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Welcome to national lowercase day!
While keyboarding teachers and bosses probably won’t be participating in this particular holiday anytime soon, texters will probably appreciate today’s annual celebration. October 14 is national lowercase day!
Rules of capitalizationcan often be quite confusing. While you are supposed to capitalize proper nouns, months and days of the week, you are not supposed to capitalize the seasons except when used in a title. And speaking of titles, they have special rules too. Job titles should be capitalized when used before a name or after the name in a signature line. But if the title is after a person’s name, it should be lowercase. First and last words in titles of publications along with nouns, adjectives and verbs should be capitalized but articles, coordinating conjunctions and prepositions should not. Some say determining whether or not to capitalize depends on how many letters are in the word. Geesh - who can keep it all straight?
Who needs to waste valuable time capitalizing certain words anyway? So go ahead - live a little. Turn off that auto-correct and don’t hit the Caps Lock key today! Just be sure to put everything back to normal tomorrow!
Happy lowercase day! And speaking ofh olidays, today is also National Dessert Day, National Chocolate-Covered Insect Day and Be Bald and Free Day!
SU News
WR Dowling Eager to Help Virginia (dailyprogress.com; Ramspacher)
Doni Dowling’s “leap of faith” was a three-foot drop off “some bricks” in front of a University of Virginia dormitory and into a “snowpile.”
Eight months after the UVa sophomore receiver tore his ACL because of a “foolish mistake,” Dowling didn’t save any detail during a Monday press conference at John Paul Jones Arena.
“The process of tearing the ACL is not the usual process,” he said. “Not during practice or workouts. It was actually recreational.”
Dowling made 17 catches for 141 yards last season, but the “couple snaps” he participated in at Pittsburgh last week counted for his first appearance in 2015.
A February storm kick-started his initial absence.
“It happened to be an evening where we thought school would have been cancelled from the snowstorm coming,” Dowling recalled. “So a couple of guys thought we should go out and have some fun and play around in the snow.”
Dowling literally jumped into the wintry conditions, severely injuring his left knee in the process.
“It felt just like a hyperextension,” he said. “ ... I’ve always been told to just get up and run it off so I got up and ran it off...
USF Seeks to Build on Big Win Over Syracuse (tampabay.com; Knight)
The 60-minute CPR — Creative Plays for Receivers — that was performed Saturday at Raymond James Stadium successfully resuscitated the Bulls, but don't discharge them from urgency's corridors just yet.
Being revived is merely the first step, followed by rehab: positive steps, gradually improving vital signs, increased strength.
Or as it translates to USF football, building on a cornerstone victory with consecutive ones.
"I always tell our guys, winning can beget softness," coach Willie Taggart said after Saturday's 45-24 romp of Syracuse. "We don't want to be a soft football team."
Such is the next step in the Bulls' evolution. As recently as the Maryland game, Taggart indicated his team hadn't learned how to win. Having turned that figurative corner, they now find themselves in a staredown with another stern challenge: Learning how to handle winning...
Concussions End AJ Long's Career Prematurely (lehighvalley.com; Joyce)
AJ Long's football career has come to an end.
The former Pius X quarterback and current Syracuse sophomore was disqualified from further participation in football and any other contact sport by the team's physician Tuesday after reviewing his concussion history.
Long has suffered multiple concussions while at Syracuse, according to a release from the school's athletic department.
"We appreciate AJ's hard work and the contributions he's made to our program," Orange head coach Scott Shafer said in a statement. "I look forward to watching him continue to grow both as a student and as a young man. I wish him the best."
The Bethlehem native did not play in a game this season, but made five starts last year, passing for 935 yards and four touchdowns.
Long spent two seasons at Pius X, earning Class A all-state honors as a sophomore in 2011 when he threw for 3,700 yards and 46 touchdowns. He then abruptly left the school and transferred to Friendship Christian School in Tennessee.
