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Welcome to National Watermelon Day!
Today is National Watermelon Day! Watermelon is a delicious summer fruit that has become a staple at family picnics and cookouts. Did you know that watermelons are 92% water? No wonder they’re so refreshing!
There are around 300 different kinds of watermelon in the U.S. and Mexico. You can find red, pink, white, and yellow varieties in various sizes and shapes. Watermelons are usually quite large, and many county fairs award prizes for the biggest ones. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the heaviest watermelon weighed 262 pounds. To learn more interesting watermelon facts, check out www.watermelon.org.
To celebrate National Watermelon Day, have some watermelon for dessert tonight! Slice it up and eat it plain, cook it on the grill, mix it into a salsa, or blend it into a cocktail. Enjoy!
SU News
Moe Neal and Robert Washington; SU Football's Butch and Sundance
Impact of Moe Neal Selecting Syracuse (thejuice; Cheng)
Hope you had a great first weekend in August, everyone. I sure know the Syracuse football coaching staff did.
The big news was obviously the commitment of Moe Neal to Syracuse. The 5-foot-11, 160-pound athlete was North Carolina’s top rated prospect at that position and picked the Orange over his other finalist, Wake Forest. The decision is significant for several reasons. First and foremost, it fills a big need for Syracuse at its hybrid position, which is something that was not lost on At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. recruiting analyst Michael Clark. “He is a polished route-runner and catches the ball well. Neal needs to continue add weight and get stronger, but his best football is ahead of him and he should become a major playmaker in college,” Clark said.
Additionally, the commitment not only moves Syracuse up into the top 50 in recruiting class according to , it also could create a recruiting ripple effect. Neal says he intends on trying to flip Penn State commit Christian Colon, who was a coveted defensive tackle for the Orange. “He said he would like to take a visit up there,” Neal said to Syracuse.com’s Stephen Bailey. “We’d all like to play with each other.” Colon,Neal and Orange running back commit Robert Washington are all childhood friends.
» Related: 2017 RB Kevin Mensah puts Syracuse football in his top six
Switching to basketball, 2016 big man Sedee Keita definitely enjoyed his weekend, picking up offers from SMU and Kansas State, according to SNY.tv’s very own, Adam Zagoria. Keita has a wide range of offers already, including Iowa State, Temple, Tennessee, Memphis and Syracuse according to 247 Sports. Currently, the Orangehave 60 percent of the Crystal Ball ratings.
2016 Albany product Quinton Rose is feeling the love from SMU. Over the weekend,Rose told that he’s planning on taking a trip to see the Mustangs, in large part because of the respect he has for coach Larry Brown. “Definitely having a coach like Larry Brown, playing for a coach like him with NBA connections, he is in the Hall of Fame and is one of the best coaches there is,” Rose said. Syracuse has shown interest in the guard, but has not extended an offer yet.
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SU Football Success Tied Directly to QB Terrel Hunt (thejuice; Rachel Marcus)
When I was a copy editor for the sports section of the SU student paper The Daily Orange in the spring of 2011, we put together a yearly spread on the football recruits that committed to Syracuse for the 2011 season. The Orange was coming off an 8-5 record (including a bowl win) and Doug Marrone had the program on the rise, ready for Year 3 of the Marrone era.
The 2011 class included some names you may find familiar—Adonis Ameen-Moore, Ashton Broyld, Durrell Eskridge, Cam Lynch, Brandon Reddish—to name a few. But there was one player in that class that I vividly remember hearing about—Terrel Hunt, a quarterback from New York.
Four years and a redshirt later, I believe SU will go as far as Hunt, now the starting QB, will take the Orange.
Here’s why:
His first couple of years on campus, SU was in full Ryan Nassib mode at quarterback, and rightfully so.
Then came 2013. Highly touted transfer Drew Allen came in and started the first two games. He wasn’t great. Hunt was given the opportunity to start for SU in the third game of that 2013 season, and he produced. SU overcame an 0-2 start and finished the season at 7-6, winners of the Texas Bowl.
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SU's Beth Mowins Discusses Women Calling NFL Games; Tim Howard the Analyst (si.com; Deitsch)
It’s not every day you get a phone call out of the blue from a National Football League team, but that’s exactly what happened this spring when Vittorio De Bartolo, the executive producer of broadcasting for the Oakland Raiders, tracked down ESPN broadcaster Beth Mowins while Mowins was on assignment calling the NCAA women’s softball tournament.
De Bartolo came armed with a question that stunned the broadcaster: How interested would Mowins be in calling the team’s games during the preseason?
“They had heard of me, seen my work, and there were some connections through Syracuse University, with [former Raiders owner] Al Davis being a Syracuse grad,” said Mowins, who was born in Syracuse and holds a master’s degree in communications from Syracuse University. “So they called and said we’d really be interested in you doing the play by play. I said I’d be very interested too. It was a pleasant surprise.”
It was also a long time coming. The last, and only, women to call NFL play by play was Gayle Sierens,who recently retired after a long career as a news anchor in Tampa, Fla. Sierens was the announcer for the Seahawks-Chiefs game for NBC on Dec. 27, 1987, the final week of the regular season that year. Following that broadcast, then-NBC Sports executive producer Mike Weismanoffered Sierens six more game games for the following season but her local NBC station did not want her to call more games and miss work. SoSierens never called another NFL game. Lesley Visser served as an analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Howard David and analyst Boomer Esiason for a Westwood One/CBS Radio game in 2001 and eight years later became the first woman to do color for a televised NFL game, a preseason game between the Dolphins and the Saints. That’s essentially the list of women who have done NFL play-by-play or color analysis.
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