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Welcome to National High Five Day!
Each year on the third Thursday in April, we observe National High Five Day. This is a fun day where you can “High Five” everyone that you see.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Use #NationalHighFiveDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
In 2002, college students at the University of Virginia, Conor Lastowka (San Diego, CA), Sam Miotke (Corvallis, OR) and Wynn Walent (New York, NY) together created National High Five Day, an unofficial national holiday.
The National High-5-A-Thon For Cancer Research:
http://www.nationalhighfiveproject.org/
SU News
Big Takeaways from Dino Babers on ACC Football Coaches Teleconference (TNIAAM; Gilberg)
It was the first time Babers spoke to the media since Naesean Howard allegedly stabbed former teammates Chauncey Scissum and Corey Winfield.
Despite only being on the line for 10 minutes, newSyracuse Orange football head coach Dino Babers addressed several various topics while appearing on the 2016 ACC Football Coaches Spring Media Teleconference Wednesday.
While he attempted to keep the conversation mostly about football and his players' development, he did answer a few questions regarding the recent incident involving former Syracuse player Naesean Howard allegedly stabbing ex-teammates, and current players, Chauncey Scissum and Corey Winfield.
"Rebirth"
In his opening remarks, Babers said he was very impressed with the team throughout the spring, saying players did a "fantastic" job trying to learn and adopt to an entirely new system. "I thought the entire spring period was a rebirth, trying to teach new offenses and new defenses to these young men" Babers said.
Babers, however, reiterated his stance once more that the job is not done yet. "We've got a lot of growth that we need to move forward with, with this football team...Once we get them back in two-a-days we'll try to find out exactly where we're at and what we're capable of doing in the fall."
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Academic Progress Rate: Syracuse Continues Improvement in Latest Four-Year Report (TNIAAM; Orsenigo & Cassillo)
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The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores for the 2014-15 season on Wednesday, and the Syracuse sports teams are looking pretty good.
You, like many people, may feel that the APR is a ridiculous program in a sea of ridiculous policies implemented by the NCAA. Regardless of your feelings on APR, the fact is that it is a metric used by the NCAA, and it does matter for the continued postseason participation of Syracuse's sports teams. Here's a quick refresher on how APR works:
In order to maintain next year's postseason eligibility (2016-17), a team must maintain an APR score above 930 for a four-year period, or above 940 for a two-year period. The good news for Syracuse is that every one of their teams had a score in this year's report of at least 960.
Let's take a look at how each Syracuse team performed in this year's four-year APR scores, going in descending order (with ACC ranking in parentheses):
Women's Soccer: 1,000 -- a perfect score (1/14)
Women's Cross Country: 997 (6/15)
Women's Basketball: 996 (2/15)
Men's Cross Country: 996 (5/14)
Women's Volleyball: 994 (9/15)
Women's Lacrosse: 993 (7/8)
Men's Track and Field: 993 (5/15)
Women's Rowing: 992 (3/9)
Women's Track and Field: 989 (9/15)
Women's Softball: 987 (8/11)
Women's Tennis: 983 (13/15)
Women's Ice Hockey: 983 (4/5) *CHA
Men's Lacrosse: 981 (4/5)
Men's Basketball: 980 (8/15)
Football: 973 (7/15)
Men's Soccer: 963 (10/12)
Field Hockey: 960 (7/7)
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2017 WR Verbal Daewood Davis Flips From Orange to...FAU? (TNIAAM; Ross)
Another domino has fallen on the Syracuse Orange football recruiting trail this week, only this time in the wrong direction. At their request, this network is being blocked from this site.'s Corey Benderwas first to report that 2017 wide receiver Daewood Davis flipped his college commitment from the Orange to the Owls of Florida Atlantic.
The 6-foot-2, 170 pound Davis, who lives less than an hour away from FAU in Hollywood, Fla, holds a three-star rating from 247Sports.com and was the first player to commit to the football class of 2017 back in June, when Scott Shafer was still the head coach. Despite his original commitment, however, he was still open to talking to and visiting other schools.
"I chose FAU because I see their vision of building another dominant football program in Florida," Davis told TNIAAM via Twitter direct message. "I also chose FAU because I wanted to be close to home."
With Davis's flip, that leaves Syracuse with three commitments for 2017 in QB Tommy DeVito, WR Sharod Johnson, and LB Isaiah McDuffie. Three commitments doesn't seem like a lot, but there is a long way to go between now and National Signing Day 2017.
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Students at Troy College Plan Topless Protest Over Police Treatment of Student (PS; Tampone)
Students at a Troy college are planning to go topless today to protest treatment of a student who identifies as androgynous, according to the Albany Times Union.
The incident occurred Sunday when a college security officer approached Cedar Brock, who was sunbathing topless in a public park along the Troy campus of The Sage Colleges.
The officer asked if Brock was a boy or girl and Brock responded "neither."
"I'm androgynous," Brock said, according to the Times Union.
The interaction led to a standoff that eventually involved Troy police, who insisted that Brock put on a shirt and told the student that city law forbids women from going topless in public.
Brock initially refused to put on a shirt, but did so after about 10 minutes. Troy police arrived on the scene shortly after initial contact with the Sage officer, the Times Union said.
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