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Welcome to D. B. Cooper Day!
Yes, it’s hard to believe it’s been 39 years, since that epic skydive took place…but..it is.
Yes, D.B. Cooper is quite the man. The FBI remains on the hunt today…can you believe it?
His jump caused a major shift in airline travel comfort, and actually spawned the word: Skyjacking.
Brave soul to exit via the tail ramp at faster than terminal velocity. Worse yet, without being able to spot the pilot to give him a sporting chance of hitting the intended DZ.
To top it off, he did it with a “round.” I suspect it was a C-9 28′ flat circular canopy, which, unless you were pretty light, it would have made for a tough landing, so you needed to be well practiced forPLFs, and tree landings, too. Heck, toss in the fact you may have had to pull off a successful water landing at night, without a few buddies in a boat nearby, and in November in the North West.
Guts…and we still don’t know if he made it, or became worm food that night.
Never fear, the tradition continues: Many years back, the annual World Freefall Convention began bringing in a 727 with the DB Cooper Lock removed, so skydivers could jump the ramp.
SU News
Throwback Tuesday: Mike Hopkins Removes Name From Consideration for UNC-Charlotte Job (PS)
Jeff Goodman, senior college basketball writer for FOXSports.com, is reporting in his blog that Syracuse assistant basketball coach Mike Hopkins has withdrawn his name from consideration for the head coaching position at UNC-Charlotte.
A few days ago, Goodman was reporting that the job was Hopkins' if he wanted it.
Hopkins played with Syracuse from 1989 to 1993, and began as an assistant coach at SU in 1995.
More on Mike Hopkins:
Troy Nunes in an Absolute Magician: You Can Have Mike Hopkins When You Pry Him From Our Cold, Dead Hands
Mike Hopkins' official Web site
Mike Hopkins' and Gerry McNamara's basketball academy
From December: Brent Axe podcast with Mike Hopkins
From November: Bud Poliquin: As Mike Hopkins believes he sits at the feet of a master, he's happy to wait his turn at the top
Should the Orange Change the Starting Lineup? (TNIAAM; Burke)
In each of Syracuse's last two games, the Orange have turned to the same lineup to pull away down the stretch. That lineup consists of four of SU's starters — Michael Gbinije, Trevor Cooney, Malachi Richardson and Tyler Roberson. But instead ofDaJuan Coleman, it features Tyler Lydon at center.
That lineup, which wasn't used in the season opener against Lehigh, was a combined plus-19 against St. Bonaventure and Elon. Syracuse's starting lineup, meanwhile, is minus-3 through the season's first three games.
All of that begs the question: ahead of this week's Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas, should Syracuse alter its starting lineup? Or, in other words, should Lydon start at center in place of Coleman?
It's certainly something Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim should consider. Unlike Coleman, Lydon is a threat from the perimeter on offense. Given that, Lydon has the ability to stretch opposing centers away from the paint — something that helps SU's offense in a number of ways. And at least so far, Lydon hasn't been the liability in the middle of the 2-3 zone that many expected him to be. In fact, he's actually played exceptionally well at that spot.
The main issue with Syracuse's starting lineup, to this point, has been the fact that it features two players — Coleman and Roberson — who are mostly incapable of scoring outside of the paint on offense. Because of this, opposing defenders responsible for guarding Coleman and Roberson have the luxury of planting themselves near the rim for the duration of possessions. (That's perfectly legal in college basketball, since there is no defensive three-second violation.)
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Is Syracuse the Favorite to Land Taurean Thompson? (hngn.com; Woolfson)
Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse basketball program have been at the center of a lot of controversy and they have faced some serious sanctions but that has not affected their recruiting in the least. Boeheim brought in the 10th best class in the nation for 2015 and he is working on another very good class for 2016. Syracuse has already received commitments from two top 50 prospects in the 2016 class and they are working hard to add a top 100 prospect in power forward Taurean Thompson, according to Adam Zagoria of SNY.tv.
At this point most of the top 100 prospects have already decided where they will play their college basketball but Thompson hasn't and he isn't all that close. As of right now he hasn't officially cut his list of schools down but he says that Syracuse and Seton Hall are the ones he talks to the most.
"I'm been really just talking to Seton Hall and Syracuse. Yeah, I guess so. I've been on an official to Syracuse and I've been to Seton Hall a bunch of times," said Thompson about Syracuse and Seton Hall being the main two schools on his list.
Syracuse is one of two official visits Thompson has taken at this point, along with Xavier, but Thompson says that he remains in contact with Syracuse and Seton Hall but besides that hasn't really talked with any other schools. Of the two schools pursuing him the hardest Syracuse appears to be the favorite, according to 247 Sports. Thompson says he loves the tradition at Syracuse and head coach Jim Boeheim sees him as a great fit for their zone defense due to his great length. Another thing going for the Orangemen is the fact that Thompson is good friends with current freshmen Malachi Richardson and Frank Howard.
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Bahamas Wiki
The Bahamas officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north ofCuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "Bahamas" can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
Originally inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonised the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island ofEleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Blacks constituted the majority of the population from this period. The Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves: the Royal Navy resettled Africans here liberated from illegal slave ships; American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida; and the government freed American slaves carried on United States domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Today the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population; issues related to the slavery years are part of society.
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