With her team out of contention for the Ivy League championship, Harvard volleyball coach Jen Weiss has the group ready to play spoiler. "We want to cause havoc up there for that first place," she said. The Crimson have a perfect chance to do so with second-place Princeton and third-place Penn (10-11, 6-3 Ivy) visiting Cambridge, Mass.

For a moment, Marc Hembrough's 47 year-old body betrayed him. The Penn football team would receive the ball first against Dartmouth, and fired up, Hembrough ran over for some chest bumps with the squad. But padless and with his playing days 25 years behind him, Hembrough thought better of his move and turned off to his right, narrowly missing the Penn players in full gear.

On her first road trip as an NCAA athlete, Madison Wojciechowski found a unique way of bonding with her new volleyball coach, Kerry Carr. Carr was sitting in her usual seat at the front of the bus when a series of familiar noises erupted nearby. No time was wasted figuring out that somebody had been passing gas, but the culprit was hard to identify.

The Ivy League gets about as many All-American transfers as it does national championships. But this offseason, the Penn basketball team found one of the former. Sort of. Sophomore Zachary Gordon, a transfer from Yeshiva University, was a first-teamer on the Jewish Sports Review All-American team for Divisions II and III.

The benefits of sports spectatorship are usually cheap pleasures - triumph, camaraderie, pride and the catharsis of revenge. Rarely are fans rewarded materially for their love of the game, though Abner's Cheesesteaks would beg to differ. But for the Quakers faithful who can't wait for the next 100-point game, the Athletic Department has introduced Red & Blue Rewards, aimed at giving fans concrete incentives to attend Penn sports events.

You probably haven't heard of Megan Cassidy or Kelly McCarthy. Then again, you probably haven't heard of many players on the women's soccer team. That's because coach Darren Ambrose carries 29 players on his roster, even though only 11 can be on the field at once.

It's been a very busy week for Penn's medical staff. The Quakers' misfortunes last Saturday against Brown extended far beyond dropping their first Ivy League game of the season. As the fourth quarter came to a close, several important members of the team watched from the sidelines on crutches.

Chances are you've done it before. You take your seat and scan the room to size up the competition - the annoying girl in the front row, the seemingly clueless guy who says nothing all semester but invariably aces the test - until your eyes stop on the mass of muscle in the back, decked out in his team-issued hoodie and athletic pants.

Penn and Brown showed their true colors on Saturday night at Rhodes Field: red and yellow. The teams amassed a total of 33 fouls - 18 by the Bears, 15 by the Quakers - and racked up seven yellow cards and one red. The Bears took all four of their yellow cards in the first half, including two from midfielder Darren Howerton in the first twenty minutes.

When students walk into Nathanael Ackerman's Math 104 and Math 170 classes, they expect to be lectured by an expert on derivatives, logarithms and complex numbers. What they may not know, though, is that their professor is equally proficient in takedowns, half-nelsons and arm drags.

The reaction was the same everywhere. From the bleachers, the Brown sideline and the press box, everyone in attendance at Penn's 34-27 loss to Brown on Saturday had just one question. Who's playing quarterback? The answer was No. 13, Keiffer Garton, a sophomore from Castle Rock, Co.

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.