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Welcome to National Gibberish Day!

National Gibberish Day is dedicated to a type of speech that is nonsensical, or appears to be so. Gibberish may be random speech sounds that mean nothing, or it may be speech that means something, but is a specific jargon that not many people understand. Most times, gibberish refers to informal speech, while gobbledygook refers to the formal writing or speech that is so technical and convoluted that it can't be easily understood. The word gibberish was first used in the early 16th century, and the name may be an onomatopoeia of what unintelligible speech may sound like. Another theory is the name stems from an 8th century Persian chemist named Jabir, who wrote in technical jargon.

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All-time Syracuse basketball great will pour drinks at Syracuse Silver Knights fundraiser (PS; Kramer)

Former Syracuse basketball star Lawrence Moten is dishing out an assist to the Syracuse Silver Knights indoor soccer team.

Moten will be a celebrity bartender to raise money for the team's charity foundation. The event takes place 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Krebs in Skaneateles.

Syracuse general manager Tommy Tanner and Silver Knights midfielder and former Baldwinsville star Nate Bourdeaux will also participate.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Silver Knights' 2017-18 schedule is expected to be announced next week.


Four-Star Small Forward Jaedon LeDee Commits to Ohio State Basketball Program (elevenwarriors.com; Grega)

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LeDee gives the Buckeyes a much needed verbal after a long stretch of decommitments.

Torrence Watson, who committed to Ohio State in July, decommitted just more than a month later. The Buckeyes have also missed out on in-state targets Dane Goodwin(Notre Dame), Darius Bazley (Syracuse) and Dwayne Cohill (Dayton) since making a change in leadership and hiring Chris Holtmann in early June.

The commitment of LeDee means Ohio State is likely on the outside looking in for Versailles, Ohio product Justin Ahrens, who currently is favored to head north to Michigan.

The Buckeyes are also still heavily pursuing four-star point guard Elijah Weaver and combo guard Eric Ayala. Weaver took his official visit to Ohio State the same day as LeDee and is trending towards the Buckeyes, while Ayala appears to be favoring Syracuse.

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Knicks Links: Jim Boeheim throws shade at Phil Jackson (postingandtoasting.com; Wolfe)

Welcome back, friends!

I know we’re like frustratingly, dangerously, excitingly just a few weeks away from preseason, which is awesome! But until then, we got some sub-par there’s-still-no-real-basketball-going-on-yet links. Stay strong!

First, here’s one of my favorite oldies ever:

¿Cómo están Los Knicks?
— Jim Boeheim, Syracuse head coach since forever and former coach of Carmelo Anthony, had a thing or two to say about the current Melo situation. Per Adam Zagoria:

“I think in reality it would’ve been better if they let Phil make the trade and then got rid of him,” Boeheim, who coached Anthony to the 2003 NCAA championship at Syracuse, told me at the Garden State Basketball Clinic at Montclair (N.J.) Immaculate Conception High School. “Now the new guys are going to be held responsible for the deal and nobody’s going to give much up [for Anthony in a trade]. So they’re going to end up not getting a lot for him and it’s really because of what Phil did in poisoning the air.”

Can’t say I agree with Jimmy B here. If Phil had traded Melo for, say, Ryan Anderson just to get him outta here, that would probably be decidedly worse than just keeping him another year. But what do I know?!

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Apartments proposed for vacant 143-year-old Armory Square building (PS; Moriarty)

Two investors have proposed building 12 apartments in the long-vacant upper floors of a 143-year-old commercial building in Armory Square.

Robb Bidwell and Douglas Balle have submitted plans to the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency to build nine one-bedroom and three two-bedroom apartments on the upper three floors of 415 S. Clinton St.

Bidwell and Balle said the upper floors of the four-story, 21,000-square-foot building have been vacant for at least 30 years.

The first floor, which once housed a beauty school, has been vacant for 16 of the last 18 years, they said. Its last tenant, Kokomo's Bar & Grille, closed in 2013 after a triple stabbing inside the bar.

The first floor will remain commercial space, Bidwell and Balle said. One avenue being explored is a venue for the nearby Modern Malt restaurant to hold catered events, they said.

The building was built in 1874. Alterations were made in 1970.

Bidwell and Balle estimated the cost of the project to be $2.59 million, including the purchase of the building for $500,000, according to their filing.

The investors have applied to the agency for a mortgage tax exemption of $19,125 and a sales tax exemption valued at $50,000. They have not applied for property tax exemptions. They said the exemptions they are seeking would make the project more economically feasible.
 

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