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Welcome to International Bagpipe Day!
International Bagpipe Day is now a well established and increasingly popular event. Every March 10th you are invited to go out and play your pipes – anywhere, anyhow to anyone!
In 2013 we had an excellent event in Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford – amazingly – visitor numbers increased by 25% compared to normal attendance at that time of year. We also received reports back from around the world, ranging from a pipe band performance in an underground cavern in South Africa, to a party on an Athenian hill in Greece. The day was even celebrated in Nigeria, a country not often associated with piping. See our facebook page.
SU News
Syracuse Loses to Pitt 72-71 in ACC Tourney Opener (photogallery; PS; Axe)
The clocks are going to move a little slower in Central New York the next three days as the agonizing wait for Selection Sunday is underway.
Syracuse's resume doesn't look good enough to get an invite to the dance. 19-13, 9-10 in the ACC. ESPN's Joe Lunardi has Syracuse as the "last team in," but even that looks like a placeholder until a more worthy team comes along to knock Syracuse to the NIT.
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ACC Tournament Finds It Can't Go Back to 'Greenville' (washingtonpost.com; Feinstein)
Once upon a time, when Larry Dunlap, the longtime public address announcer at Greensboro Coliseum, introduced the starting lineups for the first game of the ACC tournament, he would say, “Welcome to the greatest tournament in basketball.”
Hyperbolic, perhaps, but not that far off base. For more than 40 years, there was never a public sale of tickets, and every seat was filled for every game. Every tournament contest — or so it seemed — was played with the kind of burning intensity that makes college basketball special.
In 1980, when Maryland lost the ACC tournament championship to Duke in the infamous “undercut” game, Coach Lefty Driesell stood in a corner of his team’s locker room and shook his head, seeing all his players in tears.
“I wish they’d save that emotion for next week,” he said. “But I understand how they feel.”
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Dion Waiters Leaves Thunder After Brother Dies (PS; AP)
Thunder guard Dion Waiters' younger brother has died, and Waiters has left the team to be with family.
Demetrius Pinckney was killed Tuesday in Philadelphia, and Waiters will not play Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Thunder general manager Sam Presti said Waiters and his family "are in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time." Thunder forward Kevin Durant said it is "tough for anyone to go through that."
A spokesman for the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team said Pinckney was one of the victims during a bloody day on the streets of Philadelphia.
Police say the 21-year-old Pinckney was found lying on his back with severe head injuries in a southern Philadelphia neighborhood.
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Skaneateles Basks in Record Tying Temperature (video; PS; Rivioli)
Syracuse topped out at 78 degrees tying a record set on this day in 2000.
Here what folks are saying in Skaneateles about the warm weather that has moved into the area.
