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Fools on the SU hill

Posted by pblackwell | 12/06/07

Well it’s good to see that all is hunky-dory in the Syracuse football universe. “Progress” is being made. “Improvement” is taking place. A great and wonderful turnaround is at hand.
That might be – but the evidence of recent play suggests that it’s difficult for a corpse to surface after being buried 200 feet under the sea.
Is that too harsh? Not really, for wasn’t things supposed to get, you know, BETTER under Greg Robinson? Wasn’t G-Rob supposed to rescue the Salt City gridiron faithful from the “terrible stench” Paul Pasqualoni supposedly left?
Okay, so maybe it takes going 7-28 in three utterly depressing campaigns to realize that, just maybe, Coach P wasn’t the problem...

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Artificial dilemma

Posted by pblackwell | 12/13/07

If you were planning to see Liverpool High School’s lacrosse teams actually play at Liverpool High School next spring, better change the plans.
Ending months of haggling and years of complaints, the school board in Liverpool decided to render the field “unusable”, meaning you won’t see any games there next spring – or possibly beyond.
This is quite a downward spiral. Go back a few years, and the field was a hive of activity for events far beyond the Warriors’ domain. Semi-pro football, marching band competitions, big track meets, college lacrosse – they all did time in Liverpool. State soccer championships were decided there in 2000, and Section III football finals were held there in 2001...

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Far from the whole story

Posted by pblackwell | 12/20/07

Wow, you’d have thought that incredible, life-changing revelations were taking place on the afternoon of Dec. 13, at precisely 2 p.m.
CNN and MSNBC (who had planned to broadcast the last pre-Iowa caucus Democratic debate in Des Moines) broke away from Hillary, Barack and friends to witness the ramblings of George Mitchell and the findings of his report on Major League Baseball’s steroid era.
And what was revealed? That a lot of players (85 were named) took performance-enhancing drugs in the years following the 1994 strike, attempting to either prolong sagging careers or boost power numbers in the name of winning games and tendering fat contracts.
Pardon me while I yawn.
We already knew this stuff...

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The ’08 battle begins

Posted by pblackwell | 12/27/07

Okay, so it’s too soon, too small a place for such a large decision, too much money spent, and too long a build-up to the whole thing.
Still, you’ve got to admit that it’s fun. As of the first minute of 2008, no one has any earthly clue as to how the race to succeed George W. Bush in the Oval Office will unfold.
Part of that has to do with the acceleration of the whole process. The desperate desire of other states to be first forced Iowa and New Hampshire to move further up until they reached Jan. 3 and 8, respectively. That’s 11 months before the general election for those geeks scoring at home. This proximity to the holidays is a variable not seen in previous primary seasons.
And the dollars spent on this godforsaken enterprise keep getting more absurd...

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