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Welcome to Children's Picture Book Day!
The Little Engine That Could is an illustrated children's book that became widely known in the United States after publication in 1930 by Platt & Munk. The story is used to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".[1]
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Looking back at the Carrier Dome's creation, nearly 40 years later (DO; Gutierrez)
Whenever they could, Syracuse football coaches avoided showing recruits SU’s outdated home field. Built in 1907, Archbold Stadium constantly needed repairs before home games. For years, it crumbled. One day in the mid-1970s, Ronald Cavanagh walked a Syracuse football recruit into the Archbold Stadium locker room anyway. When a rat darted across a pipe, the recruit’s mother gasped. The athlete committed to Ohio State.
“It was then that we knew we had to start thinking about a new structure, pronto,” said Cavanagh, a former SU professor and member of the SU Athletic Policy Board, which influenced the university’s decision to construct the Carrier Dome.
Over the next few years, SU drew up the possibilities of building an open-air stadium on Skytop or in a lot off Bridge Street in East Syracuse, breaking ground at the New York State Fairgrounds or demolishing Archbold and constructing a dome in its place. For months, Syracuse University was at odds with the government and community members. After an unsuccessful attempt to build on Skytop, SU decided on the Carrier Dome, which hosted its first game in September 1980.
Since then, about 18 million people have walked through its turnstiles. In the near future, the place SU calls home will undergo some of its most sweeping renovations, estimated to cost $205 million. Chief among them are a new roof and air conditioning system. With that in mind, here’s a look back nearly four decades in time at the creation of one of New York state’s signature landmarks.
In crumbles
In November 1979, SU fans and workmen dismantled Archbold’s goalposts and removed the turf. By December, cranes and wrecking balls demolished the concrete stands. On Jan. 20, 1979, the last remnant of the Arch on Irving Avenue was torn down.
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Orange Watch: ACC still in play for rare conference football-basketball national title sweep - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: Coming off the 2015-16 college sports season in which the ACC finished runner-up for the CFP title and NCAA Final Four crown, and following Clemson’s literally last second national football title game victory over Alabama in January, with North Carolina’s wild finish to oust Kentucky from March Madness Sunday to make a record 20th Final Four this weekend, the Tar Heels are once again carrying the conference banner eyeing a sixth national championship.
Only twice before in the 63 history of the ACC has a team from the conference won both the football and basketball national championships in the same academic sports calendar encompassing the football and basketball seasons.
The first occurrence was in 1981-82 when Clemson won its other football national title defeating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, followed by North Carolina winning Dean Smith’s first championship defeating Georgetown at New Orleans.
A decade later Georgia Tech was co-national champions in football (with Colorado) for the 1990 season, while a couple of months later Duke won the first of its five national championships under Mike Krzyzewski by beating Kansas-coached Roy Williams.
This weekend the Williams-coached Tar Heels will be determined to take their season one more step from last year’s Final Four semi-final win over Syracuse and the last second loss to Villanova in the memorable championship game. UNC will first have to get by Oregon then awaiting either Gonzaga or South Carolina.
Three conferences have accomplished the football-basketball sweep three times, the Big Ten, SEC, and Pac 12 (Pac 10 at the time), while the ACC has its two double-titles.
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26 Signs You Bleed Orange For Syracuse Basketball (buzzfeed.com; Yandoli)
1. You own a closet full of orange T-shirts.
2. And are used to watching games with 34,000 of your closest friends in the Carrier Dome.
3. When you can’t make it to the actual game, you watch on the big screen at Chuck’s.
4. You love Jim Boeheim for the gem of a man that he is.
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First concert announced for NYS Fair's expanded schedule at Chevy Court (PS; Herbert)
3 Doors Down is returning to the New York State Fair for the third time this summer.
The Grammy-nominated rock band will perform at Chevy Court on the first night of the NYS Fair's newly expanded schedule at Chevy Court. 3 Doors Down will take the stage at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
The concert is free with admission to the fair.
The 2017 NYS Fair will last 13 days, running from Aug. 23 to Labor Day, Sept. 4. The fair, which ran for 12 days since 1990, is now one of the longest-running state fairs of its size.
The fair broke attendance records in 2016, with 1.1 million visitors.
3 Doors Down is the first announced performer for this year's Chevy Court lineup. The band is best known for hits "Kryptonite," "When I'm Gone," and "Here Without You." The band, which also appeared at the NYS Fair in 2005 and 2011, released its sixth studio album, "In The Dark," last year.
Fair officials have not said how many acts will be booked for the expanded NYS Fair schedule. In recent years, two different artists performed at Chevy Court most days, typically at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
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