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.
Before plunking down any pesos this weekend, a few reminders: There was only one upset among Top 25 teams in Week 1 last season and it was hardly a surprise. Pitt lost at Utah. Teams with unusual styles — i.e. Oregon,...
September 01, 2011 2:29 AMPost college football writer Lenn Robbins reveals his preseason Top 25, with two teams from the SEC in the top 3, sandwiching the best team from the Big 12. 1. SOUTH CAROLINA 9-5 lost 26-17 to FSU in Chick-fil-A...
August 28, 2011 1:39 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- There is a low-voltage buzz in this town, a hum of expectation and excitement that comes with the optimism of football in the South. South Carolina, which has never won a major bowl game, has been...
August 27, 2011 12:00 AM
You've had it with college football, huh? The recent allegations at Miami -- strip clubs, hookers, an abortion! -- are the tipping point. The game's so filthy you wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot dance pole....
August 20, 2011 12:00 AMA good man who thought he had landed his dream job woke up to a nightmare on Tuesday. Al Golden came up the right way, did it the right way. He wrote thank you notes -- personal, hand-written notes -- to reporters...
August 19, 2011 12:00 AMSometimes a man and a mission arrive together at the perfect place in time, and suddenly what was once thought to be inconceivable is not just possible, it’s undeniable. The NCAA has been talking about reform for years...
August 18, 2011 4:04 AM
The package arrived about two weeks ago and had me completely baffled. I hadn't purchased weight-loss pills on eBay or ordered a self-help book from Amazon, though both probably would be of use. And the package was...
August 13, 2011 12:00 AM
So you want to be a big-time college basketball coach, want to wear an Italian designer suit, want to hear Jay Bilas, Fran Fraschilla and Bill Raftery anoint you a genius for calling that out-of-bounds play out of the...
July 23, 2011 12:00 AM
Malik Stith turned 22 this week but his newbie St. John's teammates have been calling him "Pops" all summer. Stith finds himself in the most remarkable of positions. He has gone from being a player that wasn't wanted...
July 16, 2011 12:00 AM
Consider this the first Robbins Nest quiz: Which New York university will send its basketball team to Europe this summer for a five-game exhibition tour to prepare for the 2011-12 season, when it will play one game in...
July 09, 2011 12:00 AM
You hope there's never before been a story like this and pray there never will be another one like it again. It's a story that makes parents walk into their child's room at night just to see the rise and fall of...
July 04, 2011 12:00 AM
If you were God, you proba bly would carry some sort of identification because, let's face it, there are a lot of doubters out there. So God'sgift Achiuwa, the rugged 6-foot-9 forward from Nigeria who will don a St...
June 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Jim Calhoun is waiting for the moment -- the epiphany or the awakening as he calls it -- when he will know whether to return for his 26th season as Connecticut's basketball coach. He has plenty of reasons to...
June 11, 2011 12:00 AM
MoMo Jones announced yesterday that he is taking his talents to Iona. Not Marquette, Seton Hall or South Florida of the Big East. Not UMass of the Atlantic 10. Not Hofstra of the Colonial, which has become a three...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AMJim Tressel did the only thing he could yesterday by resigning as Ohio State's football coach. You can't preach accountability to your players and then not be accountable for your own actions. You can't lie about...
May 31, 2011 12:00 AMTitle IX. Proposition 48. Scholarship limits. Partial qualifiers. Over the past 40 years, the implementation of those legislations changed the landscape of college basketball. Now there is another piece of...
May 28, 2011 12:00 AMThere's a great job waiting for former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, one he's highly qualified for. He should become the first national college football sheriff. Give Carr a silver star to go along with his 1997...
May 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Fordham coach Tom Pecora and I are going to have to agree to disagree. Pecora looks at Rose Hill Gym, the Rams’ ancient home court, and sees a basketball cathedral. I look at Fordham’s, uh, arena, built in 1925, and...
May 14, 2011 2:39 AMSteve Masiello was ready, more than ready. Rick Pitino had told him to be patient on more than one occasion, but when the Manhattan job opened this March, Pitino got word to Jaspers athletic director. Bob Byrnes....
May 07, 2011 12:00 AM
HOUSTON -- Will he or won't he? No, we're not wondering if Kemba Walker will return to Connecticut for his senior season. We're talking about college basketball's reigning grand papa -- Jim Calhoun, whose Huskies...
April 06, 2011 12:00 AM
The NCAA tournament this season got battered like A.J. Burnett. Hit like a piñata. No great teams. Not enough great players. Something called a soft bubble. The Big East became the Big Least. But then came March...
March 28, 2011 12:00 AM
After the first weekend of the greatest sporting event in America, there are two certainties: 1. A lot of newborns are going to be named Jimmer or Kemba. 2. Even what has been described as a down year in college...
March 22, 2011 12:00 AMThe most dominating performance ever turned in by a guard in Big East tournament should also serve as one of the most inspiring. If not for the support of his parents, Paul and Andrea Walker, Kemba Walker might not...
March 13, 2011 3:32 AM
You knew something special was coming, that Connecticut and Syracuse weren't go to meet in another Big East tournament semifinal game without something absolutely unbelievable happening. The last time was 2009, aka...
March 12, 2011 12:00 AMConnecticut did it. Pittsburgh did it. West Virginia did it. Syracuse has been doing it since the inception of the Big East. Now Cincinnati is doing it. The Bearcats, under coach Mike Cronin, are the latest Big...
March 11, 2011 12:00 AM
The Big East's most valuable player also is it's most reviled. Notre Dame's Ben Hansbrough, who has transformed the Irish into a tough, resilient team that can complement its exceptional shooting with defense, is...
March 10, 2011 12:00 AM
All these seasons when St. John’s was not a factor in the Big East tournament there was never a peep of complaint that it’s played in the Garden, one of the Red Storm’s two home courts. But now that the Red Storm is...
March 09, 2011 1:38 AM
Regardless of how this turns out, whether St. John's wins the Big East Conference Tournament or advances past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament or has no postseason success at all, this has been a season for the...
March 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Last week we opened the question of who is worthy of winning Player of the Year in the Big East, and nothing has happened to clarify the race. Dwight Hardy led St. John's to two wins, and scored a career-high 34...
February 28, 2011 12:00 AM
Chris Mullin, the greatest basketball player to wear a St. John's jersey, knows exactly what Dwight Hardy and Justin Burrell, both of The Bronx, and Malik Boothe of Queens and Malik Stith of Long Island are experiencing...
February 21, 2011 12:00 AM
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