Maryland had the big plays, Syracuse had the big mistakes

So it was a grudge afternoon, this Saturday trip to the Carrier Dome to see my alma mater Maryland while sitting side by side with KP watching his alma mater Syracuse. Not so much. First off, through 30 years of the best of and worst of stuff, a football game between our old schools felt…

OK, I guess these are my teams

Maryland and Syracuse both played at noon Saturday, games televised on networks available to me, and I was ready with m flatscreen for the Orange vs. Central Michigan on ESPN News and my iPad for the Terps vs. West Virginia on the Big Ten Network. The Syracuse game kicked off first. And I stared hard…

The sun shines on the last bumpy day of the golf league

It took one second for me to tell the Commish that yes, thank you, I would be attending since bad weather the week before had caused a one-week extension to the Tuesday 5:30 p.m. 9-hole golf league at Northern Pines in Cicero. After my eight-week hiatus for the 40-hour-per job, the return felt fine. The…

A turnaround season ends too soon

I didn’t get to a Chiefs playoff game. After all these years of no postseason baseball play here in Syracuse, we got one-and-done. I had to catch the score on my iPad. A 7-6 loss to the Pawtucket Red Sox in the third game of the International League’s first round was the final note of…

Don’t you hate when people say there’s nothing to do?

Over at my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.org, I decided to voice a bit of dismay at the folks who like to say there’s nothing to do. This was a good week for me to take my stance because … Well, Friday through Monday carried a stupendous schedule. My dullest day…

Bring the football national championship trophy to the ACC road games, Commish Swofford

The idea hit me while watching defending national champion Florida State open its season by holding off Oklahoma State 37-31 Saturday night. The camera panned to a shot of the national championship trophy on the sideline. I’m pretty sure it was the tall and impressive piece that some coach and MVP will hoist over their…

Great anticipation, big celebration, but the football in between …

A lively late August feeling filled the Syracuse air Friday night around the Carrier Dome as fans filled the streets on the hill, counting down the minutes until the Orange would open the 2014 season against the Villanova Wildcats. A bunch of bikers had selected half a lot halfway down the hill to park their…

Oh, how we enjoyed our Sunday drive … and putting

We hadn’t been out on the course together in more than a month, me and my boys, so we were definitely ready to get together for our Sunday round at the Links at Erie Village. KP called on Wednesday and found plenty of morning tee times, took a straw poll on the greens fee-and-cart cost…

It’s time to take notice of the Eastwood Bears

One week until the Syracuse Orange starts the 2014 college football season with a Friday night game in the Carrier Dome against the Villanova Wildcats, and so it’s time to pay tribute to … The Eastwood Bears. The youth football teams are also gearing up for their seasons at their home base, a grass field…

Two weeks to college football season, and the stuff is out

As the calendar to college football 2014 becomes thinner, the local sports store that tries so hard had the stops pulled out in Destiny USA, the full Friday out front display table devoted to our Syracuse Orange. Let’s see what’s for sale at My Favorite Sports Store. Would I want … As season ticket holders,…