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Welcome to National Cherry Popsicle Day!
It’s National Cherry Popsicle Day! According to legend, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson accidentally invented the popsicle in 1905. He was stirring up a soft drink when he got distracted and left the cup and the stirring stick out on his front porch overnight. The next morning he discovered a delicious frozen treat with a convenient stick handle!
Nowadays, popsicles are quite a fashionable dessert. Today we celebrate the classic cherry-flavored variety, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Gourmet popsicle shops turn out dozens of unique flavors—avocado, hibiscus, chai, cranberry cosmopolitan, cucumber-jalapeño, and many more.
To celebrate National Cherry Popsicle Day, make your own homemade popsicles! Team up with some friends to invent a totally unique flavor or put a twist on a classic.
SU News
NCAA Basketball Sanctions, Emmett and Syracuse (insidetheloudhouse.com; White)
Obviously Boeheim and the athletic department are still fighting the sanctions against them that were issued in March. These sanctions include scholarship deduction, taking aways wins, and suspending Boeheim for the opening part of this season. Now it’s starting to get more suspicious after North Carolina had information leaked that student-athletes were taking 18 years of what were essentially ghost classes, they never had to show up and received A’s. As Syracuse basketball fans we see this as something that should be penalized equal to, if not worse than the punishment we received from the NCAA. But, that’s not how they see it, or at least how they saw it.
UNC and Syracuse, Two Basketball Programs in Hot Water with the NCAA
NCAA President Mark Emmert who has two degrees from ‘Cuse (so it is believable that he would be unbiased) explained why UNC’s investigation initially was way different from our own. Let’s contrast the two.
Syracuse- Fab Melo as well as three other basketball players were receiving help on writing papers from the universitiesathletic department. Because those in the athletic department were the ones helping the student athletes cheat, that immediately becomes their problem.
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ACC Basketball News
UL OOC Basketball Schedule Done (courier-journal.com; Greer)
With Western Kentucky releasing its 2015-16 basketball schedule on Tuesday, the dates for the University of Louisville basketball team's 13 nonconference games this upcoming season are now known.
Louisville will host WKU on Dec. 19 at the KFC Yum! Center in the final game of the two programs' current series contract. It's unclear if the teams will continue playing, though indications are last season's physical, chippy game in Bowling Green may push the in-state rivals to take a break from playing each other.
Of the 13 nonconference games, U of L will host 10 contests, play two on the road at Kentucky and Michigan State and one neutral-site game against Saint Louis in Brooklyn, N.Y. The slate is a stark contrast to Louisville's expected 2016-17 nonconference games, which include Indiana in Indianapolis, Kentucky at home, a Big Ten/ACC Challenge matchup at home and the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas that reportedly has Michigan State, VCU and Wichita State in the eight-team field.
The dates for Louisville's ACC schedule will likely be announced within the next few weeks -- next week at the earliest.
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Of All the NYS Fair Midway Rides, Mega Drop May Freak You Out the Most (PS; Tulloch)
Of all the 13 new rides Wade Shows will bring to the New York State Fair's Midway this summer, the Mega Drop tower looks to be the #1 candidate to drop stomachs.
But the Mega Drop doesn't actually drop you; it lifts you up, then shoots you down.
"The way it catches you is with everlasting magnet brakes," said Frank Zaitshik, president of Wade Shows, on Tuesday, Aug. 25. "It doesn't depend on electricity or cables."
Simulated zero gravity is the fun part, but the lift station can be an excruciating journey for folks afraid of heights.
You're slowly pulled upward through a 600-amp magnetic field to the top. It's a lovely aerial view of the fair, but the longer you're up there, the easier it is to freak out.
"If we're not real busy, we keep you up there for a few seconds to raise the anticipation," Zaitshik said. "When you're up there, you're like, 'What's going to stop this?' That's what happened to me. I don't like all rides, but I love this ride."
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