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Welcome to World Wide Web Day!
How did WWW Day begin? The creators of the World Wide Web posted a summary on an online newsgroup about how the project worked in August 6, 1991. Then the first time World Wide Web was available for users was on August 23, 1991.
Since both events happened in August these were put together to remember the birth of the World Wide Web. What will people do on WWW Day?
Observing WWW day will involve going online for various things. It can be emailing, chatting or simple surfing. It can also be business-related or personal. People also watch movies online. This way they can enjoy the benefits of not having to buy cd’s but just downloading or visiting a website like YouTube. They can visit blogs or create blogs on that day to remind them of the usefulness of the internet. A visit to a technological museum and watching a documentary about WWW day can be done. Conventions, concerts and the like can be organized on that day then advertisements, registrations and a show can all be viewed and done online. Even simple house parties can be done and the foods served are collected from websites. Anyone can think of creative ways to let other people know how great of an invention the World Wide Web is.
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Basketball: Nebraska transfer Andrew White to visit Miami | Canes Watch
The college hoops transfer market is volatile, but can deal teams unexpected good news.
The Hurricanes, for example, now have a shot at landing a preseason prize. Nebraska graduate transfer Andrew White will visit campus on Monday, according to a source. CBS Sports first reported the news.
White, a 6-foot-7, 220-pound wing, was an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection last season. He averaged 16.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game and shot 41 percent from the outside. He was praised as one of the Big Ten’s most efficient scorers and underrated players.
Since he already earned his degree from Nebraska, he will be eligible to play at a Division I school this fall.
The Hurricanes are in need of veteran scoring, having lost senior two-guard Sheldon McClellan and point guard Angel Rodriguez. UM has a talented but unproven group of freshmen (and wing Rashad Muhammad) in a rotation that includes expected starters Ja’Quan Newton (point guard), Davon Reed (small forward) and Kamari Murphy (power forward).
He was ESPN’s No. 48 Prospect in the Class of 2012 and originally signed with Kansas, but couldn’t crack the Jayhawks’ rotation (he averaged 5.5 minutes) and transferred after two years.
White, 23, is from Richmond, Va., which is where UM assistant Jamal Brunt coached for several seasons (at Richmond).
He also visited Michigan State which he later ruled out — and Syracuse, which is reportedly still an option for him.
Nebraska is the school that landed Miami sophomore James Palmer, a 6-5 shooting guard, several months ago.
Syracuse basketball will have opportunity for revenge in 2016-17 (the juice; Auger)
Up until last March, when Syracuse grounded the Dayton Flyers while at the same time Middle Tennessee State did the Orange a solid by bouncing the 2-seed Michigan State Magic Johnsons, the Orange’s basketball season was fairly underwhelming. A curious statement considering the team earned a spot in the Final Four.
Remember, Jim Boeheim and Co. entered the tournament with a very Un-Syracuse-like 19-13 record. The Orange dropped four straight to open league play and closed the regular season losing four out of five before getting bounced from the ACC Tournament by Pitt.
The offseason did bring some good news. Tyler Lydon returns for his sophomore year. Talented freshman Taurean Thompson ended a long recruiting battle by committing to the Orange. And grad transfer John Gillon arrives from Colorado State to bolster the backcourt.
The team’s non-conference slate is set and home and away opponents for ACC play have been announced. There are a few familiar foes on this year’s schedule outside of the usual league rivals that should have one thought running through the heads of Orange fans.
Payback.
To borrow a quote from Doc Holliday, it’s not revenge Syracuse is after. It’s the reckoning.
Wisconsin
A return visit to the Badgers –last year’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge opponent – is first on the docket. The Cheeseheads beat SU in the Dome last year, 66-58, in overtime. Madison is one of the most difficult venues in the country so the Orange will have its work cut out for it.
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SU Hoops Recruiting Update (the juice; Cheng)
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2017 five-star guard Hamidou Diallo from Putnam Science Academy (Conn.) recently sat down with Evan Tomes from NBADraft.net to talk about his experiences in Chile at the U18 Fiba Americas. “Recruiting’s been going great. Couple new schools have contacted me. Arizona State, spoke to the Coach Hurley yesterday,” he said. His offers include Kentucky, Indiana, Duke, Syracuse and Kansas, among many, many others.
According to the Spider Hoop Blog, Nebraska graduate transfer guard Andrew White was on a visit to Richmond over the weekend. One school that has been crossed off his list is Michigan State, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, but Rothstein also reports that he will be visiting Miami. Syracuse is among the schools that is competing for White’s services.
2017 Virginia three-star athlete Brailyn Franklin narrowed his list to five schools, he tweeted over the weekend. Syracuse is on that list, and it will be competing with Penn State, Maryland, Temple, Syracuse and Virginia Tech.
Have a great start to your week, everyone!
http://www.hashtagbasketball.com/miami-heat/content/dion-waiters-takes-his-island-to-south-beach (hashtagbasketball.com; Wilson)
Condos, houses, villas; they’re all mostly vacant. A few have been stranded, marooned on an Island. I’m talking about Waiters Island, of course—the hideout for any Dion Waiters fan headstrong enough to tout hispotential, as if there were no expiration date for it.
Now, a new cavalcade of Miami Heat fanatics are wandering on the shores of The Principality of Waiters, stumbling into the short-lived homes of Oklahomans. But what can these new inhabits of Waiters Island expect—who is Dion Waiters?
That’s what we're going to find out.
Dion Waiters is an enigma of a player; he’s talented, mobile, and some would say undisciplined, with delusions of grandeur. What is anyone supposed to make of that?
Well, in the past year or so, I guess, an internet joke.
Still, Waiters has shown flashes of brilliance. Whether it was checking Kawhi Leonard, dancing with him beat for beat in the Western Conference Semifinals or shooting 44.4 percent from 3, in the same series.
Yet Waiters’ per 36-minute scoring numbers have crept down since he left the Cleveland Cavaliers, a far worse situation compared to Oklahoma City. But why? Waiters had better teammates in Oklahoma City; he had a former MVP in Kevin Durant, and Russell Westbrook. He should have flourished. And, at times, it looked like he was, but for the most part, he was on an island.
Waiters’ statistics paint a coincidental picture. In the 2015-16 regular season, per nbawowy.com, Waiters’ field-goal percentage with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook on the court was 39.8 percent.His field-goal percentage with Durant and Westbrook off the court was 39.5 percent. Virtually identical.
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What Has And Hasn't Changed In College Basketball Over 30 Years - TU (todaysus.com; Zemek)
...Just how different is college basketball since Louisville, an old Metro school, won the 1986 national championship 30 years ago?
That question begs a follow-up query, but it’s best to hold you in suspense and reveal it later.
First, let’s consider just some of the ways in which college basketball has changed since 1986:
- The Big Ten and Pac-10 (now Pac-12) have created conference tournaments.
- The First Four now exists.
- Home-court subregionals and regionals are no longer allowed. LSU played a home-court subregional in 1986, and Georgia Tech (shown in the cover photo for this story) hosted LSU in the 1986 Sweet 16.
- The three-point shot did not yet exist in 1986. The shot clock, in its first year of existence in the 1986 NCAA Tournament, was 45 seconds instead of 30.
- Final Fours were played in conventional arenas a majority of the time in the 1980s (six years for arenas, four years for domed stadiums).
- In 1986, there were 17 Independents, compared to only one last season.
- In 1986, only 283 Division I teams existed, compared to 351 last season (68 fewer teams, enough to fill a whole NCAA Tournament field).
- In 1986, not one conference contained more than 10 teams. In 2016, a total of 16 conferences contained 11 or more members.
Just how different was the 2016 NCAA Tournament from the 1986 version?
Not only was it less different than 30 years of change would suggest; these tournaments shared strong similarities, enough to make them kissing cousins within the larger run of March Madness history.
LSU was mentioned above. The Tigers carried a No. 11-seed to the Final Four, making them the first double-digit seed to reach college basketball’s biggest weekend. Three full decades later, Syracuse became a “perfect 10,” bringing a double-digit seed back to the Four-most assemblage of college basketball achievers.
Consider this, too: Both LSU and Syracuse beat No. 1-seeds in the Elite Eight to shock college hoops analysts from coast to coast.
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Weekend Box Office: 'Jason Bourne' opens at No. 1, but 'Bad Moms' has good debut, too (PS; AP)
Between the return of Matt Damon as super spy "Jason Bourne," the promise of laughing along with a few fed-up ladies in the raunchy comedy "Bad Moms" and the dark internet thriller "Nerve," all of which had strong debuts, there was something new for everyone in theaters this weekend.
Even after a nearly 10-year hiatus, Matt Damon as Jason Bourne still draws a significant audience. The Paul Greengrass-directed sequel raked in a healthy $60 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Not adjusted for inflation, it's the second highest opening of the series, behind "The Bourne Ultimatum's" $69.3 million debut in 2007 — the last time Damon appeared as the Robert Ludlum-created character.
With a nine-year gap between films, Universal kept awareness high in the lead up to the release with airings of the Matt Damon "Bourne" trilogy on eight of NBCUniversal's networks. Social media channels also pushed out a video where Matt Damon recaps the previous three films in 90 seconds.
"In the exit polls, the No. 1 reason for people checking it out was the previous films," said Nick Carpou, Universal's president of domestic distribution. "Audiences were ready for it and satisfied."
According to exit data, audiences were 55 percent male, and 60 percent over the age of 35.
