Brent Axe
@brentaxemedia.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Syracuse.com columnist and podcast host | Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University. Herkimer CC Alum. Love the Bills, Red Sox, Star Wars, Springsteen, 90's rock. #FreeThrowsMatter https://linktr.ee/brentaxemedia
"There's nothing wrong with the offense." Raise your hand if you agree with the head coach on this one.
Axe: Adrian Autry tries to pull a Boeheim and it falls flat. ‘There’s nothing wrong with our offense’
Brent Axe says Adrian Autry's message after SU's 76-62 win over Mercyhurst was ill-timed and fell flat.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"There's nothing wrong with the offense." Raise your hand if you agree with the head coach on this one.
An absolute banger of a 2026 schedule for 🍊🥍 including 6 straight games on the road.
Syracuse men’s lacrosse reveals 2026 schedule
Syracuse men's lacrosse has revealed the 2026 schedule, featuring something it has not done since 1972.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
An absolute banger of a 2026 schedule for 🍊🥍 including 6 straight games on the road.
The list could have been longer, but I trimmed it down to 4 hard truths to swallow after 🍊🏀 inexcusable loss to Hofstra at the dome on Saturday.
Axe: 4 hard truths to swallow from Syracuse basketball’s inexcusable loss to Hofstra
Brent Axe says Syracuse basketball's 70-69 loss to Hofstra exposed some major issues with the Orange.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The list could have been longer, but I trimmed it down to 4 hard truths to swallow after 🍊🏀 inexcusable loss to Hofstra at the dome on Saturday.
'It was an overworked Twitter joke to say....Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. @thepressbox.bsky.social
Peter Greene, actor known for 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Mask,' dead at 60
As a character actor, Greene also had roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “Training Day,” among others.
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As a character actor, Greene also had roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “Training Day,” among others.
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Peter Greene, actor known for 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Mask,' dead at 60
As a character actor, Greene also had roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “Training Day,” among others.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
'It was an overworked Twitter joke to say....Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. @thepressbox.bsky.social
Rescuing a defense from the depths of college football? Yeah, new 🍊🏈 DC Vince Kehres has done that before.
Vince Kehres has rescued a defense from the depths before: ‘Grand slam hire for Syracuse’
Dave Briggs of the Toledo Blade tells Brent Axe on "Syracuse Sports" that new SU DC Vince Kehres comes in with a strong reputation.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Rescuing a defense from the depths of college football? Yeah, new 🍊🏈 DC Vince Kehres has done that before.
The students rushed the floor after 🍊🏀 took down No. 13 Tennessee last night. If that makes you roll your eyes as a 🍊 fan that has seen better days, well, they haven't. On the must-win and what it could mean for SU going forward.
Axe: Syracuse basketball’s win over Tennessee ‘shows what we really could be’
Brent Axe writes about Syracuse basketball's win over No. 13 Tennessee
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December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The students rushed the floor after 🍊🏀 took down No. 13 Tennessee last night. If that makes you roll your eyes as a 🍊 fan that has seen better days, well, they haven't. On the must-win and what it could mean for SU going forward.
Fran Brown's mission, should he choose to accept it, is to prove 🍊🏈 3-9 season was a blip on the radar caused by injury and a serious of unfortunate events. Here are 5 things Brown can do for you to get SU back on track
Axe: 5 things Fran Brown has to do to get Syracuse football back on track
Brent Axe offers five things Fran Brown can do to get Syracuse football on track after a dreadful 3-9 season.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fran Brown's mission, should he choose to accept it, is to prove 🍊🏈 3-9 season was a blip on the radar caused by injury and a serious of unfortunate events. Here are 5 things Brown can do for you to get SU back on track
🍊🏈 sputtered into a crucial offseason with a 34-12 loss to Boston College at the JMA Dome on Saturday, a 1-10 team entering the game whose one win was over FCS Fordham. We're on to the offseason.
Syracuse football loses ACC Basement Bowl to Boston College (Axe’s quick take)
Brent Axe offers a quick take on Syracuse football's dreadful 34-12 loss to close the 2025 season against BC.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
🍊🏈 sputtered into a crucial offseason with a 34-12 loss to Boston College at the JMA Dome on Saturday, a 1-10 team entering the game whose one win was over FCS Fordham. We're on to the offseason.
The SU-Iowa State postgame pod 🎙️
The 🍊go bust in Vegas with an 0-3 trip.
Now Tennessee becomes a must-win game for the team and for Adrian Autry's reputation.
The 🍊go bust in Vegas with an 0-3 trip.
Now Tennessee becomes a must-win game for the team and for Adrian Autry's reputation.
Syracuse basketball's trip to Las Vegas a bust following blowout loss to Iowa State
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November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The SU-Iowa State postgame pod 🎙️
The 🍊go bust in Vegas with an 0-3 trip.
Now Tennessee becomes a must-win game for the team and for Adrian Autry's reputation.
The 🍊go bust in Vegas with an 0-3 trip.
Now Tennessee becomes a must-win game for the team and for Adrian Autry's reputation.
Sometimes you don't know what you got 'till it's gone. With Donnie Freeman out for 🍊🏀, right now, they're trying to figure out who the go-to guy is. www.syracuse.com/orangebasket...
Axe: Syracuse basketball still has a big question to answer: Who’s the man?
Brent Axe says an alpha dog has yet to emerge from the pack for Syracuse basketball.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sometimes you don't know what you got 'till it's gone. With Donnie Freeman out for 🍊🏀, right now, they're trying to figure out who the go-to guy is. www.syracuse.com/orangebasket...
Postgame pod from 🍊🏀 vs. Kansas. So close, yet so faar away from a Quad 1 win (again).
Syracuse basketball can't find offensive rhythm against Kansas in Las Vegas
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Postgame pod from 🍊🏀 vs. Kansas. So close, yet so faar away from a Quad 1 win (again).
The free throws are concerning, but man THAT is what Syracuse basketball is supposed to look like (and they did it without their best player).
Axe: Syracuse basketball has our attention and every chance to prove that it is ‘back’
Brent Axe says there are no moral victories after Syracuse's 78-74 loss to Houston but plenty to be encouraged by after its first game in Las Vegas.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The free throws are concerning, but man THAT is what Syracuse basketball is supposed to look like (and they did it without their best player).
All-Time embarrassment. That's it. That's the headline.
Notre Dame disaster: Syracuse football suffers historic embarrassment in South Bend (Axe’s quick take)
Brent Axe offers a quick take on Syracuse football's 70-7 debacle of a loss at Notre Dame.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
All-Time embarrassment. That's it. That's the headline.
🍊🏈 already was up against it as a 35-point underdog against Notre Dame and now they head to South Bend missing their leading rusher
Key offensive player out for Syracuse football at Notre Dame (report)
Syracuse football will not have its leading rusher available on Saturday at Notre Dame.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
🍊🏈 already was up against it as a 35-point underdog against Notre Dame and now they head to South Bend missing their leading rusher
Gary Gait already has one of the best 🥍 resumes ever assembled. Now he can add another Hall of Fame induction to it (and his first as a coach) www.syracuse.com/orangelacros...
Gary Gait adds another Hall of Fame induction to iconic lacrosse resume
Gait has previously been selected to the Gait to the National Lacrosse and National Lacrosse League (NLL) Halls of Fame.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Gary Gait already has one of the best 🥍 resumes ever assembled. Now he can add another Hall of Fame induction to it (and his first as a coach) www.syracuse.com/orangelacros...
Captain Obvious checking in here as the 2nd half of the season begins. If 🍊🏈 wants to make a bowl game this year, the math isn't mathin' unless it can bank a win over Pitt on Saturday.
Hope you can check out my column on that.
Hope you can check out my column on that.
Axe: Syracuse football has to bank a win over Pittsburgh if it wants to make bowl game
Syracuse football has to bank a win against Pittsburgh if it wants to go bowling this season.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Captain Obvious checking in here as the 2nd half of the season begins. If 🍊🏈 wants to make a bowl game this year, the math isn't mathin' unless it can bank a win over Pitt on Saturday.
Hope you can check out my column on that.
Hope you can check out my column on that.
On Friday, 🍊🏑 will honor Alyssa Manley's No. 5 and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the 2015 national title, the first by a women's team in school history. Had a chance to catch up with Manley this week on what she wants people to think of when they see her jersey.
Alyssa Manley’s jersey to be retired as she reunites with 2015 title team
Alyssa Manley will become the second field player to have her jersey retired by Syracuse.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On Friday, 🍊🏑 will honor Alyssa Manley's No. 5 and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the 2015 national title, the first by a women's team in school history. Had a chance to catch up with Manley this week on what she wants people to think of when they see her jersey.
Does everyone fake injuries in college football?
Yep.
Did Syracuse stand out jusssst enough to get caught and pay the piper?
Also yep.
Column on how this will provide a good stress test for the 'A' in Fran Brown's DART mantra and we finally found the thing to make him clam up.
Yep.
Did Syracuse stand out jusssst enough to get caught and pay the piper?
Also yep.
Column on how this will provide a good stress test for the 'A' in Fran Brown's DART mantra and we finally found the thing to make him clam up.
Axe: Syracuse football getting fined for faking injuries a good stress test for the ‘A’ in DART
Syracuse football was fined $25,000 by the ACC for faking injuries against Clemson.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Does everyone fake injuries in college football?
Yep.
Did Syracuse stand out jusssst enough to get caught and pay the piper?
Also yep.
Column on how this will provide a good stress test for the 'A' in Fran Brown's DART mantra and we finally found the thing to make him clam up.
Yep.
Did Syracuse stand out jusssst enough to get caught and pay the piper?
Also yep.
Column on how this will provide a good stress test for the 'A' in Fran Brown's DART mantra and we finally found the thing to make him clam up.
An impressive display from 🍊🏈 in Death Valley even though it came at a cost as starting QB Steve Angeli went down with an injury.
Syracuse Football grabs landmark win at Clemson but loses starting QB Steve Angeli
Brent Axe offers some quick takes on Syracuse football's upset win at Clemson in Death Valley on Saturday afternoon.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
An impressive display from 🍊🏈 in Death Valley even though it came at a cost as starting QB Steve Angeli went down with an injury.
🍊 🏈 Steve Angeli looked to be on the brink of losing his starting QB gig. Instead, he printed a receipt for his teammates that he can deliver in a tough spot against UConn and validated his QB1 title.
Axe: Steve Angeli picks himself off the turf and validates himself as Syracuse football’s leader
Brent Axe says Steve Angeli did the best thing a quarterback can do to lock down a starting job against UConn on Saturday in a comeback win.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🍊 🏈 Steve Angeli looked to be on the brink of losing his starting QB gig. Instead, he printed a receipt for his teammates that he can deliver in a tough spot against UConn and validated his QB1 title.
There are certain things you can point to as Game 1 issues. For 🍊🏈, it goes beyond that. They need to fix a glaring issue that has carried over from last year and time is not on their side to do it with a schedule that just doesn't let up (short of Colgate)
Axe: Syracuse football must fix a glaring problem to keep its season on track
Brent Axe writes that Syracuse football can't waste time solving a key issue in order to keep the season on a productive track.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There are certain things you can point to as Game 1 issues. For 🍊🏈, it goes beyond that. They need to fix a glaring issue that has carried over from last year and time is not on their side to do it with a schedule that just doesn't let up (short of Colgate)
🍊🏈 wasn't ready for primetime (well, it was Noon. But you get my drift) against Tennessee on Saturday in its 2025 season opener.
Some quick hits on the 45-26 loss to the Vols.
Some quick hits on the 45-26 loss to the Vols.
Syracuse football not ready for primetime against Tennessee (Axe’s quick takes)
Brent Axe offers his quick takes on Syracuse football's season-opening loss to Tennessee in Atlanta.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
🍊🏈 wasn't ready for primetime (well, it was Noon. But you get my drift) against Tennessee on Saturday in its 2025 season opener.
Some quick hits on the 45-26 loss to the Vols.
Some quick hits on the 45-26 loss to the Vols.
Kyle McCord went the distance last season, the first 🍊🏈 QB sine Ryan Nassib to do so, and had rare job security with no threat of being replaced. Steve Angeli has won the job over Rickie Collins. But if it was as close as all indicated, the question is for how long. Column ⬇️
Axe: Steve Angeli wins the Syracuse football QB competition: The question is for how long?
Brent Axe examines Steve Angeli beating out Rickie Collins Jr. for the starting quarterback position for Syracuse football
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August 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Kyle McCord went the distance last season, the first 🍊🏈 QB sine Ryan Nassib to do so, and had rare job security with no threat of being replaced. Steve Angeli has won the job over Rickie Collins. But if it was as close as all indicated, the question is for how long. Column ⬇️
🍊🏈 players have been wearing the shirts all offseason with 4th & 1 and 4th & 9 on the back. It's a reminder of two plays that cost them a bid to the CFP. Those plays provide the fuel, but there's an overall focus in camp on the defense's biggest job on the field
Axe: Syracuse football’s focus on defensive improvement fueled by two 4th-down failures
The Syracuse football team has used two failed fourth-down stops from last season as a rally cry for 2025.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🍊🏈 players have been wearing the shirts all offseason with 4th & 1 and 4th & 9 on the back. It's a reminder of two plays that cost them a bid to the CFP. Those plays provide the fuel, but there's an overall focus in camp on the defense's biggest job on the field
Totally agree on Sugar Ray. Mark McGrath is a terrific frontman and put on a fun show! He was so appreciative of the crowd too. It was great to see.
Saw this your at Pier 17. Great show. Sugar Ray was the biggest surprise how much fun they were. Great show.
July 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Totally agree on Sugar Ray. Mark McGrath is a terrific frontman and put on a fun show! He was so appreciative of the crowd too. It was great to see.