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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Every journalist’s career can be chronicled by a series of phone calls with sources. My experience is no different. 
There was the time I spoke with <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2021/06/gary-gait-create-powerhouse-team-national-championship/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gary Gait while he was golfing</a> in Scottsdale, Arizona, days removed from the Syracuse women’s lacrosse team’s third NCAA title loss. The chats with residents of Lyons, New York, who <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2023/04/2003-anniversary-guide-lyons/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">escaped an ice storm</a> to catch Jim Boeheim’s only NCAA title win. Or the Zoom with a Museum of Modern Art curator who preserved <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/10/jefferson-r-burdick-baseball-card-collection/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">300,000 baseball cards from a Syracuse local</a>.
Those conversations led to some of my best stories at The Daily Orange. Yet the more I look back on my last four years, other phone calls stand out to me. They weren’t for articles but with the people who make up this publication and my life. They were positive and negative, forever influencing my time inside and outside of 230 Euclid. 
One of the most important calls was almost a year before college. Immediately after getting rejected from Northwestern, I Facetimed Roshan Fernandez, my old boss at our high school publication and then an assistant digital editor at The D.O. 
I knew nothing about Syracuse other than it was 3,000 miles away from home, but Roshan assured me that The D.O. was the best place in the country to write about sports. In February, while he was at Sadler Dining Hall with his roommates, I told him I’d been accepted to the school. 
Roshan quickly introduced me to the rest of The D.O. sports team. I called sports editor Andrew Crane, who added the “current high school senior” to a Sunday Night Email and invited me to a Zoom with D.O. alum Mark Medina. I called KJ Edelman, who talked to me for an hour and nicely encouraged me based on my crappy high school clips. 
They weren’t weirded out by the eager soon-to-be freshman. They made me feel at home months before a torrential downpour and a pack of N95 masks greeted me at Syracuse University. 
The calls with those three continued once I officially arrived on campus. Crane tore apart my first story on Zoom while I sat in the Day Hall lounge. Roshan offered me the assistant sports editor position in the spring. KJ explained why my first guide story was entirely cliché. (It was.)
Midway through my sophomore year, another important call awaited me from Skyler Rivera. I was angry and disappointed after not being chosen as sports editor, believing I was on the fast track to head-ed. Skyler told me I needed more time. She was right. Connor Smith invited me back as an assistant and I grew more that semester than any as a writer and editor. 
As sports editor, I started initiating more phone calls. I ran young writers through edits. I explained how they should take notes at a field hockey coverage. I let them know when we were pushing their stories since it needed more reporting. 
Last year, I thought all my calls relating to The D.O. were over. But the same week Boeheim retired, I began my job as EIC at The D.O.
As one of the designated “sports guys” at the publication, I was petrified about making the jump to management. I quickly found out that I wasn’t the first to make the unexpected transition, and I called up Mark Cooper, who had been in my shoes more than a decade ago. 
Mark and I talked about the usual aspects of the role. The long hours. The way to lead a staff of 30 college students. The mistakes or issues that were bound to come up. 
Obviously, that last part sticks out to me now. The long conversation with Kyle Chouinard about taking a column down from the website. The calls with Sophie Szydlik about monitoring our Instagram comments. The calls from Mark Nash whenever I messed up something on the operational side. Or the quick chats with Richard Perrins about what he would’ve done if the same thing happened when he was EIC a year ago.
The one thing Mark couldn’t have prepared me for was the flurry of calls from having my number on the internet. I won’t forget the call from someone who just wanted to see the schedule in our lacrosse guide. The one from spring break from an excited former professor having his 90th birthday party at SU. Or the countless ones from people who simply had something important to share. 
Now, I won’t receive calls from editors about how I can improve. I won’t call writers to suggest how they can make their next story better. I won’t receive calls from the broader Syracuse community with a story pitch. I won’t call Kyle to hear his idea for the next front-page story. 
Now, the constant buzz of my phone will be silent. But the conversations from the last four years will always stay with me.
Anish Vasudevan was the editor-in-chief for The Daily Orange, where his column will no longer appear. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:anish.sujeet@gmail.com">anish.sujeet@gmail.com</a> and on X @anish_vasu.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m going to start by saying that this probably will not be my last story with The Daily Orange. Probably. Even though I am writing a story that serves as a goodbye to The D.O., I am coming back for a fifth year to pursue arts journalism. 
God, this hack already sounds like the intro to a LinkedIn page. Let’s just say I’ll probably still be writing at The D.O. next year because quite frankly, I’ll need some stuff to do. 
The biggest reason I am writing this hack is that I would rather have this story go out along with the hacks of my fellow seniors, with whom I have spent four years sharing great memories and pumping out some incredible stories. I love the group we have and I selfishly always want to be a part of it.
I guess this will serve as my goodbye to the sports section, a place where I feel like I have defined myself but conversely made me feel more confused about what I want to be doing for the rest of my life. It’s cliché and kind of bullsh*t to say, but I can’t imagine a life where I’m not doing something that I don’t enjoy or at least writing about something I don’t enjoy. Whether I like it or not, and I think I do like it, my passions and interests will define me no matter what.
My problem is that I bounce from passion to passion way too often in my mind that I end up picking something unsatisfactory. (I think this makes me sound pretentious but I’m just gonna go with it.) So to quote Martin Scorsese (Yes, I’m picking Scorsese. I like movies. Sue me.), “I have to find out who the hell I am.” 
This isn’t going to be one of those hacks where I say I’m not going to do sports writing anymore. I still want to very much. But if I’m ever going to get closer to where I think I want to be in my life, then I must take this chance. I hope these words reflect that. 
For all of the uncertainty and overthinking that afflict me daily to a mind-numbing and tiring degree, the only place I really knew I wanted to be a part of over the last five years was The D.O. sports section. I say five years because I remember reading The D.O. back in my senior year of high school. This place felt official to me. It felt like a place I wouldn’t be good enough to write for and much less join. 
I didn’t do either of those things at first. Freshman year, during a time of Zoom classes, stale cinnamon apple gluten free waffles and a split double room that was only partially bigger than the D.O.’s archives room on the second floor, I didn’t have much to do or people to talk to. I wasn’t a partier and due to the environment around me, I wasn’t looking to be all that social. I had one friend, but when he went home or wasn’t around, I ended up walking aimlessly, usually at night throughout campus.
Usually, I like to walk without a set place to go, but the aimless nature of the walks felt different. As I listened to Mac Miller albums like “Swimming” and “Circles,” I genuinely thought I wouldn’t amount to much or find a purpose during my time at SU. It certainly felt like a mistake that I was here. I wanted to go back to boarding school.
Only when I got the D.O.’s contact from a fellow freshman who doesn’t even work at the paper anymore, I was on the way to finding a purpose. But as any sports staffer knows, your first story is always your worst and mine on a Cato-Meridian linebacker was a disgrace and it justly got eviscerated. It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough for this place and I moved back into feeling aimless during an extended winter break where on most days I just interacted with my dog and binged “Game of Thrones.”
But then, I got a text back, asking if I wanted to be a part of the Breanna Stewart project. Then came the volleyball beat, then came copy editor and so on. 
I felt like I finally found it: a place I could call my own. It turned out to be one hell of a place to pick. 
Throughout my sophomore and junior years, I knew the DO was where I belonged and I would give myself entirely to it. I remember a conversation between me and Anish Vasudevan where we said that we may all say we hate this job, but we actually do love it and the amount of stress that it brings. Going to and listening to random SU Athletics press conferences? Sure. Writing feature stories for beats I wasn’t on? I guess that sounds fun. Covering multiple beats while pitching 20 or so tweets and a bunch of other stuff? Sure, why the f*ck not?
I was losing sleep and gaining more and more stress as I did it, isolating myself from friends and family to edit a women’s soccer staffer or something like that. I never seemed to mind it. I just kept working and kept accepting higher positions. I just wanted to be there as often as I could. Even as a copy editor, I would show up maybe an hour or so early to production nights because I felt like I had no other place to go. I was falling in love with this place but oddly losing sight of myself at the same time.
Of course, this dichotomy would fully come to a head while I was DME. Working on the newsletter at 2:30 a.m. on average? Every night? Uh, I guess so. Automatically waking up at 8 a.m. to check the morning tweets and Facebook posts? Oh no. 
I averaged around five hours of sleep per night for a whole semester and I became more drowsy and became physically weak some days even though I wasn’t sick. I also only saw my roommate at 2 a.m. on most days. During those nights when I was up until 4 a.m., it’s not that I didn’t have a purpose, rather I didn’t even know who I was anymore. I felt stuck yet again, but this time I was a husk of a person who had buried his feelings and hadn’t been to therapy in too long.
Worse yet, I was even more unsure of what I wanted to do. I couldn’t write about sports or movies, so I felt really lost again. Whoopdeedoo. 
But with the help of those closest to me (you know who you are), I came to realize that there was an end. I didn’t have to be caught in this soul-sucking cycle. I could set my own terms with the D.O. This year, for better or worse, I didn’t force myself to go out and interact with people relative to how I did the year before. More importantly, though, I settled on covering football and basketball, while writing a bunch of movie reviews.
And eventually, I realized I needed something more and that my time here wasn’t just done yet. I’m still not. I want to do sports writing and movie writing. I think I can do both and I want to do both. 
Will I figure it out by the end of the next year? Probably not. Maybe I’m just kicking the can down the road. Maybe this whole experience will lead me to the rest of my life. Or maybe it won’t. Maybe this will be a bottle episode like in television. Maybe it will be something I come back to. But I know this: The Daily Orange will always be a part of me and my relationship with it will truly never end. Even if I want it to end. But for now, I don’t want it to end. 
OK, if I keep writing, I’ll just keep overthinking. Though maybe that’s why I like writing … alright I’ll stop. I can examine that question in another hack in another life. Hopefully, this rambling made sense. But honestly, it’s OK if it didn’t. 
I guess I will leave you two more things I at least know for sure. First, I may still always think about the long term and worry, but I am full of excitement for the short term. And second, I will ironically quote a video game instead of a movie. This comes from the 2013 video game, “The Stanley Parable,” and I think it rings true for me, The D.O. and everything else in the world. 
“The end is never the end.” 
Henry O’Brien is a senior staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:henrywobrien1123@gmail.com">henrywobrien1123@gmail.com</a> and on X @realhenryobrien.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you’ve come to know me, you know I love to travel. Internationally, I’ve been to 23 countries. In 2023, I spent more days in a different country than I did in my hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. And my goal is to visit the number of countries equal to the amount of years I live. 
Coincidentally, within the United States, I’ve set foot into 23 states — airports don’t count. But soon, that’ll be 24 when I move to Michigan in July to begin working as an Editorial Associate for my new favorite NFL team, the Detroit Lions. 
Studying abroad and sports journalism were my biggest draws to Syracuse University when I decided between SU, Missouri (my legacy school) and Maryland in March 2020. And since coming to Syracuse, sports journalism has taken me as close as the JMA Wireless Dome to as far as Santiago, Chile, at the Parapan American Games and everything in between. 
My main point is that college is the best time to travel — both domestically and internationally — and my personal trips and my time at Syracuse, The Daily Orange and sports journalism are a testament to that.
Studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, after my freshman year — just the fourth country I visited — opened my eyes to exploring the world. Covering games at various places — courtside at Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke or the 2022 NCAA men’s soccer championship in Cary, North Carolina — confirmed my desire to be in a profession that travels domestically and internationally. 
I consider covering Syracuse men’s soccer’s <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/12/syracuse-wins-1st-ever-college-cup-defeats-indiana-in-pks/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">national title win in penalty kicks</a> to be the highlight and pinnacle of my D.O. and student journalism career. Covering Syracuse men’s basketball at Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Boston College and Clemson are up there too, as just some of the many memories I’ve had traveling for The D.O. 
Syracuse and The D.O. was the greatest decision I’ve made for myself. Complemented by skills taught by the Newhouse School, my experiences with the D.O. solidified internships with the Omaha World-Herald and The Buffalo News, where I got to cover the College World Series with the former and interview NFL running back Latavius Murray with the latter. 
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Cole Bambini interviews NFL running back Latavius Murray in June 2023 at a community event held at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. Photograph by Joshua Thermidor | The Buffalo News
Sometimes, it feels surreal and it’s possible I will never have those aforementioned opportunities again. It felt most surreal in November 2023 when I covered the U.S. Paralympic team at the Parapan American Games for a nonprofit, Wheelchair Sports Federation. But above all, I got to go to Chile with my two best friends at Syracuse, Adam McCaffery and Tyler Schiff, both of whom are soon to be my fellow D.O. alumni. 
The three of us might tell you that the trip to Santiago was a sh*tshow at times, but the memories we left with — the pork and cheese sandwich situation, the makeshift triple at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel or the arguments over cycling — is the exact reasoning why I travel. For the memories.
I haven’t had a full immediate family vacation since 2016. My parents’ divorce and my siblings’ being in college and starting their professional lives have made that difficult, so why not create the memories myself. 
Before enrolling in Syracuse, I had been to just three countries. St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines was a celebration for my brother’s senior year of high school — I was in fifth grade. In the summer following seventh grade, I went with two of my cousins, my sister and my grandparents to Peru.
Back then, I didn’t appreciate everything I was seeing in Peru. Machu Picchu was insanely cool, but I was a picky eater, ignorant to history and architecture and just unaccustomed to how the world varies from country to country. 
Reflecting, I consider Peru to be my most favorite place I’ve visited for personal reasons. My grandfather was from Peru, and now that I am fluent in Spanish — I will hold a bachelor’s degree in the language — I can better understand his country and his culture. I look forward to the day I return to his neighborhood on the coast of Lima, but it’ll feel different, since my grandfather passed away back in summer 2021. 
Sometimes making memories takes unexpected turns. I was studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, when my grandfather passed, and COVID-19 restrictions didn’t allow me to travel back for the funeral, for reasons out of my control. 
I forever live the guilt today of not traveling to Kansas City for the funeral but can take some solace in the fact that, at the time, I was learning and embracing a new Spanish culture the same way he wanted me to embrace his Peruvian culture back in 2015. 
From then, I realized I’ve got to keep traveling. So, I studied abroad again. In another short-term program called EuroTech in the iSchool, we visited and networked with companies in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. 
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Cole Bambini (center) poses with two of his best friends, Adam McCaffery (right) and Tyler Schiff, while exploring Santiago, Chile, during an off-day at the 2023 Parapan American Games. Photograph Courtesy of Cole Bambini
But that trip was preceded by spring break trips to Cancún in 2022 — maybe a different kind of memory — and one to Croatia and Slovenia in 2023. In my most recent spring break in 2024, I traveled to London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. And just a few weeks ago, I returned from my third visit to Canada. 
The great thing about traveling is that you can travel with friends or go solo. It’s important to have some alone time. Following a couple days in Zurich, Switzerland, with one of my best friends, I ventured throughout the rest of the country to Bern, Lucerne, and Interlaken on a day trip. It was just me, myself, and I, and that’s my favorite country I have visited for tourist reasons. 
And in between covering Syracuse lose by 20 at Duke and 36 at North Carolina, I snuck in a solo trip to Hungary, Austria and Slovakia. 
The memories I have from traveling — touring PSG and Chelsea’s stadiums, watching a West Ham United Premier League game or touring the Heineken Brewery — are endless and ones I will cherish. 
My college experience has racked up some frequent flier miles, and I’m blessed to have support from friends and family. I recognize traveling isn’t as easy for some compared to my experiences, but memories can be made anywhere.
Travel the world and make new memories, whether the world is as close as the JMA Wireless Dome or if it’s as far as Santiago, Chile, and anywhere in between. 
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Cole Bambini was a senior staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column will no longer appear. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:colebambini@gmail.com">colebambini@gmail.com</a> and on X @ColeBambini.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It was a box of a room, more cramped than cozy. A single bed, draped in dreary gray sheets, hugged the walls. A wooden desk and plastic chair were less than two feet adjacent. Other highlights included compact closet space, a modestly slim bookshelf and a single-pane window overlooking Euclid Avenue. 
For 10 months, this was home. It wasn’t a very happy one. 
Because its lone resident was a college sophomore brimming with self-doubt, alone and lost, more than 6,000 miles away from home. He rushed back and forth from class — head bowed and music blaring. He consistently opted for takeaway from dining halls in fear of eating alone. He didn’t have many friends and rarely sought out new relationships. 
Ironically, the aforementioned prison-of-a-room became a flimsy shelter, temporarily protecting him from the unanticipated shortcomings felt during his first year on campus. 
So, that lonely corner single perched on the third floor of Oren Lyons Hall became his sanctuary. 
My sanctuary. 
Syracuse University was far from what I expected. My dorm felt desolate and social interactions seemed hard to come by outside my living space, let alone parties. After spending my entire freshman year virtually — studying while practically nocturnal — due to COVID-19, why was there a further disconnect … here? 
I knew I couldn’t assimilate, find my crowd or even a handful of friends within days. But why didn’t anything change once September trickled to an end? Why did I lie to high school friends about crazy Halloween plans when I had none? Why did I put on a brave face during daily FaceTime calls with my parents, telling them everything was OK?
• • •
I remember letting the phone ring at least twice before picking up. It was a warm spring day, weeks before the end of my sophomore year. Anish Vasudevan, now the D.O.’s former EIC, was calling. He had just been promoted to be the paper’s next sports editor. I was told he’d be selecting his staff that day. I wanted so badly to be on that staff. 
A lot had changed for me leading up to that moment. I spent the spring semester covering SU’s tennis team. It was a minuscule role in the D.O.’s hierarchy of beat assignments, yet I felt I was contributing to something — anything — for the first time all year. Did anyone frantically thumb through my writing archives to find whether Miyuka Kimoto won her No. 3 singles matchup against Louisville on a Sunday morning? No. But being on a beat helped me meet more people, some of whom are my best friends today.
I started to write more. Aside from tennis, I covered a <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/02/syracuse-university-alumnus-sean-mcdonough-shares-experiences-calling-variety-sports/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sean McDonough talk</a> at Newhouse. There was an article on the <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/05/rob-mcclanaghan-impassions-su-athletes-talks-mental-health/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">mental health of SU athletes</a> and a <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/06/boeheim-army-announces-2022-roster-the-basketball-tournament/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">roster breakdown of Boeheim’s Army</a> — the then-defending champions of The Basketball Tournament. In a class we shared, I remember begging former Sports Editor Connor Smith to let me write about local high school standout <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2022/04/baldwinsville-native-jj-starling-ascent-highly-touted-high-school-prospect/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">J.J. Starling</a> — now a starter on SU’s men’s basketball team. Connor told me it was mine if I could name every McDonald’s All-American in the 2022 class. Easy.
So when Anish told me I was the D.O. sports section’s next assistant digital editor, I felt a tremendous sense of accomplishment. It didn’t matter that — like the tennis beat — this was simply an entry position because getting on staff felt like I was this much closer to finding a new home. 
The three semesters — and well over 300 days — of long nights, seemingly never-ending coverages, and ill-timed write ups that came with saying yes to Anish on that spring day? 
Worth it. 
• • •
There aren’t many bad days now. The D.O.’s made sure of that. The boy who arrived on campus drained of confidence doesn’t exist anymore. In his place is a 22-year-old sports reporter with over 200 bylines, having lived out his pre-collegiate dream of covering men’s basketball for a major student publication. 
He doesn’t go out as much as his friends probably want him to, but he’s forever thankful for their unwavering support and willingness to shoot some hoops or have a meal at Chipotle. He has a toothy, ear-to-ear smile plastered permanently on his face. He vocalizes his love for LeBron James and offers atrocious March Madness bracket advice. 
He isn’t scared to eat alone nor overanxious when stepping onto some of campus’s busiest walkways. 
At one time, he contemplated transferring. Running from it all. He used to count down the days before a transpacific flight could whisk him away during breaks. Never did he think an unsuspecting three-story house at 230 Euclid — a mere block from the nightmarish confines of Oren Lyons — would give him… happiness. 
So, if you’re a lost college kid searching for that same elusive feeling, tap your knuckles against the house’s large maroon door. 
Ease it open and you’ll find what he called home. 
What I’ll always call home. 
— 30 —
Tyler Schiff was a senior staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column will no longer appear. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:trschiff@syr.edu">trschiff@syr.edu</a> and on X @theTylerSchiff.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[This past November in the middle of the Paralympic anthem during the Parapan American Games opening ceremony in Santiago, Chile, I raced out of the press area of Estadio Nacional to try and make it to the bathroom. 
I guess the sandwich I ate an hour earlier from the concession stand didn’t sit too well in my stomach, because I got an instant urge to throw it back up. Unfortunately, I didn’t exactly make it all the way to the bathroom either — and I started heaving over the nearest trashcan in front of horrified spectators in the stadium concourse.
It wasn’t exactly the start I imagined for a trip that consisted of traveling the world and covering a global sports event like I had always pictured myself doing when I sought out to become a journalist, but here I was attempting to explain to the Parapan American workers that it was a bad case of food poisoning and I didn’t need to go to the hospital (with the very little Spanish I knew). 
Of course, I certainly felt down bad in the moment and longed to be at home in my own bed with a bowl of chicken noodle soup for about the next 12 hours. But, even in the moment, I knew in the back of my head that this ridiculous moment would be something I would laugh at. Anytime I recount it with my Santiago counterparts Cole Bambini and Tyler Schiff, we all share a good laugh about it.
In fact, that whole trip the three of us could’ve caved in and soured our way through it considering it wasn’t official if we were staying 4,300 miles away from Syracuse for 12 days until less than a week before and it consisted of long days we weren’t briefed about. To balance the busy and tiring, we’d talk about the <a href="https://media.wheelchairsportsfederation.org/2023/11/20/garrison-redd-has-always-embraced-challenge-as-he-aims-to-medal-at-parapan-american-games/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">incredible athletes that we covered</a> and laugh about the best parts of the day later that night over Pizza Hut and KFC.
Sometimes, life throws you curveballs, which in my case was a churrasco y queso sandwich in Santiago. All you can do with it, though, is embrace the situation and try to find what there is to laugh about it. Life would be pretty miserable if we bullied ourselves for every little mistake we made and pouted about every shortcoming thrown our way.
Of course, just because I’m finding an excuse to laugh doesn’t mean I’m advocating for fooling around. I always try to put in my serious effort to my work and to the relationships I’ve worked hard to cultivate with people who have become my lifelong friends here at Syracuse. And, of course, I’ll treat an out-of-conference Rutgers men’s basketball game against an above 300 NET ranked team like it’s life or death.
But, being less serious about the potential consequences of failure or people looking at you negatively might lead to something you never would have expected. At my time for the D.O., it was something like a more unique article about the <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2021/11/music-brings-party-sour-sitrus-society-impact-volleyball-games/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">band’s support for the volleyball team</a>. Or asking Henry O’Brien what movie he would compare the 2023-24 men’s basketball season to on the Sportscast.
Additionally, I’ve been applying for the Digital Managing Editor position at the D.O. for the past two years, putting my heart and soul into each application. I might have been denied each time by management, and of course, lost out to extremely talented individuals, but I think everyone gets a good laugh out of it every time I make an attempt.
This past semester, I challenged myself by taking two different Spanish conversation classes. Santiago was pretty telling that I needed some work, and it didn’t help that my classes each had native Spanish speakers. 
I knew right away I might not be receiving the best grade in those classes because I couldn’t always keep pace, but every time I would see someone from my class outside of it we’d always laugh about my struggles and it was an easy way for me to make new friends. Oh, and I actually improved more than I probably would have by taking a lower-level course because I continually made mistakes. 
Back in high school, I was convinced I was going to be a sports journalist and work for ESPN one day, which is why I chose to apply early to Syracuse. In my four years, I didn’t necessarily become the next Wright Thompson. In fact, I switched my major to Public Relations and Information Management & Technology, abandoned ship at The D.O. for a semester, and worked for the Syracuse Athletics Communications Department. 
So, yeah, my four-ish years as a journalist were ones that I can laugh at. But if it weren’t for all the times that seemed frustrating in the moment, I wouldn’t have had irreplaceable ones too. Because of my time at the D.O., I’ve made some lifelong friends and told the stories of some amazing people. 
College didn’t teach me how to avoid having bad stretches and making mistakes. Instead, it taught me there will always be plenty of them. But, if we can manage to take those moments and laugh at them, we’ll get to enjoy the good stuff even more.
There’s not enough time to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself for some reason, call me and I’ll laugh with you.
— 30 —
Adam McCaffery was a staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column will no longer appear. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:adamj40302@gmail.com">adamj40302@gmail.com</a> and on X @adammccaffery9.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The last four years have gone by so fast — 97 mph on I-85 fast — that I haven’t had much chance to sit down and reflect. 
In between the final exams, papers, award ceremonies, end of an internship and ongoing job hunt, there’s the parties, $2 beer nights and two-hour dinner seshes at Chipotle. It’s a lot, and it’s moving way too fast, but it’s really just an encapsulation of my four years at SU and The Daily Orange.
Everything went by so quickly — I can still vividly remember move-in day, August 2020, and the first time I stepped in-house a few weeks later. Snap your fingers, and I’m done with college, writing a hack. 
College flew by like those D.O. road trips always did. All of us on sports staff know about them — driving eight, nine, even 10 hours to cover a 2-3 hour game, staying in a beat-up motel, then making the drive home the next morning so you could make it to class on Monday. 
All you can think about while you’re on the road is how much time is left to kill before you’re back in Syracuse. But when you look back on those trips months — years — later, you realize the true joy, the real memories, came while you were in the car, talking with a friend or two about everything from nut grafs to relationships to career goals. 
When I think about covering this year’s Syracuse-Georgetown game in D.C., I don’t think about how many points Judah Mintz scored or how much SU won by. I think about the seven hours driving with one of my closest friends, the steak and risotto dinner we had with my parents and the random college game we watched on the basement TV later that night. When I think about traveling to last year’s ACC Tournament, I don’t initially think about Wake Forest’s buzzer beater or Jim Boeheim’s final press conference. I think about another close friend sleeping on an air mattress in my grandparents’ living room and getting a hefty speeding ticket on the way home.
I could go on and on and on: the Motel 6 near Virginia Tech that lacked heat, blankets or running water; the pink bedroom in Hartford; the “snowstorm” in Durham; the golf simulator and movie screen in a luxurious suburban Pittsburgh basement; etc. Sharing those memories with a friend or two is worth a hell of a lot more than covering games for “free” and interviewing players and coaches. 
Traveling for coverages meant more than writing a gamer, getting five hours of sleep and coming back home. It meant meeting people, getting to know them — and often, their families too. And now I realize the time on the road was really a metaphor for time in college — or even life. While driving, you always want time to fly by and get onto the next thing while not enjoying what’s in front of you that minute. 
It’s like the reminder of Thomas Rhett’s “Sixteen”: to enjoy the present instead of always looking toward the future. At the end of the song, a 25-year-old Rhett is sitting and laughing about how all that he used to care about was turning 16, then 18, then 21, wishing he could go back in time. There was always something bigger and better to get to, until the realization that the best days were actually in the past. I guess maybe that point of realization has arrived a little bit earlier for me.
In the fall I wrote an obituary on <a href="https://dailyorange.com/2023/11/chris-snow-remembrance/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Chris Snow</a>, a legendary figure at The D.O. who passed away after a lengthy public battle with ALS. It’s easily the most impactful and emotional story I’ve ever worked on. I asked all of Chris’ friends what their favorite memories were with him and in college. The most common answer: road trips. Whether it was driving through a snowy I-81, sleeping in fleabag motels near Madison Square Garden or drinking and running fly routes on South Beach, that’s what stands out to those D.O. alums about their college years, two decades later. As Jeff Passan put it, “The best D.O. trips for me were always the ones where I was with another writer.”
If you’re reading this, you’re likely a younger sportswriter at The D.O. trying to figure everything out. You probably still have plenty of road trips and college days in front of you. My advice: enjoy every minute of that eight-hour drive to Blacksburg, that red-eye train to South Bend, that bumpy flight into Greenville-Spartanburg. See the value in who you’re with — not necessarily what you’re doing or where you are. Life is about the who, and if you’re spending your time in college with The D.O., you’ve surrounded yourself with great people.
The D.O. has provided me with opportunities I dreamed of when I was younger: interviewing Boeheim, covering top-25 Syracuse football games, winning awards, internships in sports (and maybe even a job!), etc. 
But more importantly than any of that was the opportunity to meet a group of people I hope to call friends forever. 
Enjoy the road, kids. You’re driving a lot quicker than you realize. 
— 30 —
Connor Smith was a senior staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column will no longer appear. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:csmith49@syr.edu">csmith49@syr.edu</a> and on X @csmith17_.
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When Lysianne Proulx’s agent contacted her earlier this year about a possible transfer to Bay FC in the National Women’s Soccer League, she was skeptical. Proulx established herself as a starter for Melbourne FC in the A-League — Australia’s top division for women’s soccer — and was unsure about the transition. 
But after meeting with Bay FC Goalkeeping coach Diego Restrepo and thinking further about playing in the NWSL, she realized she couldn’t pass it up. 
“An opportunity like Bay FC was something (I’d) been waiting for since I finished college, so I had to take it,” Proulx said about the move. “It was an obvious choice.”
Proulx excelled at Syracuse from 2017-21 and has since made a name for herself across multiple professional leagues. Following her college career, Proulx played for Torreense in Portugal before settling in Australia with Melbourne City FC. Proulx also began participating in Canadian National Team training camps in June 2022 before making its 2023 World Cup roster. Her performances culminated on Feb. 9 when Bay FC of the NWSL acquired Proulx for a record transfer fee for an outgoing A-League player.
Entering international soccer wasn’t foreign to Proulx. Before attending Syracuse in 2017, Proulx represented Canada in 2014 and 2016 in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup and in the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. She also earned two Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football youth medals — gold at the U-15 level in 2014 and silver at the U-20 level in 2015. 
Though it took Proulx until her junior season to earn a starting spot at SU. Once given a consistent role, Proulx shined. The goalkeeper totaled the fourth-most saves (281), second-most saves per game (5.30) and seventh-most shutouts (eight) in program history. During her junior campaign, Proulx led the Atlantic Coast Conference in saves (96) before returning to the team for a fifth season. 
“She was usually one of the last people to leave and would be working after practice too,” said SU women’s soccer assistant coach Brandon DeNoyer. “(Lysianne) was a leader by example. I don’t think anyone worked harder than her.” 
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DeNoyer stressed keeping his goalkeepers as sharp as possible on the field. Whenever he gave Proulx a pointer, she asked questions for clarification. If she saw something differently, they went over what made her most comfortable. Throughout their tenure together, DeNoyer molded Proulx into an elite shot-stopper.
After graduating from SU in 2021, Proulx returned home to recover from wrist surgery. Then, she earned a roster spot on Canada’s Women’s National Team after she was invited to its training camp in June 2022 ahead of the CONCACAF Women’s Championship.
The next month, Proulx signed with Portuguese club Torrense in the Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino league. Proulx played 18 games with Torrense before joining Melbourne City FC in August 2023. Canada’s National Team later added her to its 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup roster. 
After returning from the World Cup, Melbourne City FC head coach Aurelio Vidmar implemented a possession-heavy system for Proulx. She described the style as “the perfect fit” for her, which helped her deal with pressure from opposing attackers. With Melbourne, Proulx started in 14 games and registered 50 saves, propelling it to the top of the league. Then her agent informed her of Bay FC’s interest. 
“When I first got the call from my agent, I wasn’t too sure how to react to it,” Proulx said. “…It’s difficult for me (to) start something, drop it and move on to something different.”
During Bay FC’s recruiting process, Restrepo said Proulx’s quick feet and explosiveness stood out. Bay FC’s three other goalies offered different skill sets than Proulx, but Restrepo needed a faster and more experienced goalie. Proulx fit the mold.
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Lysianne Proulx recorded a shutout on March 17 against Angel City FC in her debut for Bay FC in the NWSL. Courtesy of USA Today 
After joining Bay FC in February, Proulx became the 16th goalkeeper in league history to record a shutout in her debut, defeating Angel City FC 1-0 on March 17. Proulx’s eight saves also tied the league record for stops in an NWSL regular-season debut, matching Adrianna Franch’s eight saves in her NWSL debut for the Western New York Flash in 2013.
“If you see (Proulx) play, she has this swagger that not many people have,” Restrepo said. “That’s something you can’t teach.”
Restrepo believes keeping Proulx level-headed is the key to her success with Bay FC. The 25-year-old’s breakout debut game had many highs, so Restrepo said it’s essential to control her emotions and block out outside noise. 
Bay FC is 2-0-4 and ranks 10th in the NWSL. Proulx, now the starting goalkeeper, has recorded 24 saves through five games thus far.
“This is the best collective team I’ve been on,” Proulx said. “(Bay FC) was the kind of opportunity that I was waiting for.”
As she continues capitalizing on her opportunity with Bay FC, Proulx has her eyes set on the 2027 World Cup. Though she didn’t play in the 2023 World Cup, DeNoyer believes it’s only a matter of time before Proulx reaches the field with Canada. 
“It’s tough in the goalkeeper position because only one goalkeeper plays,” DeNoyer said. “I know how hard she works in training and what she gives in training … The opportunity will come.” 
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At McDonogh School (Maryland), Coco Vandiver defended the country’s top lacrosse players both in practice and games. No. 1 recruit Kori Edmondson and No. 8 recruit Carolina Godine both were Vandiver’s teammates.
But outside of McDonogh, Vandiver first crafted her skills against her twin sister, Ana Lee Vandiver. Playing one-on-one against Ana Lee, now an attack at Elon, standing four inches taller than Vandiver, she learned to face players with a height advantage. 
Now a sophomore at Syracuse, Vandiver has started every game on its defense since joining SU in 2023, when she made the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman Team. In November 2020, Vandiver committed to Syracuse before even making McDonogh’s varsity team. 
While most of her club teammates had committed after having varsity experience, Vandiver was in the minority, feeling she had added pressure to prove herself, Vandiver said. Still, it was her competition with her sister that drove her most.
“When (Ana Lee) beats me, I’m not letting her get a goal off,” Vandiver said. “I got in the habit of being able to get a back check off if a girl gets a step on me.”
In the spring of her junior year of high school, Vandiver made varsity. Initially, she didn’t receive much playing time, motivating her to improve.
During the offseason before senior year, Vandiver worked with local trainers to hone her speed and lacrosse-specific skills. Vandiver and Ana Lee also trained for a running test. 
“She was a huge sponge,” said Taylor Cummings, McDonogh’s women’s lacrosse head coach and three-time Tewaaraton award winner. “She asked a ton of questions to our defensive coordinator and to myself. She asked a lot from the veterans on the team and she really just took all of the insight and lacrosse IQ.”
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Cummings said Vandiver was used as a matchup defender who guarded each team’s top defender. The growth she made was immense, according to Cummings.
McDonogh faced Glenelg Country School and Vandiver was assigned to defend Maggie Weisman, the No. 4 recruit in the class of 2022, per Inside Lacrosse. Her assignments in practice against Edmondson, Godine and Ana Lee prepared her for the matchup.
“(Vandiver) wanted to have the top matchups and wanted to play against the best people in practice and in games because that pushed her to be better,” Cummings said. 
As one of Gary Gait’s last recruits, Vandiver came to Syracuse without much of a relationship with new head coach Kayla Treanor, who became SU’s head coach in June 2021. But Cummings, who had played with Treanor on the United States National Team, assured Treanor that Vandiver was a strong player. 
When Vandiver joined Syracuse in fall 2022, she was anxious about playing at the collegiate level, Ana Lee said. 
But Katie Goodale, then a junior defender on SU, made the transition to college easier for Vandiver. The pair broke down film and practiced footwork together to improve their fundamentals.
In the first game of Vandiver’s collegiate career, Syracuse matched up with then-No. 4 Northwestern. Leading up to the game, Vandiver didn’t expect to play much despite getting lots of playing time with the first team in practice. But on gameday, Treanor elected to start Vandiver.
Early in the game, Vandiver established herself. At the 11:14 mark of the second quarter, Vandiver back-checked Tewaaraton winner Izzy Scane, causing a turnover for SU. In the fourth quarter, Vandiver took the ball from Northwestern’s Elle Hansen, helping lead Syracuse to a 16-15 win.
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Going forward, she felt her confidence increase. On March 15, Vandiver tallied a game-high three caused turnovers, helping the Orange to a 9-7 win over then-No. 9 Loyola.
Her time at McDonogh prepared to make an immediate impact at SU, tallying 15 caused turnovers and 15 ground balls. She also started all 21 games.
“I was really used to the fast-paced style of play and practices being long and pretty brutal,” Vandiver said. “The fall of my freshman year, that’s exactly what they were. They were long and tough and I felt ready for it.”
In her sophomore season, she’s continued to build off her freshman campaign. Vandiver showed an increased awareness for the positioning of offensive players on March 23 against then-No. 9 Virginia. After Syracuse took a one-goal lead, UVA won the draw but Vandiver intercepted a pass from Madison Alaimo with 4:29 left. The interception slowed the Cavaliers’ late momentum and helped SU to a one-goal win.
As Vandiver’s playing time has increased at Syracuse, she’s made analyzing film a habit. Aside from her own, she breaks down Ana Lee’s games as well, providing a defensive perspective to help improve her sister’s skills, Ana Lee said.
Even though Vandiver and Ana Lee are each playing collegiately, their one-on-one battles continue to be a part of their training. They schedule their workouts to be 30 minutes, but they constantly push past their allotted time because neither sister wants to end the workout on a loss.
“That’s the competitiveness of it, that we obviously want each other to play insanely (well),” Ana Lee said. “We definitely like having more of that aspect, of having something to hold over each other in the best way.”
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After securing its most regular-season wins since 2017, Syracuse heads to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the ACC Tournament. SU sealed the No. 2 seed with a 3-1 conference record, only finishing behind Notre Dame, which went undefeated in ACC play. 
Syracuse enters the postseason coming off two one-goal wins against North Carolina and Virginia. In Chapel Hill on April 13, SU led 10-4 before five straight goals from the Tar Heels made the Orange sweat late on, but they pulled out a 10-9 win. In its regular-season finale, Syracuse <a href="https://www.dailyorange.com/2024/04/syracuse-mens-lacrosse-win-over-virginia/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">defeated Virginia 18-17</a>. Trailing by three in the fourth quarter, SU scored four straight goals to come out with a win.
As they look to make their first ACC Championship game since 2016, the Orange take on Duke for the second time this season. The Blue Devils have one of the most potent offenses in the country, led by reigning Tewaaraton winner Brennan O’Neill. 
Here’s everything to know about No. 3 seed Duke (11-4, 1-3 ACC) before it takes on No. 2 seed Syracuse (11-4, 3-1 ACC) in the ACC Tournament semifinals: 
<h3> All-time series </h3>
Syracuse leads 15-9.
<h3> Last time they played </h3>
Just over a month ago on March 20, Syracuse welcomed then-No. 4 Duke to the JMA Wireless Dome for its first ACC contest. Benn Johnston got on the board first for Duke, but Syracuse scored eight of the next nine goals to lead 8-2. From there, the Orange held on for a <a href="https://www.dailyorange.com/2024/03/syracuse-mens-lacrosse-duke-win/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">comfortable 10-4 win</a>. 
Owen Hiltz netted a hat trick, but <a href="https://www.dailyorange.com/2024/04/syracuse-lacrosse-will-mark-emphasizes-mindfulness/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Will Mark’s</a> play in net led the way for SU. Mark registered 13 saves and a <a href="https://www.dailyorange.com/2024/03/syracuse-mens-lacrosse-will-mark-shines-over-duke/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">season-high 77.8% save percentage</a> while holding the Blue Devils to their lowest-scoring total since 2012. 
<h3> The Blue Devils report </h3>
Since its loss to Syracuse, Duke has seen mixed results. A one-goal win over Boston University followed a comfortable win over Denver, but the Blue Devils fell to No. 1 Notre Dame 15-12 on April 7. After defeating Virginia handily, Duke put in its worst performance of the season, falling 15-12 to North Carolina. 
The focal point of Duke’s offense is O’Neill. His 67 points lead the Blue Devils and he always has the green light to let it rip from distance. O’Neill’s 153 shots are 60 more than the next closest player on the team. He will be a lot to handle but Duke has plenty of attacking depth, with six other players totalling at least 15 goals this season. 
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Along with its potent attack, Duke’s defense is no slouch either. Led by freshman Patrick Jameison in net, the Blue Devils allow just 9.87 goals per game — the second-best mark in the ACC. Though in recent weeks, Jameison hasn’t been as strong. Through Duke’s first 11 games, he held opponents to single-digits eight times, but has allowed at least 10 goals in his past four appearances. 
<h3> How Syracuse beats Duke </h3>
Holding O’Neill to one goal simply won’t happen again. At least, it’s not likely. The key for Syracuse against Duke is shutting down its secondary options. If the Orange let O’Neill get his way and contains attackers like Dyson Williams and Josh Zawada, it could lead to similar success like the first matchup. A lot of pressure will be put on Syracuse’s long poles Billy Dwan, Riley Figueiras and Saam Olexo to contain a dangerous Blue Devils attack. 
Defensive stability will be key, but playing a full four quarters is crucial to SU’s success. The Orange have struggled to close out games this year. SU let a seven-goal lead slip against Cornell and almost blew comfortable leads against Johns Hopkins and North Carolina. In what will likely be a tight game, Syracuse’s fourth-quarter play will be the deciding factor. 
<h3> Stat to know: 3 </h3>
Since winning the ACC Tournament championship in 2016, Syracuse has lost its past three ACC Tournament games, all of which came by just one goal. Starting in 2017, Syracuse fell 16-15 to North Carolina. Then, after finishing the 2018 regular season undefeated in conference play, it fell 11-10 to Virginia. 
The final game of the losing streak came against North Carolina in 2019. SU led by one heading into the fourth quarter, but the Tar Heels outscored the Orange 5-3 in the fourth, propelling them to an 11-10 win.
<h3> Player to watch: Dyson Williams, attack, No. 51 </h3>
Coming off a 60-goal season, Williams hasn’t slowed down in 2024. In 15 games, the attack has recorded a team-high 44 goals, converting on 47.3% of his shots. With O’Neill as the focal point of the offense, Williams gets a lot of favorable looks with his off-ball cutting ability. Williams has scored a hat trick in 10 games this season, and tallied a season-high five goals on March 3 against Princeton. 
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No. 3 Syracuse starts its postseason on Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. The Orange finished the season with back-to-back conference wins over North Carolina and Virginia, giving them their most conference wins since 2018. 
SU’s three ACC victories helped it seal the No. 2 seed and a matchup with No. 3 seed Duke in the semifinals on Friday. The Blue Devils are coming off a 15-12 defeat to North Carolina in their regular-season finale, their second loss in three games. 
Here’s how our beat writers believe No. 2 seed Syracuse (11-4, 3-1 ACC) will fare against No. 3 seed Duke (11-4, 1-3 ACC) Friday: 
Zak Wolf (10-5) 
History doesn’t repeat itself 
Syracuse 13, Duke 15
My tagline can be interpreted in two ways. Syracuse’s last ACC Tournament win came against Duke in 2016 in the championship game. This season, the Orange also defeated Duke 10-4 on March 20. No matter which way you look at it, I doubt Syracuse will get past the Blue Devils. 
When SU upset Duke earlier, reigning Tewaaraton winner Brennan O’Neill was held to just 1-for-11 shooting and two points. It was one of five times this season O’Neill was held under five points. I can’t see how O’Neill is kept that quiet for a second time. 
The rest of Duke’s attack is potent as well. Six other Blue Devils have scored at least 15 points or more this season. There’s no reason Syracuse’s offense can’t keep up with Duke, but O’Neill will be too much to handle for the Orange this time around. 
Cooper Andrews (10-5) 
Womp womp 
Syracuse 13, Duke 16
At this point, it’s safe to say that Syracuse men’s lacrosse has emerged from the depths of mediocrity. Marquee wins over Virginia, Johns Hopkins and Duke proved it. Yet that March 20 victory over the Blue Devils, a 10-4 result that marked Duke’s lowest single-game scoring total since 2012, still stands above the rest. 
Based on recent history, though, I don’t see that happening again. 
Ten first-half goals allowed in a loss to Notre Dame. A season-worst 18 goals versus Cornell, 
which used the production to come back from multiple seven-goal deficits. And to close the regular season, SU let in 17 goals to Virginia as its unabating offense was tasked with a monumental comeback effort. 
Syracuse may have succeeded in surging late versus the Cavaliers, though the Blue Devils are a different animal. O’Neill, Josh Zawada and Dyson Williams are arguably the most lethal attacking trio in the country. If the Orange continue to let star attacks run rampant on them, chances of an ACC title appearance are limited. And unlike its first matchup against Duke, SU’s back end will falter and its offense won’t have time to pick up the pieces.
Anish Vasudevan (12-3) 
1st trip, 1st win 
Syracuse 14, Duke 12
Who would have thought this would happen? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yd3lQVbkYc" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Not me</a>. 2024 has been a year of firsts for head coach Gary Gait in his third season at the helm of Syracuse. His first five-game win streak. His first ACC Tournament berth. And, most recently, his first win over Virginia. So why not add his first ACC Tournament win?
The Orange have already shown their ability against the Blue Devils. Though the game itself was sloppier than most, a five-goal third quarter gave Syracuse a comfortable win over Duke. It was a grandiose achievement for Will Mark and SU’s defense, which held reigning O’Neill to just one goal on 11 shots. 
Since the Duke game, Syracuse’s defense has been off and on. Mark made key stops when needed against the Cavaliers, but the Orange struggled while having to play a lot of defense against Cornell’s elite offense. They’ll turn in a good enough performance Friday in Charlotte, allowing their dynamic offense to put the Blue Devils away. 
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