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 »
Northern Adventures
Our Lions traveled to Ithaca the last Saturday of January and caught their third loss of the Ivy season, falling to the Big Red 65-60. Having been underwhelmed by the WKCR broadcast of the league opener against the Quakers, I decided to listen to the contest via the www.gocolumbialions.com audio feed and much enjoyed Dalen Cuffe (who captained […] Read more »
house full of snow shoes
Levien was packed on Saturday night with the winter toughened, red mukluk clad alumni of Cornell’s chilly, central New York campus. So undaunted was their attendance by the city’s first snow storm of 2012 that the game was effectively sold out with the noisy crowd officially listed at 2,654. Not only was I denied […] Read more »