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Welcome to National Garlic Day!
A SHORT HISTORY OF GARLIC
Native to central Asia, garlic has a lengthy history dating back 6,000 years. Long a staple of Mediterranean diets, garlic was a commonly used seasoning in the cuisines of Africa, Asia and Europe. China is currently the world’s biggest producer of garlic followed by India, South Korea, Egypt and Russia.
Regarded as a force of both good and evil, the Egyptians are said to have fed the herb to workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza because they believed it boosted their stamina. In the Middle Ages, plague-phobic Europeans ate whole cloves of garlic to fight off the scourge known as the Black Death.
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2016 Syracuse Blogger Awards Voting: Most #DisloyalIdiot (TNIAAM; Keeley)
The 2016 Syracuse Orange Blogger (S.O.B.) Awards are here. Honoring the players, coaches, fans and moments from the 2015-2016 Syracuse Orange basketball season, we here at TNIAAM are splitting the process between ourselves and you, the dear readers.
Today's category: Most #DisloyalIdiot
Every since Jim Boeheim branded Andy Katz as "disloyal" and an "idiot," we've often wondered who is the most disloyal and most idiotic at any given time when it comes to Syracuse basketball. There's always so many wonderful idiots to choose from. The 2015-2016 provided us with a lot of fantastic options...
Doug Gottlieb: The one. The only. Gottz got under the skin of Syracuse fans once again when railed on and on and on about how Syracuse didn't deserve to be in the tournament, even as they were headed to the Final Four. He openly called out Syracuse fans on multiple occasions because his skin is thinner than papier-mâché and we returned the favor in kind.
Seth Davis: Davis has a knack for making really bad upset predictions against Syracuse and did it again this year. He then got all huffy when SU fans pointed out his error. He did take time to note that "real journalists" like himself have a job to do.
Pat Forde: Forde was a huge fan of Middle Tennessee State when they upset Michigan State, stating that they were underseeded and could make a serious run. Then Syracuse beat them and all of a sudden they sucked. Weird.
Joe Lunardi: Lunardi was seething following Selection Sunday when Syracuse got in to the tournament. Some bracketologists had the Orange in but not Joe, and he wanted to make sure everyone knew that the committee was the incorrect party, not him.
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Cornell Names Brian Earl New Men's Basketball Coach (PS; Ditota)
Brian Earl was named the new head basketball coach at Cornell University, the school's website announced.
Earl, 39, replaces Bill Courtney, who was not retained after six seasons with the Big Red.
Earl spent the past nine seasons coaching at Princeton, where he was promoted to associate head coach in 2015. A Princeton graduate, he was the 1999 Ivy League Player-of-the-Year; his teams won 95 games during his playing career.
Earl will be tasked with rebuilding a Cornell program that struggled to win games during Courtney's tenure (his Big Red were 60-113). Cornell's best Ivy League finish over the past six seasons was a solo fifth place in 2011-12.
Earl and his wife Jennifer have three sons, Dylan (4), Owen (2) and Cooper (1).
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Colgate Professor Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (PS; Doran)
Colgate University professor Peter Balakian has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, according to the 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners website.
Balakian's "Ozone Journal" won the prize.
The Pulitzer board said Balakian's poems "bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty."
Balakian teaches Humanities and English at Colgate, and is the author of seven books of poems and four prose works. "Black Dog of Fate," a memoir, won the PEN/Albrand Prize.
The title poem of Balakian's Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists in 2009, according to Amazon.com.
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