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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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