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Welcome to International Moment of Laughter Day!
When was the last time you gave yourself permission to laugh out loud in public? Well, get ready to do it again, because April 14 has been set aside to do just that, according to "America's Humorologist" Izzy Gesell.
To encourage more people to laugh, he invites America and the whole world to join in the fun on April 14, the planet's International Moment of Laughter Day. You can celebrate by:
- laughing out loud at the funny cards in a greeting card shop
- calling a friend to share a funny story
- getting naked, looking in the mirror and laughing
- buying a "laugh-box" in a joke shop and turning it on at work or at home
- showing your baby pictures to someone who's never seen them
- thinking up your own way to get someone else to laugh with you
- or just laughing for no apparent reason at all
Matthew Moyer Talks About SU, His Game at Derby Classic All-Star Game (cusenation.com; McAllister)
The 2016 S.O.B. Awards Are Here! (TNIAAM; Keeley)
The S.O.B. (Syracuse Orange Blogger) Awards. They're as much a part of our history and tradition as the Legend of 44, Otto and even the color
Used to be we'd gather up all the SU blogs on the webernet and each one would cast a vote in helping to determine the winners. Since then, most of us have grown up, joined networks of our own and moved on. Nowadays, we like to keep it in-house here at TNIAAM.
For each category below, we'll put up an open thread & poll for TNIAAM readers to cast their own votes for the winners and explain why. Sometimes it will be an obvious winner and sometimes not. Either way, whatever the readers decide will count for 50% of the vote on each category.
The other 50% will come from the highly-educated and well-versed TNIAAM staff, who will cast their own votes. Together, we'll find out exactly who and what were the best & worst of the 2015-2016 Syracuse basketball season.
Here are the categories, expect to start seeing the voting threads shortly...
- Best Freshman
- Best Sophomore
- Best Junior
- Best Senior
- Best Walk-On/Bench Player
- Most Surprising Player
- Most Valuable Player
- Best Boeheim Quote of the Season
- Best Moment of the Season
- Most #DisloyalIdiot
- Best SU Photo
- Best Syracuse-Related Animated GIF/Vine
- Best Meme of the Year
- Best Syracuse Player/Coach Tweet Of The Year
- Best Non-Player/Coach Tweet Of The Year
Syracuse Baseball Team in 1918
Could Syracuse University Revive Baseball? (TNIAAM; Weinheimer)
With basketball season wrapped up in Central New York, it's time to turn the page to spring. Warmer weather, the end of snow (hopefully), an annual run to the postseason by the Syracuse lacrosse programs, and a long season of Major League Baseball to keep us occupied and carry us in to football season. We learned Monday that "Syracuse Day" is coming to Yankee Stadium on June 25th, and it got me thinking the same thought that comes up every year at this time:
Would Syracuse be able to successfully revive it's baseball program if it wanted to?
Syracuse is the only member of the ACC without a baseball program. The conference has a rich tradition in baseball with Top 25 teams and national championship contenders every season. Stadiums are fairly inexpensive in comparison to the stadiums of other sports, and Central New York has produced both Division 1 and professional baseball players in the past.
So why not bring major college baseball to Syracuse? Is it feasible?
If the prospect of seeing a Syracuse Orange baseball game gets you excited, put your rally caps on because it will forever be a long shot for three main reasons:
- Title IX. This is the main reason the baseball team was discontinued in 1972 following the law's passing. Baseball in Syracuse was an unfortunate casualty of a necessary and good law, and turned in to an afterthought due to an inability to train in the cold Syracuse off-season. If Syracuse were to ever seriously consider bringing baseball back, the University would have to start shifting or eliminating other sports.
- Fan support. From a sporting perspective, Syracuse University has two perennial national championship contenders in it's lacrosse programs. From a recreational perspective, Syracuse has about four months out of the year where the weather is nice enough to be enjoyable outside. Throw in the local professional baseball team that is the Syracuse Chiefs, and the competition to a Syracuse Orange baseball program completely dilutes the fan support. I personally believe Syracuse University would outdraw any baseball team in Syracuse, but that isn't saying much considering the baseball attendance in this city is dismal.
Other
Syracuse Man Charged Under Law Enacted After 1986 Death of Basketball Star Len Bias (PS; O'Brien)
A federal grand jury today indicted a Syracuse man on a charge of violating a law that was enacted three decades ago, after the death of a star college basketball player.
Anthony J. Vita, 36, was indicted on a charge of selling a lethal dose of fentanyl-based heroin to Morgan Axe on Nov. 6.
Axe, 24, died early Nov. 7 after injecting one bag of the drugs, according to court papers. She told Vita in a Facebook message before she injected that she hadn't used drugs in the five months since she became pregnant, court papers said.
Vita was charged under a law that Congress enacted in 1986 in response to the cocaine-overdose death of University of Maryland basketball player Len Bias. The law holds dealers responsible when their drugs end up killing the person they sold their drugs to.
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