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International Polar Bear Day, a day organized by Polar Bears International, draws attention to the threats that polar bears face in the warming Arctic, as a result of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The day is dedicated to reflecting on what can be done to help polar bears, and how carbon emissions can be reduced. Arctic warming has already had an effect. For example, in Western Hudson Bay there were about 1,200 polar bears in 1987, but by 2012 there were only 900. Climate change has lead to lower body weights in polar bears; lower body weight in females has affected their offspring, yielding smaller litters and causing fewer cubs to survive.
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D.O. Sportscast Episode 18: Beat writers discuss Cameron Indoor and SU's final two games (DO; podcast; Staff)
Beat writers Sam Fortier and Tomer Langer join the show to discuss Syracuse basketball. Fortier starts by breaking down what it’s like to cover an event at Cameron Indoor Stadium (0:00-6:00). Then Langer provides our weekly random Kenpom stat. Then the writers play stock up stock down (13:00-17:00) before finishing on the final two games of SU’s season and FBI investigations into the NCAA.
After basketball, former SU player Dajuan Coleman grows his clothing brand ‘Night Grind’ (DO; McCleary)
Dajuan Coleman picked up a basketball and started to dribble.
He was in the gym long before the camera arrived. His entire life, his basketball talent defined him. But that day, Coleman was more concerned with what he was wearing on his chest.
“You can’t really sit back and let it come to you,” Coleman said. “Everything in the world is just not going to happen the way you think it’s going to happen.”
He unzipped his jacket to show off the design underneath. Coleman, a former five-star basketball prospect, has moved onto a new frontier with his clothing brand, “Night Grind,” following the end of his basketball career at SU last year. The brand captures Coleman’s essence: to always keep working, even when things don’t go your way.
The company, which has been active since late 2017, is financed and managed entirely by Coleman and current-SU student Ethan Kimmel, whom Coleman was connected with last fall to help grow the brand’s online presence. Night Grind currently sells shirts, jackets, hats and pants. The two aspire for more, including incorporating women’s and children’s lines once it gains more capital.
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Bubble Watch: Syracuse first out in latest Bracketology – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Dickinson)
Syracuse basketball has once again found itself squarely on the NCAA Tournament bubble. The Orange has two weeks to show why it is better than the other teams fighting for the final spots in the field of 68. With a new set of “bracketology” predictions out Monday and so much at stake in the last games of the regular season, here is a deeper look at the final week schedules for the teams on the bubble, including the Orange.
Syracuse Orange (18-11, 7-9 ACC)
Syracuse was safely in most tournament projections last week, but a pair of losses has found the Orange as the first team out in both ESPN and CBS projections. The ground lost was minimum since nobody expected SU to win against Duke and North Carolina, but other teams picked up ground and pushed the Orange out the back door. Syracuse finishes the season with Boston College and Clemson and will need to win both to have a reliable resume going into the ACC Tournament.
St. Bonaventure Bonnies (22-6, 12-4 Atlantic 10)
Both ESPN and CBS have the Bonnies safely in the tournament for the moment, but they also have the most to lose. St. Bonaventure plays Davidson next, a team the Bonnies lost to by 10 earlier in the season. A loss to Davidson or Saint Louis to end the regular season could end St. Bonaventure’s chances at an at-large bid. Of course, it still has a tiebreaker with the head-to-head win over Syracuse.
Louisville Cardinals (19-10, 9-7 ACC)
Louisville enters the final week of the season in a spot similar to Syracuse. Recent losses to Duke and UNC have dropped them onto the bubble, and the Cardinals lack any big wins this season. Louisville has two games against Virginia and NC State to end the season. If it can win one of those two, it should at least stay in the last four in as it enters the ACC Tournament.
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Meet Miss Judy, Syracuse basketball's grandmother who greets every player (video) (PS; video; Waters)
About an hour before the start of every Syracuse University basketball home game, Miss Judy makes her way to the tunnel where the SU players and coaches come out onto the Carrier Dome floor.
"I started going down because of Mike Hopkins,'' she says. "He was my favorite. I like to go down and see the players.''
She doesn't seek autographs. She doesn't try to get a picture taken. She just waits to see the players.
She is like the team's grandmother. A friendly face in a crowd of worshippers, who wants nothing more than to say "Hi" and "Good luck."
And one by one the Syracuse players seek out Miss Judy.
Paschal Chukwu bends way down to give her a hug. Tyus Battle, Oshae Brissett and Matthew Moyer do the same. Some of the SU cheerleaders give her hugs.
Then come the coaches. Eric Devendorf gives her a peck on the check. And then comes Gerry McNamara. Miss Judy has a soft spot for all the players and coaches, but there's a special place for GMac.
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