winning on the road in the ivies is hard as heidegger. just ask coach paul cormier, professor of roundball philosophy at dartmouth, whose big green had lost 24 straight league games away. that is more than 3 years of wandering unhappily in the wilderness. friday last, though, a blizzard blew into the northeast and created […] Read more »
tropical depression
the lions made their annual foray to the ivy league’s southern precincts where they lost games to penn and princeton. both contests demonstrated the blue’s current three point shooting woes with the quaker game on friday a piece de resistance in this regard as the boys went 3 -17 from beyond the arc. that kind of […] Read more »
forth and back
on the 19th, columbia observed the presidential inaugural by traveling to ithaca. starting slowly, they managed to craft a narrow half time margin before thoroughly dismantling ezra cornell’s rubes, 67 -58, behind big mark cisco’s 18 points and 9 boards. brian barbour chipped in with 16 while steve frankoski shot 60% from beyond the arc. […] Read more »
gotta crystal ball? ivy preseason notes
back in mid-autumn, before the season tipped off, the lions were the consensus ivy league third place squad. they were expected to trail princeton and defending champion harvard. as the league prepares to tip off at last, that prognostication seems not unreasonable. the non-league portion of their schedule has provided moments of great encouragement as […] Read more »
triune – notes at the year’s turn
when this correspondent considers his task, the vanity of the endeavor sometimes saddens him. why bother with the project? opening the pages of the new york times sports section on sunday morning, january 6, however, clarifies part of the responsibility and, indeed, value of the work. nowhere in those folio sheets will you find a single sentence […] Read more »
slouching towards bethlehem
our thanksgiving giddiness about the lions triumph over the villanova wildcats, and a 4 – 1 start to the year, has been tempered during the yule season. four defeats in five games have brought the blue to .500 as 2012 wanes. their loss in crooklyn to the l.i.u. blackbirds might be laid at the door […] Read more »
give thanks
sitting in bergen county, awaiting beloved guests, we conjure friends and places far flung. veritably i see kentucky, arkansas, the dakotas, seattle and brooklyn – all possessed of america’s hardwood love and especially blessed this season. for lo, we have been vouchedsafe a glorious victory. indeed, the columbia lions, undaunted by their close loss to a resilient marist squad, traveled […] Read more »
superb saturday
on a day that texas a & m hurled alabama from the heights of college football supremacy, america turned its eyes to wien stadium where columbia’s lions looked to bounce back from a historic, 69 -0, ass whipping administered by the criminally effective harvard cantabridgians and humble ezra cornell’s crew in the battle for the vaunted […] Read more »
wasn’t that a time?
a quick reminder that today we proudly remember, and loudly celebrate, the 65th anniversary of columbia’s greatest victory. on that glorious day, coach lou little’s lions, led by lou kusserow, gene rossides and bill swiacki, upended the three time defending national champion army team, snapping their 37 game unbeaten streak in the process. […] Read more »
big day, big disappointment
geezer and i were getting to know each other before home coming kickoff. we agreed readily that our seats (sec g,row ww, #s 62 and 61)were the best in the house. first, because of the back support supplied by the stadium’s rear wall. secondly, they were incomparable because of the view – across the harlem and through the […] Read more »