Yale

When: Saturday at noon, Franklin Field. TV/Radio: Versus; WNTP-AM (990). Records: Yale, 3-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy League; Penn, 3-2, 2-0. Coaches: Yale, Tom Williams (third season, 14-11); Penn, Al Bagnoli, (20th season, 134-59). Series: Yale leads, 45-32-1. Since Bagnoli took over, the Quakers are 14-5 against the Bulldogs. The only time Yale won at Penn during that span was in 2007, in triple overtime. THINGS TO WATCH Penn linebacker Erik Rask (41 tackles)

A second-half rally from Penn proved too late as Yale celebrated a 58-51 win over the Quakers in women's basketball at the Palestra last night. Penn (1-15 overall, 0-2 Ivy League), led by Kim Adams (16 points) and Sarah Bucar (14), closed a 14-point deficit to four, but Yale (7-10, 2-1), paced by a 16-point effort from Megan Vasquez and 14 points from Yoyo Greenfield, got its first victory at the Palestra in 2 years. Penn will look to rebound tonight when Brown visits the Palestra for a 7 p.m. tipoff.

GEORGE W. BUSH didn't idly sit by when the University of Michigan's policy of racial preferences in admissions was being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last year. He sent out the U.S. Justice Department to oppose Michigan's "anti-merit" admissions policy. So imagine our surprise last week after he was cornered by a columnist who got him to say he also opposes "legacy" preferences like the one he got as the son of a Yale alumnus when he was accepted at the Ivy League school.

Senior guard Edwin Draughan scored 20 points and added five assists to lead Yale to a 56-43 win over Princeton last night in New Haven, Conn. Draughan was 8 for 12 from the field for the Bulldogs, who improved to 8-12, 4-3 in the Ivy League. Princeton fell to 11-11 and 2-6, the first time the program has started 2-6 in the Ivy, which was established in 1956. Yale freshman forward Caleb Holmes scored 10 points and freshman guard Eric Flato contributed seven. Flato hit back-to-back shots that built Yale's lead back to 12 after being cut to 36-29 with 12 minutes, 24 seconds left.

Rich Comizio, the Ivy League's designated steamroller, is hurting. The tough Penn tailback has a hamstring pull, suffered in the first half last Saturday against Navy. He hasn't practiced this week. Was in sweats when the Quakers practiced for Saturday's important Ivy League game against Yale at Franklin Field. Don't list Comizio as "doubtful" or "questionable" or "probable" or any of those other categories for the game against the Elis. Just put him down as anxious. "I'll play if I can," he said yesterday.

Penn's trip to Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater had become an annual nightmare for the Quakers, and it nearly turned into another lurid tale last night. But after winnowing an 18-point deficit to two, Yale failed to get a shot off with under 2 minutes to go, and then missed an open layup after that, opening the door for Penn to break the building's well-known hex and escape with a 70-63 victory. Penn had lost three of its last four games and four of the last six at Yale. The win bucked the norm in more ways than that.

Kyle Wente scored 11 of his 17 points in the second half as Princeton rallied to defeat Columbia, 49-41, last night in Princeton, and remain undefeated in the Ivy League. Princeton (8-7, 3-0 Ivy) won its fifth straight game and its ninth straight at home against Columbia (9-10, 2-3). Yale 73, Dartmouth 55 - With 14 points, Edwin Draughan led three Yale players in double figures as the Elis defeated the Big Green in Hanover, N.H. Paul Vitelli and T.J. McHugh each scored 12 points for Yale (12-7, 4-1 Ivy)

Scooter McFadgon scored 21 points to lead five Memphis players in double figures as the host Tigers defeated North Carolina-Greensboro, 82-62, last night in a first-round NIT game. McFadgon connected on 8 of 14 from the field as the Tigers (23-9) used a second-half rally to put the game away. Camden High graduate Dajuan Wagner added 16 points, while Chris Massie finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds for Memphis. Reserve Anthony Rice had 14 points as Memphis shot 52 percent.

With a two-season, 18-game winning streak, Penn coach Al Bagnoli should have few worries. Bagnoli has worries. Yesterday, following Penn's 14-6 victory over Yale Saturday at Franklin Field, Bagnoli was concerned about his frustrating offense. Leading, 7-0, the Quakers (6-0 overall, 4-0 in the Ivy League) were unable to convert a first-and-goal at Yale's 1-yard line. Later, quarterback Mark DeRosa was intercepted and a 39-yard field goal attempt by Andy Glockner was blocked.

High school dropout Frank Sinatra will go to Yale Law School April 15 as a distinguished lecturer, and - no different from his Atlantic City casino appearances - he's a tough ticket. Yale alumnus and Ol' Blue Eyes pal Sidney Zion, who began a lecture series there three years ago, said the school has been swamped with requests for tickets to the talk. "The place only holds 550, so I can't imagine how we will be able to handle all the students that want to attend," he said. The lecture might be wired via closed-circuit TV to the Yale gym. No outside TV news cameras will be permitted and, although some reporters will be invited, Sinatra won't answer their questions.

Jackie Milestone hopes YouTube can be her ticket to Yale. The 18-year-old Harriton High School student applied for early admission to the Ivy League university in November. When her application was deferred until spring with thousands of others, Milestone decided to try an end run by way of the Internet. Aided by some friends, Milestone created a video performance featuring a self-authored anthem to her dream school, which is her father's alma mater. The video opens with the Harriton senior cuddling a stuffed bulldog, Yale's mascot, and later alludes to the school's chief rival when Milestone is seen roughly elbowing a passing jogger wearing a Harvard T-shirt.

Penn took a giant step down its improbable path toward a first Ivy League championship in five years with a 68-47 rout of Yale at the Palestra on Saturday. If Penn wins at archrival Princeton on Tuesday, it will force a one-game playoff with Harvard next weekend for the conference's automatic NCAA tournament bid. The Crimson won at Cornell, 67-63, to remain a half-game ahead of Penn in the standings. If Penn (19-11, 11-2 Ivy) loses at Princeton, Harvard (26-4, 12-2) will earn the NCAA bid. The Ivy League office said Saturday night that it expects to announce by Monday afternoon details about where and when a playoff would take place.

Penn took a giant step down its improbable path toward a first Ivy League championship in five years with a 68-47 rout of Yale at the Palestra. If Penn wins at archrival Princeton on Tuesday, it will force a one-game playoff with Harvard next weekend for the conference's automatic NCAA tournament bid. The Crimson won at Cornell, 67-63, to remain a half-game ahead of Penn in the standings. If Penn (19-11, 11-2 Ivy) loses at Princeton, Harvard (26-4, 12-2) will earn the NCAA tournament bid. The Ivy League office said Saturday night that it expects to announce by Monday afternoon details about where and when a playoff would take place.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Most nights, when Penn's basketball team takes the proverbial stage, Zack Rosen and Tyler Bernardini play the leading roles. On Saturday night, one of the team's best supporting actors commanded the spotlight. Fellow senior Rob Belcore tied a career high with 17 points, including 12 in the first half, pacing the Quakers in a 65-48 win over Brown at the Pizzitola Center. "We just had to put yesterday behind us," Belcore said, referring to Friday's loss at Yale.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - From coach Jerome Allen to the last player on the bench, everyone on Penn's basketball team insists on taking the season one game at a time. Still, some games stand out, and Friday night's clash at Yale was one. A win would have established the Quakers as the clear challenger to Ivy League title favorite Harvard, and would also have dealt the Bulldogs a potentially fatal second conference loss. But Penn has a history of struggling in the tight confines of John J. Lee Amphitheater, and it did so again this time in a 60-53 loss.

Harry G. Toland, 89, of Wallingford, a reporter and editor at the Bulletin who was widely admired for his journalistic integrity, died Tuesday, Jan. 31, of congestive heart failure at his home. "I considered Harry Toland to be the conscience of the Bulletin," Peter Binzen, one of the newspaper's most respected reporters and editors, said Thursday. "It was his great morality. He was a guy you could trust. " Mr. Toland made his mark covering labor unions, then as an editorial writer, and finally as deputy to metro editor Binzen in the late 1970s, when they were in charge of news coverage for the region.

TOM WILLIAMS resigned as Yale's football coach yesterday amid a university investigation into whether he lied on his resume about being a candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship while a student at Stanford. The Ivy League school said the resignation will take effect on Dec. 31. Williams took over at Yale in 2009 and listed himself as a Rhodes candidate on his resume. He was referred to as a finalist when Bulldogs quarterback Patrick Witt had to decide if he would go for his Rhodes interview as a finalist or play against Harvard this fall.

A driver of a U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs through a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard game in New Haven, Conn., Saturday suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman and injuring two other women, police said. It's not clear why the driver sped up, New Haven Police spokesman David Hartman said. The truck then crashed into other U-Haul vans in the lot, an open playing field used for pregame tailgating parties before Yale home games. People huddled around the victims trying to help, according to a video that appears to have been recorded shortly after the accident and posted online.

PENN (4-2, 3-0) has played two Ivy League road games. The Quakers won both, at Dartmouth (2-4, 1-2) and Columbia (0-6, 0-3), on touchdowns in the closing seconds. They have two trips left. Tomorrow they're at Brown (5-1, 2-1), and on Nov. 12 they travel to Harvard (3-0, 5-1). Princeton (1-5, 1-2) and Cornell (2-4, 0-3) have to visit West Philly. If the Quakers are going to become the first to threepeat since Penn won five straight (the first two shared) from 1982-86, they'll mostly need to come up large away from Franklin Field.