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Daryll Clark threw three three touchdown passes and Evan Royster scored twice Saturday to lead fifth-ranked Penn State to a 28-7 win over Syracuse. Clark completed 20-of-31 passes for 240 yards. Royster ran for 41 yards and caught two passes for 61 yards. Graham Zug caught six passes for 79 yards for the Nittany Lions (2-0). Greg Paulus, a former Duke basketball player starting for Syracuse as a graduate student, was 14-of-20 for 105 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. The Orange...

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of the Town of Fleming in Cayuga County are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.The franchise agreement in Fleming, approved by the Town Board on Monday (July 13), follows recent similar approvals in the villages of East Syracuse and...

Franchise Agreements in East Syracuse, Cicero and North Syracuse Pave the Way for Verizon FiOS TV Clay Franchise Approved by State Commission NEW YORK, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Competition in the cable television market is a bit closer to reality in central New York, as the villages of East Syracuse and North Syracuse, and the town of Cicero recently approved franchise agreements allowing Verizon to offer its revolutionary FiOS TV service to residents in those communities. In addition,...

New facility will feature "green" technologies to reduce energy use by more than 50 percent ARMONK and SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM), Syracuse University and New York State have entered into a multiyear agreement to build and operate a new computer data center on the University's campus that will incorporate advanced infrastructure and smarter computing technologies to make it one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the world. The data center is...

Cody Jamieson scored in overtime Monday to give Syracuse a 10-9 win over Cornell in the NCAA men's lacrosse final. Kenny Nims had scored the tying goal for Syracuse with 4 seconds left in regulation. The win gave Syracuse (16-2) its second consecutive title and 11th overall. The Orange became the first team to win back-to-back NCAA men's lacrosse championships since Princeton won three straight from 1996-98. Cornell (13-4) held a 9-6 lead with 5:31 to play. Syracuse got within a goal with...

Cornell and Syracuse won Saturday to advance to Monday's NCAA lacrosse final. In one semifinal, Rob Pannell had three goals and three assists to lead Cornell to a 15-6 win over Virginia. Ryan Hurley also had three goals and an assist, while Chris Finn also scored three times as the Big Red advanced to the championship game for the first time since 1988. In the other semifinal, Kenny Nams and Patrick Perritt each scored four goals to lead Syracuse to a 17-7 win over Duke. The defending...

Kenny Nams and Patrick Perritt both scored four goals, leading Syracuse to a 17-7 rout of Duke at the NCAA lacrosse semifinals in Foxborough, Mass. The defending champions scored four times in both the first and second periods to build an 8-4 halftime lead, then ended any Duke hopes of coming back with a six-goal third to lead 14-6 entering the fourth. Goalkeeper John Galloway was credited with 11 saves for the Orange, who advanced to the NCAA Championship game Monday for the 16th time. With...

Technology company deploys showcase network in downtown Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- TCM Mobile (TCMMobile.com) today unveiled its revolutionary, patented technology which uses free unlicensed spectrum to provide high-quality cellular phone service using voice over internet protocol (VOIP). The result of several years of development and testing, the new telecommunication technology uses free, unlicensed spectrum, for example 2.4 GHz, traditionally used for broadband...

Greg Paulus, who played basketball at Duke for four seasons, said Thursday he would play football at Syracuse in the fall. Paulus graduated from Duke last weekend and said he would enroll at Syracuse as a graduate student. He will need a waiver from the NCAA in order to play football at Syracuse. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound Paulus was a national player of the year as a high school quarterback at Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, N.Y. He worked out for the Green Bay Packers in April and...

Additional Capacity Needed to Meet Growing Demand for Wireless Broadband Service SYRACUSE, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless announced today it has increased its wireless broadband capacity on its Syracuse and Utica-area networks. The additional capacity, added to 22 local cell sites, will help the company stay ahead of the growing demand for wireless Internet access as more of its customers adopt wireless data services such as V CAST and V CAST Music with Rhapsody, and...