Second Largest Crowd of Season for Siena
January 9, 2010
Siena turned a first place MAAC showdown into another league laugher, drilling visiting Niagara 83-65 in front of a packed house at Times Union Center Saturday in front of 8,065.
Saints Soar Past Hawks for 26th Straight Home Win in front of 7,998
Siena Rolls in front of 12,960
December 5, 2009
Siena annihilated crosstown rival UAlbany 83-54 Saturday night in downtown Albany leaving 12,960 spectators with little doubt as to who the area's best college team is...again.
CLIENT UPDATE: Siena may have a record season
November 19, 2009
Season-ticket sales up from last year's figures
The Siena men's basketball attendance record that was set last season may not stand for long.
Based on season-ticket sales, the Saints could draw even more people to Times Union Center than in 2008-09, when they averaged 7,497 fans.
That was the highest average attendance since the team moved to Times Union Center full time for the 1997-98 season.
Siena, which begins its home schedule Tuesday against Northeastern, has sold 4,068 season-ticket packages -- an all-time high for the program and about 500 more than last year.
"You're looking at a successful team, and based on the season tickets sold, there should be strong attendance this year," Siena athletic director John D'Argenio said. "First and foremost it's because of the product."
Leffler Agency wins Silver International Davey Award
November 17, 2009
The Leffler Agency won a Silver International Davey Award for the design of Baltimore Orioles "Birdland Express" Light Rail wrap. For more information about The International Davey Awards you can visit www.daveyawards.com.
Art Director - Bill Etter
Account Executive - Jason Snapkoski
Gay athletes don't fit in what is perceived as a homophobic NFL
November 4, 2009
Athletes have heard the ugly words on practice fields for most of their lives. They hear them in the streets and at neighborhood hangouts.
But when Chiefs running back Larry Johnson used an antigay slur on his Twitter account and in the locker room this week, he struck a nerve that makes professional sports leagues wince.
The NFL, like other pro sports leagues, is perceived as homophobic. Of the more than 20,000 athletes who have played in the NFL, less than a handful have identified themselves as gay -- David Kopay was the first in 1975, followed by Roy Simmons and Esera Tuaolo -- and only after their careers had ended.
Now the image-conscious NFL -- which fines players for wearing droopy socks or the wrong-colored chin straps, is frightened by the prospect of Rush Limbaugh as an owner and enforces a rigid personal conduct policy -- is confronted with how to deal with gay-bashing.
"There isn't a road map for this," said Bob Leffler, president of the Baltimore-based The Leffler Agency, the largest sports-advertising company in the country and former sales and marketing director of the Baltimore Colts. "It's different from other fines like leading with your helmet.
"It's a freedom of speech issue. For whatever reason people are more truthful with their tweets and Facebook. ... When you have extreme masculinity situations like football, people who have a hangup about (homosexuality) are more intimidated by it. But there's no place for a homophobe."