Pitch me a good one, Ivy League sports.
Columbia baseball fans are a tough crowd to please. When Columbia Spectator writers Jacob and Michael Shapiro reported on the Lions’ loss in the Ivy League championship a couple weeks back, Columbia fans were far from happy with the negative tone of the article, commenting, “what the hell, bros? try putting a positive spin on something for once” and “Surprise! The brothers Shapiro combine on a horrible article, weird.” In an effort to avoid being verbally accosted in a similar fashion, this edition of Around the Water Cooler has nothing but positive things to say about the Lions baseball club. We will also explore the strange culture of our northern comrades over at Dartmouth, as well as the all-important topic of Ivy League basketball.
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After thousands of hours of weight lifting, conditioning, and shooting drills over the course of his basketball career, Jeremy Lin’s dream of playing in the NBA could come down to just the next 240 minutes of basketball he plays.
Tomorrow afternoon, Lin makes his NBA Summer League debut for the Dallas Mavericks.
Like many NBA hopefuls who were not selected on the June 24 draft, Lin was invited by the Mavericks immediately following the draft to compete on the squad’s summer league roster, which will participate in a series of five games in Las Vegas from July 9 to 18.
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Just talking around the water cooler, no big deal.
School has been out for over a month now, but the world of Ivy League athletics continues to go 'round—well, perhaps an exception can be made for Brown, where sports get even less respect than this Back Page correspondent's jump shot. Anyway, in our first exciting edition, we present some Ancient Eight ballers who refuse to hang up their Nikes, and a guy who can scamper around a track and dodge puddles faster than most other guys.
Harvard basketball fans who still awake from nightmares of Cornell nearly forty-piecing the Crimson last winter can rest assured that at least two members of the Big Red’s Big Three will be playing far, far away from Lavietes Pavilion next winter. After working out for a handful of NBA teams, seven-footer Jeff Foote signed with Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, a top club team in Europe. Meanwhile, point guard Louis Dale tweeted that he signed with the club BG Göttingen, which plays in Germany’s top division.
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Over 70 high school basketball players participated in the annual Basketball Academy at Harvard.
The fans were sweltering on a muggy summer day inside Lavietes Pavilion when the point guard sporting a white “Harvard Basketball” penny came up with the ball in the open court.
Turning toward the basket, he dribbled down the sideline with a teammate trailing behind him and one defender between him and the basket.
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Harvard's Jeremy Lin went undrafted Thursday night but sources say he will join the Dallas Mavericks' summer league roster.
Harvard’s Jeremy Lin knows what it feels like to be overlooked.
After leading his high school basketball team to victory in the 2006 California state championship, the skinny, Asian-American point guard did not receive a single Division I scholarship offer.
The situation seemed oddly familiar on Thursday night at the 2010 NBA Draft.
For more than four hours, Jeremy Lin—widely considered the best player to don a Harvard basketball uniform—waited to see if his name would be called.
But when the 60th and final pick of the 2010 NBA Draft was announced around midnight, Lin was still waiting.
Like dozens of NBA hopefuls, Lin was left on the outside at the conclusion of Thursday night’s draft.
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