The Orange opener starts with lots of promise

Oh, the promise of a new football season. The sun was shining when I pulled my car to the curb at the downtown offices of SMG and whisked my dear wife Karen to a Friday evening up on the Syracuse University hill. I’d dropped her off earlier than her usual starting time, good strategy, but…

A full Red house beat the Orange Out, but who cares, really?

It’s become the big thing to get a stadium full of fans to wear the home team’s colors. Syracuse football officials wanted a big Orange Out to help the squad build a head of steam for its Atlantic Coast Conference opener against Louisville in the Carrier Dome Friday night. Major fail. I snapped the photograph…