Game Day, University Avenue
Good luck to the Syracuse University Football Team as they head into the 2014 regular season. Tonight’s weather (for a Friday game) provided a great kick-off.
Tailgate Party: Sheraton Hotel
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Football Season…Baseball Weather
Friday, August 29th, 2014NYS Fair (Day 7): Wee, Wee, Wee, all the way to the finish
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
NYS Fair (Day 4): Bounce
Monday, August 25th, 2014
Xpogo Performer
Superfriends
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
2014 Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament: Mascot Game
A funny thing happened at the Gus Macker 3-on-3 Tournament on Saturday: CNY-area mascots held a battle royal of sorts. Each team had a pep squad (Syracuse Silver Knights Cheerleaders and the Gus Macker Girls), and the game had the pageantry of a celebrity all-star contest, punctuated by the spirit of WWE and SlamBall.
Even Bighead Bob (mascot for Bob Antonacci) cheered from the sidelines.
Mascot Battle 2K14
There wasn’t much basketball purity (unless you included the scoring prowess of the Syracuse Silver Knight, who played out of his costume and one point and should have received the MVP), but it was like watching a video game come to life.
The fans seemed to love it.
The rotund Macker Man shooting from way downtown.
Throwback Thursday: Cleveland’s Finest
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Antwone Fisher at Syracuse University in 2008.
Director/screenwriter Antwone Fisher wrote this piece in the Huffington Post about Lebron James.
Store Mural of Lebron James (circa 2010)
Throwback Thursday
Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Allen, Fred, Rick, Dorsey
We miss the days of the Dorsey Levens Foundation 3-on-3 basketball tournaments held in Syracuse during the early 2000s.
World Cup Fever (part 2)
Monday, June 16th, 2014
A FunFlicks 40 foot high big screen was set up in Barry Park to show the Italy vs. England World Cup match on Saturday night.
Who says Syracuse doesn’t take football (that’s soccer for the rest of us) seriously. About 100 people gathered at Barry Park over the weekend to watch a recording of the England vs. Italy World Cup contest courtesy of FunFlicks.
A young fan readies for a pick up game before the viewing
World Cup Fever: Pre-game warm-up at Barry Park
World Cup under the moonlight
Dyn-o-mite
Monday, June 16th, 2014
Former boxer Hal “TNT” Carroll (right), who came to Syracuse as a 16 year-old light heavyweight from Greenwood, SC and owner of Hal’s Auto Body for three decades, received the Rosemary Award at Syracuse’s Juneteenth Celebration over the weekend. Carroll was known for his crushing body blows with his left hook. He won 31 fights and traveled to the US and Europe during his career.
Father’s Day
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Former SU Soccer player Charles Schoenig (left)and his father Ken share a love for soccer. The two men refereed the soccer tournament for World Refugee Day at Schiller Park yesterday.
World Cup Fever
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
An exciting pre-quarter finals game between Bosnia and Somalia
Bravo to the organizers of World Refugee Day here in Syracuse. This year organizers moved the event to Schiller Park and added a dimension of excitement with a soccer tournament featuring teams from countries represented in the city.
The tournament was the perfect addition to the event, and the idea was also ripe for a city under the spell of FIFA’s World Cup first round action.
Many of the games were decided by sudden death shoot outs
Early round match between Liberia and Burundi was all about speed.
Fan celebrates a little prematurely
A winning shot
Half-time speech (Liberia)
A disputed call during an early match shoot out