2008 Woodie Awards
After a six-year absence from the NCAA College Cup, what was another half hour of waiting?
Crammed into the men's basketball locker room at the Palestra, the Penn women's soccer team gathered in front of a television to find out its NCAA College Cup matchup and location on ESPNews' selection show at 8 p.m. last night.
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The rebuilding process has officially begun, and it sure isn't pretty. In fact, the first several weeks of this season could get very ugly, especially when the Tar Heels come to town.
But I'm not ready to write the Quakers off just yet.
Since the men's basketball team has enjoyed so much success over the past several years, the Penn faithful has almost started to take winning Ivy titles and getting to the NCAA tournament for granted.
Drexel rarely wins at the Palestra. Coach Bruiser Flint is 3-11 at "College Basketball's Most Historic Gym" since taking over the Dragons in 2001.
But he's not completely savoring the most recent victory, a 67-59 overtime victory over Penn on Friday. In fact, he wishes it had come at his own DaskalakisAthletic Center.
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The annual Harvard-Yale rivalry to end the football season is so old that it's known simply as "The Game." But since Yale and Harvard both kept their perfect league records intact last Saturday, the stage is set for the biggest Game in decades. On Saturday, the rivals will face off for the League championship at the Yale Bowl in an atmosphere that should be as bowl-like as one could find in the Football Championship Subdivision.
When the University purchased 24 acres of postal lands on the eastern edge of campus and launched a $3.5-billion fundraising drive in October, Athletic Director Steve Bilsky saw the opportunity to finally revamp his department's facilities.
"This is our best and maybe our last shot at getting this," he said. "Athletics has never been considered one of the priorities, but this time it is."
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