Noticing a pattern with these Yale games? No. 15 Yale (7-0, 4-0) at Brown (3-4, 2-2) Once again, it'll come back to Mike McLeod. There's been no mystery this year - Yale has relied heavily on its junior tailback in its 7-0 start to the season. At 3-4, Brown can't be labeled the Bulldogs' toughest test; that distinction belongs to Harvard, whom they'll meet in two weeks' time.

Even if Penn runs north-south tomorrow against Princeton, the hits will definitely be coming from the east - the Far East. Senior Doori Song, the first in his South Korean family to be born in the United States, is one of Princeton's best run-stoppers at inside linebacker.

Most people probably don't take ice baths or play Gatorade pong as part of their regular regimen. But Penn soccer players Alex Fairman, Ryan Porch, Johnny Elicker and Lee Rubenstein are no strangers to either of those. The four have known each other since middle school.

Princeton's Bill Foran knows how to make his mark on a football game. In last year's double-overtime victory over Penn he led the Tigers in rushing yards (with 84), recorded a couple of tackles on special teams and downed the ball inside the five late on a crucial punt.

When you think of offensive linemen, you might think of mammoth 325-pounders who look like the only running they're capable of is to the nearest all-you-can-eat buffet. But second-year offensive line coach Jon McLaughlin has other ideas.

For Tobi Olopade, it looks as though the non-conference season was just a bit too good to be true. On a team awash with older and more highly-touted players, it seemed like the freshman track runner-slash-soccer walk-on was improbably carving out a niche as a go-to striker on coach Rudy Fuller's Penn team.

The Ivy League title hopes of Harvard, Columbia and Cornell all rest on Penn. All four of those teams are tied for second place in the Ivy field hockey standings at 4-2, but it is the Quakers who take on 5-1 Princeton on Friday at Franklin Field. A Tigers victory will ensure that they will be the champions of the 2007 season and garner the Ivy League's automatic NCAA Tournament bid.

"Timeout, timeout, a media timeout." Ever wonder who is behind the mic at the Palestra? Now's your chance to find out about the mysterious character. The beloved voice of the Palestra, Rich Kahn, sat down and told us about everything from announcing Joe Namath's induction into the Hall of Fame to Fran Dunphy's bad memory.

Who says you can't throw a changeup in a football game? By carrying the ball almost as often as they threw it in Saturday's 31-17 win over the Quakers, the Bears were able to mount a balanced offensive attack against a Penn defense that had been gearing up all week to limit the damage through the air.

After taking a helmet to his elbow during the second quarter against Brown on Saturday, running back Joe Sandberg felt some numbness. He then sat out the entire second half. But did he have to? "We were worried and they don't have X-ray facilities [at Brown]," Penn coach Al Bagnoli said.

Bill Belichick and the blowout-happy New England Patriots just might be the villains of the year in the NFL, but things are different in college. College football, put on display by amateur athletes on hundreds of teams around the country. College football, where the financial considerations trouble only the minds of sponsors and athletic directors, not quarterbacks and linebackers - at least where the NCAA's efforts to keep it that way are successful.

Nine more days. With Penn's season opener against Drexel less than a week and a half away, the Quakers took to the floor last night before a sparse crowd. Faced with the first real rebuilding effort at Penn in the past several years, Miller said after the annual Red and Blue scrimmage that getting under the lights, as it did over the weekend in a scrimmage at Colgate, could do his young team good.

If Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner thinks he had it rough on Saturday, he should spend a day in Tom Cocuzza's shoes. The Princeton coach was on the wrong end of an 83-0 drubbing at the hands of Navy, the team that Wagner accused of running up the score in a 56-7 wipeout of the Quakers last weekend.

With the amount of parity in Ivy League women's soccer the past few years, it would have been nearly impossible to predict the champions coming into this season. As expected, two weeks remain in the Ivy schedule and the title picture remains unclear. Although Penn and Princeton have the inside track to the title, tied atop the standings at 4-1, five schools in the Ancient Eight have a legitimate shot at grasping the crown.

Remember the name. Mike Howlett has become the fourth member of Penn basketball's Class of 2012. Howlett, who is currently finishing a second prep year at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire, called Quakers coach Glen Miller on Sunday night to inform him of the decision, according to the young man's father, Jay.

For two seasons, the NCAA football rules committee has been tinkering with procedures regarding when the game clock starts and stops. The first changes came before the 2006-07 season, and were intended to shorten the length of games by 15 minutes. Rule 3-2-5 had the clock start on kickoffs when the ball is kicked instead of when the receiving team touches it.

The Ivy League's leading rusher and Yale's 34-carry-per game workhorse isn't going to be stopped by a toe injury. But it may be slowing him down. Against Penn, Mike McLeod hurt his right big toe before the end of the first half, playing through the pain for the rest of the game.