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Welcome to National Read a Book Day!
Read a Book Day is today. Take time out of your busy life, and relax with a good book. Cozy up on a chair, indoors or out. It doesn't matter where you read that book, as long as you can do so in a comfortable manner. If you doze off along the way, we won't tell anyone.
Reading is a great lifetime hobby. It offers so many positive attributes. It's relaxing and therapeutic. It's educational. Its entertaining. And, a whole lot of other good things, too.
If you have young children, or elderly people in your home, take the time to read a book to them today. It is a wonderful time to bond with them and it creates pleasant, lasting memories.
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Brandon Randolph Can Jump Too
Where Arizona stands with various basketball prospects (azdesertswarm.com; Sills-Trausch)
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- DeAndre Ayton: Final three with Kansas and Kentucky
- Billy Preston: Top-four with USC, Kansas, and Maryland
- Nick Richards: Top-five along with Kentucky, UConn, Syracuse, and Indiana
- Gary Trent Jr.: Final five along with Kentucky, Duke, Michigan State, and UCLA
- Lonnie Walker: Top-five along with Miami, Syracuse, Villanova, and Kentucky
- Wendell Carter: While Arizona’s on his top-8, along with UNC, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Georgia, Harvard, and California, I’d say the Duke Blue Devils are in the driver’s seat.
- Charles O’Bannon Jr.: The son of a UCLA great has Arizona, Washington, Texas, Oregon, UNLV, Kansas, NC State, and UCLA on his final-eight. However, the Wildcats look to be on the outside with four of his visits announced and none of them ending up in Tucson.
- Jordan Tucker: Top-eight with Duke, Villanova, USC, Maryland, Syracuse, Indiana, and Louisville
- Troy Brown: While he announced his official visits and Arizona did not get one, it shouldn’t knock U of A out of the running as Brown has been on campus before and didn’t need to see it again. His top-eight includes Oregon, Alabama, UNLV, Kansas, Ohio State, California, Arizona, and Georgetown
- Jarred Vanderbilt: Top-nine includes Baylor, UNC, Oregon, Texas, Kentucky, Houston, TCU, and Kansas
- Quade Green: Top-nine with Kentucky, Xavier, Kansas, Duke, Syracuse, Villanova, Temple, and Louisville
- Trevon Duval: Top-9 along with California, Oregon, USC, Kansas, Villanova, Seton Hall, Maryland, and St. John’s
- Kevin Knox: Top-10 is: Alabama, Villanova, Florida State, LSU, Arizona, Duke, UNC, Miami, Kansas, and Kentucky
- Collin Sexton: Top-10 includes Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Kansas, NC State, North Carolina, Oklahoma State and Villanova. He’s currently visited NC State and will visit Kansas at the end of September. I’d say U of A has a good shot of landing a visit from this five-star.
- DJ Harvey: He has put Arizona in his final 10 which includes Notre Dame, Texas, UConn, Maryland, Oklahoma, Villanova, UCLA, Duke, and Louisville. He’s already officially visited Texas, will visit Notre Dame on September 10, and recently cancelled his trip to Louisville. He’ll have three more official visits to announce.
- Matt Coleman: Top-10 list includes Texas, Syracuse, Stanford, Arizona, Washington, Xavier, NC State, Louisville, Seton Hall, and Virginia
- Brandon Randolph: Randolph calls this his ‘Big-12’: Louisville, Alabama, Miami, Arizona, Indiana, Notre Dame, Oregon, North Carolina, Kansas, Syracuse, Xavier, and Wake Forest
2016-17 Preseason Power Rankings: The Summit League (midmajormadness.com; Drovetta)
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2016-17 Summit League Preseason Power Rankings:
1. Fort Wayne
The Artists Formerly Known as IPFW return last year’s second leading scorer in John Konchar, and Mo Evans will be back after serving a suspension for most of last year’s conference slate.
Fort Wayne will also continue to hold the title of coolest college mascot. Seriously. Look at this guy.
2. North Dakota State
The Bison did not have a stellar conference season last year but turned it on at the end, making a run to the title game of the league tournament.
Experience will be on NDSU’s side as it returns four of its five leading scorers, including Paul Miller, who averaged 15.3 points per game. Miller, A.J. Jacobson, Khy Kabellis, and Dexter Werner, accounted for 60 percent of the team’s total points last year.
3. South Dakota State
South Dakota State has enjoyed the view from the top over the last two seasons and will lean on first-year coach T.J. Otzelberger to lead them back.
Mike Daum averaged over 15 points per game last season as a freshman, but with several key departures, his supporting cast is still in question.
4. IUPUI
The Jaguars finished 13-19 last year, but return a strong core from a team that still managed to finish above .500 in conference play.
Senior Darell Combs is one of those returners. The sharpshooter averaged over 16 points per game as a junior and made 42 percent of his three-point attempts.
The Jaguars also add Syracuse transfer Ron Patterson, who sat out last season.
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2016 NY State Fair: One for the record books (PS; Mulder)
The 2016 edition of the New York State Fair ended its run Monday with a new attendance record of 1.1 million visitors.
That's 106,382 more people, an increase of 10.5 percent, than the Fair attracted in 2001, its previous record year.
On Monday alone, 118,587 people passed through the turnstiles, up 36,425, or 44 percent, compared to Labor Day last year.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Fair officials attributed the surge in attendance to $50 million in improvements, including a new main gate and expanded midway. Great weather also helped.
The band Chicago made the final stop of its current tour at the Fair Monday, packing 31,200 into Chevy Court.
2016 will go into the record books as the first Fair with five days of attendance over 100,000, the first with four days in a row of attendance over 100,000 and the first to average more than 90,000 patrons a day.
"This fair is a different fair than it was," Cuomo said during a visit to the Fair Monday. "Not to cast dispersion on what it looked like last year, but I'm casting dispersion on what it looked like last year."
Vendors will move out today and a massive cleanup will begin. The Fair will host a used boat show beginning Friday and a horse show in the Toyota Coliseum starting Saturday.
NYS Fair Attendance
Day 2015 2016 Change Percent change Record
Thursday 62,136 68,292 6,156 9.9% 74,385 (2000)
Friday 81,020 75,970 -5,050 -6.2% 92,782 (2001)
Saturday 88,177 105,501 17,324 19.6% 115,324 (2010)
Sunday 77,147 84,868 7,721 10.0% 105,894 (2002)
Monday 68,827 82,082 13,255 19.3% 85,711 (2011)
Tuesday 58,029 78,548 20,519 35.4% 102,098 (1972)
Wednesday 57,576 63,465 5,889 10.2% 112,774 (1972)
Thursday 66,447 90,036 23,589 35.5% 81,369 (2003)
Friday 71,345 111,390 40,045 56.1% 103,117 (2002)
Saturday 93,576 121,164 27,588 29.5% 120,617 (2014)
Sunday 101,695 117,717 16,022 15.8% 119,726 (1985)
Labor Day 82,172 118,597 36,425 44.3% 122,870 (2014)
Totals 907,877 1,117,630 291,655 23 % 1,117,630 (2016)
