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Message: [QUOTE="Antiprodigy, post: 261822, member: 582"] I was born in '68 in East Syracuse. My dad had helped to start the Channel 9 station, but 2 yrs later, another opportunity to start up a new tv station led to us moving to Hagerstown, MD. I have lived in the area ever since, except for college, first in Binghampton, NY (Broome Community College) and then on to Rochester (RIT). My father was a casual sports fan and ended up adopting most of the local teams, though he always stayed with SU. I really became interested in sports around 1980, followed my father's lead with SU, but couldn't stomach any of his other choices. We would sit and watch the Pearl and all the great games at the dawn of the Big East Conference. That was when i really started to become a die-hard SU fan. I followed basketball, football & lacrosse, and still do. My greatest SU memory will always be when I was 17. I was walking back in to my high school from gym class at the end of the day, walked down the hallway past the office, and saw Mr. Jim Boeheim standing there. I walked to my locker and mentioned to a friend that I just saw the coach of SU basketball. I couldn't believe it, i was stunned. I walked back up the hallway, turned to him and said "I'm originally from Syracuse and I'm a huge fan of SU basketball." He smiled and shook my hand. As it turns out, he was there recruiting our best basketball player, a player called Rodney Monroe, who ended up going to NC State and finishing his career as the highest point scorer in NC State history. I often wondered what would have happened if Rodney had played for Syracuse. P.S. I also saw Rollie Massimino and Dean Smith shortly after i met JB. But, they were only mildly interesting side notes to a glorious day for a SU fan. The two other greatest moments in sports for me were when SU won the NC in 2003 and when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994. I'm still waiting for both to do it again. I really thought this year might have been the year for both. SU didn't, but maybe the Rangers can. [/QUOTE]

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