Lenn Robbins has been with the Post since 1999, covering college football and basketball, boxing, and the Olympics. He’s an APSE award winner and won the Jim Murray Award for outstanding college sports writing.
Greetings from Piscataway, Julie Hermann. Not sure how much you know about the Garden State, but native rock deity Bruce Springsteen’s first studio album was titled, “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” As you embark on... June 17, 2013
From BasketballCongratulations and best of luck to Jason Kidd, who overnight went from retired pro basketball star to NBA head coach. What a glorious professional ascent. Kidd has a lot on his plate, like learning how to coach and how... June 15, 2013
From BasketballUntil Julie Hermann was introduced as Rutgers’ new athletic director on May 15, I couldn’t have picked her out of a lineup, even if she were the only woman. In the weeks following her appointment, so many skeletons... June 10, 2013
From BasketballYou know Bob Hurley Sr. had other opportunities. Not just Rutgers or Seton Hall, but big-time Big East and ACC powers, and there is no program in the country that wouldn’t have plunked down $500,000 and hired him as an... June 08, 2013
From BasketballRutgers University athletic director Julie Hermann used about 13 minutes and 30 seconds of the allotted 15 minutes the Rutgers spin doctors said she would devote on Wednesday to addressing the concerns of a university... June 07, 2013
From BasketballNew Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann stood in front of the Hale Center yesterday, a pit bull dressed in a matching black and white sweater set and black pencil skirt. This was Hermann’s first public appearance... June 06, 2013
From CollegeIn the strongest sign yet that Rutgers is standing behind its decision to hire Julie Hermann as it new athletic director, John Farmer Jr., the university’s senior vice president and general counsel, penned a rambling... June 03, 2013
From CollegeThere was a time, not long ago, when the nation looked at Rutgers athletics and marveled at its class, dignity and empathy. Eric LeGrand, a defensive lineman for the Scarlet Knights, was paralyzed from the neck down in... June 01, 2013
From FootballThe two words Julie Hermann can’t escape are the ones she uttered at her introductory press conference — “Trust me.’’ When asked about a video from the wedding of Ginger Hineline, her former women’s volleyball assistant... May 30, 2013
From More College SportsSomeone is lying. Either recently appointed Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann is lying or the 15 members of her Tennessee women’s volleyball team were lying 16 years ago, and they continue to lie today, about... May 29, 2013
From BasketballThursday night, at the Rangers’ stirring OT win over the Bruins, a columnist from Boston who hadn’t been in the Garden in years said he was dazzled by what he saw. Then he was dumbfounded when I told him about the... May 25, 2013
From CollegeThe battle against homophobia took a giant step forward recently when Jason Collins came out — the first openly gay American male professional athlete to do so while still in the game. It was courageous. It was needed.... May 20, 2013
From BasketballSt. John’s coach Steve Lavin had lunch with suspended star D’Angelo Harrison this week. Red Storm fans can only hope it doesn’t turn out to be a last supper. Lavin suspended Harrison, the mercurial and petulant combo... May 18, 2013
From BasketballWith every passing fiasco the one thing we know Rutgers has gotten right is that the university’s primary color is scarlet. After Rutgers fired its last men’s basketball coach months after knowing Mike Rice had hurled... May 11, 2013
From Basketball1. Chiefs Eric Fisher, OT, Central Michigan - As college football ponders a split to 65 elite BCS schools, a mighty 6-foot-7 Chippewa gives Alex Smith protection. 2. Jaguars Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&M - Let the... April 26, 2013
From More SportsATLANTA — As Rick Pitino was circling the area around the basket in front of the Louisville bench, where the Cardinals were about to cut down the nets after Monday night’s thrilling NCAA championship victory over... April 10, 2013
From BasketballATLANTA - We'd like to take this opportunity to personally thank Louisville and Michigan for leaving us with the memory of a riveting championship game. Because until the Cardinals edged the Wolverines 82-76 Monday... April 09, 2013
From BasketballRutgers University stands before the college sports world today naked and humiliated, its head basketball coach fired after a stunningly brutal video was aired showing Mike Rice physically and verbally abusing players.... April 04, 2013
From BasketballThe No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament is the beneficiary of bountiful blessings. Despite Rick Pitino’s assertion the Midwest Region was the “Death Bracket,” Louisville got to play two quasi home games in Lexington, Ky.,... April 02, 2013
From BasketballDo you remember when this all started, when you looked at the NCAA Tournament draw two weeks ago and gasped, “This thing is wide open!”? It might have been the only time in the last two weeks you were correct. The... April 01, 2013
From BasketballWASHINGTON — Chuckles the Clown is coming to Atlanta. He’ll be wearing a Jim Boeheim mask, but feel free to walk right up to him and squeeze his nose. It might honk, shoot water, who knows. A fan sitting right behind... March 31, 2013
From BasketballWASHINGTON — James Southerland III came clean yesterday, laid his soul bare for the first time since he sat for six games in January while his integrity was questioned. The NCAA had questions about a term paper... March 30, 2013
From BasketballWASHINGTON — For 37 years, long before there was a shot clock in college basketball or a Big East Conference or a Carrier Dome, Jim Boeheim has been a constant on the Syracuse bench, a griping, grimacing, passionate... March 29, 2013
From BasketballWASHINGTON — Jim Boeheim was a big-time basketball star at Lyons High (N.Y.) — the biggest of fish in a small-town pond. After a 30-point performance as a sophomore, Boeheim found himself waiting to get a soda and snack... March 28, 2013
From BasketballWichita State coach Gregg Marshall summed up the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament by saying, “The improbable is happening this year.” And that was before Florida Gulf Coast University upset San Diego State to... March 25, 2013
From BasketballLEXINGTON, Ky. — The David of college basketball is here — here and fearless. Davidson does not see the No. 14 seed in front of its name and No. 3 in front of Marquette on its NCAA Tournament bracket line. It sees... March 21, 2013
From BasketballAny website or loud-mouthed office jerk can give the statistics and site records of coaches in NCAA Tournament play or guarantee a No. 16 seed will upset a No. 1 this year. But there are stories behind the stats that... March 20, 2013
From BasketballBefore you hand in your bracket, do yourself a favor and follow one of the newer trends in college basketball: Coaches now use timeouts when they think the opposition is about to go on a run or when they are... March 19, 2013
From BasketballAny college hoops junkie in the metropolitan area has got to feel like he or she hit Lotto this week. One train ride could get you from the Big East Tournament in Manhattan to the Atlantic 10 Tournament in Brooklyn. ... March 16, 2013
From BasketballJack Curran died Wednesday night doing what he loved best — watching one of the two sports he had a lifetime love affair with. Sitting in his favorite chair in his Rye home, the Big East Tournament on television, the... March 15, 2013
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