the columbia lions journeyed to lexington, kentucky and showed the nation how the immense and immensely deep kentucky wildcats might be beaten. the box score tells the familiar story of visitors undone by home team favoring officials (with kentucky enjoying a 17 – 4 edge in freethrows), but allgame has no beef with a crew […] Read more »
lions lookin’ for a miracle as bluegrass battle beckons
columbia prepared for its fight with the deepest team in college basketball this coming wednesday by playing its best game to date. they buried the bucknell bisons at levien this saturday evening past, 62 – 39. it was their first win over the visitors in three seasons. the squad played an impeccable first six minutes […] Read more »
jump ball! the lions’ new season tips off
part the first – dedicated to the one i love when the columbia five left levien last march 25 on the short end of a 72 – 69 college insider.com post season tournament battle with the ever despised yales, despondent fans could look ahead to a bright follow up to a 21 win year. the […] Read more »
the nightmare of history
in a year filled with humiliating routs, the stunned columbia football fan finds himself still groping for an appropriate characterization of the horror he witnesses. this past weekend’s visit to lovely long branch, new jersey provided perhaps the greatest challenge to our imagination of disaster so far, as the lions fell with a 61 – […] Read more »
regarding the current misery and degradation of columbia football fans
fordham beat columbia for the fifth straight season on saturday, but the last two of that handful of whippings have been real doozies . the defeat this time, by 49 -7 was, in fact, slightly more entire than last year’s 52 -7 homicide. by every statistical measure, other than points given up, the lions were […] Read more »
flat ivy finish but the lions keep running
columbia’s basketball team entered the last two weeks of the ivy schedule with slim but real hopes for the ivy title or at least a solid second place finish. that all evaporated as tommy amaker’s harvard squad dealt them an utter ass whipping, 80 – 47. so thorough was the beating that it nearly erased […] Read more »
columbia’s cruisin’ – brown bested, bulldogs beaten and dartmouth doubly defeated
but for one questionable whistle in the last moments of the first overtime of their memorable valentine’s day brawl against the cantabs, columbia’s hoopsters would be on a five game winning streak and getting ready for their biggest game of the ivy league season, a rematch in cambridge with tommy amaker’s crimson crew for a […] Read more »
returning home to turn for home
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 »