Back to Syracuse game day already

My great, big insult following the Syracuse-Clemson football game and all those students parading past and over us as we tried to watch the action on the field lasted, well, 15 days. A little less, actually, because I made up my mind that yes, we’d give our season tickets a chance for Saturday’s Carrier Dome…

Everybody rocked but the Orange

The five-buck ticket was worth it. My fantastic daughter Elisabeth, her sensational significant George Three and I had a fine time for the season finale at the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon. We started with a visit to the quad, watching a bit of the Pride of the Orange marching band and scoring some free chocolate…

Happy Memorial Day! And Go Terps Go

We salute those that served us today. Happy Memorial Day from A Bitty Better in the Liverpool, N.Y., neighborhood of Galeville. My dear wife Karen and I included a flagpole yesterday among our holiday weekend purchases. And when we got home, I mounted the bracket on the fence at the back of our driveway and…

So far, not so good for the Orange

Syracuse sports fans will gather round their screens and hope for the best tonight. The Orange men’s basketball team will trot onto the court at Boston College and try very hard not to fall to 0-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings. That 0-4 start is not good news here in the heart of upstate…

Sad, sweet, over

An odd feeling filled me as my dear wife Karen and I settled into our seats in the Carrier Dome for the final time in this 2015 college football season Saturday. It looked familiar enough, a sparse crowd that the Sunday paper listed as what I figure as a bought-but-did-not-attend 30,317 in place for the…