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Welcome to Festival of Popular Delusions Day!

June 5th is Festival Of Popular Delusions Day.

The festival began in Germany on June 5th, 1945 which is one year after D-Day and one day before the one year anniversary. It marks the last day the Nazi’s were able to delude themselves that they would rule the Earth for a thousand years.

Festival Of Popular Delusions Day is now a day for ourselves to perform a reality check not only on our selves as individuals, but take a look at the popular ideas of the day.

To commemorate this day, and in the spirit of our “wacky” holiday card tradition, Cynthia and I sent out a card to our friends and also offer a copy here since we can’t afford stamps for everyone.

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How Are Syracuse Basketball Commits and Targets Performing on the EYBL Circuit? – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Aki)

Without baseball, the summer is pretty tame on the SU hill. But away from it, Jim Boeheim and his staff has a chance to watch some potential future Orange players spike their stock on the prestigious Nike EYBL Circuit.

Many players that have either committed to or been offered by Syracuse have been making their mark on the summer tour. Here’s how they’ve been performing so far this summer.

(NOTE: Not all players that have been offered will appear on this list. Some have been playing in the Under Armour league. The Nike EYBL circuit is for Nike sponsored AAU clubs only. Go figure.)

Commits:

Brycen Goodine – SG, St. Andrews School (Rhode Island)

19.2 PPG, 38.6% 3PT, 3.5 APG

Goodine is the lone commit so far in the Orange’s class and has been on a tear on the circuit. The Rhode Island Gatorade Player of the Year is playing for Boston Amateur Basketball Club (BABC) and has been playing his best ball as of late. Goodine has dropped 20 or more points in five of his last seven games. His 19.2 points per game and 39 three pointers made are both good for top 15 on the circuit. His performance was good enough to earn him All-Hampton Third Team at the latest session.
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Syracuse a contender with Battle returning - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Powell)

Tyus Battle gave Syracuse a tremendous boost for the 2018-19 season when he announced, just before the NBA Draft underclassman deadline, he’ll be returning. The Orange are now returning all five starters from last season – the first time that’s happened at Syracuse since 1999-2000.

The return of Battle, who averaged 39 minutes per game last season, makes the Orange a legitimate ACC title contender in 2018-19. Coming off a surprise Sweet 16 appearance, the Orange are poised to be a whole lot more than a bubble team next time around.

Stat sheet stuffer
Battle led the Orange in scoring (19.2 ppg) and made 3-pointers (77), and was second on the team in assists (76) and steals (54). He was also an 83.9 percent free throw shooter. With the decisions by Duke’s Marvin Bagley and Boston College’s Jerome Robinson to head to the NBA, Battle is the ACC’s top returning scorer.

Like Battle, fellow returners Frank Howard, Oshae Brissett, and Paschal Chukwu started all 37 games for the Orange last season. The collective return of this quartet means that Syracuse will return 80.8 percent of its scoring, 95.6 percent of its made 3-pointers, and 59.3 percent of its rebounding in these four players alone.

Syracuse did lose Matthew Moyer, who made 20 starts last season, to a transfer. Moyer is headed to Vanderbilt.
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Assessing ACC basketball after NBA draft decisions (dailypress.com; Teel)

Only reigning champion Virginia will return two All-ACC players from last basketball season. The league’s top returning scorers will hail from Syracuse, Boston College, North Carolina and Clemson.
Those are among the outcomes of this year’s annual NBA draft dance-a-thon.
Nineteen players from conference teams filed for early draft entry in April. By last week’s deadline to withdraw, seven had elected to resume their college careers.
REMAINED IN DRAFT

Wake Forest: Bryant Crawford and Doral Moore.
Duke: Marvin Bagley, Trevon Duval, Wendell Carter and Gary Trent.
Louisville: Ray Spalding and Deng Adel.
Miami: Lonnie Walker and Bruce Brown.
Boston College: Jerome Robinson.
Georgia Tech: Josh Okogie.
WITHDREW FROM DRAFT
Syracuse: Tyus Battle.
Clemson: Shelton Mitchell and Marcquise Reed.
Boston College: Ky Bowman.
North Carolina: Luke Maye.
Miami: Dewan Huell.
N.C. State: Torin Dorn.

The news was especially good for Clemson, North Carolina and Syracuse, teams that combined to win six NCAA tournament games in March. Conversely, the loss of multiple players to early entry cripples Wake Forest and certainly doesn’t help Louisville and Miami, programs that last season won nary a NCAA tournament game.

The four Duke freshmen who remained in the draft? Well, that’s just how the Blue Devils roll in the one-and-done era, recruiting a succession of elite prospects who figure to be short-timers.

So don’t grow attached to incoming Duke freshmen R.J. Barrett, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones, Zion Williamson and Joey Baker. All five playing multiple college seasons would be a larger upset than Mike Krzyzewski retiring to Chapel Hill.
Duke, Clemson and Syracuse reached the Midwest Regional semifinals last season, and with rising senior guards Marcquise Reed and Shelton Mitchell exiting the draft, Clemson is positioned to build upon that Sweet 16 appearance, the program’s first since 1997. Reed (15.8 points per game) was second-team All-ACC last season and will be the league’s No. 4 returning scorer; Mitchell led the Tigers in assists (119) and free-throw accuracy (85.7 percent).

Syracuse guard Tyus Battle (19.2 points per game), Boston College Ky Bowman (17.6) and North Carolina’s Luke Maye (16.9) will be the conference’s top three returning scorers after they withdrew from the draft. Maye and Virginia’s Kyle Guy, who did not enter the draft, are the lone first-team All-ACC selections returning in 2018-19.
Guy and third-teamer Ty Jerome make the Cavaliers the only ACC program with multiple returnees who made one of the three all-league squads last season. Moreover, Virginia welcomes back Sixth Man of the Year De’Andre Hunter.
Next season will mark the third time in the last 15 years that the Cavaliers return two All-ACC players. Suffice to say, the previous two occasions went well.

Led by Sean Singletary and J.R. Reynolds in 2007, Virginia shared the ACC regular-season title with North Carolina and reached the second round of the NCAA tournament.
With Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell returning in 2014, the Cavaliers won their first outright regular-season title since 1981 and their first ACC tournament championship since 1976. A subsequent Sweet 16 appearance was their first since 1995.
Seniors Devon Hall (second-team All-ACC) and Isaiah Wilkins (ACC Defensive Player of the Year) were critical to U.Va.’s ascension to No. 1 in the polls and conference regular-season and tournament championships. But Guy, Jerome, Hunter, veteran bigs Jack Salt, Mamadi Diakite and Jay Huff, and newcomers such as guard Kihei Clark combine to give Tony Bennett’s Cavaliers a roster that should keep them in ACC contention and the national conversation.
With that in mind, an early projection of the 2018-19 ACC finish:

1. VIRGINIA: Care to guess how many times the Cavaliers have finished atop the league’s preseason media poll? Once in 49 seasons, that in Ralph Sampson’s senior year of 1982-83. Could well be twice in 50 seasons.
2. NORTH CAROLINA: Maye, Cameron Johnson, Kenny Williams and incoming McDonald’s All-Americans Nassir Little and Coby White make the Tar Heels formidable -- as usual.
3. DUKE: The Blue Devils haven’t finished atop the regular-season standings since their 2010 national champions, led by upperclassmen Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith. The 18-game ACC grind is just too difficult for freshman-dominated squads, even one this gifted.
4. VIRGINIA TECH: Led by Justin Robinson, Chris Clarke and Kerry Blackshear, the Hokies are positioned to reach a third consecutive NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. Virginia Tech’s ACC schedule also figures to lighten with the Hokies, by rotation, exchanging two games each against Duke and Louisville for a pair versus Georgia Tech and Notre Dame.
5. CLEMSON: Reed, Mitchell, Elijah Thomas and Oral Roberts graduate transfer Javan White give the Tigers a core capable of matching last season’s third-place ACC finish. Clemson hasn’t advanced in consecutive NCAAtournaments since 1989 and ’90 with Elden Campbell and Dale Davis.
6. SYRACUSE: Battle, Oshae Brissett and Frank Howard each started all 37 games last season, averaging 38-plus minutes and averaging a combined 48.5 points per game. That’s a start on reaching a second consecutive Sweet 16 for the first time since 2009 and ’10.
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Syracuse Basketball Assistant Coach Allen Griffin Joins The Platter! - Mike Lindsley (ML) Sports Platter (podcast) (sports-platter; podcast; Lindsley)

The Orange coach chats with ML about Tyus Battle's return, how he ended-up at Syracuse, the size of players today, Jim Boeheim's impact on his life and plays Rapid Fire. #Cuse #CuseMode

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Upstate NY's best burger restaurants: One Syracuse diner makes 2018 ranking (PS; Axelson)

FULL RANKING: The 27 best burger restaurants in Upstate NY, ranked for 2018

Central New York, and especially the Syracuse area, is home to so many fantastic burger restaurants, it can be hard to choose just one favorite.

Your favorite burger might be from the place that has the juicy, perfectly cooked beef patty. Or from that restaurant with the combination of toppings. Or that bar with the really killer secret sauce.

A great burger means something different to all of us, but you definitely won't go wrong at any of the restaurants on a new ranking of the best burger places in Upstate NY.

The new ranking uses Yelp.com's "best" formula, which uses factors like star rating and number of reviews, to rank every burger restaurant in Upstate NY. Here's the Syracuse eatery that made the 2018 ranking:

#3 Rise N Shine Diner - $
4.5 stars, 195 reviews
One customer says: "Such a good burger, the 'Rise and Grind' has a nice coffee rub on it and a great char. Bacon and onion jam to boot."
Website, Yelp

See the full 2018 ranking of the best burger restaurants in Upstate NY, including restaurants and bars from Albany to Buffalo, below.
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