fordham beat columbia for the fifth straight season on saturday, but the last two of that handful of whippings have been real doozies . the defeat this time, by 49 -7 was, in fact, slightly more entire than last year’s 52 -7 homicide. by every statistical measure, other than points given up, the lions were […] Read more »
columbia’s cruisin’ – brown bested, bulldogs beaten and dartmouth doubly defeated
but for one questionable whistle in the last moments of the first overtime of their memorable valentine’s day brawl against the cantabs, columbia’s hoopsters would be on a five game winning streak and getting ready for their biggest game of the ivy league season, a rematch in cambridge with tommy amaker’s crimson crew for a […] Read more »
returning home to turn for home
we joined the immense automotive river stretching from bergen to mercer county and did not leave all those car lights until we turned into the parking lot centered amidst princeton’s athletic facilities. we raced into illustrious jadwin but were still five minutes late for tip off. the lions were already down ten. our arrival proved […] Read more »
battle of new york
with less than a minute thirty left on the game clock, lion qb sean garrett slipped out of the grasp of a fordham lineman on the 40 yard line and spun back to the middle of the field. ahead of him were a good twelve yards clear of rams and the first down that would […] Read more »
on the prevalence of certain apparitions in spring
The New York Mets’ early season success has stirred certain regular readers to ask for a post about our heroes of the diamond. We’ll pass for now saying only we’ve been pleased with the starting pitching – can I get an amen for R.A. Dickey, the game’s most literate player as well as its best knuckleballer? – but even […] Read more »
Having wasted a couple of sentences whining about life’s injustice as manifested in the NCAA, this writer has trashed his original lead and shaken off the horrible news of Fab Melo’s suspension from this year’s Division I basketball tournament. You’re reading it here, if not first, at least most certainly. Syracuse will win the […] Read more »
Change of scene
With our beloved Lions short handed, exhausted and in the nausea inducing death spiral of a season killing five game winless streak, Mrs. Smith and I took solace in a pair of ducats for Saturday’s hottest sporting event in the north Bronx . Thus we found ourselves headed to the foothills attaching NYC to the rest of America for […] Read more »
If you read All Game you would have known . . .
. . . that the excitement gripping greater New York, as well as much of the sports world, over the performances of recent Knick acquisition Jeremy Lin had been anticipated by the lintensely Ivy-centric linner circle of Paulie B. Back on Friday January 29, 2010 our crew visited Levien to check out the buzz surrounding […] Read more »
terrible loss
As Mrs. Smith and I walked away from Levien with the rest of a still reeling crowd, she asked for my thoughts on the calamity. ” How come,” she wondered? “Stay positive in your post,” she urged. Hard to figure that one out given the high dive of emotion the Lions had just put 2,500 of […] Read more »
Super Bowl Eve
The WKCR radio crew annoyed me Super Bowl eve. Hardly a word of encouragement for the Lions as they awaited Tommy Amaker’s magisterial, 23rd ranked Crimson. Truth be told, the rightful target of my annoyance was I. I wore no war paint. I talked no trash. No smack did I spit. I expected failure. The near loss to hapless Dartmouth […] Read more »