Since We've Been Gone

Happy New Year from the Daily Onions! It's been quite some time since we last spoke (Daily Onions was on winter break - hey, if we are writing about college hoops, we should get a winter break as well).

 Marrone and the Orange looked good in Pinstripe. (NJ Star Ledger)

Over the the last 10 days or so, Daily Onions spent time a lot of time with the family (a good thing), spent a few days snowed in, ate a lot of food, got acquainted with a new iPad, watched a lot of sports (prompting the First Lady of Daily Onions to ask, "how are there so many sports in the world?" - I don't know, but we should be thankful), attended and watched (and saluted) the Syracuse Football team become Pinstripe Bowl Champions (first postseason victory since 2001), and last but not least, thought about what the new year has in store for Daily Onions.

Since we've been gone (hopefully Kelly Clarkson is in your head for the rest of the day), the college basketball conference schedule has started, already separating contenders and pretenders.  We'll dive in to some early learnings from the conference schedule later today.

We are just 12 days away from the Big E Hoops Weekend so we'll start taking a closer look at those festivities over the next two weeks, and you'll know all you've ever wanted to about Bob Morris, Bob Huggins and The Mouth.

With that said, welcome back. We'll be back later today with a look at some of the major news and happenings over the last two weeks (Syracuse is still undefeated, Tennessee has gotten the worst of Daily Onions curse, etc). For now, its time to dig out of my inbox.