Thursday Morning Reading

Welcome to Thursday my friends. The season premier of The Office is less than 12 hours away, let's kill a little time until then. Here are some links.

A Syracuse tailback from the past inspires LeSean McCoy.....the starting running back from this week's opponent, the Pitt Panthers. Of course, David Walker is LeSean's position coach, so that's his job.

We also have some practice notes and video reports as the Orange prepares for its Big East season opener. Here's a fun fact - Greg Robinson needs to win his next 3 Big East games just to get his conference winning percentage over .200.

Donnie reports that the Athletic Department may soon have it's own jet - say what you will about Gross, that fact that he got into enough people's pockets to secure a jet is impressive.

The Daily Orange has a video preview up of the game.

Bleeding Orange is back gives Nancy Cantor the Dunce of the Day award.

Is Syracuse a trap game for Pitt? I'm going to say no to on this one.

Everyday Should be Saturday has some fun with Syracuse fans.

Will there be more Pitt fans that Orange fans in the dome on Saturday? Bet no - Pitt fans don't show up half the time when their team is at home.

You know what cures the ills of Syracuse football fans - a college basketball marathon in November.

The Carmelo Center will be finished by September 2009 - and you can set that date in stone because no construction project has ever had cost and time frame over runs.

The hoops team will have a very good lacrosse player suiting up for them this year.

Monte Ellis is learning the hard way that mopeds can cause embarrassment in a variety of ways.

Baron Davis is now friends with Jenny Craig.

One of my good friends is a Mets fan - he's staying away from sharp objects today.

Fun with license plates.

Hank Baskett, in addition to hooking up with one of Hef's girls, he's catching footballs.

And I'll leave you with two pieces of advice - if you get pulled over by a cop for a DUI, farting is not the answer, and please try not to confuse hot dogs with bombs. Of course, if you eat too many dogs, then get pulled over by the cops, that whole 'not farting' thing becomes a lot tougher - you've been warned.