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Meet the Team You Root For Every Morning.We know the Orange. We are the Orange.  D.A. (SU '01) is the Vader to this Fizz Deathstar. Creator in August '08, he has steered the ship into many an iceberg in his time at the helm. By day a blogger, by night host of "The D.A. Show" on 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston. In between, been known to battle Herm Edwards and lament the new Syracuse basketball unis. D.A. began his radio career at WAER in Syracuse where he was Sports Director.  Ted Conroy (SU '11) joined the Fizz in April '09 on the Fizz First recruiting beat. Just another Syracuse local who grew up on Varsity Pizza and the Orangemen. A product of Nottingham High School, he realized he wanted to experience new things. So he packed up his '99 Subaru and made the 10 block drive to Syracuse University. Ted has covered S.U. sports for NewsChannel 9 and currently reports for Citrus TV sports and WAER-FM.  Mike Couzens (SU '11) also joined the Fizz staff in April '09 as a Fizz First writer. From White Plains, New York, Mike never intended to stay in his home state for college, but SU was the only school he got into (also the only one he applied to). On campus he is a member of the sports staff for WAER radio and General Manager of Z89 radio. Covering various sporting events, he has learned free food is not always good food and that he does not fit well in airplanes.
Who's Next? Fizz First Is All You Need.Free. Premium. Daily. SU's Best Recruiting Dirt.
The Orange Fizz understands your insatiable appetite for recruiting gossip (you dogs). That's why we've got two of the best prep hounds on the ground floor heading Fizz First. Mike Couzens and Ted Conroy bang the recruiting trail daily for all the Orange news and post every morning. They've also got you covered on a weekly podcast, because we know you just can't get enough. We're talking to kids, coaches and scouts and bringing it to you. Who's on an official visit? Where's the kid leaning? Where does he fit in? We've got it now. That's why it's Fizz First. There are national websites with guys in Los Angeles ranking SU's recruiting classes for $12.95/ month. Then there's Fizz First. Our entire writing staff is a Syracuse Orange. We know the Orange. We are the Orange. 
How Do I Bling the Fizz? We're glad you asked.
As you, the loyal reader of Orange Fizz, might imagine we don't exactly get paid for this. In fact, it's not even a "we." It's a "me." And like Spider-Man I will only reveal my identity at my office of full-time employment (which is not really a secret. Here's the link. Enjoy!). We blog therefore we are. But we also do it to pay forward much of the enjoyment and entertainment we derived from other 'Cuse-centric blogs (see below). But there is a cost to running a website (Approx. $250 annually for domain ownership, "web hosting" or site maintenance and registration. Bigger rip-off than the prices of beer at the Dome). In this time of economic recovery, we are urging you to Bling the Fizz! It's easy and it's free. By clicking on any one of the Google ads you are making an entire $.03 for the Fizz. You don't have to buy anything, no need to go deep into the websites (we aren't interested in an online degree from Phoenix Institute either). Just click and close the window. That's $.03 and we thank you. It'll go directly towards maintaining the site at its current incredible status! It's called Blinging the Fizz and it just feels right. 
The Blog of Inevitability. 8.22.08 Why this Orange-centric blog had to happen. Therapy.
 This is me in Iowa City September '07, metaphorically getting pummeled by the enemy. This was the Orange that night, losing 35-nil, literally getting pummeled by the enemy. Midwesterners can be so naively sweet. Upon entering the state on I-35, a sign read, "Iowa: Fields of Opportunity." If only they knew what we in Orange Nation knew; it was only an opportunity to get crushed. Again. Since attending and graduating from the 'Cuse nearly a decade ago, there have certainly been ups ('Melo, D-Nabb, G-Mac, the lax Final Fours). But the lows have made quite a comeback lately. The NITs, the quickly emptying Carrier Domes, the attention-starved A.D., the all-orange football unis, the entire Groobers Error. Like, zoinks. Screaming, cheering, caring for Syracuse seems so quaint at times. When you first arrive on campus at that great, big pressurized aluminum box you feel like anything is possible. Quickly, you realize it often seems to feel very impossible.  This is the part of the story where this whole blogging thing comes into play. Group therapy had been the only salve for the scars. It was the vast network of blogs from like-minded, same-suffering Orange Heads that kept us from insanity. Some of the work has been extraordinary, from "Troy Nunes is An Absolute Magician", to "Three Idiots on Sports" and "Hoya Suxa." The losing hurts a little less with a twist of masochism. This is where "Orange Fizz" bubbles in. Is Poliquin still searching for another silver lining? What is Dr. Doom's "anytime minutes" plan when using Sometimes, Syracuse athletics feels like the set of "30 Rock": chaos, absurdity, unintentional comedy. 
In a few short months, the Fizz has become one of the fastest growing college sports blogs on the web. We reached 10,000 hits in less than four months. We've been linked to by much larger sites like SI.com and TheBigLead.com. Heck, even Syracuse.com noticed. Our little Fizzy Otto is all growns up. How? Who the hell knows. Guess we all need hobbies. Like it? Bookmark us. We're updated every morning. It's been gratifying and humbling knowing the Fizz is leaving a mark. More importantly, we all just hope you've been entertained. Because as fellow brow-beaten, exasperated and delirious members of Orange Nation, we could all use a moment of sanity.
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