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Temple was my second favorite team when I was a kid. I loved Mark Macon and would root for them against everyone except Syracuse. At the time, I thought they were basketball titans on a par with like Duke or North Carolina. I didn't realize at the time that was basically all John Chaney (I know...

There are two baseball photos in my son’s room, both of which my father took at Fenway in (I believe) 1978: one is of Rice and Yaz in the on deck/hole area and the other is of Hank Aaron, in a Brewers uniform. All his life my son has heard me talk about the “home run king.” RIP Hammerin Hank.

A combination of issues this year: Boeheim (Buddy) and Girard are not good defensively at the top of the zone. Teams can drive by them and they are not good at closing on shooters. Sadly, some of that is just a lack of athleticism that probably can't be coached. The Sidibe injury makes the...

So, after narrowly avoiding an at-home upset to Bryant (!), SU lost starting center Bourame Sidibe for at least a month to a torn meniscus. This essentially forces Dolejaz to play the 5, which is less than ideal. Of course, Syracuse has three other scholarship players on the roster who play...

Dion Waiters (Big East 6th man of the year!) went 4th overall as well.

Craig Caldwell was a baller, I remember him too. I grew up in Oneida, and I was about 10 or 12 then. But I saw those guys play a lot of basketball and football games. The Levens game was against Whitesboro. I could be mistaken but I think Whitesboro lost two games that year. And one of them was...

Maybe he's too famous for this, but I saw Dorsey Levens score 50 points in a high school football game. Against a good A (or maybe AA) high school in Upstate New York. This was a team that competed in the state tournament every year, and he made them look like a Pop Warner team. He even kicked...

I feel like Zunino has killed the Sox in his career. Nice to see him stick it to the Astros instead.

Following this series, all I have to say is thank god I don't have to go through the 04 ALCS again. I mean, I'm happy I did it, but good lord. I wouldn't want to be a fan of either of these teams during this game.

Even if this proposal moves forward, Syracuse will still be on the bubble.

The level of play in college basketball was just so much better in the late 80s and early 90s than it is now. Back when COVID cancelled the NCAA Tournament, I spent way too much time watching some tournament games from that era. One of my personal favorites is UNLV vs Georgia Tech from the 1990...

I really feel for the writers at The Ringer and every other pop-culture site. It is a wasteland out there. I kind of like some of the shorter, pithier lists they've done. That said, they were definitely reaching for straws with their weeklong celebration of the one year anniversary of the end of...

Syracuse loses Brycen Goodine, Howard Washington, and Jalen Carey to transfer. That’s...all of their backup guards. Kadary Richmond, come on down!

It was a good way to end the season (or as good as can be, given the circumstances). I hope that gives them confidence going into next year. Should be an interesting group, even if they lack a playmaker to really put them over the top.

Way too much UConn in this thread. Have to balance it out. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdxKN8PDZA Malachi's 3 goggles: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4XtT_NliFc And from further back: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJTcSXgboU