Is there really a “new era” of football at Columbia? If you believe the Columbia Football Twitter feed, then sure. The Lions have broken The Streak, ending a historical epoch and sending us tenuously into a brighter future. Columbia wants students to get excited. The team is practicing on the lawns, Baker Field is allowing […]

North Korea announced yesterday that they would no longer be negotiating with the “gangster-like” United States. (New York Times) Jeb Bush has indicated that he is possibly up for a 2016 presidential bid, although he admits he hasn’t always been interested in politics. He confesses that as a youth, while his friends talked about politics and […]

Bwog’s favorite young sports aficionado Ross Chapman brings you the play-by-play of the most recent women’s field hockey game, and plenty more athletic updates. A pair of second half goals five minutes apart for senior tri-captain Zoe Blake powered the Lions past the Wildcats 5-2 today at the Columbia Field Hockey Stadium at the Baker Athletic […]

Yesterday, Bwog saw a film crew from Blue Chip Films shooting a group of football players. According to the two guys manning an expensive-looking RED camera, they were making a promo for Columbia’s football team. (Other Blue Chip clients include Starbucks, AT&T, Trojan condoms, and Kidz Bop.) Stalker photos via Kevin Chen

Some Columbia related news passed in the month of August.  We rounded it up for you: Aditya Mukerjee, CC ’12 and the former publisher of Spec, was detained at the airport after setting off an alarm because he had bedbug spray residue on his hands. “You’ve got to understand, when someone of your background, traveling […]

…And now for something sports-related at Columbia that’s just straight-up awesome: Josh Martin, who was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, sits down with Kansas rep Zachary Hendrickson to talk about being a free agent, a band nerd, and successful in general. Bwog: First of all, congratulations! What did it feel like, being signed by […]

A group of seniors, including at least two football players, were overheard around 4 pm today in the line for commencement tickets in Lerner making light of the situation involving the football team, according to an anonymous tipster. She was listening to the group standing next to her in line, and after about 20 minutes […]

Two days ago, NBC reported that Chad Washington, CC ’15, was charged aggravated harassment as a hate crime against an Asian student, and that he was other football players who have yet to be charged. Yesterday, WKCR Sports compiled an album of racist, homophobic, and sexist tweets by various football players. Yesterday night was WKCR […]

In light of yesterday’s news that sophomore Chad Washington was charged with a hate crime and the allegations that more people were involved in the incident, many were intrigued by the CU Football team’s impressively unprotected Twitter accounts. An hour ago, WKCR Sports tweeted a link to an Imgur album with a good number of […]

Bwog found out from a tipster today that football coach Pete Mangurian recently updated his Facebook page with some photos of the new Campbell Sports Center. Before we get too indignant over the opulence and extravagance, the old sports center was by all accounts a depressing shithole, and the new one can be used by […]

Before what will almost undoubtedly be a record-breaking storm, the Lions made some history of their own this weekend as Football beat Yale for the first time since 2001. After blowing fourth quarter leads in two straight games, the Lions finally made a late-game charge of their own, coming back to beat Yale with a […]

It’s that time of the year again. For a brief 48 hours, you go to a fantasy college where Butler is a football rival and not a cavernous den of midterm doom and “tailgating” is a thing. That’s right, it’s Homecoming weekend! And what better way to celebrate than with a special edition of DWB […]

Senior Jeff Adams signed a free agent contract with the Dallas Cowboys on Monday and will head to Texas this week to start the Cowboys’ rookie mini-camp. Adams, a sociology major from Western Springs, Illinois, is a three-time All-Ivy League left tackle for Columbia, making him the first Lion since 1996 to earn three consecutive […]

South Carolina: In their ongoing quest to find a candidate suitable to challenge Barack Obama (did you know he’s a Columbia alum?!?) for the presidency, Republican primary voters turned yesterday to former house speaker Newt Gingrich, who received 40% of the vote to Mitt Romney’s 28%. The race for the White House hasn’t been this […]

Columbia Athletics held a press conference today to announce the recent hire of Peter K. Mangurian. Kevin Powers, of Sports Sunday fame, was there to report: This afternoon in Faculty House, Athletic Director M. Diane Murphy gave a formal introduction to the new Head Football Coach Pete Mangurian. Rocking her signature Columbia blue blazer, Murphy […]