Sports In Syracuse
Syracuse, New York is a top-division minor-league city. Its teams include the Syracuse Chiefs of AAA Baseball and the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. Syracuse has had top-level pro teams in the past, but these have failed. Most notable are the Syracuse Nationals, a NBA team which played seventeen seasons in Syracuse (1947–1963) before moving to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and two different Major League Baseball teams: the Syracuse Stars of the National League in 1879, which didn't finish their first season, and the Syracuse Stars of the American Association in 1890.
The most attended sporting events in Syracuse are those of the Division I Syracuse University Orange. Its Carrier Dome can hold over 33,000 and 50,000 people, for basketball and football respectively, making it the largest domed stadium in the Northeastern United States and the largest on a college campus. Especially the Orange's basketball games have been making use of the Dome's capacity over the past few years. The third most attended college sporting events are lacrosse games. The Syracuse University Orange often draw over 6,000 fans, while the Division II Le Moyne College Dolphins are very popular as well. In 2004 both teams won their respective divisions' national championship. Lastly the Syracuse Silver Knights will start their franchise in 2011 in the war momorial.
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“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“The Dada object reflected an ironic posture before the consecrated forms of art. The surrealist object differs significantly in this respect. It stands for a mysterious relationship with the outer world established by man’s sensibility in a way that involves concrete forms in projecting the artist’s inner model.”
—J.H. Matthews. “Object Lessons,” The Imagery of Surrealism, Syracuse University Press (1977)