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.

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.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Brandon Sherrod scored 18 points on 6-of-7 shooting to lead five players in double figures as Yale roughed up Penn, 79-65, Saturday night. Armani Cotton had 15 points and nine rebounds, Michael Grace and Javier Duren scored 10 each, and Matt Townsend had 10 points and nine rebounds for Yale (14-7, 8-6 Ivy League). Tony Hicks had 16 points, Miles Cartwright 12, and Darien Nelson-Henry 10 for the Quakers (9-21, 6-7). Yale took a 40-38 lead 3 minutes and 9 seconds into the second half and never trailed.

George Layng Pew Jr., 77, of Villanova and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, a dedicated fund-raiser and volunteer for Yale University, died Wednesday, May 8, of a heart ailment at his Main Line home. Born in Bryn Mawr, Mr. Pew was a member of a famed Philadelphia family. He is a descendant of Thomas Pew, brother of Joseph Newton Pew Sr., who in 1890 founded Sun Oil Co. Mr. Pew traced his line to J. Edgar Pew, the founder's nephew and the former head of the production department at Sun, said his wife, Sally Chinn Pew. The son of George L. Pew, Sr., and Catharine Anspach Pew,  he graduated from the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., in 1954 and Yale College in 1958.

Jeff Malcolm stopped 36 shots, and Yale won its first NCAA hockey title with a 4-0 victory over top-seeded Quinnipiac in Pittsburgh Saturday night. Clinton Bourbonais , Charles Orzetti , Andrew Miller , and Jesse Root scored for the Bulldogs (22-12-3), who avenged three earlier losses to the nearby Connecticut rival Bobcats (30-8-5) by stunning the nation's No. 1 team on the biggest stage. Yale is the first ECAC team since Harvard in 1989 to win the national title.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Behind his sunglasses, Rep. Cyrus Habib is trying to remember the name of a fully blind politician who came before him. This was someone who served many years ago, Habib recalls. In the U.S. Senate. The grandfather of writer Gore Vidal. Habib rattles off a few details before surrendering: "Let me look him up. " Turning to a laptop that provides him constant audio feedback, Habib needs just 23 seconds to launch his Internet browser, run a query, and find the information - a biographical overview of former Oklahoma Sen. Thomas Gore.

Michael Grace and Greg Kelley scored 13 points apiece to lift Yale (13-17, 7-6) over Princeton, 71-66, Friday night in Ivy League play. The Tigers (16-10, 9-3), sit half a game behind Harvard for first place after the Crimson's 56-51 win over Columbia. Bloomfield 70, Holy Family 62 - The Tigers fell in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference semifinals at University of Sciences to end the season at 18-10. Ervin Ezell (Deptford) had a game-high 23 points for Holy Family.  

In blizzard-hit New Haven, Conn., Penn's game at Yale was rescheduled several times and finally moved to the Recreation Center. The Quakers were slow to adapt and a late run fell short as they lost, 65-56, to the Bulldogs (10-7, 3-1 Ivy) on Saturday. Keiera Ray led Penn (9-9, 2-2) with 13 points. The Quakers stayed in New Haven Saturday night to drive to Rhode Island for a 5 p.m. Sunday game against Providence. Rutgers 55, Cincinnati 46 - C. Vivian Stringer earned her 899th coaching win as the Scarlet Knights (14-8, 5-4 Big East)

For most of its history, Penn's basketball team has dominated Yale and Brown at the Palestra. Even in years when the Quakers lost to one of them, they had never been swept in the 52 weekends when the Bulldogs and Bears visited on consecutive nights. After a dispiriting loss to Yale on Friday, Miles Cartwright made sure Brown would not make history this season. Cartwright scored a career-high 28 points as Penn's offense finally came together for all 40 minutes, leading to a 71-48 rout.

With a youthful team made even younger by injuries, Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen refuses to use any excuses. His team doesn't have a senior and has been competitive in Ivy League play, but has had trouble closing the deal. And Allen couldn't hide his frustration after Friday's 68-59 loss to Yale at the Palestra, where the winners put the game away with a late 7-0 run. "I am not into making excuses for our inability to get it done," said Allen, whose team fell to 4-17 overall and 1-3 in the Ivy League.

For most of its history, Penn's basketball team has dominated Yale and Brown at the Palestra. Even in years when the Quakers lost to one of them, they had never been swept in the 52 weekends when the Bulldogs and Bears visited on consecutive nights. After a dispiriting loss to Yale on Friday, Miles Cartwright made sure Brown would not make history this season. Cartwright scored a career-high 28 points as Penn's offense finally came together for all 40 minutes, leading to a 71-48 rout.

Haley Peters scored 16 points and No. 5 Duke used a 21-5 run spanning the halves to overcome a slow start and win its 20th consecutive game against Virginia, 62-41, in Charlottesville, Va. The burst turned a 22-13 deficit into a 34-27 lead for Duke (21-1, 11-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). After Virginia closed within four at 34-30, Duke scored nine of the next 11 points and cruised to victory. Ataira Franklin led the Cavaliers (14-8, 6-5) with 15 points. Maryland 73, Wake Forest 63 - Tianna Hawkins and Alyssa Thomas each scored 23 points and the No. 7 Terrapins(19-3, 10-1 ACC)