Archive for the ‘Syracuse’ Category

Turning the Corner

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The funny thing about football, both college and pro, is that the season doesn't really come into focus until eight or nine games have been played.  It is easy to write one team off early in the season with a slow start while crowning another team before enough games have ...

Peeling the Orange

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

There were times today when it sure looked like Pitt was going to lose to Syracuse and Dave Wannstedt was going to be forced into resigning.  Pitt's special teams in the first half were just dismal and their defense let a weak Syracuse offense score some points. Pitt's offense, on the ...

So Dreadfully Sweet

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

First of all, I just have to ask the question: Why did I get stuck at a meeting 3 hours from home during this game? When I finally got in my car and got the satellite radio on, Pitt was down 11 with 3 minutes to go and ...

Big East Roundup #2 - Cardinals Rising

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Big East Roundup Another week of tough, physical basketball. As usual, there were elbows flying, bodies bumping, and bruises being iced on long bus rides back to campus. Who says bowl season is the best time of year? I would take Big East basketball in late February through mid-March over ...

Pitt-UConn: the new Georgetown-Syracuse

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Since 2000, things in the Big East have been changing. I know, that is the understatement of the year given that in that time period, the Big East became this enormous 16 team power conference. But the changes are more subtle, yet more significant than that. What we have ...