Tag Archives: 'syracuse'
The Heist of 2001 — Syracuse v. VaTech
This is the oldest post that I never completed (until now). I started writing it in 2003, and it was supposed to follow one of my most influential posts: A Case Against Perennially Over-Ranked VaTech. I was going to spend a considerable amount of time going through the entire 2001 football season, game by game, [...]
ReLax
While I was away, Syracuse repeated as national champions, in historic fashion…
Sharks
I’m going to give it a chance tonight. That is, western hockey. Growing up in Buffalo and going to school in Syracuse, I have my obvious biases — Sabres and eastern hockey, Big East basketball, AFL football. But I live in the bay area, and I’d love to watch more hockey. Whenever the Sabres make [...]
Over Analyzed
What can I say, I have a tendency to over analyze my brackets. After reading this ultra-important dissection of Obama’s tournament picks, I realized something about my own biases in making picks (outside of always choosing Big East teams). Following a thorough look through my bracket, I’ve realized that I am biased towards 3- and [...]
Marching
I’m biased, what can I say. I’m predicting — boldly — a rematch of Syracuse and UConn in the final for this year’s tournament… Click for complete bracket. For you long-time readers, these picks may seem familiar, and they should. Two years ago, I predicted an all Big East Final Four (it didn’t happen), and [...]
Syracuse vs. UConn
I don’t have ESPN anymore, so I listened to the last four overtimes on the radio (over the internet)… Image: ESPN A pretty good birthday gift. UPDATE — And the highlights…
Busted
Think Dr. Melfi, only much younger, like 24 or 25 years old. This was my therapy apparently. I could barely remember how I had gotten in trouble (and sentenced to therapy), but I was now glad that I had. I tried avoiding the punishment. I let the answering machine pick-up, although I always did, no [...]
Extensa
Saying goodbye is never easy, even if it is to a worthless piece of junk. I’m recycling my first laptop — the sturdy Acer Extensa 367T (the ‘t’ stands for TFT screen). I got it during the first semester of my freshman year in Syracuse, and I split the cost with my parents. I used [...]
Philly Fan Redux
I have received some flak for my rant against Philly fans yesterday, so let me continue… Philadelphia is an elite world-class city, but it is not New York or Boston. Philadelphia is analogous to the ugly girl at the party that you wind up going home with because there was no one else to choose [...]
Penn State vs. Syracuse
“Syracuse announced yesterday that it would renew its dormant rivalry with Penn State beginning in 2008.” That is from a New York Times article dated June 18, 2002. It’s on… Penn State vs. Syracuse. Saturday, September 13, 12:30pm (reyonthehill time). Live on ABC. Tickets are available. Related: This headline makes me laugh… “Greg Robinson’s goal [...]
Meth Minute 39
Dan Meth has posted his last episode in the Meth Minute 39 series (appropriately, the thirty-ninth episode). I let the Syracuse alum know my frustrations by email… What upsets me most about this, is that my future children will never truly appreciate what has happened. Yes, these episodes will be immortalized on YouTube for the [...]
Denver Thoughts (So Far)
- My 6am flight out of Oakland ended up being a disaster. I thought it would have been a light passenger load, but nope, nearly full. I didn’t check my bag this time — a new experiment — and I found it not to be worth the effort. Baggage claim from here on. The rental [...]
Orange
A thought that came to me while watching Syracuse blow an eleven-point lead with minutes remaining at the Carrier Dome (think cool, cool air) in Syracuse, New York (that’s right, Onondaga County; let me hear it, “O-N-O-N fuckin’ daga”)… Shouldn’t ING Direct — with it’s line of savings (Orange Savings), checking (Electric Orange) and mortgage [...]
Currently Reading
I’ve finished The Fourth Bear, a truly interesting book. My wife picked it up and read a couple pages while waiting for me, and she continues to give me strange looks as a result. It is purely fantastical, which was welcome during this heated election season, but it was more of a children’s book than [...]
Internet People
Dan Meth (talented Syracuse alumnus) sent me along his latest cartoon, a roast of the internet celebrities (all of them)… “Real internet people use Tumblr.”
Giuliani Ruined My Graduation
In May 2002, I graduated from Syracuse University. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the commencement speaker. (We got screwed. Not only did the class of 2003 enjoy a basketball national championship, but also Bill Clinton as it’s commencement speaker.) All Giuliani did was talk about nine-eleven. It was horrible. Here we were, [...]
A Retirement Party for Lloyd Banks
A film friend of mine from college — we were on the same freshman dorm floor at Syracuse — has released a series of hip-hop related films featured on AOL, the first of which is titled, “
Currently Reading
Fresh off the disaster that was the Fowles experiment, I’ve picked The World According to Garp by John Irving off of my dust-gathering bookshelf… Image: Amazon.com I first became interested in John Irving with A Prayer for Owen Meany in high school. I must have purchased Garp somewhere along the way since then, most likely [...]
Currently Reading
Last week I finished the Jack Kerouac book, and now I’m heading into untraveled territory. John Fowles’ Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings is surely a book I picked up while at Syracuse based solely on the cover (which I tend to do). I’ve never heard of this Fowles guy (is that bad?), but if you [...]
Philadelphia, My Second Home
Being all but displaced from my hometown, Buffalo (well, actually, a suburb northeast of Buffalo), my second home has become Philadelphia. I had spent time there courting my future wife after college before moving to California. My wife’s family is nearby, just over the border in New Jersey, and her sister lives in Center City [...]
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