Dome in the winter

My dear wife Karen and I appreciated our first winter walk to the Carrier Dome with its new roof line for Sunday’s college men’s lacrosse game. I think the snow setting and different sun angles allows a different perspective than the football season.

A winter walk up the Syracuse U hill

February is a nice month to catch a college men’s lacrosse game in the Carrier Dome. As long as you don’t mind a bit of brisk as you walk up the Syracuse University campus hill toward the big stadium. My dear wife Karen and I had found a nice parking spot on Marshall Street, 45…

Oh, my, Maryland wins in front of my eyes

Go to the Carrier Dome with my dear wife Karen to watch my alma mater play the hometown squad in men’s college lacrosse? I’d say I was smiling on Sunday afternoon for the noon faceoff between visiting Maryland and homestanding Syracuse. It’s been awhile since I’d gotten the opportunity to root for the ”that’s where…

What comes next for Orange and us?

With Syracuse University’s football season done with a record of 5-7 after Saturday’s 31-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Panthers, it’s the time for the higher-ups to answer questions. Yes, they brought back coach Dino Babers even though he has just that one 10-win season on his plus-side, and five losing seasons now to go with…

Ready for that final contest

Yes, the new lighting inside the Carrier Dome sure flashes things up for the pregame ceremonies, I thought just before the start of the season finale between the Syracuse Orange and Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday night. Then as I looked around minutes before game time and noted all those empty seats, I noted that some…

The walk’s still pretty

My dear wife Karen and I walked up the hill toward Saturday night’s football game in the Carrier Dome, and I thought about how pretty a late November night game can be on the Syracuse University campus. I admired the way the dome’s new roof structure peeked out at me to the right of the…

So this is a night game tailgate in late November

My dear wife Karen and I sat in my car in the full dark shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday and watched the tailgate activity around us in our designated Syracuse University football parking lot. We agreed this was the first 7:30 p.m. game start for the final contest of the regular season we’d experienced during…

There was a good team down there

My dear wife Karen and I had hopes that the Syracuse Orange would qualify for a bowl game with their sixth victory of the season in the Carrier Dome Saturday night. Not to happen. The Pittsburgh Panthers are the team advancing to better things. The relatively easy 31-14 win was their 10th of the season…

I remember where I was when the plane fell in Lockerbie

I remember where I was that horrible day in 1988, when word came of the plane that carried Syracuse University students crashing in Lockerbie, Scotland. I was a newspaper editor for The Post-Standard, and everybody, editors, reporters, pressroom operators, had to band together as more and more bad news came in and the the horror…

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…