Recapitulation of this weekend’s football success by CML: Thousands of fans from both Columbia and Cornell converged upon Baker Field today, each to witness firsthand the contest that would determine the best Ivy League football team in New York  – and whether Columbia, after two years, would finally notch a conference win.  The sun shone […]

Tel Aviv taps Zvi… …After mysterious disappearance of CB… …While Republicans shed party loyalty Take Back the Night hands out “pens, highlighters, chapstick, lollipops” at 1020, patrons confused Play includes “chicken farming”, “a fringed belt assembled from a shredded copy of the Columbia Daily Spectator”, “a Bible-quoting triple-murderer turned pizza boy”, “freedom” Spec serials continue their […]

Bwog football correspondent CML recounts the Lions’ loss to Dartmouth. The defining question for this Saturday’s contest between Columbia and Dartmouth wasn’t who was in the gutter — both teams were tied for last place in the Ivy League at 0-2 — but who was looking at the stars.  When the pigskin first left the […]

A trifle frustrated by his team’s inability to score any points against Penn last Saturday, head football coach and august leader Norries Wilson held a rather incendiary press conference following the game, during which he embarked on a rant of symphonic proportions. Here Bwog recaps the diatribe about everything related to football ever in a […]

Bwog football correspondent CML reports on the Lions’ dismal loss to Penn, of all places. This last Saturday, among the verdant foliage, obtrusive infrastructure, and thoughtless mélange of architectural styles that defines University City, Philadelphia, PA, an epic gridiron confrontation took place.  Coming off a 24-0 blowout of the enigmatic yet pitiable Iona, Columbia looked […]

Lydia DePillis and Christopher Morris-Lent report on today’s Homecoming game. Special thanks to Charles Clavey for his photos. It is generally true that suburban high schools are much better at football than their urban counterparts.  If we extrapolate this axiom and apply it to this afternoon’s contest between Princeton and Columbia, then the unhappy outcome […]

In which Bwog football correspondent Christopher “CML” Morris-Lent returns to document the unlikely triumphs of Columbia’s pigskin throwers.  This afternoon featured yet another Columbia home football game at Baker Field, this time against Georgetown.  The Lions sought to improve their record to 2-0 and thus keep their win/loss ratio at the exorbitant figure of infinity.  […]

Yesterday, the Lions played a football game. Freshman CUMB member Christopher Morris-Lent weighs in. The hiring of head football coach Norries Wilson was accompanied by much fanfare and high hopes for the future of the historically futile Columbia football team, which had won its first two games in 2005 and proceeded to lose a nice […]

Columbia has just posted its alcohol policy and rules for “pre-game initiatives” at Baker. And guess what? Free beer!*     *One cup per person per concession run, up to four concession runs permitted, only if you have two valid forms of ID [updated] with birthdate. You may only drink in specified areas during the […]