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.

I never really expected to be the DP’s senior sports editor.

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.

As the track and field beat writer, I prefer to encourage Penn students to appreciate the sport and its connection with Penn.

Farewell columns that descend into list form are disgraceful cliches — the likes of which no self-respecting writer would ever allow. My bad.

I’d be remiss to write about anything else but my DP friends with my final bittersweet words that will ever grace these pages.

As part of Greek Week, Penn’s eight sororities had the chance to settle their differences on the gridiron Thursday in Powderpuff football.

Penn's cricket team — ranked 25th of 32 heading into the American College Cricket Championship last week — finished in third.

Long before the Quakers stepped foot in the Palestra or on Franklin Field, another sport ruled Penn’s playing fields — cricket.

Just seven years after co-captaining the Penn men's hoops team, Andy Toole is the youngest NCAA Division I coach in the nation.

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.

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.

Actions may speak louder than words, but trash talking plays a significant role at every level and type of sport.

From playing against the Harlem Globetrotters to coaching the Quakers, Mike McLaughlin's journey has centered on one thing: the love of the game.

College sophomore Meredith Shea is looking to bring polo back to Penn — and so far, things are looking good.

Less than 36 hours until perhaps the biggest weekend of Tyler Bernardini’s collegiate basketball life, something was amiss in Penn basketball land.

At an event where excess is celebrated, just one wing proved to be the difference between winner and loser.