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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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stealers wheel

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Paul

for the second straight weekend, the columbia lion basketball squad lost a tough friday night game before demolishing an overmatched competitor that had just made the exhausting bus trip from ithaca to morningside heights.  this week’s failure was against the … Continue reading →

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the nightmare of history

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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regarding the current misery and degradation of columbia football fans

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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columbia’s cruisin’ – brown bested, bulldogs beaten and dartmouth doubly defeated

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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returning home to turn for home

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Paul

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 … Continue reading →

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battle of new york

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Paul

with less than a minute thirty left on the game clock, lion qb sean garrett slipped out of the grasp of a fordham lineman on the 40 yard line and spun back to the middle of the field.  ahead of … Continue reading →

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on the prevalence of certain apparitions in spring

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Paul

The New York Mets’ early season success has stirred certain regular readers to ask for a post about our heroes of the diamond.  We’ll pass for now saying only we’ve been pleased with the starting pitching – can I get an … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 13, 2012 by Paul

Having wasted a couple of sentences whining about life’s injustice as manifested in the NCAA, this writer has trashed his original lead and shaken off the horrible news of Fab Melo’s suspension from this year’s Division I basketball tournament. You’re … Continue reading →

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Change of scene

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Paul

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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