There\u2019s a basketball renaissance emerging at Columbia, and Megan Griffith\u2019s women are leading it<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been going to Columbia basketball games since I was an undergraduate in the 1960s. As a junior, I did some play-by-play for WKCR, the student-run radio station. There was a time long ago when I went to almost every Lions home game. I\u2019m talking about the men. There wasn\u2019t a women\u2019s basketball team until 1984. For the past few decades, I\u2019ve watched the men play once a year.<\/p>\n
When I enrolled at Columbia in September 1963, the Lions\u2019 home games were played in University Hall \u2013 an antiquated gym with structural columns that impeded fans\u2019 views and looked as though it had been built during the Age of Pericles. Columbia had suffered through six straight losing seasons. Two more followed.<\/p>\n
Thomas Hauser\u2019s email address is thomashauserwriter@gmail.com<\/a>. The audio version of his memoir \u2013 My Mother And Me<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 was recently released. The reading is by Hauser\u2019s good friend, Jim Lampley. <\/em>In 2019, Hauser was selected for boxing\u2019s highest honor \u2013 induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a basketball renaissance emerging at Columbia, and Megan Griffith\u2019s women are leading it I\u2019ve been going to Columbia basketball games since I was an undergraduate in the 1960s. As a junior, I did some play-by-play for WKCR, the student-run radio station. There was a time long ago when I went to almost every Lions … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}