Game time is 1 at Carleton; 8 30 at the University of Ottawa.
St. John's Red Storm are a big time Big East basketball program that were a power in the NCAA until they were coerced into changing their name, Redmen, to the Red Storm in the early '90s. Normally I would say "damn you, political correctness" but, in this case, being a Syracuse Orange fan and all, I will give the pc racists points. Now if you would just go after the Hoyas and Huskies all would be good.
See you at Carleton, Sharpie in hand, black and red sombrero on my noggin.
WFDS
Showing posts with label Syracuse Orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syracuse Orange. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
687...Greg Paulus Number Three? Nooooooo
Post 119 announced that the Syracuse Orange, possibly the worst BCS team in NCAA football in 2008, had signed former high school superstar and Duke University basketball star Greg Paulus, a native of Central New York, had committed to play with the Orange as QB.
He was listed as third on the depth chart last week which, of course, was ridiculous.
Tonight Conor Orr in The Daily Orange reports that "After one week of summer camp, Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone has named Duke transfer student Greg Paulus as the team's starting quarterback...Paulus had been competing for the job against redshirt freshman Ryan Nassib - who was named the starting quarterback by Marrone in the Spring...[Syracuse's] first game [is] against Minnesota at the Carrier Dome on September 5."
Interesting, very interesting.
WFDS
He was listed as third on the depth chart last week which, of course, was ridiculous.
Tonight Conor Orr in The Daily Orange reports that "After one week of summer camp, Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone has named Duke transfer student Greg Paulus as the team's starting quarterback...Paulus had been competing for the job against redshirt freshman Ryan Nassib - who was named the starting quarterback by Marrone in the Spring...[Syracuse's] first game [is] against Minnesota at the Carrier Dome on September 5."
Interesting, very interesting.
WFDS
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
554...Stephen Page, I Hate Stephen Page
He has moved to my favourite American city, the 'cuse.
The Associated Press moved the story this morning that the former Barenaked Ladies singer and his girlfriend have bought a four bedroom house next door to the place they were both arrested 12 months ago for cocaine possession.
The Very Important Persons Act was invoked and charges against Mr. Page and his girly friend Christine Benedicto were dismissed in April.
The house in Fayetteville, New York, cost 265 000 USD.
265 in Syracuse gets you a house that would cost around a million in Mr. Page's hometown of Toronto. Plus he will be able to go see the Orange play at the Carrier Dome all the frigging time.
That is why I hate Stephen Page.
WFDS
The Associated Press moved the story this morning that the former Barenaked Ladies singer and his girlfriend have bought a four bedroom house next door to the place they were both arrested 12 months ago for cocaine possession.
The Very Important Persons Act was invoked and charges against Mr. Page and his girly friend Christine Benedicto were dismissed in April.
The house in Fayetteville, New York, cost 265 000 USD.
265 in Syracuse gets you a house that would cost around a million in Mr. Page's hometown of Toronto. Plus he will be able to go see the Orange play at the Carrier Dome all the frigging time.
That is why I hate Stephen Page.
WFDS
Sunday, July 12, 2009
497...Happy Holiday;MoreBadNews For King James
Not LeBron, the other one.
Specifically today is the 319th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a bad day for King James VII and II [he was king, er, King, of England and Ireland as the 2 and Scotland as the 7] and a good day for Syracuse's own William of Orange, also known as William III.
The Blue and Orange, Protestants, beat the Roman Catholics and that was about it, eh?
The great victory is celebrated to this very day especially in in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.
It is also commemorated in other parts of the world including here in Ontario although not at the level it was previously to the end of World War II.
Still, any excuse to party is an excuse to party.
Give 'er.
WFDS
Specifically today is the 319th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, a bad day for King James VII and II [he was king, er, King, of England and Ireland as the 2 and Scotland as the 7] and a good day for Syracuse's own William of Orange, also known as William III.
The Blue and Orange, Protestants, beat the Roman Catholics and that was about it, eh?
The great victory is celebrated to this very day especially in in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.
It is also commemorated in other parts of the world including here in Ontario although not at the level it was previously to the end of World War II.
Still, any excuse to party is an excuse to party.
Give 'er.
WFDS
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
78...See You Josh Wright
Sad news, sad but not startling news to the WFDS, from the U of Zero today; Josh Wright, the former top 50 high school star out of Utica, New York, has decided to leave the Gee Gee's basketball program to pursue a pro career in, well, I guess, Europe.
Shades of Omar Cook. And Lenny Cooke. And Donte Green. And. And.
Mr. Wright ran the point at Syracuse, the Orange being a perennial top 25 team in the NCAA, but he didn't run it to perfection and ipso et facto got quit from the team in the middle of last last season.
This last season Coach David DeAveiro at the University of Ottawa brought Mr. Wright, after Josh sat out the requisite year as a transfer, into the Gee Gee's fold and, although, in my opinion [and me and the loverly Vicky P saw him play about five or six times in person and on the tube] he did not seem super comfortable with the team and the rotation, he did average around 17 points a game in the 12 he played.
I sincerely believe two things. First, I believe if Mr. Wright had of played in 2009/2010 and Coach D let him run the show, I believe Mr. Wright would have been the best guard in the country, with Oscar Robertson like numbers. Secondly, I believe that if Mr. Wright had of been the CIS superstar that, barring injury, he would have been, his stock in Europa would have went up exponentially.
As it stands now, he is just another top 50 player who woulda, who coulda and who shoulda been All Something or Another.
Sans degree.
WFDS
Shades of Omar Cook. And Lenny Cooke. And Donte Green. And. And.
Mr. Wright ran the point at Syracuse, the Orange being a perennial top 25 team in the NCAA, but he didn't run it to perfection and ipso et facto got quit from the team in the middle of last last season.
This last season Coach David DeAveiro at the University of Ottawa brought Mr. Wright, after Josh sat out the requisite year as a transfer, into the Gee Gee's fold and, although, in my opinion [and me and the loverly Vicky P saw him play about five or six times in person and on the tube] he did not seem super comfortable with the team and the rotation, he did average around 17 points a game in the 12 he played.
I sincerely believe two things. First, I believe if Mr. Wright had of played in 2009/2010 and Coach D let him run the show, I believe Mr. Wright would have been the best guard in the country, with Oscar Robertson like numbers. Secondly, I believe that if Mr. Wright had of been the CIS superstar that, barring injury, he would have been, his stock in Europa would have went up exponentially.
As it stands now, he is just another top 50 player who woulda, who coulda and who shoulda been All Something or Another.
Sans degree.
WFDS
Sunday, February 15, 2009
12...Racial Profiling
A quick note.
I got racially profiled last night at MacLaren's, a poolhall/bar on Elgin Street in Ottawa.
I was, and this is relevant, on my way back from the U of Ottawa/Queen's basketball game, wearing a Syracuse hoodie, a 'cuse hat, watching Nate Robinson win the NBA All Star game dunk contest when it happened.
I was talking to this East African man, I will call him Jamal [because that is what his name is] about the dunks, the green uni Mr. Robinson was wearing, whether the Raptors will ever go deep in the playoffs, trying to sell him on going to see U of Ottawa play Carleton next Saturday at the U of Ottawa and on and on and on while watching the dunk competition. Not a lick of ice in my field of vision.
And then it happened.
He asked me, no, he told me, told me, right out of the blue that he didn't understand or care much for hockey but I obviously was a big hockey fan ['cause I am a middle aged White guy] and that was the end of that.
The knife cuts both ways.
Pretty Darn Strange, eh?
WFDS
I got racially profiled last night at MacLaren's, a poolhall/bar on Elgin Street in Ottawa.
I was, and this is relevant, on my way back from the U of Ottawa/Queen's basketball game, wearing a Syracuse hoodie, a 'cuse hat, watching Nate Robinson win the NBA All Star game dunk contest when it happened.
I was talking to this East African man, I will call him Jamal [because that is what his name is] about the dunks, the green uni Mr. Robinson was wearing, whether the Raptors will ever go deep in the playoffs, trying to sell him on going to see U of Ottawa play Carleton next Saturday at the U of Ottawa and on and on and on while watching the dunk competition. Not a lick of ice in my field of vision.
And then it happened.
He asked me, no, he told me, told me, right out of the blue that he didn't understand or care much for hockey but I obviously was a big hockey fan ['cause I am a middle aged White guy] and that was the end of that.
The knife cuts both ways.
Pretty Darn Strange, eh?
WFDS
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