight game.

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Tomorrow evening, the Penn women's soccer team will step onto Rhodes Field for the final time this season. For the team's seven seniors, it will be the last time ever. Handkerchief please. Indeed, when the Quakers (8-4-3, 2-1-2 Ivy) take on Brown (5-6-4, 1-3-1) at 5 p.

Don't expect any fireworks tomorrow at Rhodes Field. Penn (9-2-2, 3-1 Ivy) and Brown (9-4-1, 3-1) have combined for 16 shutouts this season - eight apiece - and are about as evenly matched as possible. In recent years, however, the Quakers have been dismal against their foe from Providence, R.

The Volleyball team won both of its matches this weekend, beating Columbia 3-1 yesterday before pulling out a 5-set thriller against Cornell. The Quakers dropped the first set to Columbia, 25-22, and then won three in a row. Julia Swanson had her best in a string of good games, amassing 21 kills on .