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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »