It started at the Dean Dome and moved its way up to the Palestra. Now, the Adam Franklin show is ready to hit the road again. Destination? Madison Square Garden. No, he's not starring for Ringling Brothers or the WWE, though his new employer is often confused with the two.

Former Penn closer Doug Brown may have found the secret to revive his pitching career. And believers in baseball's new mystical pitch may have to look no further than Meiklejohn Stadium. Brown has learned how to throw a "gyroball," a pitch allegedly invented by an Asian physicist and thrown by new Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Some old-school Philly flavor will be added to the Penn Relays this year. Ex-76er and former NBA star Charles Barkley will compete in a 100-meter dash against 69-year-old Philadelphia native and comedian William H. Cosby, Jr., Ed. D., better known as Bill Cosby.

As the lethal injection coursed through Barbaro's body at Penn's New Bolton Center, just about everyone had given up on the thoroughbred phenomenon. Everyone, that is, except his jockey, Edgar Prado.

With 51 seconds left in the third quarter of Friday's game, Ari Sussman scored a goal for Dartmouth, putting Penn in a 7-3 hole with just one quarter to play. I was covering the game for the DP, and wrote in my notepad ":51, Sussman. Last nail in the coffin?" Shows how much I know.

In a spectacular and emotional comeback, Penn managed to overcome a 7-3 deficit with five unanswered fourth-quarter goals, upending the Big Green 8-7.

It must have taken snow to finally make Tim Kaijala feel at home. The junior middle-distance runner charged ahead of the pack to easily win the men's 800-meter race on Saturday with a NCAA Regional, qualifying time of 1:50.

If Penn is forced to share the Ivy League men's tennis crown again this season, it won't be with Brown. The Quakers swept their New England road trip this weekend, getting by Yale with a 4-3 victory on Friday before upsetting fellow defending co-champion Brown 5-2 the following afternoon.

Yale provided a cold, cruel wakeup call to the women's tennis team on Friday, but the Quakers woke up just as quickly. Heavily-favored Penn beat Yale 5-2 and Brown 7-0, but not before the team was dealt a scare. The Quakers (13-4, 3-0 Ivy) lost 2-1 in doubles against the Bulldogs (7-8, 2-1), putting them behind early on.

Senior pitcher Erin Boyle must have ice water running through her veins. Boyle came in to "stop the bleeding," as she put it, after a rough first inning in the second game of Penn's doubleheader against Brown, when the Quakers opened the game by allowing five runs to score.

The Penn women's lacrosse team has swept its longest road trip of the year. And if its form in these games is any measure, the winning could continue for a while. In the last leg of the four-game swing on Saturday, the No. 11 Quakers (10-1, 3-0 Ivy) continued to dominate the Ivy League, pounding Harvard, 15-3.

Shortened Navy Invite suits M. Golf just fine After day one of the Navy Spring Invitational, Penn men's golf found itself in third place and only three stokes behind leader St. Bonaventure. For better or for worse, the team would never get a chance to improve on that opening showing.

He may be in sixth place in batting average on the team, but junior Kyle Armeny's stats doesn't tell the whole story. That's what Yale found out on Saturday when the first baseman connected for a single in Game 1 of the doubleheader in extra innings. The timely hit broke the tie that had been knotted up at six runs apiece and served as the catalyst to a six-run inning to give Penn its first win in extras of the season, 12-6.

Emily Denstedt will take the ball for the Quakers on Saturday against Yale as she seeks her team-leading seventh victory. After manhandling the Elis last year, she is in position for a repeat performance.

After starting off at 3-0, Penn (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) has just one win in its five games since, with the latest result a 20-5 drubbing at the hands of No. 1 Cornell last Saturday.

With only seven contests determining the Ivy League champion, every match is crucial. But the Penn men's tennis team will have more than just capturing the league crown on its agenda this weekend - they'll be seeking revenge. Last spring, the Quakers were left to wonder what could have been after they lost in a one-match playoff against Brown to determine the league's automatic NCAA tournament bid.

It's been two years since Lenka Snajdrova played competitive tennis, but she hasn't needed nearly that long to find her stroke again. "You lose all the feelings for the ball," Snajdrova said of returning to competition after sitting out last year. "It feels like you've never been on the court before.