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Syracuse basketball target Nate Roberts discusses his final 3 schools (PS; Waters)
Nate Roberts, a 6-foot-11 senior at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., narrowed his list of college choices down to three schools this week.
Roberts' final three consists of Syracuse, Washington and Nebraska. In cutting his list to three schools, Roberts eliminated Wake Forest and Connecticut.
A long, lanky left-hander, the Baltimore native previously attended that city's John Carroll High School. He is ranked just outside the top 100 players in the 2018 class by most recruiting services, but insiders talk about his potential based on his offensive skills and a growth spurt that saw him sprout up three inches over the past year.
Roberts will take the last of his official campus visits this weekend to Syracuse University.
On Wednesday, Roberts discussed his recruitment with Syracuse.com. He confirmed plans to make his announcement on Oct. 17.
He also said his main concerns in picking a school are fit and comfort.
"Overall fit would be good because all the tools are in line for me to maximize my potential and that's with Washington, Syracuse, and Nebraska,'' Roberts said. "I just believe that I adapt and adjust to any situation well, so as long as I'm comfortable in my own skin there it doesn't matter where I go.''
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Has ESPN already cheaped out on the upcoming ACC Network? (newsobserver.com; Decock)
It’s entirely possible that ESPN’s decision to base the ACC Network at its home base of Bristol, Conn., instead of adding it to the SEC Network’s production facility in Charlotte won’t have any impact on the presentation, personality or quality of the nascent network. Technology has advanced to the point where just about anything in television, other than the actual cameras, can be placed just about anywhere without the viewer noticing.
What it will do, beyond a doubt, is raise legitimate questions about whether the ACC Network – scheduled to launch in 2019, at a time of increased financial pressures and cost-cutting at ESPN – will end up being SEC Lite instead of a comparable operation. Those questions will now persist even if the two networks end up getting equal treatment in terms of resources and production values, solely because of ESPN’s decision to base the network somewhere other than the heart of ACC country, especially when the alleged equivalent network is already based there.
“It’s not a snub to Charlotte at all,” an ESPN spokesperson said, but the issue isn’t whether Charlotte is getting snubbed. It’s whether the ACC – and by extension its fans – will get shortchanged with this network.
From the outside, Charlotte seemed like an inevitable choice for the network’s epicenter. ESPN already has its studio facility there – one that should have some open space after ESPNU’s operation was moved to Bristol – and the geographic synergy is obvious. The network’s executives will be based there, but the ACC Network’s studio programming will originate from Bristol while the SEC Network’s programming will continue to originate from Charlotte, smack in the middle of the ACC footprint, host of the ACC football title game, the 2019 ACC basketball tournament and the conference’s football and men’s basketball preview events.
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Report: Carmelo Anthony's camp 'cautiously optimistic' he'll be traded by Monday (PS; Burrows)
Frank Isola of the Daily News wrote on Wednesday that Anthony and his family have mentally moved on to Houston and remain 'cautiously optimistic' about a trade that would send Anthony to the Houston Rockets.
New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony only wants to be traded to the Houston Rockets, according to a new report.
Isola also added that earlier this offseason the Knicks and Rockets had a trade "on the two-yard line" but couldn't get it done.
Anthony hasn't made things easy on the Knicks this offseason -- he's forced the team into a corner by saying he'll only waive his no-trade clause to join the Rockets after originally saying he'd be fine with Houston or the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Paul McCartney in Syracuse: What you need to know before heading to the Carrier Dome (PS; Pucci)
Paul McCartney is coming to the Carrier Dome, a concert more than two decades in the works.
The former Beatle was booked to play in Syracuse in 1993, but McCartney postponed the show to prepare for a Fox TV-televised concert. He played in Albany in 2014 and Buffalo in 2015 and at long last, will play his first-ever show in Syracuse on Saturday.
Here are details you need to know before you attend the concert:
Schedule:
McCartney is slated to perform at 8 p.m.--there is no opening act. The parking lot opens at 3 p.m. Shuttle buses from the parking lot to the Carrier Dome start running at 4 p.m. Stadium gates open at 6 p.m.
Parking:
Paid parking is available the night of the concert at the Skytop parking lot. Parking is $20 per car or $40 per bus or RV. Cash only. Free shuttles will run between the parking lots and the Carrier Dome.
Uber, Lyft and limos will drop concert-goers off on Waverly Avenue.
Visit carrierdome.com for directions to the parking lots.
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