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Syracuse-St. John's series still on through '14-15
Syracuse and St. John's started their basketball rivalry more than a century ago, and it will go for at least two more years even as the original ...
Fair, No. 3 Syracuse edge No. 21 Cincinnati 57-55
With Cincinnati and Syracuse tied and the clock ticking down in the final minute, the Orange's Jerami Grant drove the lane, and when his shot didn't ...
Ex-Playmate getting new lawyer in immigration case
A former Playboy Playmate wants a new lawyer to defend her against charges that she tried to smuggle her Canadian boyfriend across the border into New ...
It's official: Shafer takes over at Syracuse
As he addressed the media at his first press conference as coach, Syracuse's Scott Shafer briefly fumbled for words as he looked over at his wife and ...
AP Sources: Shafer to take over at Syracuse
Four years ago, Scott Shafer's football sojourn almost seemed at a dead end. Fired after only one year as defensive coordinator at Michigan under Rich ...
Bills' Marrone feels he's 'best person for job'
It's been such a whirlwind of a week for Doug Marrone — from a bowl game at Yankee Stadium to NFL interviews in Arizona — that it was difficult for ...
AP Sources: Syracuse's Marrone to take over Bills
Doug Marrone is set to try to turn around an NFL team after improving a college program down the road. Marrone reached an agreement to become the ...
Bills interview 3 candidates, including Chip Kelly
The Buffalo Bills coaching search went into overdrive Friday, when team officials interviewed three candidates, including Oregon's Chip Kelly, one of ...
No. 7 Orange beat Rutgers 78-53; Boeheim gets 903
Jim Boeheim achieved another milestone in his impressive career at Syracuse, and yet passing Bob Knight for second place all-time on the victory list ...
Colleges help students scrub online footprints
Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. "It wasn't anything too horrible," she said.
Syracuse plows through WVU and snow, 38-14
The weather made passing at the Pinstripe Bowl perilous, so Syracuse sent Prince-Tyson Gulley and Jerome Smith dashing through West Virginia and the ...
Temple upsets No. 3 Syracuse 83-79
Khalif Wyatt had never been in Madison Square Garden let alone played there. The Philadelphia native left the building on Saturday after scoring a ...
Louisville coach Pitino supports gun control
Count Rick Pitino among basketball coaches supporting gun control. The Louisville coach was asked Friday during a news conference at the team's ...
Report: SU athletics staffer under investigation
The media director for Syracuse University's athletic department is no longer employed by the school and, according to a newspaper report, is being ...
Boeheim wins 900th, appeals for action on firearms
With his wife, Juli, looking on at the postgame press conference and his young children close by, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's final remarks were not ...
Boeheim wins 900th; No. 3 Syracuse 72, Detroit 68
Jim Boeheim called it just another number. The message board in the Carrier Dome didn't agree. Moments after his third-ranked Syracuse Orange held off ...
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 ...