Syracuse

While bigoted NBA owners damage the NBA’s brand severely, a far more fundamental problem with how the NBA is played today is destroying the game from the inside. You know what it is before I even type it: the block/charge call, the most controversial call in basketball. I watched the game before and after this [...]

Jim Boeheim’s latest verbal foray into Carmelo Anthony’s free-agency decision is going to make Phil Jackson blush. The Syracuse head coach was exceedingly vocal leading up to Anthony’s free agency and recurrently admitted he wanted the All-Star forward to sign somewhere he could win. But Anthony signed in New York, where he’s not going to [...]

New York Knicks fans will want to listen up. And those who value Carmelo Anthony may want to cry. Anthony, the Knicks’ free-agent-to-be, still takes advice from his former head coach at Syracuse, Jim Boeheim. From the New York Daily News‘ Peter Botte: He’s a guy I kind of bounce a lot of stuff off [...]

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April 4, 2012 – Allen Moll About this time last year, it was announced that North Carolina and Michigan State would play a basketball game a board the deck of aircraft carrier USS Vinson, the vessel that once was the final resting place of the infamous Osama Bin Laden.  The patriotic event was dubbed the [...]

March 19, 2012 – Allen Moll Without a doubt, University of Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim is a legend in college basketball. He has won more than 880 NCAA games, including the 2003 National Championship, and is universally credited with building the hoops powerhouse we see today in upstate New York. While the ‘Cuse are [...]

March 13, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Well this certainly changes things for the Orange. Despite only having two losses this season many aren’t completely sold on Syracuse and their number one seed. Now, we get word that Syracuse will be without Fab Melo, the guy who anchors that defense, for the entire tournament. Go [...]

February 16, 2012 – Check out which teams are still in the running for a #1 seed in March Madness…. [...]

January 23, 2012 – Allen Moll One has to wonder just how much the Orangemen missed the services of 7-foot imposing center Fab Melo this weekend, as they were knocked from the ranks of the ‘unbeaten’, losing to the Notre dame Fighting Irish 67-58 in Big East action. Syracuse came into the game a perfect [...]

December 05, 2011 – Joshua Sexton College Basketball season is not even a month old, and fans have already been treated to enough marquee match-ups and exciting games that some would think the calendar should be turned to March and not December. [...]