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Posted on March 4, 2016 by Paul

columbia’s basketball team has won 20 games for the second time in the last three years and will almost certainly be playing after the end of the ivy league season. unless an incalculably unlikely series of events transpire, however, they … Continue reading →

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middle of the journey

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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win six

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Paul

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  … Continue reading →

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disappointed, undaunted, ready for another must win weekend

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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lions rampant

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Paul

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.  … Continue reading →

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big wins

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Paul

columbia started its journey to the ivy league title and a place in the ncaa tournament as well as possible, edging the cornell big red at levien, 74 -70, on the 16th and then whipping the ithacans at newman arena, … Continue reading →

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petrasek and lo lead the blazing lions into new year

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Paul

columbia has won five straight and the lions are starting to resemble the team we anticipated back at season’s outset. the three losses that preceded the current success were by a total of four points. seven points judiciously distributed over … Continue reading →

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stepping away from the ledge

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Paul

    having just won their two best played games of this still green season, columbia’s ballers managed to drop consecutive contests by two stinking points.  the fairfield stags stymied the lions up in connecticut, 82 – 81 in ot … Continue reading →

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#theroadtohoustonstartsonbroadway

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Paul

a rehabbed and reinforced columbia hoops squad opened its 2015 – 16 campaign with a boring 45 point rout of the visiting kean college cougars during lunch break on friday the thirteenth. the mismatch in size, talent and skills was … Continue reading →

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double homicide on the heights

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Paul

on february’s last weekend, an apparently resurgent lion hoops crew returned to levien from its first ivy road sweep since 2008 for the final home set of the league season.  they fell flat, getting whipped by both dartmouth and harvard.  … Continue reading →

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