Clemson fans boo injured Syracuse players; not cool, ever

The Clemson fans booed an injured Syracuse player Saturday night as I watched the college football game from South Carolina unwind on my flat screen from the comfort of my living room up here in Central New York. More than once. So I figured it was not an accident. It did not make me happy.…

But my Nashville Hawkeye friends win the drinking game

I know it did not take long for moonshine shots to go down in a mini-manse in Nashville. On the first offensive play of the game, a little past noon Saturday, C.J. Brown, the quarterback of my alma mater Maryland Terrapins, threw the football into the arms of an Iowa linebacker. A couple plays later,…

A Big Ten clash with a pinky swear bet on the line

This move to the Big Ten for my Maryland Terps is serious stuff. We ran all over the Indiana Hoosiers in our first game ever in the new conference. At their place, yet. It made me very, very happy. And then Ohio State came to College Park and made Byrd Stadium Buckeyeville. After a bye…

No. 1 comes to town with a flurry of fans and the national title

When the defending national champions come to town still undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the country, it’s a big deal to me. So my dear wife Karen and I walked up the Syracuse University hill 90 minutes before the noon kickoff Saturday to take in the atmosphere. I had a pretty good inkling that…

No more trending up, until I spot the moon in the sky

My bowling hopes were high. The average going up, up, up. But splits were everywhere. Conversions were few. Pins stood. Winking. Laughing. First game. 152. Second game. 154. Final game. 127. Enough to make the spirits sink. Until the exit to drive home from Bowling Green Lanes. A look to the sky Spots a vision…

A full Red house beat the Orange Out, but who cares, really?

It’s become the big thing to get a stadium full of fans to wear the home team’s colors. Syracuse football officials wanted a big Orange Out to help the squad build a head of steam for its Atlantic Coast Conference opener against Louisville in the Carrier Dome Friday night. Major fail. I snapped the photograph…

It’s bowling season, and I throw in the towel for CiCi’s Pizza

When last I reported about my Thursday night bowling league, I was considering how a summer video session could work wonders for my average come this season. This was a special bowling week, one of two in this 2014-15 campaign that we’ll roll on Sundays, too, to make up for the dark league nights for…

An Orange mood in Syracuse, before and after the fall

Officials from Syracuse University deemed Friday the as a perfect time for an Orange Out. That is one of the striking colors in Central New York’s autumn once the leaves change. That is the team name and color the the school’s sports teams. So that was the color they asked fans to wear during their…

Golf can be about camaraderie during Ryder Cup week

Good friends off the course. Tremendous rivals from first tee to 18th green. I’m talking about KP, Tater and I with the first statement and the American and European teams for the bi-yearly Ryder Cup matches with the second. I assume that the off-course relationship for the 24 golfers from the professional squads should be…

It’s just a little water from the sky, daughter

As the first one of our foursome who arrived at Seneca Golf Course Sunday morning, I had great hopes that perhaps the gray day would at least remain dry until my daughter Elisabeth, her boyfriend George III and his father George II and myself got our nine holes in. I walked around and snapped the…