one should forgive the preoccupation of the some 2,500 fans filing into levien last friday. though the evening’s assignment was “beat the crimson,” most of us were gathered in hasty grief counseling sessions, trying to wrap our heads around the sudden, stunning overtime loss to princeton the saturday prior. that game had seemed so well […] Read more »
win six
as paulie b fled levien gymnasium last saturday, struck half blind and nauseous by the magnitude of the just befallen disaster, he more resembled, as did so many lion rooters heading for the exits, a concussed resident of herculaneum fleeing his pumice buried city than a disappointed sports fan leaving an arena. speech was impossible, […] Read more »
disappointed, undaunted, ready for another must win weekend
the columbia lions men’s basketball team returns to levien gymnasium this weekend in second place in the ivy league. a 5 – 1 record, fashioned over three weeks on the road would ordinarily be reason for immense self-congratulation, but, we expect, this crew rues that sole blemish on the report card more than the handful […] Read more »
lions rampant
five weeks ago, the columbia men’s basketball team traveled to long island and battled the america east conference power stony brook seawolves. the light blue led by as many as seventeen points on their way to a nine point loss. it was a game that left many of us shaking our heads at a talented, […] Read more »
big wins
columbia started its journey to the ivy league title and a place in the ncaa tournament as well as possible, edging the cornell big red at levien, 74 -70, on the 16th and then whipping the ithacans at newman arena, 79 – 68. two weeks into league play and the lions are tied for first […] Read more »
petrasek and lo lead the blazing lions into new year
columbia has won five straight and the lions are starting to resemble the team we anticipated back at season’s outset. the three losses that preceded the current success were by a total of four points. seven points judiciously distributed over those matches would have them boasting a gaudy 12 – 2 record and looking like […] Read more »
stepping away from the ledge
having just won their two best played games of this still green season, columbia’s ballers managed to drop consecutive contests by two stinking points. the fairfield stags stymied the lions up in connecticut, 82 – 81 in ot while the longwood lancers journied up from the virginian hinterlands to humble our heroes 70 […] Read more »
#theroadtohoustonstartsonbroadway
a rehabbed and reinforced columbia hoops squad opened its 2015 – 16 campaign with a boring 45 point rout of the visiting kean college cougars during lunch break on friday the thirteenth. the mismatch in size, talent and skills was such that no conclusions can surely be drawn from the one sided (107 – 62) […] Read more »
double homicide on the heights
on february’s last weekend, an apparently resurgent lion hoops crew returned to levien from its first ivy road sweep since 2008 for the final home set of the league season. they fell flat, getting whipped by both dartmouth and harvard. that sad parlay put a full stop to any hopes they might have had for […] Read more »
stealers wheel
for the second straight weekend, the columbia lion basketball squad lost a tough friday night game before demolishing an overmatched competitor that had just made the exhausting bus trip from ithaca to morningside heights. this week’s failure was against the princeton tigers; the victory was over penn’s quakers. that pair of battles ended the lions’ […] Read more »