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Welcome to International Museum Day!
According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a museum is "a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment." International Museum Day, founded and organized by the ICOM, aims to raise awareness that "museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples."
International Museum Day got its start in 1977 when a resolution was adopted at the ICOM General Assembly in Moscow to create an annual event "with the aim of further unifying the creative aspirations and efforts of museums and drawing the attention of the world public to their activity." The number of museums participating in the day has increased in the decades since. Since 1992, there has been a unique theme each year that is devoted to an issue that deals with the role of museums in the development of society and is at the forefront of the global museum community. There has been an official poster for the day since 1997, and in 2011 online resources were expanded.
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Syracuse basketball recruit Maliq Brown, Class of 2022, poses in front of the library on the campus of Blue Ridge School in Saint George, Virginia. May 2022. (Donna Ditota photo)
Syracuse basketball recruit Maliq Brown’s transformation from football star to basketball wonder (PS; $; Ditota)
Football once consumed Maliq Brown.
He plastered the walls of his bedroom with posters of quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs, his mom said. He admired the skills of Michael Vick, a fellow quarterback who starred at nearby Virginia Tech. His big brother and his cousins played football. His dad, Preston, was a football and basketball star at Culpeper High School.
When football coaches from the Blue Ridge School, a private boys boarding school about 30 minutes north of Charlottesville, visited the Brown home in Culpeper, they sold the family on the school’s ability to prepare Maliq for a football quarterback career that might lead to the NFL.
“Oh my goodness, yes, that was his first love,” his mom, Tasha Brown, said. “He played football from the age of 5 until his sophomore year of high school. We tried to put a basketball in his corner at the age of 6 or 7. He was like, ‘I don’t like it. It’s boring.’ I think it was just too easy for him. He was always the fastest kid out there. He would just take the ball away from everybody. He was so aggressive because of his football techniques.”
But a confluence of events would shift Maliq Brown’s athletic passions. Growing pains. Football injuries. A body that grew to 6-foot-6 by his freshman year of high school.
Brown by then had reassessed his initial impression of basketball and had started making a name for himself as an unselfish prospect who radiated potential. And when he hyperextended his knee while he leaped to make a catch as a Blue Ridge sophomore wide receiver, Brown’s football love took a fatal hit.
“I was in the air and when I came down, a dude hit my leg,” Brown said. “Right after that happened, that pretty much sealed the deal.”
A few years later, football’s loss would become Syracuse University’s basketball gain.
Brown, now a 6-foot-9 forward, agreed to play for the Orange last fall and is part of a gigantic Class of 2022 recruiting haul.
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Syracuse basketball 4-star priority recruits ball out at AAU event in Albany (itlh; Adler)
The annual GymRat Challenge took place this past weekend in Albany, N.Y., bringing together some of the best AAU programs throughout the Northeast, with multiple Syracuse basketball recruiting targets competing in this prestigious event.
According to media reports and comments made by both national recruiting analysts and scouts, several Orange four-star recruits received strong praise from these experts for their performances at the GymRat Challenge.
Three ‘Cuse recruiting targets who stood out at this showcase were 2023 wing/forward Tafara Gapare, 2023 four-star shooting guard Reid Ducharme and 2024 four-star point guard Robert Wright III.
Let’s get some insights from experts on this trio of Syracuse basketball recruits.
The 6-foot-10 Gapare, who is from Wellington, New Zealand, was offered by the Orange only a few weeks ago. He is out of the South Kent School in South Kent, Conn., and the Baltimore-based Team Melo in Nike’s EYBL league.
At the GymRat Challenge, Gapare displayed his athleticism, length and confidence, per 247Sports national analyst Dushawn London, noting that Gapare “also handles it well for his size, is a capable shooter and defensively got after it blocking multiple shots at the rim.”
The 6-foot-6 Ducharme, offered by Syracuse basketball last August at the team’s annual Elite Camp, appears to be a high-priority recruit for the ‘Cuse in this cycle.
Syracuse Basketball: 5-star center who had Orange interest unveils top 7 (itlh; Adler)
I had come across a handful of media reports dating back to the fall of 2020 that suggested Syracuse basketball coaches may have held some level of interest in 2023 five-star center Aaron Bradshaw from New Jersey.
Well, I never saw an official scholarship offer made by the Orange to the 7-foot Bradshaw, and the ‘Cuse isn’t going to land him. According to an article from On3 national recruiting analyst Joe Tipton, Bradshaw has disclosed his top seven, and the Orange didn’t make the cut.
Tipton reported that Bradshaw’s remaining options are Louisville, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma State, Michigan, UCLA and the NBA’s G League.
These are all terrific contenders, and I’m sure that Bradshaw will shine wherever he lands. He is one of the top big men in the junior cycle.
...
Photo by Randy Belice/NBAE via Getty Images
Syracuse men’s basketball: Buddy Boeheim struggles in Day 1 of G-League Elite Camp (TNIAAM; McCaulsky)
Syracuse Orange guard Buddy Boeheim scored just 7 points on 2-9 shooting from the field. All of his attempts were from behind the three point line. Some looks were makeable shots for him. But others were shots he could have passed up for better looks.
Boeheim, an 88 percent free throw shooters, split a pair of free throws and managed to grab five rebounds. For all of the analytic nerds, his plus/minus was -5.
Just because he may not get an invite to the Draft Combine doesn’t mean he won’t hear his name called on June 23rd.
For example, former Nebraska Cornhusker and current Toronto Raptor Dalano Banton participated in last year’s NBA G-League Elite Camp but wasn’t invited to the NBA Draft Combine. But despite flying under the radar, Banton was selected 46th overall by his hometown Toronto Raptors.
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Other
Workers operate the press at The Post-Standard. (File photo by David Lassman | The Post-Standard)
The Post-Standard to move newspaper printing from Syracuse plant (PS; Moriarty)
Printing of The Post-Standard will move from Clinton Square to Advance Local’s press facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, starting in August.
Tim Kennedy, regional president for Advance Local, said the change will not affect delivery times for Post-Standard subscribers. The newspaper will continue to be printed seven days a week and be home-delivered on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and available at retail stores the other days.
He said the look and news content of the newspaper will not change.
The media company’s journalists, sales professionals and other employees moved in 2013 from its offices on Clinton Square to Merchants Commons on South Warren Street.
In 2017, Advance sold that Clinton Square building where the newspaper has been printed since the early 1970s. The buyer, VIP Structures, leased back to the newspaper the printing facility in the rear of the building.
Kennedy said the lease will expire at the end of the year, which he said was a significant factor in the decision to move production.
The press has been used less as more readers get their news from the newspaper’s online partners: syracuse.com, nyup.com and the e-Post-Standard, the digital replica of the newspaper.
...
According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a museum is "a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment." International Museum Day, founded and organized by the ICOM, aims to raise awareness that "museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples."
International Museum Day got its start in 1977 when a resolution was adopted at the ICOM General Assembly in Moscow to create an annual event "with the aim of further unifying the creative aspirations and efforts of museums and drawing the attention of the world public to their activity." The number of museums participating in the day has increased in the decades since. Since 1992, there has been a unique theme each year that is devoted to an issue that deals with the role of museums in the development of society and is at the forefront of the global museum community. There has been an official poster for the day since 1997, and in 2011 online resources were expanded.
SU News
Syracuse basketball recruit Maliq Brown, Class of 2022, poses in front of the library on the campus of Blue Ridge School in Saint George, Virginia. May 2022. (Donna Ditota photo)
Syracuse basketball recruit Maliq Brown’s transformation from football star to basketball wonder (PS; $; Ditota)
Football once consumed Maliq Brown.
He plastered the walls of his bedroom with posters of quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs, his mom said. He admired the skills of Michael Vick, a fellow quarterback who starred at nearby Virginia Tech. His big brother and his cousins played football. His dad, Preston, was a football and basketball star at Culpeper High School.
When football coaches from the Blue Ridge School, a private boys boarding school about 30 minutes north of Charlottesville, visited the Brown home in Culpeper, they sold the family on the school’s ability to prepare Maliq for a football quarterback career that might lead to the NFL.
“Oh my goodness, yes, that was his first love,” his mom, Tasha Brown, said. “He played football from the age of 5 until his sophomore year of high school. We tried to put a basketball in his corner at the age of 6 or 7. He was like, ‘I don’t like it. It’s boring.’ I think it was just too easy for him. He was always the fastest kid out there. He would just take the ball away from everybody. He was so aggressive because of his football techniques.”
But a confluence of events would shift Maliq Brown’s athletic passions. Growing pains. Football injuries. A body that grew to 6-foot-6 by his freshman year of high school.
Brown by then had reassessed his initial impression of basketball and had started making a name for himself as an unselfish prospect who radiated potential. And when he hyperextended his knee while he leaped to make a catch as a Blue Ridge sophomore wide receiver, Brown’s football love took a fatal hit.
“I was in the air and when I came down, a dude hit my leg,” Brown said. “Right after that happened, that pretty much sealed the deal.”
A few years later, football’s loss would become Syracuse University’s basketball gain.
Brown, now a 6-foot-9 forward, agreed to play for the Orange last fall and is part of a gigantic Class of 2022 recruiting haul.
...
Syracuse basketball 4-star priority recruits ball out at AAU event in Albany (itlh; Adler)
The annual GymRat Challenge took place this past weekend in Albany, N.Y., bringing together some of the best AAU programs throughout the Northeast, with multiple Syracuse basketball recruiting targets competing in this prestigious event.
According to media reports and comments made by both national recruiting analysts and scouts, several Orange four-star recruits received strong praise from these experts for their performances at the GymRat Challenge.
Three ‘Cuse recruiting targets who stood out at this showcase were 2023 wing/forward Tafara Gapare, 2023 four-star shooting guard Reid Ducharme and 2024 four-star point guard Robert Wright III.
Let’s get some insights from experts on this trio of Syracuse basketball recruits.
The 6-foot-10 Gapare, who is from Wellington, New Zealand, was offered by the Orange only a few weeks ago. He is out of the South Kent School in South Kent, Conn., and the Baltimore-based Team Melo in Nike’s EYBL league.
At the GymRat Challenge, Gapare displayed his athleticism, length and confidence, per 247Sports national analyst Dushawn London, noting that Gapare “also handles it well for his size, is a capable shooter and defensively got after it blocking multiple shots at the rim.”
The 6-foot-6 Ducharme, offered by Syracuse basketball last August at the team’s annual Elite Camp, appears to be a high-priority recruit for the ‘Cuse in this cycle.
...
Syracuse Basketball: 5-star center who had Orange interest unveils top 7 (itlh; Adler)
I had come across a handful of media reports dating back to the fall of 2020 that suggested Syracuse basketball coaches may have held some level of interest in 2023 five-star center Aaron Bradshaw from New Jersey.
Well, I never saw an official scholarship offer made by the Orange to the 7-foot Bradshaw, and the ‘Cuse isn’t going to land him. According to an article from On3 national recruiting analyst Joe Tipton, Bradshaw has disclosed his top seven, and the Orange didn’t make the cut.
Tipton reported that Bradshaw’s remaining options are Louisville, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma State, Michigan, UCLA and the NBA’s G League.
These are all terrific contenders, and I’m sure that Bradshaw will shine wherever he lands. He is one of the top big men in the junior cycle.
...
Photo by Randy Belice/NBAE via Getty Images
Syracuse men’s basketball: Buddy Boeheim struggles in Day 1 of G-League Elite Camp (TNIAAM; McCaulsky)
Syracuse Orange guard Buddy Boeheim scored just 7 points on 2-9 shooting from the field. All of his attempts were from behind the three point line. Some looks were makeable shots for him. But others were shots he could have passed up for better looks.
Boeheim, an 88 percent free throw shooters, split a pair of free throws and managed to grab five rebounds. For all of the analytic nerds, his plus/minus was -5.
At the moment, it seems unlikely that Boeheim will be invited to the NBA Draft Combine. He’ll have to turn his performance around from Day one to make that happen.
Just because he may not get an invite to the Draft Combine doesn’t mean he won’t hear his name called on June 23rd.
For example, former Nebraska Cornhusker and current Toronto Raptor Dalano Banton participated in last year’s NBA G-League Elite Camp but wasn’t invited to the NBA Draft Combine. But despite flying under the radar, Banton was selected 46th overall by his hometown Toronto Raptors.
...
Other
Workers operate the press at The Post-Standard. (File photo by David Lassman | The Post-Standard)
The Post-Standard to move newspaper printing from Syracuse plant (PS; Moriarty)
Printing of The Post-Standard will move from Clinton Square to Advance Local’s press facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, starting in August.
Tim Kennedy, regional president for Advance Local, said the change will not affect delivery times for Post-Standard subscribers. The newspaper will continue to be printed seven days a week and be home-delivered on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and available at retail stores the other days.
He said the look and news content of the newspaper will not change.
The media company’s journalists, sales professionals and other employees moved in 2013 from its offices on Clinton Square to Merchants Commons on South Warren Street.
In 2017, Advance sold that Clinton Square building where the newspaper has been printed since the early 1970s. The buyer, VIP Structures, leased back to the newspaper the printing facility in the rear of the building.
Kennedy said the lease will expire at the end of the year, which he said was a significant factor in the decision to move production.
The press has been used less as more readers get their news from the newspaper’s online partners: syracuse.com, nyup.com and the e-Post-Standard, the digital replica of the newspaper.
...
