Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
This past season, the Villanova Wildcats reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 1988, bringing smiles to anguished fans who had seen their team underachieve for almost two decades. Those Wildcat players share a connection with Columbia head coach Joe Jones-he recruited them.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
It was his first Ivy League victory.
In the fall of 2003, at the start of his first full year as Columbia men's basketball head coach, Joe Jones was taking on Penn in a match that few expected him to win.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
In its final two weekends of Ivy action last season, the Columbia men's basketball team had perhaps the greatest amount of momentum yet seen in the Joe Jones era.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
When the Columbia men's basketball players hung up their jerseys early last March, it was as if nothing had changed since 2004. For the second consecutive year, the Lions started off strong with a weak nonconference schedule but struggled in Ivy play.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
When comparing the Ivy League to the nation's power conferences like the ACC, it's the obvious that sticks out: it's the ACC that is splattered on ESPN coverage while challenging for the national title every year. McDonald's All-Americans attend Duke, not Columbia.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
Columbia's football players were not quite tall enough to clear head coach Norries Wilson's head with the Gatorade cooler, but nothing could spoil the feeling on the field as the Lions held on to defeat Cornell 21-14 on Saturday afternoon.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
Getting easy A's is always nice. It's not as nice, however, when everyone else gets them. Grade inflation at Columbia, along with other Ivy League universities, has increased in the past decade.
Fri, Nov 10, 2006, 12:00am
Irony, it seems, swept the polls in Morningside Heights.
Thu, Nov 9, 2006, 12:00am
In the sequel musical Bush Is Bad: Impeachment Edition, once again nearly everyone associated with the president and his administration becomes the focus of satirical humor.
Thu, Nov 9, 2006, 12:00am
Last week, on Halloween, Robert Pollard turned 49 and celebrated the birth of a new grandson.
