Jim Pagels

PAGELS: Recruiting for Columbia sports creates unfair stereotypes

Lack of success in sports means CU's priorities should change.

By Jim Pagels | Apr 5 08:39 pm ET

PAGELS: In Ivy League basketball, the search for significant seasons continues

A one-game playoff scenario between the top two basketball teams in the Ivy League could be the answer for regular seasons typically rendered meaningless just a few weeks after opening day.

By Jim Pagels | Feb 21 09:36 pm ET

The only 'Columbia': Remembering the Ivy League Champions from 1961

Fifty years after its Ivy football championship, the 1961 squad remains the only “Columbia” engraved on the Ivy trophy. The memories are still fresh, though.

By Jim Pagels | Dec 9 03:35 am ET

PAGELS: My advice to CU athletics

I could write more about the GPA points I’ve lost or cutbacks in social life I’ve suffered. Instead, I have some advice to the Columbia athletic department. Here it is plain and simple: Take yourselves a little less seriously.

By Jim Pagels | Dec 9 03:20 am ET

PIXBOX CHAMPION: Let Col. Pagels's culture of fear begin

I’m glad to see that most of you have succumbed to my regime. While there were many early dissenters to my legitimacy, it pleases me to see that most have wizened up and joined me rather than face the consequences.

By Jim Pagels | Nov 28 10:31 pm ET

To tie or not to tie, that is the question

Ivy League men's soccer highlights woes of current scoring system.

By Jim Pagels | Nov 14 12:43 am ET

You don’t really choose your teams

Do we really chose the teams we root for? Or do they choose us?

By Jim Pagels | Oct 31 03:46 am ET

Sports briefly: Women's tennis, rowing

Women’s tennis will play in the Northeast Division I ITA Regional; Men’s heavyweight, lightweight, and women’s rowing teams will compete at the Head of the Charles this weekend in Boston.

By Jim Pagels and Alison Macke | Oct 21 02:32 am ET

PAGELS: CU football a frustrating sight to see this year

This past weekend, I took the advice to heart so much that I journeyed all the way down to Princeton for the game. The past two seasons, the Lions have mercilessly devoured the Tigers by a combined score of 80-14, and Princeton was picked to finish last in the 2011 preseason Ivy poll.

By Jim Pagels | Oct 3 08:22 pm ET

For Ivy TV programming, limit does exist

With Versus rebranding itself as the NBC Sports Network, there might be some concern that it will continue spending time with lowly Ivy League football.

By Jim Pagels | Sep 19 11:48 pm ET

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