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Welcome to National All or Nothing Day! (AW, Are You Listening?)
It’s time to quit testing the waters and playing the “what if” game. July 26th is National All or Nothing Day! Whether it’s a job commitment, overcoming a fear, or even a relationship, now is the time to fully commit. Force yourself to make a decision – all or nothing. In the end, you’ll feel better that you no longer have those questions lingering on your mind. Now or never. We’re all-in, are you?
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Orange Watch: NCAA graduate transfer rule could alter 2016-17 Syracuse basketball (the juice; Bierman)
Item: With speedy Colorado State point guard transfer John Gillon already in the fold for the upcoming season, and Orange Nation anxiously awaiting the likely soon-to-be announced decision of Nebraska shooting guard Andrew White III on where he’ll play his final year of eligibility between a consensus of either SU, Louisville or Michigan State, it brings into focus a new brand of the “one and done” player for Jim Boeheim’s program, something not seen before in his 40 seasons. Instead of the one year Orangeman playing in only his first season of eligibility before declaring for the NBA draft a la the recent departures of Chris McCullough and Malachi Richardson, these collegiate veterans and one year contributors share two traits; they have already received their undergraduate diploma and are beginning pursuit of a graduate degree in a program not offered at their previous school while possessing one year of athletic eligibility, and they want to win now.
There have been the rare instances of undergraduates transferring into the Syracuse program in Jim Boeheim’s 40 year tenure, players having to sit out an entire season before becoming eligible including LeRon Ellis from Kentucky in 1989, Wes Johnson from Iowa State in 2008, and, of course, current NBA rookie Michael Gbinije from Duke in 2011, but the approximate decade-old NCAA graduate transfer rule (which brought Duke point guard Greg Paulus, his undergraduate degree in hand, to the Newhouse School for a masters degree and to help provide some sort of quarterback experience for rookie football coach Doug Marrone in 2009, so redshirt freshman Ryan Nassib could observe and learn in the backup role), has never before been such a tool in the ‘Cuse basketball recruiting handprint.
In the case of the upcoming Syracuse season it’s been the confluence of the aforementioned early-to-the-NBA departures combined with exhausted eligibility opening up scholarships, and with the program always striving to have the right balance of players in each class while considering the intangibles that cause roster subtractions for whatever reasons (going pro, transferring out, academic eligibility, injuries, etc.), the ability to add the caliber of players from higher level Div. I conferences to fill key spots with experienced depth is tantalizing.
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Notre Dame is the trump card for the ACC Network's future (foxsports.com; Mandel)
For years, whenever talk of a possible ACC Network came up, I mostly shrugged it off as a pipe dream. Why would a major entity invest hundreds of millions to build a channel devoted to a conference with a modest-at-best football following?
Even earlier this year, as buzz about an impending ACC-ESPN venture gained steam, I figured, well, it will probably be a new-fangled digital or over-the-top offering. No way is ESPN, having already lost several million subscribers to cord-cutting, going to try launching another traditional cable channel.
But here we are, days after the conference officially announced an honest-to-goodness linear network coming in 2019. Clearly, ESPN — which will fully own the network — believes it can be successful. And after talking to several sources with knowledge of the venture, my skepticism is waning.
Part of that is due to some wonkish cable details. ESPN strategically delayed the channel’s launch to coincide with several of parent company Disney’s expiring carriage deals with major providers. When it comes time to renegotiate, it can include the ACC Network as part of larger bundles with ESPN, ESPN2, etc.
This speaks to the unique appeal of ACC basketball, what with heavyweight brands like Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse and Louisville. ESPN networks carried 21 UNC regular-season games last year. Come 2019 it could shift a large number of those to ACCN. Folks in the state of North Carolina aren't going to storm their cable company over a UNC-Georgia Tech football game, but Tar Heels hoops? That's a different story.
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If you're loving this hot July in Upstate NY, you'll like August (PS; Coin)
Upstate New York has been basking -- or broiling, depending on your point of view -- in a warmer-than-normal July. Major Upstate cities are running 2 to 3 degrees warmer than average so far this month.
It looks like that trend will continue into August and beyond, according to the Climate Prediction Center's monthly report.
The center says most of the U.S., including Upstate New York, will likely be warmer than normal in August. It's not a slam dunk -- the odds of a warmer-than-normal August in Upstate is 40 percent, compared to a 33 percent chance of normal and a 27 percent chance of below normal.
The odds are about the same for a relatively dry August, too, the climate center said. That's not good news for Upstate's severe drought; some areas of the state have had a third or less of normal rainfall this spring and summer.
Odds are higher that late summer and early fall will be warmer than normal, however. For the three month period of August through October, the climate center says there's a 50 percent chance of above normal temperatures. That means there's only a 17 percent chance it will be cooler than normal, and 33 percent it will be normal.
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