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Actually bulldogs aren't beautiful. They are hideous looking awful monstrosities and they have no reason to live. If they are wearing Hoya gear anyway...
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Tyler Lydon signs with Priority Sports, lands in Chicago to work out for NBA Draft (PS; Ditota)
Tyler Lydon has officially selected Priority Sports to represent him and has arrived in Chicago to work out before the June NBA Draft.
The former Syracuse basketball forward, who left the Orange for a professional career after his sophomore season, is currently projected by Draft Express as the No. 24 pick. The 6-foot-9 native of Elizaville, N.Y. shot 40 percent from the 3-point line over his two seasons at Syracuse and improved his rebounding numbers from his freshman to his sophomore years.
His agent, Andy Shiffman, spent weeks getting to know Lydon and his family, a process Shiffman described as crucial to matching player with representation. Lydon joins a Priority team that includes Gordon Hayward, Bradley Beal and DeMarre Carroll. The agency also represents 2017 draft eligible players Derrick Walton (Michigan), Sindarius Thornwell (South Carolina) and Zach Collins (Gonzaga).
"When Tyler made his decision to leave," Shiffman said, "we talked to him. Knowing who he is and the family he comes from made him that much more attractive."
Shiffman said he believes Lydon's ceiling to be "immensely high" and predicts that NBA personnel who see him play over these next few weeks will discover different aspects of his game than circumstances allowed at Syracuse.
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Syracuse guard target Eric Ayala won't reclassify, will remain in Class of 2018 (report) (PS; Carlson)
Syracuse guard Eric Ayala will remain in the Class of 2018 and won't reclassify into 2017, according to a Tweet from Adam Zagoria, the author of ZagsBlog.com.
2018 PG @EA_Glo Eric Ayala will remain in 2018 and won't reclass, he tells me.
-- Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) April 20, 2017
Ayala, a 6-foot-5 combination guard, could not be reached immediately for comment via phone or text message.
His high school coach, Tom Espinosa of Putnam (Conn.) Science Academy, said last week that Ayala has the grades and test scores to attend college immediately if he wanted to.
The guard told Syracuse.com last week that he was still considering whether he wanted to start attending college in 2017 or 2018, and that he wanted to be patient with his process, waiting for rosters to shake out and to take official visits before making a decision.
Ayala said the Orange were among a group of two to four schools interested in bringing him in for 2017, while a much larger pool of schools was recruiting him for 2018.
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New Hartford basketball's Frank Policelli returns from knee injury, preps for big summer (PS; Ditota)
Frank Policelli, the 6-foot-8 junior wing from New Hartford, has returned from winter knee surgery that caused him to miss half his high school basketball season.
Policelli, one of Central New York's best high school basketball prospects, is playing for the New York Jayhawks on the Adidas summer basketball circuit. He has received scholarship offers from several mid-majors (including St. Joseph's, Rhode Island and St. Bonaventure) and interest from a host of other schools, including Virginia, his dad, also named Frank, said.
Policelli spent about two months since his Jan. 7 meniscus tear recovering and rehabbing from surgery. He has played the past two weekends for the Jayhawksand will be in Dallas with his team this weekend for the opening of the Adidas Uprising season.
Fun match-up here between @XEliteBasketbal Dana Tate & @NYJayhawks Frankie Policelli. Both have taken their games to new levels. #NEHF
-- Adam Finkelstein (@AdamFinkelstein) April 9, 2017
Frank Policelli, a Utica-area lawyer, said his son is waiting to see what the summer might bring from a recruiting standpoint.
"He's still getting better and he's still growing," Frank, Sr. said.
Policelli, a lefty, has displayed a deft shooting touch from the perimeter and the ability to rebound the ball and attack the rim. His dad said the Jayhawks are playing him at the 2-guard spot.
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2017-18 Syracuse basketball: Don’t sweat the recruiting rankings - The Juice Online (the juice; Irvine)
With the news that Syracuse recruiting target Eric Ayala will remain in the 2018 class and not reclassify to 2017 as SU coaches had hoped, it becomes increasingly likely that Syracuse will enter the 2017-2018 season without a consensus top-100 freshman.
It is still possible the Orange could land SF Jordan Tucker, whose ranking ranges from No. 40 at ESPN to unranked by Scout. SU is also thought to be in the mix for consensus top-50 PG Tremont Waters, although it is unclear whether the coaching staff will make a strong push for the former Georgetown commit.
Either recruit would add much-needed depth to a thin roster, but the odds of landing even one of the two are no greater than 50-50. Should Syracuse fans be worried?
About the depth at guard – probably. About the rankings of SU’s three incoming freshmen who have already signed their letters of intent – no.
Recruiting rankings are an inexact science. Fans and analysts alike tend to gravitate to whichever recruiting service’s ranking of a player fits their pre-existing notions or narrative. This makes it easy to conclude that a team has landed a great or terrible incoming player, if that’s what you want to believe, but it obscures the variety of opinions among even the best analysts about the best players.
Just take a look at the 2016 class. Most experts agreed that Josh Jackson, Harry Giles, Lonzo Ball, Jayson Tatum, and Markelle Fultz were the five best players. But looking specifically at Ball, Van Coleman at Hot100Hoops.com was the only prominent analyst to rank him No. 1, while At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. had him all the way down at No. 7. Fultz was ranked as low as No. 9 by Rob Harrington at PrepStars.com.
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Syracuse Basketball: Pre-Summer Player Rankings for 2017-2018 Season (itlh.com; Peelman)
The hardest thing about ranking players for the next season is ranking those you haven’t seen yet. Howard Washington, a freshman guard, falls into that category. He doesn’t have a whole lot of video to showcase his talent. That means we’ll probably just have to wait until Orange Madness to truly find out what we’ll be getting from him.
In the meantime, take a look at the video above. In the video, you can see he has a decent jumper and gets into the lane for baskets with relative ease. I haven’t seen enough evidence of how well he can play at the point guard position yet, but he seems to be in the mold of Tyler Ennis.
He doesn’t seem like a selfish player looking to stuff his stats. Rather, he looks like a pass-first point guard who looks for his shot later, when its really needed. That unselfishness can go a long way in running an efficient offense.
If Frank Howard struggles early once again, and Washington can find a way to run the offense smoothly next year, then I think he could easily turn into the starter at point guard and move higher up this player rankings list. Right now though, it’s hard to tell what he can bring to the Orange. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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NYC's trans fat ban was powerful public health measure after all (Editorial) (PS; Editorial)
Score one for the "nanny state."
A recent study in JAMA shows that New York City's ban on trans fats in restaurant food led to fewer heart attacks and strokes, compared to places where there was no ban. The apparent success of this public health measure lends support to the federal government's 2015 ban on trans fats in processed foods, which takes full effect next year.
Trans fats are contained in oils that are "partially hydrogenated" - an industrial process that won a Nobel Prize for its inventors in 1912. Such fats are cheaper and more shelf-stable, which led to their widespread adoption in the restaurant and processed food industry.
At first, trans fats like margarine were promoted as "heart healthy." But multiple scientific studies in the 1980s showed just the opposite. Trans fats contributed to a 50 percent higher risk of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to coronary artery disease, according to a study of more than 100,000 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study. Trans fats also were found to raise "bad" cholesterol and depress "good" cholesterol - known risk factors for heart disease.
Faced with this alarming evidence, in 2006 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration started requiring food manufacturers to list trans fats on nutrition labels. FDA estimated trans fat consumption fell 78 percent between 2003 and 2012, thanks to labeling and consumer education. McDonald's dropped trans fats from its fryers and baked goods in 2008. Many other fast-food chains followed.
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