Bad Newz

THAT’S IT? I MEAN, WE BEAT VILLANOVA.
1. Yale 10-0 (7-0 Ivy)
2. Harvard 8-2 (6-1 Ivy)
3. Penn 7-3 (5-2 Ivy)
Except for Penn, my preseason predictions for the flag-bearers of Ivy League football are being realized. Then again, I wasn’t going out on a limb by naming Yale the undefeated and undisputed Ivy title holder. With four games left, who is going to beat them? Columbia? Brown? Princeton? Only Harvard—on the road at the Yale Bowl, mind you—stands a chance of ruining a perfect season for the Elis. It’ll be a helluva game, anyway, no doubt. Harvard will be facing the best team to come out of the Ivies in a long, long time.

The other day in class I was sitting in a big lecture hall behind a young man clicking away at his laptop.

My last column attempted to rally the Columbia community for athletics expansion into the hitherto untouched realm of Ivy League bull riding. To my dismay, which apparently I am alone in, the campaign was ahead of its time.