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Syracuse Olympic Sports update: Walsdorf’s 10k record highlights weekend

We’re back today to get you caught up on the latest from Syracuse’s Olympic Sports as the spring sports calendar ramps up. Women’s Rowing: The Orange moved up to #9 in this week’s poll and despite being swept by #3 Yale at the Cayuga Cup, Syracuse took 2nd behind the Bulldogs, but a close loss […]

Gerry McNamara adds Ben Lee to Syracuse staff (per report)

Gerry McNamara’s coaching staff grew to three on Sunday as Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated reported that top Siena assistant Ben Lee would head to Syracuse with McNamara. Lee, a Long Island native, played Division III basketball for Union College in Schenectady before taking a graduate assistant role for former Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins at […]

Final Four and National Championship open thread

Just going to push this post back to the top for tonight’s game. It’s UConn vs Dusty. Do you want Michigan to win one more Natty before Kent takes over and cleans out the Athletic Department? Or do you want to see Danny Hurley defy the odds again for #3? Tip-off is 8:50 on TBS/TruTv/HBO […]

Syracuse lacrosse: North Carolina and Duke previews and game thread

The Syracuse Orange have Carolina in their minds this weekend. The men’s and women’s teams have jointly traveled down to Tobacco Road for a pair of huge ACC clashes to open the month of April. The men will start things off in a Top-3 matchup with the No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels at Dorrance […]

Syracuse football: Orange add Houston OL David Ndukwe

The Syracuse Orange picked up some more help on the offensive line as Houston tackle David Ndukwe has committed. Ndukwe is listed at 6’6” and 325 pounds and the Decatur, Georgia native started his career at Western Kentucky before transferring to Houston. In 2024, Ndukwe made nine starts at left tackle for the Cougars and […]

Syracuse men’s basketball: forward Tyler Betsey entering transfer portal (report)

A busy stretch of offseason news for Syracuse Orange men’s basketball continues, as it appears a third player from the 2025-26 roster is heading portaling. Syracuse forward Tyler Betsey is entering the transfer portal, according to Joe Tipton of On3, who was the first to report. Betsey, who transferred to the Orange less than a […]

Syracuse men’s lacrosse: Orange have Herculean task ahead of them at the dot

Most college lacrosse fans are surely aware of the name Brady Wambach and the weight that he carries as one of the most impactful specialists, or player period, in the sport at the moment. At 5’9”, 185, he’s a compact force that tries, and usually succeeds, to lay a beating on his opponents each and […]

Syracuse football: a look at the wide receiver group after the Calvin Russell injury

The injury to freshman Calvin Russell had Syracuse fans lamenting another key player lost to a serious injury. With a position group that was already looking to replace the departures of Darrell Gill, Johntay Cook, Emmanuel Ross, it seems like another damaging blow to the Orange well before the 2026 season begins. There’s no doubt […]

Gerry McNamara hires VCU assistant Ryan Daly as assistant coach

New head coach Gerry McNamara has named VCU assistant coach Ryan Daly an assistant coach on his first Syracuse staff, sources confirmed to Nunes Magician. Jeff Goodman of Field of 68 first reported the addition of Daly to McNamara’s staff. Daly is a rising young coach, having just turned 28 in January, but already being […]

ESPN thinks this transfer is Syracuse football’s most important newcomer

With spring football reving up across the country, we’re keeping an eye out for various news items. ESPN has been going conference by conference and this week released their list of each ACC team’s most important newcomer Syracuse fans might have expected it would be transfer quarterback Amari Odom, or maybe top-rated recruit Calvin Russell […]

Syracuse women’s basketball: Burrows and Potts to enter transfer portal

Roster turnover is common in college athletics these days and yesterday the Syracuse Orange women’s basketball team learned that two more players plan to enter the transfer portal. Both Sophie Burrows and Maddie Potts declared their intention to enter the transfer portal. Burrows averaged 11 points and 5.8 rebounds per game for the Orange this […]

Syracuse nailed the McNamara introduction

Leaving the basketball part aside, I wanted to talk about Syracuse’s hire of Gerry McNamara and what we’ve witnessed since the news became official. Since I don’t know who is responsible, I’m not going to say this is all due to Bryan Blair, but I do think it’s telling to see the stark contrast to […]

Syracuse women’s lacrosse: Strong second half leads Orange to 10-8 win over Cornell

The Syracuse Orange’s evening in Ithaca got off to a slow start before another defensive flourish came in to wash away the Cornell Big Red, leading the Orange to a 10-8 victory for their 10th straight win on Tuesday night. The game was delayed by roughly 50 minutes due to torrential downpour at Schoellkopf Field, […]