On Feb. 12, 1980, after Georgetown defeated the Syracuse University men’s basketball team 52-50 to snap SU’s 57-game home winning streak

Prepare, Syracuse, for a challenge; make that an energy challenge.

While many Americans are familiar with the environmental efforts of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as the Nature Conservancy or National Geographic

In the four years that Mike Hopkins played for the Syracuse University men’s basketball team from 1989 to 1993, the Orange started 10-0, 13-0, 10-0 and 8-0.

The Cat in the Hat You gotta give Media Unit founder Walt Shepperd credit for keeping his award-winning teen performance and production troupe in the public eye

 He’s True to His SchoolAfter thinking about writing an autobiography with Jim Boeheim once the coach won his national championship in 2003, and then instead opting for a biography that

Mike Hopkins, the assistant coach for the Syracuse University men’s basketball team, was asked in mid-November if Orange sophomores Dion Waiters and C.J. Fair could do for this year’s team what Kris Joseph and Scoop Jardine did for the 2009-’10 squad. During that season, Joseph and Jardine were the best one-two punch off the bench in the country and helped an Orange team led by Wes Johnson and Andy Rautins reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

That’s the burden of all of the drama surrounding former associate head coach Bernie Fine, whom the university fired Nov. 27 amid growing accusations of child molestation against Fine. The story has had a new twist or turn almost daily, and the players have been left to face repeated questions about Fine and how the ordeal has affected the team.

Hyperbole often accompanies eulogies, with humans’ unwillingness to speak ill of the dead often coloring their reminiscences. But in the case of Linda “Sparky” Mortimer, she was what people describe her as: welcoming, friendly, warm and genuine. And with her death on Monday, Nov.

It wasn’t exactly a GOP stampede at the Asian Elephant Preserve but it was awfully close on Nov. 22, as a quintet of elephants checked out the new surroundings of their spacious yard next to the Rifken Family Pachyderm Pavilion at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo.