Report: Hoyas asst. offered Princeton job Princeton has offered its head basketball coaching position to Georgetown assistant coach Sydney Johnson, Princeton's student newspaper reported yesterday. According to an online report by The Daily Princetonian, Johnson, a 1997 Tigers alumnus who has coached professionally for only three years, has been offered the job but has yet to officially accept it.

Ladies and gentlemen, they're out of the red. For the first time in 23 years, the Penn softball team has guaranteed itself an overall winning record. Such an occasion should warrant a stylish win, and the Quakers did not disappoint. Penn swept Cornell in a doubleheader yesterday at Warren Field, beating the Big Red 7-1 and 5-4 with equally solid pitching and batting performances.

Five seconds into the second half of the biggest lacrosse game of her life, Penn sophomore Becca Edwards was flat on her back. Playing against No. 15 Princeton with the Ivy League title on the line, Edwards's stick got caught with an opponent's while she tried to get the opening draw control of the second half.

Penn's spring sports teams are in an unfamiliar position for this time of year. They are in contention for Ivy League titles. The women's lacrosse, tennis and softball teams, along with the men's tennis and baseball teams, all have legitimate shots at titles.

The Quakers have struggled against Princeton, but with Penn riding an eight-game win streak, perhaps the Tigers aren't so sure of themselves anymore.

Matt Toffaletti was just conscious enough to win the game for Penn. After colliding with pitcher Joe Thornton and hitting the deck hard while chasing a foul pop-up in the seventh inning of yesterday's home game against Lehigh, Toffaletti could barely get up.

Almost exactly a year ago, Glen Miller was just a name mentioned as a possible candidate for the Penn hoops coaching job, left vacant after longtime head man Fran Dunphy left for Temple a week earlier. He was the coach at Brown, and even said on April 15 that he was not interested in the Quakers job.

Daily Pennsylvanian: Let's jump right in. Is your office always this messy? Charlie Powell: No, it's clean! The spring gets crazy. You get everything from home meets, Penn Relays stuff, expense reports, budget stuff. It gets really messy in the spring; it cleans back up in the summer.

As my editors requested, I had my column for this week written 24 hours in advance. It was, of course, about sports. And it was, as my columns often are, a joke both in substance and tone. But this morning is not a time for joking. This morning isn't even a time for sports.

If the Penn women's lacrosse team wants to win its first outright Ivy League title since 1982, it has to follow a simple plan: win the next two games. Doing so would clinch the league's automatic bid to the team's first NCAA tournament since 1984. Otherwise, it gets a little dicey.

Penn senior Ibrahim Jaaber has been named Big 5 Player of the Year, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said yesterday.

Villanova senior Curtis Sumpter couldn't be happier to be done with his college career. And after five years of ups and downs with the Wildcats, the big man is finally ready to take the next step in his career - hopefully on the NBA hardwood.

Believers in momentum, that mysterious intangible that athletes and coaches love to harp on, could claim that the Penn baseball team is nearly guaranteed a win today after a clutch sweep of Cornell this weekend. But if the Quakers' tendencies this season are any indicator, today's contest against Lehigh (11-22-1, 1-11 Patriot) will not be a cakewalk, even with Penn riding the boost of two division wins.

When Penn last beat Dartmouth, junior attacker Rachel Manson was four years old and "had a lacrosse stick around but I wasn't really playing," she said.

Down but not out. That was the message that the seniors on the men's lacrosse team were preaching heading into the game against Brown on Saturday. "There was a lot of motivation to finish 3-3 and not 2-4 in the Ivy League," senior David Cornbrooks said. "It's pretty easy to get up for a game like this.

There is a first time for everything, including becoming a giant-killer. Annie Kinsey helped deliver it to Penn in a big way. Kinsey hit two big home runs in the second game of the Quakers' doubleheader against division-leading Cornell Saturday, as Penn took the second game 6-5.

After his team began the year 1-7, Jason Pinsky was tired of hearing about how Penn couldn't win. "Everyone has been doubting us this whole year saying, 'you guys are losing every match,'" he said. "But we played eight top-20 teams in the country. As of now, it's really paying off.