How long will you keep your golf clubs ready for another round?

Sunny and in the 70s, with a burst of color taking over from green in some of the trees. The first day of October was lovely indeed for golf on the grounds of the Links at Erie Village in East Syracuse. I’d written on this blog how Kingpin and I had started this golf season…

Saturday’s big game for Syracuse vs. Clemson brings back memories of Terps-Tigers, 1978

The ACC fun starts Saturday. Big-dog Clemson visits the Carrier Dome. Orange-wearing Tajh Boyd and Sammy Watkins will use their burner speed against the (blue-wearing?) Orange. I will be there to witness my hometown team, Syracuse, play its first game in the league I have been following since my college days at the University of…

I never get tired of watching somebody bowl a 300, even against us in our league

Why I like bowling, reason No. 100: You can drive over to the neighborhood lanes for your weekly league and witness perfection. Take last night at the Thursday Night Men’s League in North Syracuse. I’m ready to pretty much tend to my own business — that is, throw my three games in the mid-100s or…

Thank you Terrel Hunt, for giving Syracuse football fans hope for first ACC season

Relish the points put up the last two games by the Syracuse football team, all 108 of them. That sort of offensive dominance doesn’t happen much around these parts. Terrel Hunt sure looks good as the Orange quarterback. I finally got to see Syracuse with my own eyes Saturday in the Carrier Dome, having missed…

Syracuse University football fans do not need a trip down the hole that 0-3 would bring

This is the Saturday where the Syracuse University football team shows why new head coach Scott Shafer has kept the faith. Or else. If the Orange doesn’t look very, very good against the Wagner Seahawks in the Carrier Dome, fans around these parts will give up on the season. A mark of 0-3 and it’s…

It’s that special week when golf ends and bowling begins

It’s overlap week for me. It happens once a year, but only if the two schedules fall just right. Out with the golf league. In with the bowling league. Two days separate the end and the beginning. I’m glad that the days fall in a way that the finish comes before the start. When the…

How about that first weekend of ACC football, Orange fans?

Did you get into that first weekend following ACC football, Orange Nation? It was long. Mine started at 12:30 Saturday, when my alma mater Maryland kicked off — then kicked butt, putting up 40 points in the first half, thank you for coming back so ready from that ACL tear, QB C.J. Brown — and…

Syracuse and Penn State ready to add a new page to long, dramatic football rivalry

College football sure moves fast these days. And I’m not only talking about the lightning speed in which the players motor toward and away from other, or the dash to the line of scrimmage without a huddle to start the next play. As Syracuse University followers count down to Saturday’s opener against Penn State down…

At Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, families enjoy the atmosphere of Champions

There was a time that I worried about the future of professional golf on the southern tier of upstate New York. Sure, the PGA Tour had a long history at En-Joie Golf Course in Endicott, with a tour stop that started in 1971 as the Broome County Open. It changed its name to the much-catchier…

Would Shut Up, Stupid movement make Mashed Potato Guy stand down?

The hot topic bounced around the airwaves and cyberspace Monday. Sports media types just had to comment about the big mouth now known as Mashed Potato Guy. The topic roared again because so many members of that new breed of pro golf fans had roared this week at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, caught…