By Steve Schaefer Carmelo Anthony’s first NBA home game in Madison Square Garden is in the books — 27 points, 10 boards in a Knick win — and as an Orange alum born and bred in the NYC burbs it’s going to take at least a few more days to wipe the smile off [...]
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No Place Like Home For Scoop As Cuse Tops Cats
February 22nd, 2011 
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No Comments By Steve Schaefer Recap of the Cuse-Nova game coming just as soon as I can find a defibrillator to shock my heart back into its normal rhythm. If anything was proven by Saturday’s wild day in the Big East it was that you can’t take any conference win for granted. There was plenty not to [...]
No Love Lost For Cuse And Nova
February 21st, 2011 Steve Schaefer 2 Comments By Steve Schaefer It was a wild weekend in the Big East, with several Beasts taken to the brink of defeat by some of the conference Leasts. The Orange needed overtime to squeak out a home win against Rutgers, while it took a game-tying three in the closing seconds of regulation for Villanova to force [...]
Orange Still Have NBA Seeds
February 15th, 2011 Steve Schaefer No Comments By Steve Schaefer Sports Illustrated’s Seth Devis got the NBA view on 56 college basketball players for a column on SI.com Monday, and the consensus on Syracuse’s potential picks is a bullish one (I guess the scouts haven’t caught up with the Orange since before the Pittsburgh game). Rick Jackson, 6-9 senior forward, Syracuse He’s [...]
Orange Show Life, Edge Huskies
February 2nd, 2011 Steve Schaefer 3 Comments By Steve Schaefer Syracuse had never lost five games in a row in the Jim Boeheim era. They also hadn’t beaten UConn on the road since 1999. For context, that’s four years before Carmelo Anthony showed up on campus. Something had to give at Hartford’s XL Center Wednesday night. Thankfully for the ‘Cuse faithful, the [...]
Desperation In Hartford: Syracuse at UConn
February 2nd, 2011 Steve Schaefer 2 Comments By Steve Schaefer There are plenty of storylines in Wednesday night’s battle for the Pasqualoni Cup, but none loom larger than the possible extension of the Syracuse slide into a fifth game. Just 16 days ago the Orange were riding high; 14 days ago we were rationalizing a tough Pitt loss after a spirited comeback; 7 [...]
Syracuse Storms Johnnies
January 13th, 2011 Steve Schaefer No Comments By Steve Schaefer For the second straight game the Orange overcame an uneven performance to notch a Big East win, beating St. John’s 76-59 at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night. Much of the first half looked like a repeat of the Seton Hall game: sloppy play, turnovers and a sluggish scoring pace. But a closing flourish [...]
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Tags: MSG, Syracuse, syracuse basketball, syracuse vs. st johns No Comments »The Orange Is In The Apple To Face Rising Red Storm
January 11th, 2011 Steve Schaefer No Comments By Steve Schaefer One thing I noticed while watching St. Johns against Georgetown last Monday — the Red Storm absolutely attack the offensive glass. In one second-half stretch the Johnnies got at least two cracks at the basket every time down the floor (or at least it seemed that way), and scored the game-winning points [...]
Dreaming Of An Orange Christmas
December 24th, 2010 Steve Schaefer No Comments By Steve Schaefer There’s a lot for Syracuse fans to be happy about this holiday season; a football team prepping for a bowl game and a hoops team in the top 10 is a pretty good place to be as 2010 turns to 2011. In the spirit of the season here’s a little Syracuse-flavored Christmas [...]
Posted in Steve Schaefer Tags: christmas, Syracuse, syracuse basketball, syracuse football No Comments »Orange Face Green Menace At The Garden
December 7th, 2010 Steve Schaefer 3 Comments By Steve Schaefer Like many of you, I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around the Syracuse hoops season to this point. It’s hard to complain about an 8-0 record, but the team has looked discombobulated and it’s hard to get excited squeaking out wins over teams like Georgia Tech and North Carolina State [...]
