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Members of the 49ers football team kneeling on the field before a game.

Rebranding the NFL: How the league shifted its message on racial justice

The new football season brings a change in how NFL management is responding to Black Lives Matter and protests on and off the field for racial justice.

Jelani Williams holds up a fist of solidarity while seated next to a painting of singer, actor, athlete, and political activist Paul Robeson.

Jelani Williams is seizing the moment to protest systemic racism

Penn basketball guard Jelani Williams has been going to protests, making his voice heard on campus, and promoting messages of “love and respect.”

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The business of sports without fans

Wharton professor Adi Wyner led a live, online panel discussion on the future of sports in a post-pandemic world, and how leagues are pivoting their plans and business models to move forward without fans in attendance.

Esports gets a lift during pandemic

The pandemic is hardly slowing down the growth of esports, and a new Wharton club aims to tap into the potential of the $1 billion industry for MBA students.

A woman does push-ups on a yoga mat in her living room near a couch and water bottle.

Staying active and fit while under quarantine

Campus Recreation offers a variety of resources for the Penn community to keep up their physical fitness while isolated at home.

a student performs chest compressions on a mannequin on the floor of a gymnasium, large University of Pennsylvania banner hangs on the far wall in the background.

Training athletes to save lives

A Penn tennis player spearheads a program to certify all student athletes in CPR. It’s the first of its kind at any college or university in the country.

In his shoulder pads, Karekin Brooks of the Penn football team poses with his arms folded on the track at Franklin Field.

By the Numbers

Karekin Brooks, a career retrospective

The senior running back on the football team ends his career with stats that place him high in the Penn record books.

A football man: Bert Bell, Penn, and the Philadelphia Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles co-founder Bert Bell starred on the Penn football team and was later a coach, before embarking on his NFL career.

A stock photo of a woman holding her ankle while out for a jog on a road.

Q&A

Why do Achilles ruptures take so long to heal?

Kathryn O’Connor, an assistant professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, gives the ins and outs of Achilles tears.

Penn Relays 2019 - Center field winning team

Three days of Penn Relays, for 125 years

For 125 years, the nation’s largest outdoor track and field event has convened on Franklin Field for Penn Relays, come rain or shine.

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