Sports Features

NFL pros trade gridiron for grad school

The Wharton sessions are part of the larger NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program, which seeks to educate players and prepare them for careers after they hang up the cleats.

Wing Bowl 18: Finger lickin’ good

Wing Bowl is where “The Projectile Vomit of 2001” is more renowned than the War of 1812, and the world’s top competitive eater was ejected (twice!)

Foreigners tackle American classic

Penn Abroad and Penn Athletics organize event to help international students decipher American football.

Strutting their stuff for fitness title

Muscled students and staffs showed off their guns at the Ms. and Mr. Penn competition.

World Series | Phorsaken

As the Phillies failed to repeat as World Series champs, fans in Blarney Stone were thoroughly inebriated and ready to move on.

World Series | Damn Yankees

Last night in the Bronx, the New York Yankees handed the Phillies a 7-3 loss to win the Fall Classic four games to two.

A tale of two cities

The New York versus Philadelphia tension has come to a head over the past days, especially with the World Series showdown.

Hip to fill squares at Sudoku championship

Sudoku fans gathered in Philadelphia Saturday to compete in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s National Sudoku Championship.

Phillies clinch second consecutive pennant

Students celebrate around campus as the Phillies defeat the Dodgers and head for the World Series. Submit your photos!

Redefining a spectator sport

Men's basketball player Jack Eggleston, known for cheering on his roommates from the women’s basketball and soccer teams, plans to attend a game for every 2009-10 varsity sport at Penn.

From Palestra to Pantheon

It was supposed to be a friendly game, a scrimmage against a local rival. But to make it to his first European basketball game as a pro, Ibrahim Jaaber and his new teammates needed an escort from an armored bus.