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Welcome to Jackie Robinson Day!
April 15 has a lot going on — it’s tax day and Patriot’s Day — but in baseball it’s most significant because it’s Jackie Robinson Day. Sixty-six years ago today Robinson became the first black man to play major league baseball in the modern era.
Players will wear 42 on their jerseys today. Just about every columnist you read will have a remembrance or retrospective of the man today. Even if you’ve read a lot of these and know the general story, you should take some extra time to reacquaint yourself with it again. Or, maybe even better, go check out Jackie’s Baseball-Reference.com page. I sometimes feel like we spend so much time on talking about Robinson’s breaking the color barrier that we forget he was a hell of a baseball player and would have been Hall of Fame worthy regardless.
Also worth checking out are some things about Robinson’s post-playing career, which includes a lot of important work in the civil rights movement and which is often overlooked.Here’s a nice start to that.
Robinson was a complex and interesting man and that often gets lost as so much time is spent on the well-known and well-told parties of his story.
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Syracuse is 50-1 Shot to Win Fourth National Championship Next Season (PS; Poliquin)
We are, of course, some 50 weeks away from crowning the champion of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. But that doesn't mean we can't start thinking about that 68-team competition even now.
The good folks at Bovada (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV) are already musing, and they've provided the following odds. For what it's worth, they've decided that 19 clubs amount to safer bets than the Syracuse University Orange.
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Odds to win the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament:
Duke: 9-2
Kentucky: 6-1
Villanova: 8-1
Kansas: 10-1
Louisville: 10-1
Michigan State: 12-1
North Carolina: 12-1
Indiana: 20-1
Oregon: 20-1
Virginia: 20-1
Arizona: 22-1
Wisconsin: 25-1
Xavier: 25-1
West Virginia: 28-1
Connecticut: 33-1
Maryland: 33-1
Purdue: 33-1
Iowa State: 40-1
Miami (Fla.): 40-1
SYRACUSE: 50-1
Kasich Pauses on Campaign Trail to Talk About Syracuse Basketball (PS; McAndrew)
Experienced presidential candidates know that voters are interested in more than just health care, abortion, minimum wage, and foreign affairs.
There's other important issues, too. Like the Syracuse University men's basketball team, for instance.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who's campaigning across New York in the days before the state's April 19 Republican presidential primary, talked with the syracuse.com editorial board about those weightier topics for about 36 minutes before switching the conversation to the SU basketball team's last two games in the NCAA Tournament.
"I do want to pander a little bit. I do want to pander," said Kasich, who is trying to beat front-runner Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to become the Republican Party's nominee.
"I could not believe how effective Syracuse was against Virginia. I watched that game. They put that press on and it was like Virginia collapsed like a house of cards. Then they went into that game against North Carolina, and they looked, they just didn't do it. What's going on?"
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2016 SU Blogger Awards: Vote for the Best Junior (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
The 2016 Syracuse Orange Blogger (S.O.B.) Awards are here. Honoring the players, coaches, fans and moments from the 2015-2016 Syracuse Orange basketball season, we here at TNIAAM are splitting the process between ourselves and you, the dear readers.
Today's category? Best Junior. You've got two choices. In one corner, Tyler Roberson showed an ability to nearly jump out of the gym and battle for a rebound.. most nights. In the other, Chino Obokoh found minutes early in the season, only to leave the rotation in conference play. He'll transfer this offseason.
Below you'll find a poll to cast your vote in. Cast it. Then, in the comments, provide some commentary on your selection. Can be a sentence. Can be a couple sentences. Can be a paragraph or two.
We'll close voting in 24 hours and tally up the results. The TNIAAM crew will make their own selection and then we'll combine the results to pick our winner. We'll announce the winner in a post next week that includes some of your comments as well as ours.
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Central New York on a Budget: Where to Go with $10, $15 and $20 (newyotrkupstate.com; Pucci)
Sure, it'd be great to have season tickets for Syracuse University basketball and go to every concert at the Lakeview Amphitheater, but it's easy to have a lot of fun in Central New York for not a lot of money.
Best places for under $10
Eat:
Blarney Stone
Where else can you get a half-pound burger, cooked and topped the way you want it, with a side of chips for under $5? And on Thursdays, their award-winning wingsare only 40 cents each. Pair them with a pint for a deliciously affordable lunch or dinner.
Address: 314 Avery Ave., Syracuse, N.Y., 13204
Phone: (315) 487-9675
Website
Runners-up:
Jerk Hut—440 South Ave, Syracuse
Vietnamese Noodle House—709 N. Main St., North Syracuse
All Fed Up— 8140 Brewerton Road, Cicero
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