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.
If you grew up in this exquisite melting pot of a city, a city where the faces change every day but the dreams remain the same, you know someone like Jerry Flood. He was a New York City sanitation worker, a man who...
February 06, 2012 12:00 AMThere were 19,979 fans in Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon, and the smart ones saved their ticket stubs. One of these days, hopefully years from now, they can show their friends they were in the building...
February 05, 2012 12:00 AMThe 2012 Big East Conference tournament will be the hottest college basketball ticket in this town since No. 1 St. John’s hosted No. 2 Georgetown in 1985. It likely will be the last appearance in the field by outgoing...
January 30, 2012 12:00 AM
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke guard Austin Rivers, last year’s top-rated prep player, might one day tell his children he was at Cameron Indoor Stadium the day St. John’s freshman Maurice Harkless held his national coming-out...
January 29, 2012 12:00 AM
The last decade should be remembered as the era of the ‘Changing Landscape of College Football.’ Boston College goes south. West Virginia goes southwest. Colorado goes west. San Diego State goes east. Yet sooner...
January 28, 2012 12:00 AM
When the 1994 season ended, Joe Paterno faced a team of distraught players. The Nittany Lions had capped a 12-0 season with a 38-20 beating of Oregon in the Rose Bowl, making Paterno the first to coach to win each of...
January 23, 2012 12:00 AMWhy do we celebrate holidays? For the 20-percent off sales? For the three-day weekend? For the day off from school? A couple of St. John’s players reminded me on Saturday why it’s vitally important to remember the...
January 16, 2012 12:00 AMNEW ORLEANS — Alabama is the national champion — no doubt. If LSU could have managed a couple of points, heck, if the Tigers could have ignored that ‘‘Do Not Cross’’ sign erected by the Crimson Tide defense at...
January 11, 2012 12:00 AM
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut opened the first and second halves of yesterday’s 83-69 dusting of St. John’s with slam dunks by 6-foot-10 freshman center Andre Drummond, who is two inches taller than any Red Storm...
January 01, 2012 12:00 AMCollege basketball coaches can be the high priests of hyperbole but Red Storm coach Steve Lavin was in an emotional waste dump the first time he got to see Maurice Harkless play in person. It was June 5, 2010, the day...
December 31, 2011 12:00 AM
Steve Lavin faced one of the first critical moments of his St. John’s coaching career, that moment when a coach must choose between the fortunes of a star player and the growth of a team. Point guard Nurideen Lindsey...
December 18, 2011 12:00 AM
If elected mayor, the first order of business would be to hold the MTA accountable. The second would be to mandate that St. John’s, Fordham, Hofstra and Manhattan play a tournament each year at the Garden. There are...
December 17, 2011 12:00 AM
Bowl season is upon us. There are some terrific matchups like high-powered Oklahoma State against high-brow Stanford. There are some pathetic matchups like 6-7 UCLA vs 6-6 Illinois. Both programs have fired their head...
December 16, 2011 3:18 AM
You guys are good, really good. I knew this, of course, knew I was writing for the most sophisticated, knowledgeable sports fans in the world. It’s one of the true joys of working at The Post. You were not going to...
December 10, 2011 12:00 AM
The Big East will announce its new members today. Commissioner John Marinatto, if he opts to comment, will stress the league’s Sasquatch-sized footprint. He will boast about the percentage of homes the Big East will...
December 07, 2011 12:00 AMRematches are no longer exclusively the domain of boxing. LSU and Alabama, which played a game of survival on Nov. 5 with the Tigers winning 9-6 in overtime, will meet again with everything on the line. As expected...
December 05, 2011 12:00 AM
The envelope has been sitting on my desk for about week now, and I’m convinced it’s a poltergeist. Each time I push it to the side, the ballot returns to my line of sight. I’m not opening it until Monday, the day...
December 03, 2011 12:00 AMCrunch time. This is the final Piggy Profit of the regular season. We’ve been strong on best bets but pedestrian overall. We need a big week to keep our head above water and our knees from being broken. TONIGHT West...
December 01, 2011 12:00 AM
AUBURN, Ala. — Though they have some difficulty understanding me and my Brooklyn accent, I have grown quite fond of several Alabama players, having covered them for the last few seasons as they have emerged as the...
November 28, 2011 12:00 AMBATON ROUGE, La. — For the record, we have the ultimate respect for Nick Saban’s abilities as a college football coach. He won a national title at LSU. He won a national title at Alabama. He won at Michigan State,...
November 26, 2011 12:00 AMThis was my first Thanksgiving without my father, and I thought it would rot. My dad lived a full life by any measure. He was a man of the Greatest Generation, a man who lost most of the hearing in one ear while...
November 26, 2011 12:00 AMThe last weekend in November is always an emotional mosh pit because some of the greatest rivalries in college football are played: Michigan vs Ohio State in ‘The Game.’ Wolverines lead, 57-44-6. No trophy awarded....
November 23, 2011 12:00 AMJim Boeheim has always been comfortable in his own skin, which is why the native of Lyons has never strayed from upstate New York, where he has transformed the Syracuse basketball team into one of the nation’s elite...
November 23, 2011 12:00 AM
This could be priceless — a once in a lifetime opportunity to see true BCS chaos. All we need is for: 1. Arkansas to win at LSU on Friday, which the Hogs are certainly capable of doing, and ... 2. Georgia, on a...
November 21, 2011 12:00 AM
I must be getting old. Or losing my sense of humor. Or wit. Because I didn’t find anything clever about the St. John’s fans in the student section that were chanting “U of Gay” as a mocking retort to Arizona fans’...
November 19, 2011 12:00 AMThe Profit would humbly like to nominate Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation’s top assistant coach. Long regarded as one of the nation’s best defensive...
November 17, 2011 12:00 AMAn Alabama fan once wrote to say he believed Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban was God, but I didn’t believe him because I think the good Lord has a sense of humor, and Saban almost never laughs. But with the way this...
November 14, 2011 12:00 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — You see them every day in the city, commercial trucks proudly emblazoned on the side with names of a father and son, or father or daughter business. They deliver produce, fix appliances, design...
November 13, 2011 12:53 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- If tears can cleanse a university, then Penn State is clean today. If sweat can cleanse a football program, then the Nittany Lions are clean today. But tears and sweat are not OxyCleaners for the...
November 13, 2011 12:00 AM
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Regardless what you think the proper punishments should be if the allegations of unfathomable abuse that struck Happy Valley like a biblical plague are proven true, I ask you to put aside those...
November 12, 2011 12:00 AM
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