Don’t know how many, if any, of you saw this past Sunday’s Times Sports Section article on the great old days of the Ivy League. Peter May’s essay revisits the supposed Golden Age – circa 1964 – 1975 with a quick nod to the Quaker team of 1979. “It was a legitimate league back then,” […] 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 »
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 »
2 games, 6 points, one lost weekend
Sorry if this is a bit slow getting to you all, especially since I was so (over)excited about the Ivy season tip off in my last post. I’ve been grumpy about the Lions’ losses to the Quakers on Friday and the Tigers on Saturday. Spent or rather wasted a number of drafts feeling sorry for […] Read more »
Ivy High Points
i will refrain from talking any smack in this post and try to give some credit where it is due to the lions’ conference opponents. don’t be misled by the civility. throw downs start next weekend. though fordham’s win over harvard has taken some of the top 25 bloom off the crimson rose, tommy amaker’s […] Read more »
top to bottom and back again as the lions roar into 2012
rickie a. and i traveled stag to an old stomping ground friday night. i don’t remember shaved parmesan on the caesar salad at v & t’s. for that matter, i don’t remember soap in the restroom at v & t’s. this by way of saying things can get better. having run off 7 straight wins from […] Read more »