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Take Two and Hit to Right: Muscle Memory 2018

Recently I played in a benefit game for Syracuse Challenger Baseball, which provides the opportunity  for special needs children to play baseball, with my former SU baseball teammate and good friend, Herm Card. He wrote a piece about baseball and friendship that should be shared. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Take Two and Hit to Right: Muscle Memory 2018 : When I discuss with my Newhouse students the concept that sports matters, I am always reminded how true that is.    Muscle Memory ...

Predicted Consequences of the Community Grid Option for Replacing I-81

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THE CNY NEWSPAPER                             March 1, 2040                                                                           10 years after the demolition of the Route 81 viaducts and the construction of a community grid -   By Senator John A. DeFrancisco                         Community Gridlock - 2040                  News Alert! – The manager of the Community Grid Apartments, constructed five years ago, one block the from the intersection of Adams and Almond Streets, held a news conference today, calling on public officials to acknowledge and provide a solution to a critical problem occurring at the complex and elsewhere. John Jones, the apartment complex manager, alerted the public that “30 percent of our tenants have respiratory diseases and that the number is going up each month.”             One tenant at the apartment complex, Joe Smith, acknowledged that he has contracted a respiratory disease. He stated, “I’m a resident physician at Upstate and a tenan