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Monmouth so close to Cinderella as March Madness revs up
You can count on the metropolitan area being represented in the NCAA Tournament. You just can’t count on knowing which schools will be there. Last year, Seton Hall ended a...
Iona's biggest scoring threat can't stay on court long enough
The season was so young and so fresh then, snow was somebody else’s problem. Former Iona standout Mike Glover had visited the New Rochelle campus in mid-November to work out...
Columbia suspends wrestlers for vulgar text messages
Columbia's athletics department has decided to suspend the members of the wrestling team responsible for the sexually and racially offensive text messages from competition for the rest of the season...
Breaking down NYC-area teams: Who could make NCAA tourney?
It was a memorable March in the area, with four teams — Seton Hall, Iona, Fairleigh Dickinson and Stony Brook — reaching the NCAA Tournament, and two other schools —...
'This is the job I've always wanted:' Jim Engles comes home
Jim Engles was being spun in so many directions, smiling and shaking hands and small-talking with so many different people after being introduced as Columbia’s new head coach. It was...
Isaiah Whitehead enters NBA draft, pending 1st-round promise
Isaiah Whitehead made it official Wednesday afternoon, announcing on Twitter he will test the NBA waters. He will not hire an agent, however, giving him the option of returning to...
Columbia takes its place in Ivy League history with CIT title
Columbia entered the CIT Championship game aiming to make history, and Grant Mullins wasn’t going to allow UC Irvine to prevent it from happening. Mullins spearheaded a late-game rally and...
Columbia has shot at all kinds of history in CIT final
Columbia fell short of an Ivy League crown, but a title remains a possibility in Morningside Heights. The Lions will host UC Irvine on Tuesday night at Levien Gymnasium in...
NYC college hoops should steal page from Philly's Big Five
There are the way things are, and the way we wish they could be. New York City is a pro sports town. That’s non-negotiable. Occasionally it will find a college...
A proposal for injecting a new buzz into NYC college hoops
There is the way things are, and the way we wish they could be. New York City is a pro sports town. That’s non-negotiable. Occasionally, it will find a college...
Breaking down the metropolitan area's chances to dance
Seton Hall is a lock to break its decade-long NCAA Tournament drought and won’t have to sweat over anything other than seeding on Selection Sunday, but multiple conference champions in...
Columbia rebounds to keep NCAA tourney hopes alive
Columbia is back in control. Idle since a devastating overtime loss to Princeton last Saturday, the Lions bounced back with a brilliant offensive performance to beat Harvard, 90-76, on Friday...
It's all unraveling for Columbia at the worst time for Ivy League
As the only conference in the country that sends its regular-season champion to the NCAA Tournament, February games in the Ivy League are unlike the rest of the country's. There...
Recovered hoops star chose saving Columbia over deserting it
Unfortunately, at some point, the “Breaking Bad” episodes end. Even when another show takes its place, the binge ends the same, with fiction fading and reality returning. Stuck at his...
Guide to this college basketball season in the NYC area
The college basketball season starts in New York this week with the spotlight on St. John’s, as usual, but as the season progresses, the less-heralded local teams will steal the...
How can Mets humiliate Cubs' next starter? Just ask Columbia
If the Mets need any last-second pointers for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, they should place a call to Morningside Heights and the Columbia baseball program. The...
Fordham shooting for sixth straight Liberty Cup
When Fordham hosts Columbia on Saturday at Jack Coffey Field, there will be more than local football bragging rights at stake. The Liberty Cup will also be at stake. The...
Fordham-Columbia gives us more to think about than football
When Fordham hosts Columbia Saturday at Jack Coffey Field, there will be more than local football bragging rights at stake. The Liberty Cup will also be on the line. The...
Brady ban? Manziel finished? 32 NFL teams, 32 questions
After an NFL offseason dominated by talk of deflated footballs, fines and suspensions, the focus finally returns to the field Saturday when the Steelers and Vikings become the first teams...
Joey Falcone's incredible path: Iraq to Ivy League to Yankees
Odds are, the rookie-level Gulf Coast League has never seen a prospect like Joey Falcone. He’s 28 years old, served three tours of service in Iraq and Afghanistan as a...