Champion of the sporting life Ross Chapman went to a softball game and lived to tell the tale, sustained only by fevered visions of you, dear reader. A few squandered offensive opportunities left the Lions low after game one, but a powerful pitching performance by Tessa Kroll helped the Columbia softball team split a cold […]

If you’ve been to a big basketball game this season, you may have seen a group of students in camo shirts surrounded by yellow caution tape standing at the front of the student section. To explain this occurrence, Bwog’s sports editor and resident Roar-ee Ross Chapman sat down with Harrison Shih (’16), a member of […]

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 […]

Two separate teams for Columbia hit their highest national rankings in program history in the final days of January. Off of a sweep of Tennessee and Notre Dame, the men’s tennis team jumped up to #16 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll. And in other racket sports, men’s squash hit a program high and Ivy […]

The men’s basketball team in light blue that showed up in Ithaca today was not the same team that went blow-for-blow with #1 Kentucky. Thankfully, they didn’t have to be against a Cornell squad that showed shades of its abysmal performances last year. Led by first-year Kyle Castlin’s 12 points, the Lions defeated the Big […]

Did you miss all the fun cheer last night? The ever peppy Ross Chapman has a roundup of the Mania of last night.  Fans filled the second floor lobby of the Dodge Fitness Center an hour before the event began. The entirety of Levien’s western bleachers became packed with students. The first 100 fans got […]

The ever athletic Ross Chapman gives you a plethora of reasons to attend this week’s games. It’s that time of year again. The posters are going up while the supply of beer in local stores is going down. This Saturday, everybody’s getting ready to go up to Baker Athletic Complex on the fan bus, dressed […]

Wondering what happened in the realm of physical activity this weekend? Bwog sportsman Ross Chapman sets the boat things straight regarding all things Columbia athletics related! The weather is getting ready to make us put on our hats and scarves, which means it’s time for the rowing teams to cut their sleeves and hit the weights and waters. […]

This weekend’s athletic pursuits started off October on the right track (no pun intended, it’s not even that sport season, right?). Sportiest Bwogger Ross Chapman brings you this weekend’s victories by golfing queens and field hockey stars; read on for upcoming opportunities to spectate during homecoming month.  While Columbia Athletics lagged a bit this weekend compared […]

This past weekend saw a sweet line of Lion victories in a variety of sports, but especially in continuing Women’s Soccer’s undefeated streak. Bwog sports editor Ross Chapman sums up this sporty weekend for Columbia, where we established supremacy as the better Ivy League school that is in New York, beings with a C, and whose school […]

Bwog’s sports editor Ross Chapman brings us another weekend sports wrap-up. Volleyball is apparently rocking it this season, and the field hockey team is capable of crushing you under “an unforgiving stick.” Exciting! This weekend marked the beginning of the season for Men’s and Women’s Tennis, who went off to tournaments hosted by Princeton and […]

This morning, PrezBo sent out the following email, announcing the resignation of M. Dianne Murphy—who, according to PrezBo, oversaw “an unprecedented record of success”—from her position as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education.  She will remain in her position until the end of the academic year. This comes almost a year after the heated […]

Lions super-fan Max Rettig brings you an update on the Lions our Blue. The Lions lost last night in a close thriller that came down to the last seconds, ending their season with a 69-72 loss to Yale. With the clock winding down in the second half, the Lions pulled within 1 or 2 points, […]

While athletics at Columbia get a bad rap because of a certain sport-which-shall-not-be-named, many of our teams have been performing incredibly well lately, and they all deserve attention. Instead of spotlighting one team, Bwog’s new Sports Editor Max Rettig is shining light on many winter sports teams as they head into their home stretches. Teams […]

In case you missed it, this weekend was the big homecoming game–that’s football, for you uninitiated. Not to worry, Bwog’s own Odysseus went on an epic journey to find Alma Bwogger Penelope, as they both homecame. Tell me, Muse, of the men of many ways, who were driven to 218th Street, after they had been sacked 53-7 […]