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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Palestra has hosted Philadelphia Catholic League playoff games often since 1942. Since 1942, the Palestra has played host to the playoffs of the Philadelphia Catholic League, the city’s athletic ...

Pat Chambers is the youngest of 12, one of nine boys and three girls born into his Philadelphia Irish Catholic family. He also was one of many basketball-obsessed kids trying to catch a game, or two ...

The first thing Tom Izzo did was apologize. It was Saturday afternoon. His Michigan State Spartans had just lost to the Penn State Nittany Lions, 72-63. The game was played at Penn’s Palestra, with ...

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 ...