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 »
double disappointment
just a week ago, allgame insiders were exchanging giddy emails with subject lines like “break up the lions” that extolled the feisty play of rosenberg, osetkowski et al during a turn of the new year winning streak. but play on the road is tough in the ivies and today we find ourselves brushing the debris […] Read more »
ivy league season preview
our lions enter the ivy league season playing their best basketball to date. the five games we excitedly anticipated back in mid-december proved as thrilling as we thought they might and more successful than we dared hope. admittedly, the wins over fairleigh dickinson and st. francis (brooklyn) were one sided affairs in which the visiting […] Read more »
mid-december illuminations
the kentucky derby like charge from the gate that is college basketball in november has yielded to the more sedate pace of the exam period schedule. sparse crowds turn out in the underheated campus gymnasiums of small north east colleges offering minors in zone defense and the history of hoops to watch traditional non-league foes […] Read more »
preliminary notes on a work in progress
columbia’s lions, let off the leash by coach smith for the season opener against maryland-eastern shore, posted an easy victory to start their 2013 -2014 campaign. up only five at the half, the blue settled into their 2 -3 zone shortly after the break and raced off to a 28 point lead before taking the […] Read more »
busload of faith
a stunningly beautiful tri-state autumn has softened the hideous brutalities of columbia’s gridiron season and the even tougher blow of lou reed’s departure. november lifts our hearts with the promise of festal celebrations and the happy return of hardwood hopes to the land. the lions start their 2013-2014 run on saturday night and allgame welcomes […] Read more »
must have been the hat
sports fans had their pick of thrillers this past saturday. both major league championship series provided 1 -0 nailbiters; coach mack brown’s longhorns broke a three game schneid in the red river rivalry and dropped 14 point favorite oklahoma; utah upset lordly stanford; penn state fought through four overtime periods to defeat 18th ranked and […] Read more »
ugly start
happy coincidences of family obligation spared allgame the nausea inducing horror of watching columbia’s gridders lose their first two contests this season. i can understand a casual reader’s assumption that the psychic callous of myriad unsuccesful saturdays at baker field would protect a lion rooter from the cliched, panicky response of all too many sports fans when their personal mudville nine […] Read more »
dark blue lions
yo sports fans! seems like forever since we posted. so please consider the next few shout outs tuneups for the real deal when we turn our attention back to the noble world of columbia sports. today we bring you lion news but not of a light blue tint. on the last day of august we were […] Read more »
big mike and the boys
64 teams await the first jump ball at noon today and we feel the pressure to prognosticate a bit. allgame has not appeared since the lions ran the crimson off the boards at levien almost six weeks ago. that same underwhelming harvard team represents the ivies in the big dance. i expect little noise from […] Read more »