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Welcome to National Failures Day!
National Failures Day is a day dedicated to examining past failures, and using them to help you achieve success. Throughout history there have been many examples of people who failed at first and later became successful. Just because you have failed once or multiple times does not mean you are ultimately a failure. The fight for success goes on and as long as you keep putting in effort, you are never a failure.
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Previewing Maryland basketball’s non-conference schedule (testudotimes.com; Johnson)
Maryland basketball’s schedule is starting to fill out.
We now have a start date to the Terps' season, as the team released the matchups and dates for its non-conference opponents on Monday.
Mark Turgeon and company invite Randolph Macon to the Xfinity Center for an exhibition on Nov. 2, then get the season underway Nov. 10 on the road against Stony Brook.
IT'S HERE!
Check out the 2017-18 non-conference schedule. #FearTheTurtleMaryland Releases 2017-18 Non-Conference Schedulepic.twitter.com/Hn8WQLA8a5
— Maryland Basketball (@TerrapinHoops) August 14, 2017
The schedule is light on high-profile matchups. In fact, most of the marquee games on the schedule were known ahead of time.
Maryland announced their Nov. 15 matchup with Butler back in May, as part of the Gavitt Games announcement. Butler represents one of just two 2017 NCAA Tournament teams Maryland will face before Big Ten competition. The Terps invite Butler and Bucknell, followed by Jacksonville State to College Park in a three-game home stretch from Nov. 15-20.
Maryland follows that stretch with the Emerald Coast Classic, where it'll play Saint Bonaventure and either TCU or New Mexico from Nov. 24-25 in Florida. The Terps then take a trip north for the ACC/Big Ten challenge against Syracuse on Nov. 27.
The rest of the schedule doesn't have much by way of exciting matchups. While you can never afford to take an opponent for granted, Maryland, led by its trio of sophomores, will try use this somewhat soft non-conference schedule to get ready for the rigors of Big Ten play.
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Practice Continues In Preparation For Bahamas (bceagles.com)
One of the benefits of the international trip is the extra practice a team is able to get before departure.
The men's basketball team is in the middle of those sessions before their journey to the Bahamas begins on Thursday. It is a crucial period for any team that gets the extra work in during the summertime.
"I feel like these have been some of our best practices," junior guard Jerome Robinson said. "Everyone is going hard and practices are a lot more fun. I don't know why but there is a different attitude around it."
The Eagles return nine players from last year's squad and have welcomed four freshmen into the fold – Vin Baker, Jr., Luka Kraljevic, Steffon Mitchell and Avery Wilson.
"These practices are helping us get to know how to play with each other," Robinson said. "We're excited to go down there, get a couple of wins and get that feeling going."
Robinson and sophomore Ky Bowman, who emerged as one of the premier backcourts in the country last season, both attended the Chris Paul Elite Guard Camp earlier in the summer. The duo combined to score 34.8 points per game in ACC play in 2016-17 which ranked fifth among the backcourts in major conferences.
When asked what the emphasis has been on during these practices, Robinson replied, "Mostly our defense… because we can score."
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ACC basketball: NC State, North Carolina boosted by big transfers, ESPN says (diehards.com; Wilson)
Two ACC basketball programs in North Carolina did well to boost their teams heading into the 2017-18 season by way of transfers.
On Monday, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman and Jeff Borzello pegged North Carolina and N.C. State as two of the schools that ranked among the winners this offseason.
N.C. State, which is under the leadership of first-year coach Kevin Keatts, added a handful of transfers to its roster.
“New coach Kevin Keatts brought in four transfers — two of which can play immediately and a pair who will sit this season,” the pair at ESPN wrote. “Baylor’s Allerik Freeman is a versatile guard who averaged 9.7 points and will be able to play this year as a grad transfer. Freeman, along with N.C. A&T grad transfer Sam Hunt (12.7 PPG), can shoot it from long distance. Keatts also brought his former star at UNC-Wilmington, 6-foot-5 guard C.J. Bryce (17.4 ppg), with him. He also added Utah transfer Devon Daniels, who started 26 games and averaged 9.9 points and 4.6 rebounds for the Utes as a freshman. Bryce will sit and have two years left while Daniels will sit and have three.”
While the Wolfpack hit heavily with transfers in number, the Tar Heels had a different win this summer. Former Pitt standout Cameron Johnson picked North Carolina, giving the Tar Heels the biggest offseason pickup.
“The Tar Heels beat out Arizona, Kentucky, Oregon and UCLA for the services of Pittsburgh grad transfer Cameron Johnson,” the pair at ESPN wrote. “Sure, he only averaged 11.9 points this past season, but he gives Roy Williams and UNC someone with experience that can help ease the departure of scorer Justin Jackson. Johnson is eligible immediately, has two years left and should be a factor in Chapel Hill.”
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Chairlift, new state police exhibit highlight new arrivals at 2017 NYS Fair (PS; Pucci)
New chairlift and water flume rides, a new home for the New York State Police exhibit, a revamped Indian Village and an all-new concert stage in the fair's West End are a few of the many additions to this year's New York State Fair announced today by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The New York State Police Exhibit, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, will move from its old location near the International Building to its new spot at the former DEC cabin outside the Horticulture Building.
The new exhibit will have two buildings, new steel towers for rappelling demonstrations, a texting-while-driving simulator, a forensic crime scene area, a Wall of Honor to fallen Troopers and an exhibit to honor the state police's centennial celebration.
The Turtle Mound, the Indian Village stage where traditional dances are held thrice daily, has been rebuilt. Other buildings received new roofs and other improvements as part of a $750,000 project to renovate the village that had previously not seen substantial renovations since the 1930s.
For a bird's eye view of the fair, ride the new Broadway Skyliner chairlift, a seven-minute, 1,400-foot ride that will take riders 34 feet in the air from one end of the midway to the other.
For the first time, the midway will have a water flume ride and after several years away, the 70-foot-tall RC-48 steel roller coaster is making its return to the New York State Fair.
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