MISTER FADED GLORY
I'd call this blog a "Critique of Life," except that sounds way too pretentious.
Watch for my first novel, These Monks, a comedy about friendship, frustration, and Des Moines, available later this year.
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Category Archives: Syracuse
BATTLE OF THE JIMS: If, like me, you’re a Syracuse fan struggling to come to grips with Jim Calhoun’s ascension into basketball’s elite after the third men’s basketball title, you’d do well to read Sean Keeley’s dissection of Syracuse’s Jim … Continue reading
What I tell myself
It’s just the conference tournament. At least they’ll be rested. At least this will scare the chalk away. I would have rather played any team seeded 2-7 than schizophrenic Georgetown. This seemed ominous from the beginning. I agree. Blueprint to … Continue reading
Brackets! Wonderful, wonderful brackets!
Aaahhh. Here we go. Finally, the brackets are almost upon us. Just the notion of “brackets” makes our weary, frantic world appear much more orderly, and much more riveting. Remember waiting in elementary school for the sixth-grade dodgeball bracket after … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Huggins, Butler, Duke, Frank Martin, Georgetown, Greivis Vasquez, Jim Boeheim, K-State, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, NCAA Basketball, Road to Final Four, Syracuse, tournament, UNI, Villanova, West Virginia
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Rest easy
That’s right, world. Rest easy. The Syracuse Orange are back on top of college basketball. Back at No. 1. For the first time since the halcyon days of Billy Owens and consecutive tournament flameouts against Minnesota and Richmond, of all … Continue reading
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Syracuse Sweet Sixteen Postmortem
Well, that didn’t work. I stand corrected. What’s most disappointing is not showing up, from the beginning. And if this is the start of a trend for Oklahoma, rather than a white-hot aberration, they’ll win the title. For the Orange, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake Griffin, Jim Boeheim, Jonny Flynn, Oklahoma Sooners, Paul Harris
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Syracuse Sweet Sixteen preview
I have little to say – what more could the ‘Cuse do this season to surpass my expectations? On the road against Florida, Kansas and Memphis in the non-con, they took care of them all. After a swift rise into … Continue reading
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Walking into Memphis
It’s easy to forget how sweet the Sweet Sixteen actually is, until your team hasn’t been there for five years. Syracuse played a sharp game today in dispatching of Arizona State; the Sun Devils’ two stars rendered virtually meaningless. Eric … Continue reading
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Oh, and, by the by…
Forgot to inform you all that Mister Faded Glory would be out a couple of days, visiting his homeland’s thawing frozen tundra. But, uh, did we miss anything?
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Your Tournament Week NCAA Tournament Preview of the Tournament
During a particularly contrived segment of last Saturday’s ESPN Gameday, the usual talking heads paused from uncomfortably chuckling and nudging faux best-friend Bob Knight to ponder a typical tournament storyline – one which unnecessarily rears its ugly head each year … Continue reading
Did 800 become passe or did I miss something?
You may not have noticed amid the hoopla surrounding Thursday night’s Marquette-Connecticut game. But with the Huskies’ win, Jim Calhoun earned entry into the prestigious 800-win club, an elite fraternity among college basketball’s longtime coaches. (By the way, Jeff Adrien … Continue reading
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I’ll admit it, I’ve got nothing
Nothing much going on. Stop complaining. Scroll down and check out that giraffe photo again. HILARITY. Once again it’s February. Once again we’re slowly digesting the best movies of 2008 (Hint: NOT Revolutionary Road) as well as the probable 10 … Continue reading
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Our days are numbered…
First things first – Oh, thanks, I really didn’t care to concern myself with that pesky tournament this year. Secondly, it’s apparently too much to ask for the Orange to avoid the bubble year after year, but I would actually … Continue reading