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Message: [QUOTE="HastingsCuse, post: 964158, member: 301"] I've been following this board daily since Oct 2001, mostly lurking but occasionally posting. Can't start my day without my fix of Orangeyes articles. New Hartford HS grad 1976 LeMoyne grad 1980 SU law 1986 Lived in Brooklyn 1986-1994 and since then in Westchester County. 3 kids: 22, 17 and 11. Since 1996 I have coached 48 of their soccer, basketball, baseball and softball teams. (and today signed up as an assistant coach for the 11 year old's lacrosse team. ) My first Cuse game was at Colgate in about 1973 or 74. All I remember is Dennis DeVal's hair. I was at the Magic Johnson games in 1977 in Manley as a LeMoyne student and was happy that LeMoyne was only down 9 at half to Cuse. And Dale Shackleford, who I'd played against in HS, led Cuse in scoring. The television stories were all about JB throwing a chair when Magic, not Marty Byrnes, was named tournament MVP. From 1980 to 1983 I was in the Peace Corps in Botswana and I followed Syracuse basketball and Yankee baseball by the Utica OD articles and box scores that my father mailed to me. Became addicted to Syracuse basketball while in law school during the Pearl years. Never missed a home game. Learned a lesson at one of the games: If you bring a bottle a gin into the Dome, and your friend and his girl friend bring tonic, limes and ice, and you finish it before half time, don't stand up on the back of the seat to scream about a bad call. I could barely walk for a week. My eldest, Danny, inherited my Cuse bball obsession, especially after attending his first game in the Dome - the Rutgers game in 2003. SU was the only school he visited and only school he applied to. In 2010 he won the student lottery and sat in student seat number 1 at the Gameday Villanova 34,616 game. He graduated from SU in 2013 and is now working in Auckland, New Zealand. And I still spend every game texting back and forth with him. I have been in MSG all 4 times Cuse cut down the nets in the BET. Favorite games attended in person: Basketball - Pearl's shot 1984, Johnson's shot over Mourning to win BET 1992, Rutgers 2003 "One More Year", Villanova 2010 Football - Nebraska 1984, Pinstripe Bowl 2010 Lacrosse - National championship Cornell 2009 LGO! [/QUOTE]

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