Arturo Gatti, Virgil Hill enter boxing hall
Arturo "Thunder" Gatti didn't live to see his finest day. Gatti, who won world championships in two different weight classes, heads the class of 2013 ...

Jim Boeheim goes off on conference realignment
On the day after the Big East lost its fifth member in 18 months with Rutgers bolting for the Big Ten and with more defections likely on the horizon, ...

Maryland leaving ACC to join Big Ten in 2014
Choosing to look toward the future rather than honor the past, Maryland joined the Big Ten on Monday, bolting from the Atlantic Coast Conference in ...

Sandy a super test for Bloomberg, Christie, Cuomo
For New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, leadership often came with an empathetic hug. For New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, it came with an angry tirade at ...

NY prosecutor admits he acted in 1970s porn films
A district attorney in upstate New York has admitted that he acted in pornographic movies in the 1970s, then lied when questioned about it during his ...
NY man who claims $5M lottery scam faced debts
A maintenance worker says he and his wife were forced to file for bankruptcy after he was conned out of a $5 million lottery ticket that two brothers ...
False info in NY lottery led to arrest in $5M scam
The New York State Lottery put out false information to snare two Syracuse-area brothers accused of scamming a customer out of a winning $5 million ...

Orange ahoy: No. 9 Cuse beats No. 20 SDSU 62-49
Orange ahoy! No. 9 Syracuse made a rare non-conference trip out of upstate New York and blew past No. 20 San Diego State 62-49 on the flight deck of ...
Syracuse, SDSU practice in breeze for carrier game
The strong wind whipped the American flag and dozens of signal flags on the island of the USS Midway, giving No. 9 Syracuse and No. 20 San Diego State ...

Syracuse beats No. 11 Louisville 45-26
Ryan Nassib gave his hometown fans a memorable going away present. The senior quarterback threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns in his final home ...

Feds drop sex abuse case against Syracuse's Fine
Federal authorities have dropped their investigation into one of the sexual abuse claims that cost a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach ...

10 coaches who could be bracing for bad news
The first firing of the college football season came Sunday. Idaho let go of Robb Akey in a move that was not unexpected. With a little more than a ...

Melo back at SU, Sixers still beat Knicks 98-90
Carmelo Anthony winced at the thought. "My streak is over," he lamented. Jason Richardson made a three-point play and hit a pair of 3-pointers to ...
NY brothers wait years to claim $5M lottery prize
Two brothers from central New York have claimed a $5 million lottery prize for a scratch-off ticket they bought at their parents' Syracuse store six ...
Louisville picked No. 1 in Big East
Louisville, which has three starters back from last season's Final Four, is the unanimous choice for first place in the Big East coaches' poll.
Big East surges with 3 ranked, undefeated teams
Excuse Big East commissioner Mike Aresco if he's feeling a bit giddy this week. When the dust settled after weekend play, he still had three ...

Number of no-huddle offenses on the rise
Rich Rodriguez worked on the defensive side of the ball as a player and assistant, so when he became the head coach at Glenville State, his offensive ...
Notre Dame to ACC, stay independent in football
Notre Dame got everything it wanted and the Atlantic Coast Conference got Notre Dame. The school announced Wednesday that it would join the ACC in all ...

Notre Dame to ACC in all sports but football
Notre Dame got everything it wanted and the Atlantic Coast Conference got Notre Dame. The school announced Wednesday that it would join the ACC in all ...

Barkley, No. 2 USC shake Syracuse 42-29
Robert Woods went over defensive backs and outmuscled them. He darted and cut through Syracuse, and made a huge play every time Southern California ...

Severe weather delays USC-Syracuse 69 minutes
The second half of the game between Southern California and Syracuse at MetLife Stadium has started after a 69-minute delay. The teams briefly came ...

Cuomo: White House race a 'gut check' for nation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called the race for the White House a "gut check election" and offered a stinging indictment of Republican ...

Paul McCartney pays visit to wife's central NY co.
Employees of a central New York trucking company have had a surprise visitor — Sir Paul McCartney. Local media outlets report that the former Beatle ...

The veep: A regular and not-so-regular Joe
After Joe Biden tripped up his boss by voicing support for same-sex marriage while the president remained on the fence, speculation was rampant about ...

Big East picks CBS VP Aresco as commissioner
As the Big East prepares to negotiate a television contract that could make or break the conference, it has chosen a man who has been part of some of ...