01/21/11 6:00pm
Let's face it, most of us have already given up on New Year resolutions. For some, that could have come as early as 12:01 when you swore you'd give up drinking, or maybe a few weeks later when hitting the gym every day just got too hard.
01/16/11 5:08pm
While Mr. Silcox certainly provides the majority of the content here on The Buzz, the rest of the staff has big plans for a coup d'etat.
Well, sort of.
01/05/11 3:20pm
When my colleague Ari Seifter celebrated what was quantifiably one of the best fall sports seasons for Penn on record, he mentioned that the success was in part due to several freshman stepping up into big roles just days or weeks into their college careers.
As we approach the mid-point in the basketball season, both the men's and women's teams have their own freshman standouts in Miles Cartwright and Alyssa Baron.
With the announcement this week that Baron earned Ivy Rookie of the Week yet again, she is now even with Cartwright — they both have three of the awards on the season (his last came after the victory at Delaware). In the women's victory over St.
12/09/10 12:12pm
I covered last year's game at Villanova and was in attendance last night. This was certainly not the same Villanova offense.
11/29/10 12:45pm
You may have seen an article on this in the New York Times this weekend, but a company called StatSheet has been writing software programs that aim to make sportswriters obsolete (uh oh).
They've created over 300 sites that track different college teams, including Penn's very own Quakers basketball team (and the rest of the Ancient Eight). I normally wouldn't point out my competition, but this is actually pretty cool (and I don't feel threatened at all).
The writing on the site is still somewhat buggy with nouns and verbs often out of whack, but if you love stats and cool charts, you should check out Quakerball.com to see what the robots are up to.
11/19/10 2:30pm
Without further ado, part 2 of our special expose series on freshman guard Miles Cartwright, thanks to a top-secret source close to the situation:
5: He has an insatiable sneaker habit and a totally out-of-control shoe collection back home in Van Nuys, Calif.
4: His younger brother is a highly recruited, standout point guard who recently tried out for Team USA.
10/25/10 11:54am
It was an extremely busy and mostly fruitful weekend for the Quakers, so here's a roundup of what's in this muggy Monday's DP:
Penn football tops Yale to remain atop Ivy League.
The Quakers' defense came up big in the win.
Fans, and for the first time players, camped out at the Palestra in the annual Line event, despite what some called a 'disappointing' turnout.
Volleyball won both Ivy matches for a third straight weekend, remaining tied with Princeton in first place.
Men's soccer recorded another shutout (surprise!), taking down Yale.
Women's soccer also shut out the Bulldogs in a 1-0 win.
Field Hockey took a 10-0 loss to Yale, snapping a modest two-game winning streak.
If the week is any more action packed than this weekend, we're going to need a bigger server.
10/20/10 9:22pm
In addition to the changes that the NFL is making to reduce head trauma, there is currently a lot of research going on to help solve the issues of concussions in sports.
10/16/10 5:45pm
Here's the videos of the post-game press conferences after Penn's victory over Columbia today.
On an unrelated note, you may notice that various links on The Buzz are broken right now.
10/11/10 2:00am
This season for Penn football has already been record-breaking. The program surpassed its 800th win, and Saturday’s 31-10 win over Bucknell made coach Al Bagnoli the winningest coach in Penn football history.
But when I asked him how he felt on his 125th win, he couldn’t even enjoy the victory.
09/08/10 11:15pm
On the docket for tomorrow's DP:
Football kicker Andrew Samson begins the season with a few records on his plate
Soccer's Zach Barnett anchors the defense and has a specialty of his own — throw ins
Season Preview: Field Hockey
Season Preview: Volleyball
Q&A With running backs coach Steven Downs
How many records will Andrew Samson set this year?
09/04/10 12:13am
Sophomore point guard Malcolm Washington, son of Denzel, chose to leave the Penn men's basketball team, according to a Penn basketball source.
As of the beginning of September he was no longer listed on the Quakers' roster.
Washington struggled in the few minutes he accrued during his freshman year, seeing little playing time behind unanimous all-Ivy point guard Zack Rosen.
07/16/10 1:00pm
It's been a slow week, and Danny Monckton is yet to respond to my dunk contest challenge, so here's a tidbit from one of my favorite sports blogs, the DC Sports Bog.
Apparently Harvard grad Jeremy Lin met John Wall in an NBA summer league game, and despite Wall's celebrity, Lin got the audience behind him with some excellent play.
06/23/10 9:44pm
In a move that had been speculated in the rumor mill over the past few weeks, the Journal Inquirer is reporting that ex-Penn basketball head coach Glen Miller will be hired as the director of basketball administration at the University of Connecticut.
02/22/10 7:22am
It's been a rumor for some time now, but now it's official. Toni Kukoc's son Marin Kukoc has committed to Penn. Dick Jerardi writes in today's Daily News: "Penn got a commitment from Marin Kukoc, Toni's son from Chicago.
01/30/10 6:54pm
Hey all,
I'm here at the Pizzitola center for Penn's matchup with Brown in their second game of the young Ivy season.
01/29/10 6:51pm
Hey everyone, it's Lauren Plotnick and you will be following along live with me as I cover the Penn's Ivy Opener at Yale.
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01/28/10 7:02pm
Nobody ever accused us at The Buzz of being avid book readers, so I apologize that we're a little late with this.
But Washington Post reporter Kathy Orton has written what she calls "the first book inside Ivy League basketball." To get material for Outside the Limelight: Basketball in the Ivy League -- which was released on Sept.
01/13/10 3:22am
In an exciting event for me as an aspiring journalist, the New York Times used some quotes from my preview of tonight's Penn-Temple matchup in a post about the game on their college sports blog.
11/27/09 1:27am
The volleyball team's dominance has been well-documented here on The Buzz, but here's one more interesting tidbit on just how historic this season was.
The All-Ivy awards were announced this week, and Penn set yet another record with FOUR first team selections, becoming the first team ever to accomplish that feat. Ivy League Player of the Year Elizabeth Semmens was a unanimous selection, as was setter and Ivy assists leader Megan Tryon.
