Author Archives: Paul

Change of scene

With our beloved Lions short handed, exhausted and in the nausea inducing death spiral of a season killing five game winless streak, Mrs. Smith and I took solace in a pair of ducats for Saturday’s hottest sporting event in the north … Continue reading

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Credit where due

Don’t know how many, if any, of you saw this past Sunday’s Times Sports Section article on the great old days of the Ivy League. Peter May’s essay revisits the supposed  Golden Age – circa 1964 – 1975 with a … Continue reading

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If you read All Game you would have known . . .

.  . . that the excitement gripping greater New York, as well as much of the sports world,  over the performances of recent Knick acquisition Jeremy Lin had been anticipated by the lintensely Ivy-centric  linner circle of Paulie B.   Back … Continue reading

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terrible loss

As Mrs. Smith and I walked away from Levien with the rest of a still reeling crowd, she asked for my thoughts on the calamity. ” How come,” she wondered?  “Stay positive in your post,” she urged.  Hard to figure that … Continue reading

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Super Bowl Eve

The WKCR radio crew annoyed me Super Bowl eve.   Hardly a word of encouragement for the Lions as they awaited Tommy Amaker’s magisterial, 23rd ranked Crimson.  Truth be told, the rightful target of my annoyance was I.   I wore no war paint.  … Continue reading

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Northern Adventures

Our Lions traveled to  Ithaca the last Saturday of January and caught  their third loss of the Ivy season, falling to the Big Red 65-60.  Having been underwhelmed by the WKCR broadcast of the league opener against the Quakers, I decided to … Continue reading

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house full of snow shoes

Levien was packed on Saturday night with the winter toughened, red mukluk clad alumni of Cornell’s chilly, central New York campus.  So undaunted was their attendance by the city’s first snow storm of 2012 that the game was effectively sold … Continue reading

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2 games, 6 points, one lost weekend

Sorry if this is a bit slow getting to you all, especially since I was so (over)excited about the Ivy season tip off in my last post.  I’ve been grumpy about the Lions’ losses to the Quakers on Friday and … Continue reading

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Ivy High Points

i will refrain from talking any smack in this post and try to give some credit where it is due to the lions’ conference opponents.  don’t be misled by the civility.  throw downs start next weekend.  though fordham’s win over … Continue reading

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top to bottom and back again as the lions roar into 2012

rickie a. and i traveled stag to an old stomping ground friday night. i don’t remember shaved parmesan on the caesar salad at v & t’s.  for that matter, i don’t remember soap in the restroom at v & t’s.  this … Continue reading

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