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Syracuse Spring Game: Fan Guide, Parking Infor and More (PS; Mink)
Syracuse will hold its annual spring at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Carrier Dome.
Per usual, admission and parking will be free, and fans will receive a voucher for a free hot dog and soft drink, while supplies last.
Those who can't make it to the Carrier Dome can catch the game on Time Warner Cable or ESPN3.
Here's a friendly fan guide for the day:
Where to park?
Parking is free in the Dome West lots, located adjacent to the Carrier Dome off of Van Buren, Irving, Raynor, and Standart streets.
The Carrier Dome will open at 9 a.m. in advance of the women's lacrosse game against Virginia Tech at 10. So plenty of time to tailgate beforehand.
Format
No score and no clock.
Syracuse is going the route of a more traditional practice featuring situational scrimmage work where the ball is spotted at different yard markers, pass skeleton work (no linemen) and some team and live scrimmage periods.
Field goal kickers will also get some work in, and the punt units will practice without a rush.
Select a seat
Season-ticket holders will get to sit in a reserved section at midfield.
Fans interested in buying season tickets have the option to participate in the select-a-seat program, where staffers will escort you around the Dome to test various seating locations.
Selfie Stations
Postgame will feature the most interaction between fans and the team.
Selfie stations will be set up on the field after the game where fans can take pictures with coaches and players.
There will also be inflatable bouncers and jump houses for the kids.
Try on new uniforms
In case you missed it, Syracuse recently unveiled new orange uniforms for the upcoming season.
Fans will be able to try on all the uniform jerseys in the Orange Shoppe, located on the concourse.
Other
Young People Are Moving to Syracuse (PS; Editorial)
New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show Central New York's population has been flat or slightly down over the past five years. Meanwhile, six of the 20 fastest-growing communities in the nation are in sunny Florida.
A different Census report offers some upside to Upstate's population decline.
Researchers looked at the number of young people moving in and out of metropolitan areas during the Great Recession (2007-2009) and the economic recovery (2010-2012). "Young'' is defined as between the ages of 18 and 36.
During the post-recession period, Syracuse was one of the metro areas with the greatest percentage of young adults moving in. Between 2010 and 2012, 63 percent of people moving into the Syracuse metro area were young adults, according to the Census Bureau analysis.
Forty-six percent of the "inmovers'' to Syracuse were between the ages of 18-24, as you would expect given the number of colleges and universities in our area.
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Jack Andrews circa 1973
That NBA Championship Season 60 Years Ago: Great PS Sportswriter Gave His Heart to the Nats (PS; Kirst)
CITY LOSES BRIDGE TO ITS SPORTS HEYDAYS
Sean Kirst, columnist
The Post-Standard
10/26/1993
In his last years, he saw too much bile in his craft. Too mean-spirited, Jack Andrews would say. Too much nastiness, just like everything else in this world. It's all right to criticize, but do it with grace.
They called him a reporter, and then a columnist, and then an editor. He was always a sportswriter. He worked at The Post-Standard for 38 years, from 1937 to 1975, and he loved the paper as a living, breathing entity. He had many longtime friends at the competing Herald-Journal, but when he spoke of the Post, he was speaking of family.
He died Sunday, at age 84.
I met him three or four times. He would treat any young sportswriter like a godchild. Jack was a close friend of Danny Biasone, the founder and president of the Syracuse Nationals. In the 1950s, when the Nats were making the playoffs every year in the National Basketball Association, the players would sit all night at Danny's bowling alley with Jack and Bud VanderVeer of the Herald, talking basketball.
...
Syracuse Spring Game: Fan Guide, Parking Infor and More (PS; Mink)
Syracuse will hold its annual spring at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Carrier Dome.
Per usual, admission and parking will be free, and fans will receive a voucher for a free hot dog and soft drink, while supplies last.
Those who can't make it to the Carrier Dome can catch the game on Time Warner Cable or ESPN3.
Here's a friendly fan guide for the day:
Where to park?
Parking is free in the Dome West lots, located adjacent to the Carrier Dome off of Van Buren, Irving, Raynor, and Standart streets.
The Carrier Dome will open at 9 a.m. in advance of the women's lacrosse game against Virginia Tech at 10. So plenty of time to tailgate beforehand.
Format
No score and no clock.
Syracuse is going the route of a more traditional practice featuring situational scrimmage work where the ball is spotted at different yard markers, pass skeleton work (no linemen) and some team and live scrimmage periods.
Field goal kickers will also get some work in, and the punt units will practice without a rush.
Select a seat
Season-ticket holders will get to sit in a reserved section at midfield.
Fans interested in buying season tickets have the option to participate in the select-a-seat program, where staffers will escort you around the Dome to test various seating locations.
Selfie Stations
Postgame will feature the most interaction between fans and the team.
Selfie stations will be set up on the field after the game where fans can take pictures with coaches and players.
There will also be inflatable bouncers and jump houses for the kids.
Try on new uniforms
In case you missed it, Syracuse recently unveiled new orange uniforms for the upcoming season.
Fans will be able to try on all the uniform jerseys in the Orange Shoppe, located on the concourse.
Other
Young People Are Moving to Syracuse (PS; Editorial)
New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show Central New York's population has been flat or slightly down over the past five years. Meanwhile, six of the 20 fastest-growing communities in the nation are in sunny Florida.
A different Census report offers some upside to Upstate's population decline.
Researchers looked at the number of young people moving in and out of metropolitan areas during the Great Recession (2007-2009) and the economic recovery (2010-2012). "Young'' is defined as between the ages of 18 and 36.
During the post-recession period, Syracuse was one of the metro areas with the greatest percentage of young adults moving in. Between 2010 and 2012, 63 percent of people moving into the Syracuse metro area were young adults, according to the Census Bureau analysis.
Forty-six percent of the "inmovers'' to Syracuse were between the ages of 18-24, as you would expect given the number of colleges and universities in our area.
...
Jack Andrews circa 1973
That NBA Championship Season 60 Years Ago: Great PS Sportswriter Gave His Heart to the Nats (PS; Kirst)
CITY LOSES BRIDGE TO ITS SPORTS HEYDAYS
Sean Kirst, columnist
The Post-Standard
10/26/1993
In his last years, he saw too much bile in his craft. Too mean-spirited, Jack Andrews would say. Too much nastiness, just like everything else in this world. It's all right to criticize, but do it with grace.
They called him a reporter, and then a columnist, and then an editor. He was always a sportswriter. He worked at The Post-Standard for 38 years, from 1937 to 1975, and he loved the paper as a living, breathing entity. He had many longtime friends at the competing Herald-Journal, but when he spoke of the Post, he was speaking of family.
He died Sunday, at age 84.
I met him three or four times. He would treat any young sportswriter like a godchild. Jack was a close friend of Danny Biasone, the founder and president of the Syracuse Nationals. In the 1950s, when the Nats were making the playoffs every year in the National Basketball Association, the players would sit all night at Danny's bowling alley with Jack and Bud VanderVeer of the Herald, talking basketball.
...
