Championship Weekend II
Once you get to spring high school sports, everything is compacted, the state championships mostly handed out on a single weekend in June as summer, and breathing space, looms. Not so in the winter. Starting in early February, and running through the end of March, every weekend something is getting ...
On to the semifinals
So a week of Section III playoff basketball is put away. None of it involved Jeremy Lin, but we managed just fine, with a fair amount of surprises, especially on the boys side. Just look at who's left in Class D - Blessed Virgin Mary, the little school that stunned ...
Boys basketball playoff preview
Basketball fans in Central New York must know how spoiled they are here. Not just with that no. 2-ranked college team on the SU hill, who keeps picking up big wins - three of them in six days, Georgetown, Connecticut and Louisville. Not bad there. But also the high school ...
Girls basketball playoff preview
Exactly 63 girls basketball teams start to set out on the Section III playoff journey Tuesday with first-round games on Tuesday. By week's end, they'll be down to 28, all of them dreaming of going to the Carrier Dome on the first Friday of March. Ah yes, the Dome aspect. ...
Long days, long nights, great rewards
Saturdays in winter mean many things to many people. For high school wrestlers, their coaches, their parents and everyone else involved with the sport, it means going to a gym early in the morning and staying until nightfall for the results. So it is during those big regular-season meets in ...
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Let the honors begin
Since it's award season anyway, it only figures that, in the last days of January and first of February, there would be titles handed out in various winter sports. All of it started Monday with the CNYCY and OHSL girls indoor track championships at SRC Arena. Both in that event, ...
A gained perspective
The conclusion was reached last night, and it was inescapable. I have no right to complain, ever. This week had been yet another one of those stressful weeks, with work responsibilities piling up, long hours, etc. Add to it the usual personal quirks that can pop up, plus some family ...
Open government should be the norm
The term open government is a crock. If you’re not an open government, or striving to be as open as possible, you’re a closed government. Closed governments aren’t for the people. It’s yet to be seen whether “open government” is the 2012 catchphrase for local politics or if it’s an ...
Honors and hysteria
Not a bad Friday for Breanna Stewart. In the afternoon, the C-NS senior finds out she is the USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year for 2011, an honor normally reserved for adult players. Then she passes 2,000 career points that night in the Northstars' latest rout, over Auburn. That ...
Fire departments risk burning bridges with online photos
Seven months ago, on a Wednesday, my phone rang just before 3 a.m. with a number I never wanted to see at that hour — my mother. From her front porch in Chittenango, she was watching news crews set up outside of a house fire that called in 14 fire departments from across Madison and Onondaga counties.
Well, that changes things
The last six days have been quite full of high school sports drama, but what took place on Saturday topped them all. First, there was the wrestling equivalent of local bragging rights, the Section III Dual Meet at C-NS, and Phoenix won it the hard way. After an easy first-round ...
Tweet me: The power of social media
When Occupy Syracuse was given an eviction notice, they tweeted it. When snow shut down West Genesee Schools, superintendent Chris Brown tweeted it. When news breaks across central New York, news agencies, myself included, tweet it. Call me crazy, but Twitter may be the best thing to happen to information ...
The crowd grows
How weird did it feel to have a Friday night without a full slate of high school games? Only strange in that it took so long for the weather to become a factor this winter. Yet even that first serious schedule-altering snowstorm did not completely shut down things. Between tournaments ...
The report card
Essentially, what we did, in and around the first weekend of 2012, was send out a report card on many different fronts to see where things stacked up, and what might yet be in store. We'll start on the ice, where there is both clarity and confusion. The clarity is ...
Syracuse media, community can learn from Lonsberry
There’s a big voice coming to Syracuse airwaves. Though he has big shoes to fill, Rochester’s Bob Lonsberry seems to be the perfect addition to the Syracuse media corps and the talk-radio troops. I hadn’t met Lonsberry until last week, but over the years I’ve become very familiar with his ...
And on to 2012....
For this last entry of 2011, I'd like to offer my New Year's resolutions and...silent siren goes off, we're on full cliche alert. Okay, no resolutions, no lists about last year, no lists to look ahead to this year. It's enough to just try and recap all the holiday tournaments ...
Holiday tournament preview
Okay, so you're done with holiday festivities, or you've had it with holiday cheer. You're relieved that radio stations went back to playing actual music instead of the Christmas stuff you've been forced-fed for TWO MONTHS. You're not shopping, and can't stand the thought of it. During the next four ...
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