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Welcome to International Haiku Poetry Day
April 17 is the day the whole world honors haiku. Registered by Sari Grandstaff in 2007 and initiated as a project of The Haiku Foundation in 2012, International Haiku Poetry Day occurs in the heart of the United States’ celebration of National Poetry Month. The Haiku Foundation encourages public events, including readings, exhibitions and competitions.
Cuse is in the house!
Mountaineers flattened once more!!
Do we need a coach?
Where is your Heisman?
Oh, no Schwartzwalder ether?
Geno? Sweep the leg!
-@ImperialOrange 1/4/2013
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Syracuse Basketball: What Jordan Tucker would bring to the Orange | isportsweb (isportsweb.com; Godnick)
Please Jordan Tucker, bring your talents to the Carrier Dome and help this team redeem themselves and shock the nation. Syracuse basketball is as historic as it gets, and you can help cement your name in its history.
Tucker is a four-star recruit who ranks 40th in ESPN 100’s recruiting class for 2017. He’s a 6’7” forward with a dynamic skillset and the ability to change a team’s plans for a season. His ability to score from the perimeter and at the rim is just what coach Jim Boeheim is looking for in a wing player.
If Tucker decided to play for the Orange next season he’d be filling a role that Syracuse lacks—small forward. The Orange are losing their starting small forward in Andrew White III who led the team in scoring last year.
Matthew Moyer who red shirted last season is the projected starting small forward for Boeheim next season, but that could all change if Tucker came into the equation. Sure Moyer is an exciting prospect, but we don’t know much about his ability to handle the college game.
The same could be said about Tucker, but imagine having both Tucker and Moyer attacking defenses from the wing—that would be scary. The Orange are losing a lot of their depth next season, so adding Tucker to the roster will likely help Boeheim sleep peacefully before tip off.
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Syracuse Basketball: Top 50 Players in School History (45-41) (itlh.com; Edsen Jr)
Every Sunday, Inside the Loud House will release the Top 50 Players they believe are the best in Syracuse Basketball History. This week we continue the countdown with #45.
Our bottom five of our Top-50 players in Syracuse basketball history was released last week. It was met with a lot of controversy from the fans, and we expected that. If you missed last week’s edition of this list, you can check it out here:
This list wasn’t made to offend, it was made to create a conversation and to reflect. This next five has a mix of older players and modern players.
When people ask me what was the hardest part about putting this list together, my answer is simple. It was the constant struggle of making sure both eras were represented.
Walking into this we knew that if we put too many modern players that we saw with our own eyes we’d get bashed by the Generation X population. While on the flip side, if you don’t get the modern players in there, no one will really know the players from this millennial generation.
Anyways, without further ado let’s look at the next player in countdown starting with #45.
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Syracuse's War Memorial shows its scars: Why can't we be like Utica? (PS; Baker)
Syracuse's oldest arena has gotten the cold shoulder from New York State, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in other entertainment spending in Central New York.
The War Memorial Arena has fallen behind similar arenas in nearby cities in terms of amenities, attractions and funding, while two attempts to replace it in the last 20 years have both failed. Its counterparts in neighboring cities have received tens of millions in state dollars for fan-facing upgrades, while the facility in Syracuse has been mostly ignored.
Lawmakers instead have focused big state spending on facilities like the Lakeview Amphitheater, the SRC Arena and the New York State Fairgrounds.
Fed up with the disparity, the building's anchor tenant, the Syracuse Crunch, is seeking upgrades to bring the venue into the 21st century and up to speed with arenas in smaller cities like Utica and Binghamton.
Crunch owner Howard Dolgon wants state money to add club seating, a restaurant, suites -- things you'll find at every other major arena in Upstate. He also wants some basic things, like a scoreboard that works and functioning paper towel dispensers in the bathrooms.
Those improvements, Dolgon said, would improve the experience for fans, but also give him a chance to increase revenue without upping ticket prices.
Even with those improvements -- estimated at $5-7 million -- the arena would pale in comparison to Rochester's Blue Cross Arena or Albany's Times Union Center, which have received major state funding in recent years.
"To say it's been frustrating is an understatement," Dolgon said. "Look at what they've done in Rochester, Albany, Utica, Binghamton -- you're looking at cities that really haven't supported their teams as well as the Syracuse fans have."
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