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Welcome to National Mushroom Hunting Day!
May 17 shines the spotlight on a springtime treasure hunt that, if you're lucky, yields a tasty treat to eat and possibly a pretty penny in your pocketbook! Whether you are a mushroom lover, a chef in a high-end restaurant or fan of the great outdoors, it’s National Mushroom Hunting Day, an annual holiday created by freelance writer and mushroom lover, Jace Shoemaker-Galloway.
Each year, throngs of die-hard hunters head out to undisclosed locations in the forests, woods, orchards and/or fields armed with containers to capture the elusive and delicious prey - the wild mushroom. From morels, porcini and black trumpets to matsutake and chanterelles, foraging for mushrooms has become an annual tradition for many. For some, it can be a lucrative business. In fact, some folks even do it on a professional basis.
Wild on mushrooms: CNY Mycological Society leads monthly forays into local woods
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Syracuse Is Looking at Another Season With A Short Bench – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Grossman)
The Jordan Tucker pursuit came to a crushing end after the four-star forward tweeted that he committed to Duke after the Blue Devils made a last minute bid for his services. Now, understandably, Orange Nation is in a bit of a nervous state. Syracuse is left with the 62nd best recruiting class in the country and the 10th best in the ACC. Of course, there is still a chance that Syracuse improves on that number with a commitment from Sid Wilson or a reclassification and a commitment from Eric Ayala, but Tucker felt like Syracuse’s last, best chance to bring in a big-time recruit.
With Tucker out of the picture, the Orange are looking at a another year of a six or seven man rotation. Before the 2016-17 season, many fans and experts alike believed that the season would be different because the Orange had legitimate depth. Though Syracuse had lost its top three scorers from the Final Four run of the year before, Syracuse looked set to have a nine man rotation. Well, an early-season injury to Pascal Chukwu and poor play from DaJuan Coleman and Tyler Roberson led to the Orange falling back on a familiar six man rotation.
The 2017 season is very much shaping up to be the same story again, except this time, without a player who has experience playing 35-plus minutes every single game, like Tyler Lydon did last season. If the Orange fail to add another player in this recruiting cycle (ECU transfer Elijah Hughes is not eligible to play until the 2018-19 season), Syracuse has very little depth at any position. At guard, the Orange have Frank Howard, Tyus Battle and incoming freshman Howard Washington. At forward, Syracuse returns Taurean Thompson and Pascal Chukwu and brings in Matthew Moyer, who was red shirted last season, and freshmen Bourama Sidibe and O’Shae Brissett.
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NC State’s Kevin Keatts receives formal introduction to ACC coaching fraternity (newsobserver.com; Carter)
Nothing against the Colonial Athletic Association, but Kevin Keatts is a long way from its small gyms and long bus rides. That will become more and more clear once he begins his first season at N.C. State.
And it was clear enough here on Tuesday when Keatts, about two months after he left UNC-Wilmington to become the head coach at N.C. State, walked for the first time into the men’s basketball room at the ACC spring meetings.
There was Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski. And Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim. And Louisville’s Rick Pitino.
Three Hall of Fame coaches. Another, North Carolina’s Roy Williams, had already come and gone – a veteran move, perhaps, but one necessary given that Williams had to be in New York City on Tuesday night to receive a national coach of the year honor.
Keatts had been here before, to the swanky Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island. He’d been here to attend the wedding of Pitino’s daughter, after spending three years as one of Pitino’s assistants at Louisville. Now Keatts was back, beginning to adjust to his new world.
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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski: Don’t complain about changing college basketball landscape (newsobserver.com; Carter)
Mike Krzyzewski on Tuesday was talking about how Duke is “continually trying to adapt to this interesting and ever-changing” college basketball world – one with constant roster turnover and hello-and-goodbye freshmen – when he stopped to think about a simple question:
Does he actually embrace such a world? Does he still enjoy working in such an environment?
Krzyzewski is the ACC’s elder basketball statesman, if not in age – “Boeheim’s with us, too, you know,” he said – then in experience. Indeed, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, at 72, is nearly three years older than Krzyzewski. But nobody has been in this conference longer, and seen more, than Krzyzewski has.
He’s been around long enough to know what it was like to develop a rivalry with Dean Smith. And he’s adapted well enough to transform Duke, once a haven for four-year players who all but shunned their inevitable passage into the NBA, into one of the preferred destinations for the best of the best high school players, those who can’t turn professional fast enough.
Krzyzewski turned 70 in February. While he has grown older, college basketball has become more and more of a young man’s game, both in the literal and figurative sense. On the court, freshmen now play more of a starring role than ever before. And off of it, recruiting and roster management has become more fatiguing than ever, in an age of one-and-done players and constant transfers.
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Coach K, ACC leaders working towards common goal :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsportsfan.com; Gravley)
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and other ACC coaches are working together for common goals. Four hall of fame coaches are in the ACC. Three of them were in one room Tuesday sharing ideas.
"It’s a great spirit of cooperation," Krzyzewski said. "From the time that I got here as a rookie that’s what Dean (Smith) did and Terry Holland did. What’s good for the league?"
Without getting into specifics, Krzyzyewski did allow WRAL a glimpse of what is on the table to discuss amongst themselves, the ACC and their media partners.
"We have some new places to go to with the (ACC) channel, the 20-game schedule," Krzyzewski said. "What’s our game plan for that and for the coaches to have an input into that as to when we schedule, how do we fit in games?"
With the linear launch of the ACC Network in 2019, Coach K feels some of their ideas will be implemented.
"I think they’ll listen to this because it makes sense and it comes before something," Krzyzewski said. "It’s not a matter of us changing something or complaining. It comes from a place of being proactive."
Fifteen different voices from 15 different schools, joining forces for common goals.
"It’s about us winning not one individual school winning," Krzyzewski said. "We’ll worry about that when we get on the court. Off the court we should work in concert so that we have the best environment to succeed in."
That was evident during a Tuesday break at the ACC meetings. Three days prior, star forward Jordan Tucker chose Duke over Syracuse. Tuesday, Krzyzewski and long-time friend Jim Boeheim sat together at a table for two and enjoyed lunch together.
Why the Big Ten could move a Michigan-Michigan State basketball game to November (landof10.com; Keeler)
If you want the guarantee of two Michigan-Michigan State men’s basketball games, every winter, or to preserve the sanctity/insanity that is Indiana-Purdue, Jim Delany is down with that.
One catch: One of those two rivalry games might be played to tip off the season, as opposed to its usual landing spot in January and February.
“Should we go to a larger number of conference games, that probably means fewer nonconference games, so we’d have to look at the scheduling of the games and maybe the full use of the season,” Delany, the Big Ten commissioner, said during the final day of the league’s spring joint group meetings.
“Typically, we’ve used November-December for the nonconference and then January-February for the conference [portion] and I’ve wondered, in my own mind, what is the optimal way of presenting college basketball?”
“I think we’ve enhanced it with the Gavitt [Tipoff] Games [vs. the Big East] and with the ACC Challenge, but it starts a little bit differently. [Big East founder] Dave Gavitt used to say, and I think, accurately, ‘We know how to finish the season, but we don’t have a great way of starting it.’”
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Six years later, question of Carrier Dome lingers at Syracuse University (PS; Carlson)
As Syracuse approaches a sixth year of conversation about the future of the Carrier Dome, there have been few public decisions made about the upcoming renovations or how it will be paid for.
The plans for the renovation haven't been finalized. The pursuit of public funding appears in its early stages. A contractor linked to the renovation said this week that its work has been put on hold.
A new campus framework, a document to guide SU spending priorities, included just four paragraphs on the Dome that described adding "a new roof system." Eliminated from the previous version were the words "fixed roof" and "cutting-edge technology."
Syracuse's first campus plan was released about a year ago, along with an announced investment of at least $255 million to renovate both the Carrier Dome and Archbold Gymnasium.
Shortly after that, a press release from The Walters Group emerged along with a set of renderings. The company announced it had been hired to work on a roof design in April of 2016, and that construction was set to begin last July with work being done off-site.
A blast of cold water came shortly after. The school said the information, including the timeline, was wrong.
On Monday, a spokeswoman for The Walters Group said its work on the project has been put on hold.
"We're on hold at this point," said Ruby Bowry, the marketing director of The Walters Group, which is based in Ontario and specializes in structural steel construction projects. "There's not much else to say. I don't have a whole lot of clarity on exactly what that means. I don't know if that means that we expect to continue with Turner (Construction Company) as soon as they get the go-ahead and that we'll just add it to our busy schedule. We've worked with Turner before and we have a strong partnership. Hopefully we'll work together on this."
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