With limited budgets, Ivy football teams should focus less on overloading rosters and more on getting their players an audience. We’ve all had boring summer internships. You know, for the company that hires six kids to work round the clock to complet… more »

I knew who Bob Flanders was long before he was appointed the state receiver for Central Falls, long before he became a assistant justice of the R.I. Supreme Court. It was back roughly 40 years ago, back when he was a very good running back on a strug… more »

It was Penn football media day on Monday at Franklin Field, where the two-time defending Ivy League champion Quakers are priming for a 2011 season that holds the possibility for the program to go undefeated in the Ancient Eight for an unprecedented thir… more »

Ivy League universities, longtime incubators for the country’s top performers in fields like science, law, academics and politics, will showcase their newest class of elite talent this fall: quarterbacks. Columbia and Pennsylvania return first-team a… more »

Running back Alex Thomas ’12 came to preseason with a new biceps tattoo: his nickname, Train. Tattoos are not new for the Eli star, who had his initials inked on his arms a few years ago. But Thomas’ new tattoo is not his most original, wide receiver… more »

Jeff Marrs isn’t the first farmer to attend class with the sons of corporate titans at Yale University. He just might be the first licensed and practicing auctioneer. The 6-foot-3, 270-pound guard from Garden Prairie, Illinois, has his own auction bu… more »

As usual, high schools throughout the country (and even Pop Warner), along with most college programs, for weeks now have been holding football workouts for the start of the season next month. The Princeton University football team didn’t come out fr… more »

Coming off consecutive Ivy League championships and a pair of undefeated seasons in the Ancient Eight, the Penn football team finally will get started on continuing those streaks when camp gets under way on Monday. Non-Ivy League teams around the co… more »

Regarded as the most famous football games in Ivy League history, the 1968 Yale-Harvard game also set up one of the most famous headlines. After an amazing comeback by Harvard to tie the game, the Harvard Crimson's headline the next day stated, "Harvard… more »

In football, there’s a radical asymmetry between offense and defense. For an offensive play to succeed, all 11 players have to execute nearly perfectly. Thus a pass play may require a wide receiver to run his route flawlessly, secondary receivers to tie… more »

Dartmouth is filled with high-level athletes, elite students and superb scientific researchers. Senior Tyler Melancon, a Plano East alum, just happens to be all three. Melancon is a standout outside linebacker for the Big Green football team, a No… more »

With the doom and gloom of a 2-8 season nine months behind it, the Cornell football team emerged from its first fall practice on Tuesday with a sunnier aura -- both figuratively and literally. A red-clad army of 105 padless players and their coaches… more »

The Cornell football team started fall practice on Tuesday. After a 2-8 season last year, CU was picked to finish at the bottom of the IVY League in the 2011 preseason poll, but the Red are hoping for a big leap this fall. Leading the way in Ithaca f… more »

Bob Surace was talking turnaround when he consulted former teammate and current Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett during the offseason. Garrett took over a Cowboys team that was 1-7 and went 5-3 in the second half. Surace would love to see s… more »

There’s really no other way to put it: Sophomore Summer is awesome. It’s awesome to barbecue outside, go on hiking trips and to swim in the river (not at night, of course). However, all good things must come to an end. So as we head towards the end of o… more »