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Welcome to Sewing Machine Day!
Observed annually on June 13 is National Sewing Machine Day. This day honors the invention of the sewing machine. It is hard to imagine having to sew things together by hand, stitch by stitch.
Skilled cabinet-maker and English inventor, Thomas Saint, received the first patent for a design of a sewing machine in 1790. It was intended for leather and canvas, was never advertised and no evidence of it, other than his drawings, could be found. In 1874, William Newton Wilson found Saint’s drawings in the London Patent Office, made adjustments and built a working model. The London Science Museum currently owns Wilson’s model.
- Walter Hunt invented the first American lockstitch sewing machine in 1832.
- John Greenough patented the first sewing machine in the United States in 1842.
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Orange Watch: Another first in legendary career of Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: With his oldest son Jimmy about to embark as a collegiate basketball player for his freshman year on the Cornell roster after a standout suburban Syracuse scholastic career plus a post graduate season, the scene is now set for a unique father-son matchup early in the upcoming 2017-18 Syracuse season.
Who’s going to take the first pictures?
You know the one in which both Jim Boeheim, the coach, is watching while standing on the sideline in front of his bench while in the same shot as his son, Jimmy, clad in a red Cornell uniform, in action on the court named after his father.
That scenario would seemingly occur in November after the reported date of the ‘Cuse season opener (Friday, Nov. 10 – with the football team hosting Wake Forest the next day) comprising of the virtually annual (teams have met five times over the last seven years) game against the Big Red which was reported this week, with the younger Boeheim a member of a team coached by second year CU coach Brian Earl.
» Related: Breaking down Syracuse forwards Tyler Lydon, Andrew White with NBA scout
In his upcoming 42nd season and with some members of his inaugural 1976-77 roster now in their early 60s, Jim Boeheim will coach a game in which one of his children is on the opposition’s roster. Amazing.
While the Cornell game will be a first time occurrence with its personal family connection, it won’t mark the first time Boeheim has coached against someone close to him professionally with an Orange connection.
First ex-assistant coach Boeheim faced: Rick Pitino of Providence on Jan. 22, 1986 in a 95-73 SU win at the Dome.
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Syracuse Basketball Conversation: Mike Hopkins Update, Markelle Fultz (itlh.com; podcast; Edsen Jr)
How’s former Syracuse Assistant Coach Mike Hopkins Doing? Plus a NBA Draft update on Washington’s Markelle Fultz and checking on the Seattle Seahawks.
I’ve never seen a fan base so split on a topic before. When Syracuse basketball fans learned that Mike Hopkins, the supposed heir to the throne, was jettisoning to Washington, it was confusing.
Some fans rejoiced and judged Hopkins unfairly on a random nine game sample size that he had no preparation for. And even if he did have preparation, there’s a saying I’ve used on the Syracuse football side, I think it’s still applicable.
The great Bill Parcells once said:
“If I’m going to be asked to cook the meal, I’d like to be able to pick the groceries.”
Mike Hopkins wasn’t coaching with “his guys” they were Jim Boeheim’s guys. While this isn’t as jarring as Dino Babers coming in off the street and coaching Scott Shafer’s guys, it’s basically the same thing.
How's @Coach_Hopkins doing in @UW_MBB? The pulse of @Seahawks. #NBADraft @MarkelleF w/ @Softykjr on @TheScore1260audioBoom / Interview with Dave 'Softy' Mahler
— Paul Andrew Esden Jr (@BoyGreen25) June 9, 2017
What did the fans say?
While other fans were sad and destroyed and pondering the question, “what next for the Syracuse Orange?”
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5 ACC players land NBA draft green room invites (scacchoops.com; Rutherford)
Donovan Mitchell is one of a handful of likely early first round NBA draft selections who has been invited to sit in the green room at the event. News of the invite was first reported by Adam Zagoria.
According to Zagoria, this is the list of players who have currently received green room invites from the NBA powers that be:
Jarrett Allen (Texas)
Lonzo Ball (UCLA)
John Collins (Wake Forest)
Zach Collins (Gonzaga)
De’Aaron Fox (Kentucky)
Markelle Fultz (Washington)
Jonathan Isaac (Florida State)
Josh Jackson (Kansas)
Lauri Markkanen (Arizona)
Donovan Mitchell (Louisville)
Malik Monk (Kentucky)
Frank Ntilikina (International)
Dennis Smith (N.C. State)
Jayson Tatum (Duke)
The 2017 draft will take place on June 22 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. According to virtually every mock draft on the internet, Mitchell is expected to be selected within the first 16 picks of the first round. He has been considered one of the draft’s biggest risers over the last 2-3 weeks.
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Syracuse University alum accepts 'Best Musical,' 6 Tony Awards for 'Dear Evan Hansen' (PS; McMahon)
"Dear Evan Hansen" was the big winner of the Tony Awards Sunday and a Syracuse University alumna got to accept a top award.
The musical's lead producer, Stacey Mindich, is an '86 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
She accepted the award for "Best Musical" on behalf of the cast and crew of "Dear Evan Hansen" at Radio City Music Hall Sunday night. "Dear Evan Hansen" took home a total of six awards.
Dear Evan Hansen Wins Best Musical At The 71st Annual Tony Awards
The New York Times described the show as an "exploration of loss, lies and loneliness in a high school community." It follows an "anxiety-racked adolescent whose social standing improves when he insinuates himself into the grieving family of a classmate who has killed himself," according to the Times.
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