As those who watch the Olympics closely know, it abounds with the more obscure sports that only the Ivy League has enough money to field teams in. Not surprisingly, then, the Ivy League has fielded its fair share of Olympians over the years, even as other conferences have taken over the role of being the […]

In honor of the Yankee Stadium’s final season, this year’s MLB all-star game will take place in the Bronx on Tuesday. To remember some of baseball’s most interesting historical moments, Bwog Film Rental Analyst Brandon Hammer suggests you check out one (or two or three) of the following movies.  The Pride of the Yankees (1942): […]

It’s official, Bwog tipster Jarid Maged informs us:  “about 2 minutes ago, columbia won the ivy league title in baseball. 7-5 over dartmouth in game 3 of the ivy league championship series in hanover. i am not making this up. tried snapping a shot of the pile after the game, but my stupid computer wouldn’t […]

Licensed music and university lectures!  CC and GS… CCSC and overblown controversy. University Writing essay and travel photography! Columbia and losing…again….

Bwog daily editor Mariela Quintana floats into the surprisingly happy go lucky world of Ivy League fencing. The Columbia Fencing team did not carry themselves with the athletic aggression that one would expect at their final competition of the season. The mood Wednesday evening at Dodge Fitness Center evoked memories of the indoor soccer tournaments […]

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 […]

Robert Kraft’s recent donation to Columbia got the Lions some sort-of-big-time sports coverage. Gregg Easterbrook, who writes the 6,000- word Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN’s Page 2, wrote a paragraph on Columbia’s fundraising  program.  Easterbrook writes that Columbia may be trying to move into the upper tiers of Ivy athletics by, like Harvard, Yale, […]

The last day of class has come and gone, and with it a year of Columbia sports marked by unusual success: some of our vaunted athletic squads have indeed emerged atop the Ivy League pissing match.  For those of you watching at home or not watching at all, don’t feel bad—all the winning teams compete […]

UTS President to Retire, Gets Normal Sized Headline Showdown Over Kung Fu Club’s Funding Fails to Result in Kung Fu Showdown Manhattanville, Shmanhatanville, No Ugly Buildings Here Five Titles, But We Got To Start in the “Elite Eight” An Actual Book About Coffee Table Books! (Idea Stolen From Kramer)

Summa Inflationica: Latin Honors at Barnard. Will fewer grads appear in the Times marriage announcements now? Men’s B-Ball Not Half-Bad (read this piece) Clubs Fight For the Goods Hi, Would You Be Interested in Writing Us a Big, Fat Check? Or Two? Staff: Let’s Hear it for the Basketball Boys

So the Superbowl’s tonight. Whoohoo and etc. One good thing this does mean is that you are at liberty to eat and drink lots of food and beer to quell the nagging feeling that you should be in Butler. May we suggest: Browsing through the local establishments and ordering online. Lion’s Head is offering $7 pitchers of beer. Nacho’s is doing […]

You’re likely wearing sweatpants and a shirt from the book store right now, but no matter! The Eye wants to bring the glamour and flash of Fashion Week to your slobbish form, and they’ve launched a special website (of which they are super proud) to do so. And, in the category of another thing “a lot of people (but probably […]

A new Facebook group promises to break our long streak of sportive sorrow: “Poke the Opponents.” That’s right. If we all poke them hard enough, all at once, they will probably lose. At least, they will not finish their homework before the big game, because of all the Facebook spam they will need to delete. […]

For your personal edification, we present another hard-hitting article from the October issue. Out now! It’s sports-tastical! Columbia University is now offering an MS in Sports Management. This is the punch line. Like the ones about British dentistry schools. “We’ve always been good at the gentlemanly and the ladylike athletics,” Lucas Rubin, the program’s director, […]

It’s time for The Blue and White’s October issue!  This month, the staff of the magazine takes its first foray into the world of Columbia Athletics with our Fall Sports section.  Throughout the next few days, we’ll be rolling out selected stories from the section so you can get a head start.  First up: PE […]