A Syracuse grad crosses Duke game at Cameron off bucket list

This isn't exactly a story about television, but it does have elements of the old series "Mission Impossible."About a month ago, I asked a friend with deep basketball connections if he would help me take one item off my bucket list.Since I almost kicked the bucket four years ago,yibiao-lingeriepaper drinking straws wholesale I thought it was about time I went to the top of the list and tried to see a basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium where Duke University plays and I have wanted to go since my childhood when Long Island legend Art Heyman played for the Blue Devils.Since I graduated from Syracuse University, I asked if he could get me two tickets for the SU-Duke game on Saturday night, Feb.22 that was going to be televised on ESPN.Talk about "Mission Impossible."My friend asked several of his connections and was greeted with laughter. 

That was a week before Syracuse beat Duke in overtime, 91-89, in a Feb. 1 ESPN game before 35,446 in the Carrier Dome that is widely being referred to as the game of the year and created an instant rivalry. And Cameron only has 9,314 seats.Needless to say,i-fashion-handbag "Mission Impossible" got even more impossible for a game involving two of the best teams in the country.Until last Monday,Custom Gaming Headset when my friend called and said "you got them."I reacted as if the Bills had won the Super Bowl.I told my older son Ben that it would be best if we didn't root loudly for Syracuse in an enemy building. I'm not sure what was more impossible -- getting the tickets or getting Ben to be quiet.If I wanted quiet, it probably would have been better to take my younger son Max, but he couldn't afford to take time off from college. 

Ben is a bigger Syracuse basketball fan than I am.Hydraulic dirt bucket suppliers Besides, he had a tough week. He is engaged to a beautiful graduate of Boston College, who rubbed in BC's upset of Syracuse last Wednesday just a little.She rubbed it in enough that Ben joked that she wasn't entitled to Chef's meatballs and meat sauce, which I planned to bring with me on my visit to Ben in Arlington, Va. before we headed to Duke.I thought that would make us look like sore losers, so I proposed a"promise. She would get Chef's if she didn't bring up BC's win. It was a win-win.