— -- PHILADELPHIA -- His name was Landgrath. Or it might have been Landgreth. It's been a while, so the spelling is a little fuzzy. At every game he stood at the same post -- on the corner of the ...

Before I sat down to write this story, I told my 14-year-old son what I was doing and he responded with typical teenage insouciance. “What makes the Palestra so special?” he asked. I tried to explain, ...

In basketball parlance, Charles Zeller Klauder was a diaper dandy, a precocious designer who at the age of 15, waltzed into the prominent Philadelphia architectural firm T.P. Chandler and got to work.

The couch in the locker room is stained. So is the rug. There are hooks on the wall for clothes. There are no lockers. Players often walk into one of the visitors locker rooms at the Palestra and stop ...

Penn has long succeeded in keeping modern sports’ fascination with branding sports arenas away from its storied facilities, but on Tuesday the Palestra tepidly stepped into the 21st century. The ...

On Tuesday night, Penn celebrated the 90th year of The Palestra when the men's basketball team faced off against Princeton. The Palestra first opened during the 1926-27 basketball season when Penn ...

PHILADELPHIA — They call it The Cathedral, for good reason. The Palestra is a sacred place for people who care about college basketball, a true shrine. Located on the campus of the University of ...

PHILADELPHIA -- His name was Landgrath. Or it might have been Landgreth. It's been a while, so the spelling is a little fuzzy. At every game he stood at the same post -- on the corner of the court ...