Catching the Crunch with friends

Brenda and JoAnn offered tickets to Friday nights Syracuse Crunch game to my dear wife Karen and I, and we thought, Let the Season Begin. Our good friends handed me an envelope stuffed with six, coming to my bowling league play the night prior to the game to make sure I had them. So I…

The Crunch goes to the dogs for a night

I saw two drop-the-gloves fights by men on the ice but no pull-the-leash fights by dogs in the stands. Even though the Syracuse Crunch lost 2-0 to the Rochester Americans Saturday night in an American Hockey League game at the Onondaga County War Memorial, Dog Night was a smashing success. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle…

A good and Crunchy season

We had fun watching them from high above in the Carrier Dome in November. We had more fun from behind the goal in the Onondaga County War Memorial in December. On this Wednesday in January, I write about the successes of Syracuse Crunch for my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.com. You…

The War Memorial part of the Syracuse arena is impressive

Last week I brought you the hockey report from our visit to the Onondaga County War Memorial to see the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. My dear wife Karen went back Friday night, just six days later, so I decided to make the historic, 61-year-old building in downtown Syracuse the star of the work on…

Gliding to success on a much smaller stage

When last I left you with photos and my impressions of the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, they’d skated to a 2-1 victory over the Utica Comets in a one-time event called the Frozen Dome Classic. Almost 31,000 fans had crammed into the Carrier Dome for the Saturday night in November, and oh,…

They play hockey in the Carrier Dome, and 30,715 show up

I’ve got season tickets to Syracuse University football in the Carrier Dome, and it was not a good season. One win, in double-overtime in the season opener against Football Championship Series Subdivision foe Villanova, and then five straight bone-numbing losses to rob fans of any sense of spirit. Maryland (OK, the win for my alma…

Sometimes the name matches the talent. Take a shot at adding to the list

Once in a while you take notice of a person, pinpoint their profession, and feel the need to declare, “Of course!” I am convinced there are those among us who are destined to become what we become from the moment we are born to certain parents. Genes? Well, sure, but that is not my point…

There’s fun to be had in Syracuse’s old hockey barn, and possibly a Cup, too

What says Memorial Day Weekend in Syracuse more than an American Hockey League playoff game in the Onondaga County War Memorial? How about it, I asked my dear wife Karen as we enjoyed our Saturday afternoon. Wanna go? All joking aside, the signs pointed to yes. Good hockey and a bite in the air were…