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...good game against Columbia but we can’t be satisfied with that,” Fucito said. The team remains focused on tomorrow’s game against the Quakers. Although they have had a disappointing season this year, Penn was the runner-up to Harvard in the Ivy League last year and graduated only three seniors from that squad. “Their record belies how good they are,” Kerr said. “Penn is a very good, solid team. They’re quick and agile and they can hurt you offensively...
...league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came in third through fifth, and each received one first-place vote. Harvard, after posting a 5-9 league record last season, finished with just 43 points, three ahead of former perennial power...
Boston College won the event in dominating fashion, earning just 180 total points, while Yale was the runner-up with 252 points...
...have to admit that I felt some empathy for Lauren Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina and a runner-up to Miss Teen USA who became an overnight Internet sensation in August for her badly boggled and meandering answer to the question: Why can't one-fifth of Americans locate the United States on a map? I've been in the spotlight too, and I've lost my train of thought in the middle of answering a question, heard the rush of blood to my brain as I desperately tried to get back on track. I could feel her pain...
...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...