Posts Tagged ‘Ivy League’
Coming soon to your living, errrrr, dorm room
In a recent press release, the Ivy League announced that it was renewing its national television rights agreement with the NBC Sports Network, previously known as Versus.
Those with an unfortunate addiction to Ivy League sports (we totally exist, all 30 of us) will have more opportunities to get their fix from the comfort of their own room.
The deal says that the NBC Sports Network will televise a minimum of six but no more than 10 games for both basketball and football, and up to four men’s lacrosse games. While Columbia won’t have any cracks at screen time for lacrosse since it doesn’t have a varsity team, it certainly could end up with airtime for football or basketball—especially when you consider who’s returning for Light Blue basketball.
The release also guarantees that the network will air “The Game”—the annual football game between Harvard and Yale—in 2012 and 2013. Check out the full press release after the jump. More »
Fear the ‘peer’
Listen up, people.
I only have a few of these opportunities left to rant to what is the online equivalent of a captive audience. I guess after I graduate you could always follow my tumblr, but honestly, just writing that sentence made me want to cry/vomit. We are approaching the end of the days when you get to read my words and then look at an artist’s rendition of my shockingly receding hairline at the bottom of the post.
But for today, I’ma let you in on one of my irrational, but completely legitimate, hatreds: the phrase “peer institutions.” Why do I hate this piece of the Columbia lexicon? Because it’s obnoxious while trying to sound un-obnoxious, and it confuses more than it reveals. More »
20 things you should know about the Lions’ upcoming Ivy baseball season
The Ivy season begins tomorrow afternoon for Columbia baseball. In anticipation of the 20 league games that will determine if the Lions play for a championship, here are 20 quick predictions for the Light Blue’s upcoming Ivy season.
1. Columbia’s improvement over the course of its first 19 games is a great sign. Even if it looks bad, the team’s 6-13 record does not matter. At all. I promise.
2. Junior leftfielder Dario Pizzano, who was just named Ivy player of the week, will become the Ivy Player of the Year. I’m really not going out on much of a limb with this prediction.
3. Senior RHP Pat Lowery will make a great bid to become this year’s pitcher of the year. He was scary good last Saturday at Holy Cross. More »
Columbia alums talk porn and, obviously, Jeremy Lin
It’s late. You’re up. This one eleven looks to educate you about two alums you probably have no idea about.
Actual News
An alum in industry: Lux Alptraum, CC ’03, is the CEO of a porn blog, and talks about the way the internet is shaping the adult industry.
An alum who played against Jeremy Lin: The Knicks star is the talk of the town, and USA Today has an interview with a former Columbia basketball player who remembers taking on the Harvard guard. More »
What we can learn from Linsanity
I’m guessing that just about everyone’s Facebook newsfeeds have been blowing up with #Linning comments these past two weeks, with everything from fawning declarations of love to pseudo-academic commentary on contemporary race-relations. Despite all the talk of Lin’s “anomalies,” as David Brooks put it, his Harvard degree clearly stands out—which is quite interesting.
We’re prone to ignore or forget that the Ivy League is by definition an athletic conference, though it has picked up connotations of social and academic elitism over the years. We question our physical education requirement more than the vague Global Core. The fact that we have to swim (or doggy-paddle) a couple of laps in order to graduate seems laughable. More »
Romney wins Florida, and other more important stuff
It’s late. You’re up. You haven’t slept at all this month—it’s February—so you should call it a night after you read everything in this post.
Actual News:
Sunshine State: Mitt Romney wins the primary in Florida. More »
First men’s basketball game of the Ivy season in pictures
If you missed the excitement of men’s basketball against Penn on Friday night, we’ve got you covered. It was a thriller, with Columbia coming just short of the victory, losing 66-64. Check out the recap from the game here, and click on the photo below for a slideshow.
Yale’s got a new football coach
The news out of New Haven is Yale has found its newest head coach for their football program. Tony Reno has been hired as Yale’s 34th head coach, after serving as Harvard’s special teams coordinator and secondary coach for the past three seasons. Before that, Reno spent six years at Yale as a wide receivers coach in 2003, and then secondary coach from 2004-2008—so it’s technically not Yale going completely against the ideals of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. (I mean, c’mon, would the Yankees ever hire a coach who just worked for the Red Sox? I doubt it.)
Reno replaces the recently resigned Tom Williams, who left Yale after it came out in November that Williams lied about being a candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship. Williams’ claim of also playing on the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers practice squad in 1993 proved to be false as well. It probably was a really stupid idea to lie about things like that, but regardless Williams left Yale with a record of 16-14 in three seasons, including 5-5 in 2011.
The Quakers are coming, the Quakers are coming!
That’s right, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian a BoltBus full of Quakers will be coming to New York City this Friday to come to what they seem to believe is the wonder of our “underground gym.” But they’re not coming to just take our land—as obvious as this is if you clicked on that link—there’s a basketball game going on at 7 p.m. and it’s a pretty important one too as our men’s basketball team will take on Penn to open up Ivy play.
Of course, technically we’re still on break, but if you have the chance to get back to campus for this game, you really should. More »
Look who made the AP’s top 25 men’s basketball ranking
No, it’s not the Lions, who had an excellent weekend in California, improving their record to 5-4. It is, however, another Ivy team. The Harvard Crimson cracked the AP top 25, coming in at the final position in the poll released today. This marks the first time in the college’s history that their basketball team has reached the AP top 25, and the first time an Ivy has made it since Princeton in the 97-98 season. It seems like everyone’s drinking the Harvard Kool-Aid, as the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll placed them one position higher at 24. Harvard came into this season as a heavy favorite to win the Ivy title, and so far they’ve lived up to the hype by winning all eight of their games, including one against Florida State. Their contest against UConn on Thursday will be a good measuring stick to see how much work Harvard has to do if they want to go deep in the NCAA tournament like the 09-10 Cornell team.