After a brutal 56-7 loss, sprint football coach Bill Wagner called out Navy for what he construed to be unsportsmanlike play. "They're a good team, but I think they're a cheap-shot team, I think their cut-blocking is certainly of question and, in my opinion, a deficit to the game," Wagner said.

At the Heptagonal Championships in New York City, Penn women's cross country finished fourth while the men's squad took third place. But there was no doubt who was on top. In dominating fashion, both the men's and women's individual winners came from Princeton, as the Tigers swept Heps for the second straight season.

The Ivy League field hockey title will now be decided with a Penn vs. Princeton showdown on Friday after the Quakers' took down Brown, 4-1, on Saturday. Penn is a position to become co-champions if it beats 5-1 Princeton in the final game of each teams' season.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 27 - From the very first minute of Saturday night's matchup, Brown was able to assert itself and impose its game on the Quakers. The Bears controlled possession, but more importantly, they controlled the run of play and pace of the game.

After a brutal 56-7 loss, sprint football coach Bill Wagner called out Navy for what he construed to be unsportsmanlike play. "They're a good team, but I think they're a cheap-shot team, I think their cut-blocking is certainly of question and, in my opinion, a deficit to the game," Wagner said.

Even after 109 minutes of disappointing play, no one on the Penn women's soccer team could have expected the 110th and final minute to turn into such a nightmare. The Quakers' perfect Ivy season and six-match winning streak came to an end with the sweep of Kerrilynn Carney's foot yesterday afternoon in Providence, R.

Hopefully no player on the Penn field hockey team is afraid of heights. When the squad takes on Brown in Providence, R.I. tomorrow, it will be playing on a roof. Warner Roof, home of Brown field hockey, sits atop the Olney Margolies Athletic Center. According to Quakers coach Val Cloud, it provides an "awkward" playing environment, both for new players to the roof, as "most of my team hasn't been up there before," and to returning ones.

After spending the majority of high school playing on the same football team as his brother, Nick Anastasio wanted a change of pace. So when both Penn and Brown recruited him heavily in his senior year, Anastasio decided against joining his older brother Joe on the Quakers, and cleared a path for himself instead.

Penn's opponents this weekend are a combined 3-11 in the Ivy League. But that doesn't mean the team is complacent. In large part that is because they are heading to New York to face two-time defending champion Cornell. Although not on their way to a third-straight championship this year, the Big Red (6-12, 3-4 Ivy) are still a formidable opponent; they have already upset a strong Dartmouth team earlier this season.

This weekend will even out the middle of the pack in the league, with two pairs of 1-2 teams playing each other. And fans won't have to wait until Saturday for some Ivy League action - the first kickoff of the weekend will be tonight in Princeton. Cornell (4-2, 1-2 Ivy) at Princeton (2-4, 1-2) Three quarterbacks couldn't get it done for Princeton last weekend against Harvard.

The Penn women's soccer team has found itself in an unprecedented position. The Quakers, who have served as the hunters in seasons past, will now have to protect their record as the hunted. Penn is 4-0 in the Ivy League for the first time in school history and alone at the top of the Ivy League standings with only three games to go.

How's this for a must-win game? A contest at No. 6 Brown, against a team that has only lost once this year and has won four straight since then. The men's soccer team faces this situation as it fights to keep its hopes for a league title alive. Tomorrow, the Quakers (5-6-2, 2-1-0 Ivy) will make the trip out to Providence, R.

At this stage in the Penn football team's season, the potential turning point has come and gone. A victory against heavy favorite Yale last week could have been the last opportunity for an Ivy title run, but after the last drive in triple-overtime stalled, it's time for the Quakers (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) to shift gears.

Freshman Anguel Tolev, running in today's Heptagonal championships in New York, has come a long way since immigrating to the United States in 1998. Tolev's family immigrated to Denver from Bulgaria when he was nine. He didn't know a word of English. No biggie.

His nearly flawless brackets over the years have earned him the title Doctor of Bracketology, but at the end of the day ESPN bracketologist and Saint Joseph's communications guru Joe Lunardi is more or less an ordinary guy. Just ask his six-year-old daughter, whose selections beat her dad's last year when she picked bracket-busting Butler because she thought butlers look like penguins, and she likes penguins.

Anyone who's surprised that 2-4 Brown's passing attack leads the conference in touchdowns, has the third-fewest interceptions and leads the entire FCS in passing yards hasn't been around the Ivy League very long. Or at least not before 2003. Ever since Phil Estes took over in 1998, his Bears have run an offense that spreads out the defense and then picks it apart.

The Penn women's tennis team may have found a new out-of-conference rival. Four Penn players and five from William and Mary, a top-15 team last year, reached the round of sixteen at the ITA East Regional. Three of the Tribe eliminated Penn players in the singles bracket.