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…

What stories will this book tell these four months?

I read the text from my dear wife Karen as I sat on the short wall in little Perseverance Park a block from work at lunchtime Friday afternoon in downtown Syracuse. She told me I’d gotten three good things in the mail. Film blogger paycheck from the Syracuse New Times I immediately texted back. Correct.…

The outside story at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse

Earlier this week, I journeyed over to the Carrier Dome, walking inside the revolving doors of Gate B to the box office. It was quiet. My football season ticket renewal payment was handled in a snap, after I told the courteous worker that yes, I do want to settle up a month before the deadline.…

Are you a frontrunner or do you like going to the game?

Later this afternoon, my dear wife Karen and I will head off to the Carrier Dome to witness the Syracuse University football team’s final game of this 2013 regular season. The Orange needs to beat Boston College to even its record at 6-6 and become eligible for a bowl bid. We will be rooting. Us…

Will a Syracuse team fighting for a bowl chance lure Central New York to the Carrier Dome?

The last time I took a look at the Syracuse football squad here, the Orange was coming off a 49-14 loss to Clemson in front of a just-about-full Carrier Dome in its first game ever in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I said that the two road games in between would go a long way toward…