After all, it was a Sunday show on a bitter cold night in January in Moscow, Idaho. As soon as the 1995 baby blue GMC conversion van the band calls Pat Sajak (the first van was named Vanna White) pulled up behind the snow-covered venue, an older, clearly intoxicated brunette started banging on the window.

If a voice from upstate is heard at all in Albany, it is likely to be that of state Sen. David Valesky. . . unless you want to count Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, whose influence in the Capital, if it exists, has thus far been kept well out of public view.

Frank Malfitano, the founder and producer of the Syracuse M&T Jazz Fest, always manages to keep his lineups unpredictable.

“I like what we can be,” Boeheim said after Louisville handed the Orange its third consecutive loss on March 2 at the Carrier Dome. “We’ve lost to three ranked teams {Georgetown, Marquette and Louisville} and we haven’t played very good. We haven’t shot very well, and we could have won two of the three.