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Welcome to Casimir Pulaski Day!
Casimir Pulaski Day is a local holiday officially observed in Chicago, Illinoison the first Monday of every March in memory of Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745[1] – October 11, 1779), a Revolutionary War cavalry officer born inPoland as Kazimierz Pułaski. He is praised for his contributions to the U.S. military in the American Revolution and known as "the father of the American cavalry".
The day is celebrated mainly in areas that have large Polish populations, such as Chicago and Bloomington and DuBois. The focus of official commemorations of Casimir Pulaski Day in Chicago is at the Polish Museum of America where various city and state officials congregate to pay tribute to Chicago's Polish Community.
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How the Noles Beat Syracuse (chopchat.com; Hunt)
FSU basketball sent its seniors home with a win on Saturday afternoon. However, it was the freshmen on the team that had a lot to do with the Noles avenging their previous loss to Syracuse.
The FSU basketball team did three major things well on the offensive side of the ball:
- Shot the ball well
- Crashed the boards
- Made Free Throws
FSU was very good on the defensive side of the ball for most of the day. Syracuse did shoot the ball well in the first half, shooting at a 52 percent clip, but the Noles clamped down on defense while forcing 16 turnovers.
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Pitt to Face Syracuse in ACC Tournament (cariachill.com)
With Pitt's loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday, the Panthers closed out the end of the regular season in disappointing fashion. We've been talking about the team winning at least one more game and now they'll have to do it in the ACC Tournament - against Syracuse.
The game isn't a great draw for either team, if you think about it. For Pitt, they will have to pull off the difficult feat of beating the Orange for a third straight time. The Panthers have a great track record against Syracuse but beating any team that much just isn't all that easy. For the Orange, well, they've not only lost the past two against Pitt, but dating back to last season, the last four.
Pitt looks like the better team, which is what you want. But there's no question that the Orange will again be giving the Panthers their best shot. Pitt isn't a top five team and at some point, in a matchup of pretty evenly matched teams, you have to wonder what the breaking point is.
One thing in Pitt's corner is that the Orange aren't playing that well lately. They've lost four of their past five games (including the 14-point loss to the Panthers in the last meeting) and ended their season with a road loss to Florida State. Pitt didn't finish their season on a high note but aren't quite in the free fall that Syracuse has been.
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Syracuse Limping Into ACC Tournament with a Litany of Issues (todaysu.com; Holcomb)
It’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride for the Syracuse Orange in the 2015-16 season. Unfortunately for upstate New York, the latest free fall drop for the team doesn’t seem to want to end.
After saving its season with eight victories in nine games starting on Jan. 13, the Orange have lost four of its last five. Two of those losses were to ranked opponents on the road, but Syracuse’s latest loss was a very winnable game against Florida State. The Seminoles defeated the Orange, 78-73.
The recent losing stretch caused Syracuse to finish the conference regular season in 10th place in the ACC at 9-9. It has also left some room for doubt about whether the Orange will make the NCAA tournament.
There have been many issues for Syracuse. However, rebounding has to be considered the biggest problem over the last few weeks. In the last five games, the opposition has outrebounded Jim Boeheim’s squad 205-149. Against Pittsburgh on Feb. 20, Syracuse lost the rebounding battle, 43-23, as the Panthers grabbed 14 rebounds on the offensive boards alone. These extra possessions are absolutely killing the Orange.
Although Syracuse must box out better as a team, the team’s leading rebounder, junior Tyler Roberson, needs to improve the most. He is averaging 8.2 rebounds per game this season, but over the last five games, he only has 5.2 rpg. Syracuse could also use more scoring from the junior, who has just 5.0 points per game over the same stretch.
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SU Has the Burden of Proof. Now What Will They Do With It? (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Hey, sports mimics life sometimes. And vice versa.
For nearly three weeks (wrapped up this past Thursday), I was on jury duty. I couldn't say a whole lot about it during the trial, and won't here either. But during my three-week
Every season, Syracuse and most other teams start the year as a plaintiff (this was a civil suit). The field is the defense, leaving the burden of proof solely in the hands of the plaintiff (Syracuse, for our purposes). If SU can tip the scales even slightly to show that they did enough to make it, they're in. If not, they've failed and the NCAA TournamentCommittee rules in favor of the field.
So, at this juncture, has Syracuse met its burden of proof? And if not, do they still have a chance to?
We can't necessarily know the first answer, but I'm tempted to say no based on recent play. On the second answer, yes, there's still a chance, if they're willing to take it. Beat Pitt, and you're assured of nothing, but it's still more than what you'd be assured of if you lost to the Panthers instead and ended the year at 19-13 and on a three-game losing streak. Beat Pitt and you might tip the scales just enough to meet that burden of proof, even if you end up losing to North Carolina in the next game.
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Email Inventor and Update NY Native Raymond Tomlinson Dies: 5 Things to Know, Such as Why the @ Symbol? (PS; AP)
Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and selector of the "@" symbol, has died. He was 74.
Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were not immediately available.
Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network person-to-person email, there was no way to send something to a specific person at a specific address.
Here are five things to know about Tomlinson's invention:
1. The first email was sent on the ARPANET system. The computer network created for the U.S. government is considered a precursor to the Internet. Tomlinson also contributed to its development.
At the time, few people had personal computers. The popularity of personal email wouldn't take off until years later but has become an integral part of modern life.
"It wasn't an assignment at all, he was just fooling around; he was looking for something to do with ARPANET," Raytheon spokeswoman Joyce Kuzman said of his creation of network email.
Tomlinson once said in a company interview that he created email "mostly because it seemed like a neat idea." The first email was sent between two machines that were side-by-side, according to that interview.
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