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Welcome to National Tug-Of-War Tournament Day!
Split into two teams, and the last one standing wins! July 21 is National Tug of War Tournament Day, and there’s only one way to celebrate: play tug of war!
Historians think some version of tug of war has been played for many centuries, all the way back to both ancient Egypt and ancient China. Today, formal organizations play by set rules, with eight people to a team and a muddy “moat” between them. The goal is to pull the rope at least four meters or cause the opponents to fall down (and hopefully get very muddy!).
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Time to talk football: ACC kickoff starts Thursday (roanoke.com; Bitter)
Are you ready for some football … news conferences?
OK, it’s not the football season quite yet, but “talking season” as Steve Spurrier once dubbed it, is nearing its end and teams are getting ready to put the pads back on.
Not until after the ACC Kickoff, however — one big conference get-together in Charlotte, North Carolina, the next couple of days that serves as the unofficial start of the football season.
Here are five storylines to look out for at media days:
1. An ACC Network announcement
The cat’s already out of the bag, with news breaking earlier this week that the ACC’s partnership with ESPN will produce a much-anticipated channel dedicated to the league.
It will reportedly begin as a digital-only plan starting this August, with a traditional linear channel following suit in 2019. Additionally, the league’s members extended their grant of rights deal through 2035-36, essentially assuring that the membership will stay intact for the next 20 years.
League commissioner John Swofford is expected to officially detail the agreement when he addresses the media Thursday, making the ACC the fourth Power 5 league to have a network, along with the Big Ten, SEC and Pac-12.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...6/07/20/acc-kickoff-2016-storylines/87342266/ (courier-journal.com; Jones)
The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold its football media days event – the ACC Kickoff – Thursday and Friday in Charlotte. Commissioner John Swofford will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Thursday, followed by interviews with the Coastal Division coaches and players. On Friday, the Atlantic Division coaches and players, including from the University of Louisville, will be featured.
The Courier-Journal will have all-day coverage from both days, including streaming video of the news conferences.
Here are some top storylines we'll be watching.
Growing buzz around U of L, Jackson
U of L, coming off its impressive bowl victory over Texas A&M and likely to be ranked this preseason, figures to generate a fare amount of buzz and receive a lot more attention from national media than it did at last year's ACC Kickoff. Coach Bobby Petrino, quarterback Lamar Jackson and linebacker Keith Kelsey probably will get a lot of questions about expectations and how capable the Cardinals are of knocking off powerhouses Florida State and Clemson in the Atlantic Division.
http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...van-u-ls-big-break-big-12-rejection/87363484/ (courier-journal.com; Sullivan)
Louisville was lucky. Rebuffed by the short-sighted, math-challenged and unapologetically unequal Big 12 Conference, U of L was able to find sporting sanctuary in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
This was like getting dumped by a dysfunctional drama queen and meeting Miss Right at her mansion in Malibu.
Poised to announce the 2019 launch of its own network and a 20-year deal with ESPN that makes league-hopping prohibitive, the ACC has achieved a level of stability that continues to elude the Big 12. The formal announcement will be made Thursday morning in Charlotte, but the U of L gloating need not wait.
Suddenly eager to expand, the Big 12 still includes only 10 member schools, a football champion compromised by the lack of a league championship game (until 2017), no equitable answer to the revenue disparities arising from the University of Texas’ Longhorn Network and no satisfactory answers from scandal-plagued Baylor University.
The ACC has its own issues, as any Cardinal can tell you, and some of them are seismic. In addition to the lingering stench of Louisville’s recruiting sex parties and the unfathomable academic fraud at the University of North Carolina – both cases still awaiting NCAA adjudication -- Georgia Tech, Miami and Syracuse are already serving probation in both football and men’s basketball.
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Otto the Orange pays a visit to downtown Syracuse (video) (PS; video)
With football season around the corner, Otto the Orange made several stops in downtown Syracuse to drum up some interest.
Since we have a little more time before we get into the nitty-gtitty of preseason camp, enjoy a video of the fuzzy mascot on a summer day.
