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Mike Jensen writes "Off Campus," a regular column on college sports for The Inquirer. A staff writer with the paper since 1988, Jensen covered college basketball amd football for 15 years, wrote about soccer from 10 countries on five continents, and was assigned to the Kentucky Derby the year of Smarty Jones. He won Eclipse Awards for his coverage of Smarty Jones and Barbaro.

More recently, he's written longer stories on Eagles decision-makers, a former Eagles lineman who was arrested for stealing prescription painkillers, Charlie Manuel's first managerial job and a Philly high school basketball star who has spent his entire adult life in Sweden.

His easiest assignment: Covering John Chaney for ten years. That was stealing money.
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Mike Jensen
Harvard might be a national threat
Posted 02/11/2012
Mike Jensen: Despite Harvard's national ranking, this remains uncharted territory. The Crimson may lose an Ivy game, but they won't have a better test than they did against Penn on Friday.
Video: Penn falls to 25th-ranked Harvard
 
Soft Pretzel Logic: Allen rues Penn's lapses on 'D'
Poll: Submit your City Six hoops rankings
Penn coach Jerome Allen with Zack Rosen. Allen played - and learned - all over Europe.
Mike Jensen
Penn's Allen has European style
Posted 02/10/2012
Mike Jensen: The lines on Jerome Allen's resumé that often get the least attention probably should be in the boldest print. The bulk of Allen's playing days, however, were spent in Europe.
 
BoopStats: Ivy League race begins Friday night
 
Owls Inq: Pitino still wants Temple in Big East
Poll: Submit your City Six hoops rankings
 
Mike Jensen
Tim Kerr's son rules boards - 02/08/2012
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Columnist
Mike Jensen: While Tim Kerr was one of the great close-quarter scorers in Flyers history, his son has taken similar traits in a different direction. Garret Kerr is the top rebounder nationally in NCAA Division II.
Mike Jensen
Two tragedies hit Ursinus wrestlers - 02/04/2012
Mike Jensen: A former high school wrestling star at Haverford, a three-year wrestler at Ursinus College - taken by cancer, age 25. A second Ursinus graduate, another former star wrestler - dead in a car accident, age 24.
 
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Recruiting sticks with status quo - 02/02/2012
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Columnist
Mike Jensen: It's past time to change the lingo when it comes to recruiting. Everybody, on all sides, gets the lingo. Everybody understands it also illustrates how broken the system has become.
Mike Jensen
Flint says Drexel is city's best - 01/28/2012
Mike Jensen: Bruiser Flint believes the rest of us are missing the big picture. His team is playing some ball. No team has scored 60 points against Drexel since December. How can they be ranked fourth in the city?
Mike Jensen
A son's loss eclipses community's - 01/27/2012
Mike Jensen: Bury your father, your world changes forever. When you are the son of Joe Paterno, you share your new world with anybody who can get a ticket into the Bryce Jordan Center.
 
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Sweet times for Cabrini's Lemons - 01/25/2012
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Staff Writer
The crowd was good and loud, suitably into it. But these weren't Cabrini Crazies. The crowd wasn't why this cozy wooded campus on the northern edges of Radnor currently is the toughest place for a road team to win a men's college basketball game in the Philadelphia area.
Mike Jensen
'Proud to play' for Paterno - 01/23/2012
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Columnist
Mike Jensen: Joe Paterno's Grand Experiment wasn't just public-relations fodder outside the program. His players bought in.

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The tragedy of Schultz-du Pont - 01/22/2012
Penn coach pays tribute to slain friend
Mike Jensen: For Penn assistant wrestling coach Brian Dolph, being around Dave Schultz most of all meant learning wrestling technique from a master, a 10-time national champion and Olympic gold medalist.
 
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Lessons from Hoop City - 01/18/2012
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Columnist
Mike Jensen: There's one Philadelphia neighborhood you can't find on a map. Call it Hoop City. It's a place where older guys gather, get their own work in, but aren't afraid to tell the younger ballplayers how it's going to be.
 
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Paterno not changing anyone's mind - 01/15/2012
Mike Jensen: Joe Paterno spoke, and nothing changes. Those of us who believe he didn't do enough still believe it. Those of you who think Paterno was scapegoated by Penn State still believe it.
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Mike Jensen | Savage wants to return to Rutgers - 01/12/2012
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Mike Jensen | O'Brien has work cut out - 01/07/2012
 
Mike Jensen | Temple's toughness was the difference - 01/05/2012
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Mike Jensen | Hoop dreams with Coach K - 01/04/2012
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Mike Jensen | Why did St. Joe's deny O'Brien transfer? - 12/21/2011
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