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Welcome to Jim Brown's 80th Birthday!
NFL Media Honors Jim Brown's Legacy With 'Jim Brown 80 Years and Running' Special, Features and More
NFL Media celebrates the extraordinary life and career of former Cleveland Browns running back and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown with Jim Brown: 80 Years and Running. Premiering on Wednesday, February 17, at 8:00 PM ET – Brown's 80th birthday – the one-hour special will feature a roundtable discussion between Brown and fellow Hall of Famers Marshall Faulk, Curtis Martin, Marcus Allen, Franco Harris and Eric Dickerson.
Jim Brown left his mark on the National Football League with record-setting performances both on and off the field, exemplifying the power of blending sports and entertainment. The athlete-turned-actor has influenced players' careers for decades, as the roundtable panelists attest to while sharing their most memorable moments with Brown.
Jim Brown: 80 Years and Running highlights key moments of Brown's life, legacy, as well as how he set the framework for players pursuing post-league careers in the media industry such as Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders and Michael Strahan. Brown also gives his take on current events and topics including philanthropy, the current state of the NFL, his relationship with the Cleveland Browns and more. An encore of Jim Brown: 80 Years and Running will air Wednesday, February 17 at 12 Midnight ET and on Sunday, February 21 at 11:30 PM ET.
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Syracuse Wins Third Straight Orange Eagle Trophy As BC Becomes the Rutgers of the ACC (TNIAAM; invisible swordsman)
What do you get when one athletic department is firing on all cylinders, while another appears to be using whatever working cylinder it has to create a makeshift beer funnel with which to drown its sorrows?
Friends, you get The 2015-2016 Orange Eagle Trophy Competition!!!
Led by Tyler Lydon's wispy whiskers, The Syracuse Orange basketball team took another 4.5 points off the Orange Eagle board, giving Syracuse a 74-12 lead over The Boston College Eagles, and effectively closed out the competition for another season. 27 points remain available for the two sides, and for BC to win, they need to sweep the remaining competitions, AND have their men's AND women's ice hockey teams win the NCAA championship, THEN have their women's lacrosse team win the ACC and NCAA championships (just to eek-out a one-point victory, mind you).
Vegas isn't even taking odds on that happening, so I'm calling this one a TKO. Syracuse's historic NCAA titles in field hockey and men's cross country put The Orange in the driver's seat heading into the second semester, and The Eagles have been unable to respond to the onslaught. Let's recap the last few contests that definitively put another engraving on the TNIAAM-side of the trophy base:
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Preview UL vs Syracuse TV Info, Storylines (courier-journal.com; Greer)
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PROJECTED STARTERS
SYRACUSE (18-8, 8-5 ACC)
Pos.-Player Ht. Cl. Rb. Pts.
G-Trevor Cooney 6-4 Gr. 2.6 13.3
G-Michael Gbinije 6-7 Gr. 4.0 17.4
F-Malachi Richardson 6-6 Fr. 4.6 13.6
F-Tyler Roberson 6-8 Jr. 8.8 9.8
C-DaJuan Coleman 6-9 Sr. 4.3 4.9
Key reserves - Tyler Lydon, F, 6-8, Fr., 9.6 ppg, 6.7 rpg; Franklin Howard, G, 6-4, Fr., 1.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg; Chinoso Obokoh, F, 6-9, Sr., 1.1 ppg, 1.6 rpg.
LOUISVILLE (19-6, 8-4 ACC)
Pos.-Player Ht. Cl. Rb. Pts.
G-Trey Lewis 6-2 Gr. 3.4 12.2
G-Quentin Snider 6-2 So. 2.4 9.8
G-Quentin Snider 6-2 So. 2.4 9.8
F-Damion Lee 6-6 Gr. 3.9 16.5
F-Jaylen Johnson 6-9 So. 3.8 5.0
C-Chinanu Onuaku 6-10 So. 8.4 9.6
STORYLINES
Mentor vs. Protege: Rick Pitino has been coaching for 40 years, so it's hard to imagine him as someone's protege, but Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is one of the most influential figures in Pitino's career. Boeheim hired Pitino as an assistant in 1976 and worked with him for two seasons before Pitino became the head coach at Boston University. Since Pitino left Syracuse in 1978, the two close friends have coached against each other 23 times, with Pitino's teams winning 12 of those games.
Good matchup?: For all the understandably emotional stuff going on off the court, Louisville returns home Wednesday to a favorable matchup. Syracuse is one of the more efficient offensive teams in the ACC, but the Orange struggle with things that Louisville's defense feasts on. Boeheim's team has a 18.9 per game turnover percentage, which is 13th out of 15 in the ACC, and only makes 46 percent of its 2-pointers. Louisville has the league's highest block percentage and second-best 2-point field-goal percentage. Even though Pitino's team is young and still relatively inexperienced with his defensive schemes, the Cards have put together the ACC's most efficient defense.
Opponent Preview: Visual Breakdown of Number 18 Louisville (DO; Mettus)
Which Team Wins the Board Battle?
5 Things to Watch When Syracuse Plays UL (photo gallery; PS; Waters)
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Louisville ranks 14th in the NCAA in rebounding margin as the Cardinals average 8.6 more rebounds per game than their opponents. But that's a bit deceiving. Louisville ranks sixth in the ACC in conference games at +2.2 boards per game. Syracuse ranks seventh in the ACC in rebounding margin at 1.7. However, if you take away Syracuse's poor effort on the boards in its ACC opener at Pittsburgh when the Orange was out-rebounded 43-25, Syracuse's rebounding margin improves to +3.4 in its last 12 games. That figure would rank second in the ACC behind only North Carolina.
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Ex-NCAA Staffer: Ban Signals Something Serious is Going to Go Down' (courier-journal.com; Greer)
A former NCAA enforcement staffer said the University of Louisville self-imposing a postseason ban on its men's basketball team is a sign that "something serious is going to go down" once the NCAA completes its investigation and doles out punishment to the school.
In an interview with The Courier-Journal on Tuesday, the ex-staffer laid out the common reasoning behind self-imposing postseason bans and explained how the NCAA views institutions that sanction themselves while the investigation is still ongoing.
Louisville's decision to announce the ban before private investigator Chuck Smrt or the NCAA's infractions committee finalize their initial reports is a major move for the institution to make.
"If they had a good defense, or if it was an iffy thing, or if they thought they could resolve things before the committee, they wouldn't be doing it," said the former NCAA staffer, who did not wish to be identified in order to speak openly about the organization's operations.
"They must be pretty confident that something serious is going to go down and they want to get a jump on it. Think about the damage (a postseason ban) does to the kids. Everybody writes about it, talks about it all the time. Fans are upset. The team is hurt. Institutions that impose this know something serious went wrong."
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Syracuse Expands Efforts to Deal with Slashy Streets, Flooding Drains (PS; Strurtz)
Across Central New York Tuesday car tires spun and people plodded through a devilish mixture of slush, snow and ice that made driving and walking difficult.
The problems apparently were not going away; the temperature, which had been hovering around freezing, was expected to drop into the mid-20s Tuesday night before inching into the 30s Wednesday and falling again in the evening.
Melting snow and rain creates flooding in Central New YorkSyracuse DPW worker Gino Manzi works his way around some street flooding on Washington St. Rain and a melting snow clogged up sewers and created some flooding.
Many of the 11,500 catch basins in the city of Syracuse were clogged by debris and the slush, snow and ice mixture, which caused flooding.
Weather conditions were such that the city Department of Public Works pulled in extra workers from other departments to help clear clogged catch basins. Commissioner Pete O'Connor said he hadn't taken that step before in six years of running the DPW.
"Everything we have available is out," he said.
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