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The European Day of Languages is 26 September, as proclaimed by the Council of Europe on 6 December 2001, at the end of the European Year of Languages (2001), which had been jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union.[1]Its aim is to encourage language learning across Europe.
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- promote the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe;
- encourage lifelong language learning in and out of school.
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ACC Week 4 bowl projections: Duke, Syracuse get back into the race (espn.com; Hale)
The top of our bowl projections haven’t changed much this week, but with Wake Forest now 4-0, Duke pulling an upset over Notre Dame and Syracuse edging Connecticut, there’s plenty of room to maneuver at the bottom.
Here are our Week 4 projections:
College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl: Louisville Cardinals
Capital One Orange Bowl: Clemson Tigers
TIER ONE
Russell Athletic Bowl: Florida State Seminoles
TIER TWO
TaxSlayer Bowl: Miami Hurricanes
Belk Bowl: North Carolina Tar Heels
New Era Pinstripe Bowl: Virginia Tech Hokies
Hyundai Sun Bowl: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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Quick Lane Bowl: Pittsburgh Panthers
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman: Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Camping World Independence Bowl: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
St. Petersburg Bowl: Duke Blue Devils
Birmingham Bowl: Syracuse Orange
Recruiting Roundup: 2017 defensive end Jonathan Kingsley commits to Syracuse - The Juice Online (the juice; Cheng)
With it being a sad day in the world of golf, let’s get right to today’s recruiting links…
Stepinac (NY) Athletics tweeted over the weekend that Rutgers extended an offer to 2018 defensive back Trill Williams. He also picked up an offer from Syracuse last week to go along with offers from Buffalo and Stony Brook.
After fielding 18 offers, including one from Syracuse, River Rogue (Mich.) quarterbackJairus Grissom announced his commitment to Eastern Michigan via Twitter on Sunday evening. He is rated three-stars by 247 Sports.
» Related: Syracuse makes Mohamed Bamba’s final seven
’s Ryan Murray reported over the weekend that Syracuse secured a verbal commitment from 2017 defensive end Jonathan Kingsley. He was originally in the class of 2019 but was allowed to reclassify to 2017. Prior to that, he had offers from Florida State, Louisville, Tennessee and North Carolina, among others.
Mettus: Syracuse football's outlook is still bleak despite win over Connecticut (DO; Mettus)
Dino Babers professed that he was down in spirit, two days removed from a 45-20 thrashing by South Florida.
“I’ve been down a little bit,” he said at his weekly Monday press conference. “I really have.”
But his words of choice — good, pride, happy — a week later at Rentschler Field after holding on to beat Connecticut, 31-24, took on a much different tone.
“It’s just good to say you’re 2-2,” Babers said. “You think you wouldn’t take pride in that, but it’s a big difference saying you’re 2-2 than when you’re 1-3.”
A loss would have been detrimental to the season, casting into doubt any idea of a win through the final eight games. But a close win like this doesn’t change much in terms of SU’s outlook on the rest of the season.
Syracuse (2-2, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) might have a better record than upcoming opponent Notre Dame (1-3), but it’s not a better team. A win is unlikely. Maybe in a week I’ll be proven wrong considering all the turmoil the Fighting Irish is currently in. This is the same Orange squad that was blown out by Louisville and South Florida, and might even be worse depending on how the injuries shake out. Syracuse is just as bad as it was before the win.
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Syracuse football passed 1st late-game test of Dino Babers era at UConn (commentary) (PS; Bailey)
Leading 24-17 midway through the fourth quarter, Syracuse football was facing its first true late-game test of the Dino Babers era.
Connecticut had dinked and dunked its way from its own 20 to the Orange 4-yard line. Three times the Huskies attempted to pound in a touchdown. Three times SU turned its old Big East foe away.
Then the Syracuse offense drove 99 yards, converting four third downs by way of four different players, to seal a victory in its first road game of 2016.
"When it comes down to being on the goal line, sometimes you've just got to put your chin to your chest and work," redshirt freshman Colin Byrne said.
The Orange did that at both ends of the field, and the result was a 31-24 win over UConn at Rentschler Field on Saturday. After blowing out Colgate in its season opener and losing to No. 3 Louisville and South Florida by a combined 59 points in Weeks 2 and 3, SU had yet to play a true fourth-quarter game. The pressure to produce in such situations, especially on a young and inexperienced team, could have led Syracuse to crack.
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Syracuse football tempo analysis: How fast did Dino Babers' offense go against UConn? (PS; Bailey)
The radar gun is back. After being nixed along with offensive coordinator George McDonald five weeks into Syracuse football's 2014 season, weekly tempo analyses are returning to Syracuse.com for Dino Babers' first campaign as SU head coach.
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Pace: 19.6 seconds per play
Some perspective: Babers' offense at Bowling Green last season averaged 20.6 seconds per play
Season chart
Quick analysis
The data set from this game is pretty much what you would expect. While Syracuse continued to develop its hurry-up spread system, Connecticut tried to slow the game down as much as possible. The result was UConn having possession for about 64 percent of the game.
That probably makes UConn head coach Bob Diaco happy, but SU head coach Dino Babers will gladly take the final score. And the Orange did turn in its second-fastest performance of the season, averaging 7.1 yards per play.
The uptempo system may not have worn down the Huskies defense due to that gap in time of possession, but it did force Connecticut to fall back into base coverages. And that factored into quarterback Eric Dungey taking advantage of UConn's man coverage on redshirt senior wideout Amba Etta-Tawo.
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http://www.cuse.com/news/2016/9/25/football-sunday-sidebar-defense-steps-up.aspx?path=football (cuse.com)
There has been a lot of talk about Syracuse's offense this season and rightly so. But it was the Orange defense that ultimately sealed yesterday's 31-24 victory against Connecticut at Rentschler Field.
After yielding a combined 107 points in losses to two of college football's better offensive teams in Louisville and USF, the Orange surrendered 24 points against the Huskies. And it wasn't for lack of UConn opportunities. The Huskies ran 91 offensive plays and held the ball for nearly 40 minutes.
Safety Daivon Ellison and linebackers Zaire Franklin and Parris Bennett all set personal bests with 14 tackles apiece. Franklin in particular was stellar, notching 2.5 tackles for loss and playing a role in two of the game's most pivotal plays.
With the game tied at 17 late in the third quarter, Franklin tipped a Bryant Shirreffs pass into the waiting arms of cornerback Cordell Hudson who returned the ball 22 yards for a touchdown to give Syracuse the lead heading into the final period. Then midway through the fourth quarter and Huskies still down seven, Franklin stopped Shirreffs for a gain of one on fourth-and-goal from the SU 2-yard line. Quarterback Eric Dungey and Co. took over and went on a 99-yard scoring drive on the ensuing series to put the game out of reach.
"Just the way we were playing throughout the day, we had a lot of confidence," Franklin said. "We knew that we wanted the game to be in our hands."
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Jamesville man remembers Arnold Palmer, his golf teammate, friend from Wake Forest (PS; O'Toole)
Sandy Burton first learned of Arnold Palmer and his golf talents when he looked up NCAA golf championships and saw Palmer's name listed as a medalist in his mother's Almanac.
Burton, now 83, of Jamesville, was a high school student at the time growing up in Watertown, where there were just two nine-hole golf courses.
Palmer, on the other hand, had already begun to etch his name into history books: While playing golf for Wake Forest University from 1948 to 1950, Palmer won the Southern Conference Championship in 1948 and 1949 and he was an NCAA Championship medalist in 1949 and 1950. He also won the Southern Intercollegiate crown in 1950.
"That was my first knowledge of Arnold, his golf ability and of Wake Forest," Burton said of what he read in his mother's Almanac.
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