What a beautiful day to play golf in Syracuse, N.Y., you might say to yourself after looking at the photo I snapped with my iPhone 4 looking out over the 10th fairway at Foxfire Golf Club this afternoon. Yes, the sky was a shocking blue. Yes, the grass was a vibrant green. But the wind…
Damn, I miss these guys. A month back, I laid out the timeline through my life of nicknames, and Aggo, Twenty and Shaudy all made major appearances. How could they not? I’ve known Mike Agostino since we both were in the eighth grade. And that would have been in 1970. He and I only went…
Walking to the exit at the Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA, my dear wife Karen was drawn to the car in the corridor. It was not one of the shiny new models local dealers park here and there in these halls, the ones that leave me chuckling at the sticker price.…
Add two weeks, four days to opening day. Add 25 degrees to the temperature. Subtract 5,000 fans. What I enjoyed with my good friends Dave and Steven T. was a noontime baseball game at NBT Banks Stadium, the home field for the Syracuse Chiefs, in 75-degree and sunny weather. The grass was inarguably greener than…
All the plans and preparations will be tested in a couple of hours. It’s Boston Marathon day in Boston. Here’s what everybody wants to be able to say 12 hours from now: What a difference a year makes. Last year the traditional venture into the doggedness of the human spirit ended in that soul-shattering bomb…
The powers that be would love for Syracuse football to catch on in popularity that could compare with national champion Florida State, big-time power Clemson and other college-crazy environments in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Maybe someday. Not today. At the annual spring game that closes this off-season segment of college football practices, a couple thousand…
My dear wife Karen noticed the words on one of the TVs over the bottles at our neighborhood sports bar Chadwick’s first. Mets Trade Ike Davis to Pirates, the Friday happy hour sports news show revealed. “Oh, no,” Karen said, pointing to the volume-muted flat screen. We were sad. We liked Ike Davis. Big bat…
As the best pro golfers in the world were traversing the hills and negotiating the fast greens that mark the Masters in Augusta, Ga., this morning, KP, Wags and I were rapping putts on the ruddy greens of Westvale. I have to hand it to my two playing partners on this first day of our…
At the beginning of April in Syracuse, N.Y., the grass was not yet green. Not even at the big ballpark that the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team calls home. That did not stop 6,661 fans from welcoming the start of another Triple-A season to NBT Bank Stadium. But first, they had a pretty big party in…
The Connecticut women’s basketball team made it two straight tonight by beating Notre Dame. That earns national championships for the Huskies two nights in a row, following last night’s crown captured by the men’s team with a win over Kentucky. And it’s two national titles in a row for the Connecticut women. Let’s talk sports…
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