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FB | Wash-ed out: Huskies run all over Syracuse, embarrass Orange in home opener
By Matt Levin
Washington running back Louis Rankin took a sweep to the left sideline. The Syracuse defense was bent. SU linebacker Ben Maljovec had Rankin wrapped up in the backfield. Rankin cut back. The Syracuse defense was broken. Rankin turned a significant loss into a 17-yard gain.
FB | The big 1
Syracuse's opener against Washington has meaning on a multitude of levels
The game Beneath it all, the similarity among the status of programs, the coaches on hot seats, the national TV glitz and glamour, there's a game. And no matter how important it is in the grand scheme of the football spectrum, Friday night's opener is a matchup of two extremely close teams in terms of talent.
MSOC | Orange faces '07 without 2 key players
By Jared Diamond
For the first time in nine months, Isaac Collings' left knee finally stopped hurting. All he had to do was test his reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament on the soccer field. Early in his first summer rehab match for IMG Academy, a top national program in Bradenton, Fla.
WSOC | Syracuse gladly takes in Hamm's Hall of Fame induction
By George Williams
There wasn't but a whisper in the air as 5,000 onlookers eagerly awaited the introduction of soccer legend Mia Hamm. Hamm was the reason everyone had gathered in Oneonta, N.Y., to celebrate the National Soccer Hall of Fame's induction ceremony. As Hamm's former college coach, Anson Dorrance, presented her to the record-setting crowd, situated not too far away was a group of young women dressed in matching blue and orange attire.
FH | Scotland's Fawcett bolsters Orange D
By Zach Zagger
A month ago, senior field hockey player Leigh Fawcett was in Germany training for Scotland's under-21 national team. Now she dons the orange of Syracuse. Immediately after two plane flights brought Fawcett to Syracuse from the United Kingdom on Wednesday, she was thrown into the turmoil of training with the team and preparing for her first year of graduate studies.
VB | SU sophomores step into leading roles
By Jesse Caputo
Four games into the Syracuse women's volleyball season, it's already clear the sophomore class is done with their freshmen orientation. There are 16 players on the Syracuse women's volleyball team and five are returning from their first tour of duty. Over the next three years, these five sophomores will shape the course of the team and decide how far it will go into the postseason play.
XC | Syracuse eyeing spot in nationals
By Matt Ehalt
The Syracuse men's cross country teams had one of its most successful seasons in recent history in 2006. The Orange finished first in each of its four regular season races, sported four All-Region runners and received its first ever votes in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association national poll.
