Head basketball coach Joe Jones leaves for the other BC. (Spec) “Teen terrors” commit hate crimes on the Lower East Side. (NY Post) A few of business professor Sheena Iynegar’s favorite things books. (The Week) The Times reviews School of the Arts alumnus David Chaim Smith‘s exhibition. Protest! (Gothamist) Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Harlem vs. Columbia University (BookTV) Gov. Paterson’s love of Ultimate Fighting vs. New York State voters (Gothamist) Men’s basketball: Columbia vs. Harvard (Spec) Cabbies vs. Taxi and Limousine Commission 9/11 Trial: Guantanamo Bay vs. Manhattan– Manhattan definitely loses! (NY Post)

Men’s Basketball: The men’s basketball team (6-9 overall, 0-1 Ivy) comes into tonight’s game against Cornell looking to take revenge for last week’s 74-53 defeat last Saturday at the hands of the Big Red. Cornell, the consensus favorite to repeat as Ivy champs this year, sprinted out to a 24-8 lead last time around, and […]

The Dallas Mavericks themselves grace our hole-in-the-ground gymnasium today before their game tonight in New Jersey. Harriet Sam Schube The Spy stealthily snapped this photo without detection.

Our brave defender this week is Daily Editor/Sports Guru James Downie, extolling the virtues of basketball games. At Columbia, many students like to pretend they’re too cool to root for sports teams. In academic speak, this would be “a surrender to the psychology of the mob” (even though Lord of the Flies clearly demonstrates the success of the mob approach; […]

The Columbia men’s basketball team got its season off to a thrilling start, as they gutted out a 65-62 win over Fordham. Fordham led by as much as eight during the second half, but the Lions held them to 25% shooting to gain the victory. Columbia dominated on the boards in particular, with a 52-27 […]

As we reported earlier, CCSC presidential candidate George Krebs challenged his opponent, Alidad Damooei, to a basketball showdown which was to be played this Friday in Dodge. As we also reported earlier, Krebs threatened that Damooei and Connect Columbia “be there or be square.”  Neither there nor, arguably, square, Damooei has re-buffed Krebs’ basketball throwdown […]

Tuesday was super.  The Glass House rocked, didn’t rock.  Elementary schoolers were adorable.  Religion and politics didn’t mix.   A Columbia sports team actually won a game… … even though Coach Joe Jones was splitting his time between the court and his on-the-side puppy transport business. This one is maybe not so obvious.

Like a phoenix, Columbia rises from the ashes of defeat. CML reports.  On Friday evening, thousands of faithful Columbia students poured into Levien gymnasium to watch the Lions take on conference powerhouse Penn. Despite losing the best player in recent Ivy League basketball history, Ibrahim Jaaber, to graduation, Penn came into the game with a […]

While Coach Jones of the Columbia men’s basketball team may or may not be running a side puppy taxi business, the women’s team is certainly seeing great success! Last night, the girls stunned UPenn 70-61. Currently at 3-2, another win will set Columbia to tie for first place in the Ivy League division. Tonight the […]

Bwog noticed a link to a Craigslist post in the comments of the Cooking with Bwog article. The link brought us to an advertisement for Five Star Puppy Transportation, a canine shipping business that will “TAKE YOUR DOG DOWN TO FLORIDA IN A VERY NICE, ROOMY, AND SAFE SUV.”  Sounds tempting! But how credible is […]

Since when has Columbia been politically active anyway? Kanye now collaborates with… stuffed dinosaurs?  Apparently Communism is one of the faiths espoused by Columbia students. Now we finally know for sure: “every Muslim isn’t a terrorist, or white person a racist, or black person with a hoodie a gangster.” Is it at all telling about […]

Columbia men’s basketball came into this evening’s game against Cornell with high hopes—after all, some sports prognosticators and portents had picked the Lions in the preseason as league champions, and opening league play with a hard-fought six-point loss at Ithaca against Cornell, there seemed to be no reason that the senior-studded lineup couldn’t better their […]

HOLY SHIT! Columbia is up 23-21 against The Ohio State University in basketball. The game is on ESPN right now, so tune in if you want to see what is currently a miracle and will either stay that way or turn into a heartbreak. Halftime UPDATE: Well, maybe we shouldn’t have posted anything, because the […]

Basketball season is upon us! Bwog general assignment reporter CML reports on the sensational season opener.  What with the unlikely regression of the football team from last year’s record, hopes for the basketball team were high heading into last night’s opener.  Some expert analysts* even forecast the Lions as having a fighting chance to win […]