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.
They must have been laughing on Tobacco Road if they were watching last night's Rutgers-Seton Hall game. You call this a rivalry?! Seton Hall gets out to an 18-point lead and coasts, and that's a rivalry?...
February 24, 2010 12:00 AMThe bloodied court had been wiped clean. Maybe even most of the St. John's tears had dried. Yet one truth remained as indisputable as DNA evidence: Seton Hall has earned the right to play St. John's in the Garden....
February 19, 2010 12:00 AMStop if you have heard this before: What is Fordham thinking? Despite being in the midst of a $500 million capital fund-raising campaign, Fordham athletic director Frank McLaughlin told The Post that renovating and...
January 15, 2010 12:00 AMIt's time to give credit where credit is due. Kudos to Oregon, Oregon State and Virginia Tech. These are the programs that had the guts to schedule Boise State. These are the programs that gave the little engine...
January 11, 2010 12:00 AMThis is the second Heisman Trophy vote I won't forget -- the vote that made no one happy, including the voter. I voted for Toby Gerhart, not because he was the best player in college football, but because he was the...
December 12, 2009 12:00 AMATLANTA -- When The Post asked Nick Saban last night on a telephone conference call how he would guard against the fact that his team has been established as the favorite over Texas in the BCS title game on Jan. 7, the...
December 07, 2009 12:00 AMFLORIDA vs. ALABAMA SEC championship (in Atlanta) 4 p.m., CBS LINE: Florida –51⁄2 • O/U: 41 EYES ON: Florida QB Tim Tebow; Alabama RB Mark Ingram ANGLE: The game of the day. Check that, the game of the season. Not...
December 05, 2009 3:37 AMThe suspense is all but over. On Jan. 7, Texas most likely will face the winner of Saturday's SEC title game between Alabama and Florida. So we need another subplot for the BCS games. How about Heisman Trophy...
November 30, 2009 12:00 AMCLEMSON at SOUTH CAROLINA Noon, ESPN LINE: Clemson –3 O/U: 44 EYES ON: Clemson RB C.J. Spiller; South Carolina LB Eric Norwood ANGLE: One of the reasons we can’t anoint this the nastiest of rivalries is because of...
November 28, 2009 3:28 AMThere are many benefits to having an open week this late in the season beyond the much-needed rest. The coaches don't get a chance to do something so onerous as to get themselves fired. On Saturday, Les Miles at LSU...
November 23, 2009 12:00 AMOHIO STATE at MICHIGAN Noon, ABC LINE: Ohio State –111⁄2 • O/U: 471⁄2 EYES ON: Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor; Michigan DE Brandon Graham ANGLE: The college football landscape can help gain a better understanding of...
November 21, 2009 4:37 AMFLORIDA at SOUTH CAROLINA 3:30 p.m., CBS LINE: Florida –171⁄2 • O/U: 421⁄2 EYES ON: Florida LB Brandon Spikes; South Carolina LB Eric Norwood ANGLE: Now that Alabama and Florida (9-0, 7-0 SEC) have secured their...
November 14, 2009 3:09 AMCONNECTICUT at CINCINNATI 8 p.m., ABC LINE: Cincinnati –17 • O/U: 511⁄2 EYES ON: Connecticut DE Lindsey Witten; Cincinnati WR Mardy Gilyard ANGLE: No program in the nation has endured what the Huskies have: the...
November 07, 2009 3:43 AMUSC at OREGON 8 p.m., ABC LINE: USC –3 • O/U: 47 EYES ON: USC S Taylor Mays; Oregon CB Walter Thurmond ANGLE: This was the season we picked the Trojans (6-1 overall, 3-1 in the Pac-10) to “stumble” and actually not...
October 31, 2009 4:14 AMOne of the great debates that have been taking place since the Big East was forced to remake itself is which program has the best chance of emerging as a national power. Cincinnati's strongest argument is that in a...
October 26, 2009 12:00 AMCONNECTICUT at WEST VIRGINIA Noon, ESPNU LINE: West Virginia -71⁄2 • O/U: 461⁄2 EYES ON: The entire Connecticut team; West Virginia RB Noel Devine ANGLE: The University of Connecticut, the town of Storrs, the entire...
October 24, 2009 4:45 AMTEXAS vs. OKLAHOMA in Dallas, Noon, ABC LINE: Texas –3 • O/U: 52 EYES ON: Texas QB Colt McCoy; Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford ANGLE: We’re not saying the Longhorns can’t win. In fact, Texas (5-0) is better across the...
October 17, 2009 4:43 AMIt's fascinating how one weekend in the fall of 2009 could reshape the entire college football landscape in 2010. Consider this: Cincinnati goes into South Florida on Thursday night and, using a backup quarterback for...
October 17, 2009 12:00 AMALABAMA at OLE MISS 3:30, CBS LINE: Alabama –41⁄2 • O/U: 46 EYES ON: Alabama NT Terrence Cody; Ole Miss DE Greg Hardy ANGLE: Many believed this was the year the Rebels ruled the SEC West, but that dream was...
October 10, 2009 2:20 AMEverything I hear about Florida State president T.K. Wetherell says that he's a standup guy and, perhaps, the one voice in Tallahassee that coach Bobby Bowden will listen to. Bowden has made it clear that anytime a...
October 10, 2009 12:00 AMMICHIGAN at MICHIGAN STATE Noon, Big Ten Network LINE: Michigan St. –31⁄2 • O/U: 541⁄2 EYES ON: Michigan QB Tate Forcier; Michigan State LB Greg Jones ANGLE: The Wolverines (4-0) have turned into the Cardiac Kids...
October 03, 2009 4:04 AMMIAMI at VIRGINIA TECH 3:30 p.m., ABC LINE: Miami –21⁄2 • O/U: 471⁄2 EYES ON: Miami LB Colin McCarthy; Virginia Tech RB Ryan Williams ANGLE: One of the earliest signs that Tech was emerging as a national power was...
September 26, 2009 3:42 AMROBBINS' NEST: Halfway through the most brutal opening four-game stretch in college football, Miami is undefeated and quarterback Jacory Harris is gathering some Heisman Trophy momentum. But those are not the most...
September 26, 2009 12:00 AMTENNESSEE at FLORIDA 3:30 p.m.; CBS, CBSSports.com LINE: Florida –30 • O/U: 521⁄2 EYES ON: Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin; Florida coach Urban Meyer ANGLE: Notice we did not list players to watch. In a Piggy Profit...
September 19, 2009 3:42 AMSO you've soured a bit on the American Dream, huh? You lost a job, lost retirement money in the market, lost self-esteem, lost loved ones eight years ago in the worst domestic terrorist attack ever experienced by this...
September 11, 2009 12:00 AMRICK Pitino might have seemed like one of the Teflon people, but he has taken his share of bullets, including the heartbreaking loss of his 1-year-old son Daniel in 1987 and the devastating death of his brother-in-law...
August 16, 2009 2:17 AMI filled out my bracket four times: Once immediately after the field was announced; a second time after I factored in home court, matchups, etc.; a third time after some research, i.e. free throw shooting, strength of...
March 18, 2009 3:27 AMLenn Robbins breaks down the ferocious field for this week's Big East Tournament: THE FAVORITES LOUISVILLE (25-5, 16-2) LAST YEAR: Lost to Pitt, 76-69, in overtime in the quarterfinals. THE COACH: Rick...
March 10, 2009 12:00 AMFROM the school of, "Even the Blind Squirrel Finds an Acorn," this is as good a time as any to mention that last year we picked Pittsburgh to win the Big East Conference Tournament, which it did, thus becoming just...
March 09, 2009 2:06 AMThough everyone is screaming for restraint, an orgy of college basketball is about to descend on the city. All 16 teams in the Big East Conference - even DePaul, which tonight will try desperately to avoid being...
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