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Welcome to National Flip Flop Day!

In 2007, Tropical Smoothie Cafe created National Flip Flop Day to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Every year on this date, customers who come into participating Cafes across the nation wearing flip-flops receive a free Jetty Punch Smoothie. Tropical Smoothie then gives proceeds of a $1 paper flip flop from customers to send ill children and their families to Camp Sunshine.

Camp Sunshine is based in Casco, Maine, and their mission is focused solely on addressing the effects of a life-threatening illness on every member of the immediate family — the child, the parents and the siblings. This year-round program is free of charge to families.

In 2015, $1 million was raised by Tropical Smoothie Cafe for Camp Sunshine. The total amount raised since the beginning in 2007 is over $3.7 million making National Flip Flop Day a successful fundraiser for Camp Sunshine.

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Atlanta Hawks Is A Popular Landing Spot For Tyler Lydon In NBA Draft (itlh.com; Esden Jr)

The Atlanta Hawks are working out Tyler Lydon and appear to be a solid landing spot for the former Syracuse star. Where could he go in the NBA Draft?

As we progress closer to the 2017 NBA Draft, the intrigue continues on where former Syracuse great, Tyler Lydon, will land. He’s created quite the paper trail, in terms of NBA workouts thus far:

There seems to be no pattern in terms of who he’s working out for and where the teams are picking. Although the latest contender, the Atlanta Hawks, could be the ideal scenario.

The Hawks have two draft choices in next Thursday’s 2017 NBA Draft: the 19th selection and the 31st overall pick. So where could Lydon land if the Hawks interest is legitimate?

Well according to SB Nation’s Atlanta Hawks affiliate (PeachTreeHoops), the Hawks wouldn’t take Lydon with the 19th pick, but it would be a “theoretical marriage” if Lydon was available at beginning of round two.
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Projecting playing time for the 2017-18 Syracuse basketball season - The Juice Online (the juice; Irvine)

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MPG Rank Player MPG projection (rank regression) MPG projection (YOY trend)
1 Battle 37.6281 38.3766
2 Thompson 33.7392 37.2891
3 Thorpe 29.8503 34.3561
4 Moyer 25.9614 30.3348
5 Howard 22.0725 25.1566
6 Brissett 18.1836 16.7469
7 Dolezaj 14.2947 10.7749
8 Chukwu 10.4058 6.8409
9 Sidibe 6.5169 1.6136
10 Washington 2.628 0
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Who is former Syracuse player Tyler Lydon's competition in the NBA draft? (PS; Waters)

Tyler Lydon enters the final week leading up to next Thursday's NBA draft as a likely late first- or early second-round choice.

NBA scouts have said they like Lydon's potential as a stretch 4; a 6-foot-10 power forward who can stretch defenses thanks to his outside shooting ability.

But where the former Syracuse star ends up going in the draft largely depends on how he stacks up with players of a similar nature.

There are some athletic power forwards like Florida State's Jonathan Isaac and Arizona's Lauri Markkanen who should be lottery picks.

That's not the crowd that Lydon is hoping to stand out among.

According to Fran Fraschilla, ESPN's college basketball analyst, draft expert and international guru, Lydon finds himself being compared to players such as UCLA freshman T.J. Leaf, Michigan junior D.J. Wilson, Vanderbilt center Luke Kornet and a few international prospects.

"Right off the top of my head, as I look down the middle of the first round, guys that are going to be stretch forwards: T.J. Leaf is going to fit into that mix. The Latvian kid (Andezjs Pasecniks), although he's a stretch five at 7'2, but he can shoot the ball. Jonah Bolden, the Australian that went to Serbia this year after playing at UCLA; another kid who has terrific stretch four potential because he's an athlete and can really shoot it. Luke Kornet from Vanderbilt who is 7-1 and more of a stretch five but has made the most threes in NCAA history for anybody over seven feet tall.
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NCAA suspends Rick Pitino for first 5 ACC games in Louisville basketball infractions ruling (courier-journal.com; Greer)

Correction: A previous edit in this story incorrectly referenced games Rick Pitino will miss due to the NCAA ruling. The 2017-18 conference schedule has not been released and that information has been removed.

The NCAA suspended coach Rick Pitino on Thursday for five Atlantic Coast Conference games for this upcoming season as part of a series of sanctions stemming from the Louisville basketball infractions case.

The NCAA also hit Louisville with "a vacation of basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible" from December 2010 to July 2014. It was the most significant of the prescribed punishments, and the one that prompted pushback from U of L.

The ruling from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions is the culmination of an investigation that dated back to late August 2015, when U of L was first informed of a book written by escort Katina Powell that alleged former U of L basketball staffer Andre McGee paid women for dances and sex on behalf of U of L players and recruits.

"I don't believe the Committee on Infractions has ever encountered a case like this," Carol Cartwright, the chief hearing officer for the committee's hearing panel in U of L's case, said.

Cartwright, reading a prepared opening statement on an NCAA teleconference, called McGee's actions and violations "serious" and "repugnant."
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A leap of faith brought Larry Loh to Syracuse; the energy of a once-broke ochestra kept him (PS; Eisenstadt)

When the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra filed for bankruptcy in 2011, the musicians lost their steady jobs. And the music world took notice.

Larry Loh, music director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, called Syracuse whenever he needed a temp to fill a spot in his Scranton-area orchestra.

"We knew there were a lot of good musicians here not working at the time and we were happy to support them and have them come play with us," Loh said.

Loh didn't know it, but he was laying the groundwork for his new home.

Those Syracuse musicians, cast adrift by the implosion of the SSO, decided to form a massively pared-down new orchestra for Syracuse: Symphoria.

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As professional orchestras across the nation struggle to make ends meet, the Syracuse musicians embraced their new reality. They cut most management positions. They went from a nearly $6 million budget to less than $2 million. And they took huge pay cuts: the base salary went from around $30,000 to around $10,000.
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