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Message: [QUOTE="Orange87, post: 146954, member: 1341"] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]Born, and raised in NYC (Manhattan) and went to public school here up until junior year in high school when I moved to Southern California and spent my jr. and sr. years at North Hollywood High School (Go Huskies!).[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]Moved back east to NYC after high school graduation and worked for a year before deciding where to college.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]Was wavering between going back to Cali or staying east. More family in the east swayed my decision and when Williams College rejected me – it was off to cold, snowy central NY to attend Syracuse University on the banks of the Onondaga. I am SU class of ’87.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]I was always a huge baseball fan (Mets) growing up and didn’t pay that much attention to college sports. I did have a working knowledge of college hoops and football and if you pinned me down and asked me what schools I rooted for it would have been Notre Dame for football and St. John’s for basketball because SJU was the team from NYC.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]The first hoops game I attended at SU in the Dome was January 1984. Syracuse versus Boston College. That was the game that Pearl won with an almost half-court shot at the buzzer. It was unbelievable and if I wasn’t hooked by then, that did the trick. I’ve been an avid Syracuse basketball ever since.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]Was a senior when they lost to Indiana in the ’87 Final. That was a great run though. I remember Dwayne Schintzus getting schooled by Rony Seikaly after Schintzus had guaranteed he would mop up the floor with Rony. Rony had probably his best game ever I think, scored 30+ points. Beating UNC the next game to get the Final Four, beating Providence and Billy Donovan and Rick Pitino for the THIRD time that year to get to championship game.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]Was with my wife of less than a year at an upper west side sports bar during the ’96 NCAAs and when we beat Georgia she lifted her shirt and flashed the entire place showing off her bright orange bra (and she didn’t even go to Syracuse!). That’s when I knew I married the right girl.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]In 2003, myself and 10 fraternity brothers from SU took over a small bar in midtown to watch the game. When they won we cried. It was amazing and embarrassing as hell at the same time.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]I’ve been living in southeastern Connecticut for 15 years now and attend as many SU games in person as I can. Whenever they play at MSG I’m there and if they come to the area for Seton Hall and Rutgers I’m there as well. I just drove up and back to Providence last week for that game. I don’t venture to Hartford for UConn games because I cannot stand the Huskies or their fans. I remember when ‘Yukon’ was a school nobody had ever heard of and they were the perennial doormat of the league. Now everybody inn CT thinks that the game was invented in Storrs by a guy named Calhoun.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]My favorite players : Pearl, Raf Addison, Derrick Coleman, Stevie Thompson.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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