Sports Features
Senior Goodbye: Ricky Katz | A sports fan's paradise
Throughout my life, I have always been very passionate about sports. In fact, most of the conversations I have in a given day are sports-related. As an avid player and spectator of many sports, the DP gave me the opportunity to be a true college sports reporter, as well.Senior Goodbye: Michael Gold | Setting the record straight
I never really expected to be the DP’s senior sports editor.Senior Goodbye: Joe Sanfilippo | For the love of the game — and the food
For the past four years, I’ve managed to fool everyone at the Daily Pennsylvanian into thinking I’m a journalist, and let me tell you, the act was exhausting.Senior Goodbye: Steve Childs | Relaying the beauty of track
As the track and field beat writer, I prefer to encourage Penn students to appreciate the sport and its connection with Penn.Senior Goodbye: Matt Flegenheimer | Nine out of ten ain't bad
Farewell columns that descend into list form are disgraceful cliches — the likes of which no self-respecting writer would ever allow. My bad.Senior Goodbye: Noah Rosenstein | Friends, memories transcend the games
I’d be remiss to write about anything else but my DP friends with my final bittersweet words that will ever grace these pages.
Powderpuff girls
As part of Greek Week, Penn’s eight sororities had the chance to settle their differences on the gridiron Thursday in Powderpuff football.
Cricket shines in Florida
Penn's cricket team — ranked 25th of 32 heading into the American College Cricket Championship last week — finished in third.
Cricket aims to retake the spotlight
Long before the Quakers stepped foot in the Palestra or on Franklin Field, another sport ruled Penn’s playing fields — cricket.
Toole's time comes early
Just seven years after co-captaining the Penn men's hoops team, Andy Toole is the youngest NCAA Division I coach in the nation.
The student-athlete 'stigma'
In the second of two stories honoring Black History Month, Penn football's Bradford Blackmon and track's Victoria Strickland speak about the misperceptions of Ivy student-athletes.One more for coach Wyant
Coach Jack Wyant is expecting a lot in the final two weeks of the 2010-2011 squash season, but most pressing is the event that Wyant and his wife, Amelia, cannot date: the arrival of their second son.
Talking smack and scoring back
Actions may speak louder than words, but trash talking plays a significant role at every level and type of sport.
550 losses, but a world of wins
From playing against the Harlem Globetrotters to coaching the Quakers, Mike McLaughlin's journey has centered on one thing: the love of the game.Polo rides back onto Penn's campus
College sophomore Meredith Shea is looking to bring polo back to Penn — and so far, things are looking good.
Tyler Bernardini has a cold
Less than 36 hours until perhaps the biggest weekend of Tyler Bernardini’s collegiate basketball life, something was amiss in Penn basketball land.
Wing Bowl 19: Hot and Saucy
At an event where excess is celebrated, just one wing proved to be the difference between winner and loser.