Basketball: Remember the movie Hoosiers, when the small-school team comes into the biggest gym in Indiana to play for the state championship. The kids are amazed by the stands which go up and up and up.

That's like the Palestra in Philadelphia, where the Penn Quakers play. The stadium seats 9208 people, and there isn't a bad seat in the house.

Remember the movie Towering Inferno? That's what should happen to Marvel Gym in Brown.

Marvel is lit by a single 20-watt bulb. Directly above the stands is an indoor track propped up by pillars. You can take a nice run if you don't want to watch the game.

There are only two good things about Marvel. The first is a ten-foot high metal bear, which stands in front of the gym to scare you away. The other good thing is that Brown will move to the new Pizzitola Sports Center after this season.

Baseball: Where is the coldest place on earth? The North Pole? The South Pole? Princeton's Baker Rink? The Yale Bowl during The Game?

Nope, it's Harvard's Soldiers Field during baseball season.

The Crimson has to play back-to-back weekend doubleheaders in full-length parkas. And that's when the sun is out.

No wonder Jeff Musselman '85 wound up in Toronto. He got used to pitching in the cold.

And although there's not many good things to say about Yale, everyone should know that Yale Field, the home of the Elis, is the finest little ballpark you could ever go to.

An old-fashioned field with a single deck of stands encircling the diamond, Yale Field could just as well be a spring training park for a major league club in Florida. A line of trees lie behind the outfield fence, isolating the park from the rest of Yale.

No wonder it's such a great place.