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Celebrate the day by eating asparagus! Eat it raw, steamed, boiled, or in a soup. There are many recipes you could try. You could grow your own—there are many varieties of asparagus you could cultivate. One of the most popular is called Mary Washington. Asparagus also grows in the wild, and you could go searching for some. If purchasing fresh asparagus at a store, pick out firm stalks that are bright green or pale ivory, with light tips. If you can't eat the asparagus right away, you can extend its life by about four days by wrapping it tightly in a plastic bag and placing it in a refrigerator, or by standing the stalks up in a container with about an inch of water, and covering the container with a plastic bag.
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When Syracuse basketball players leave early for NBA, it's almost always right decision (PS; Waters)
Syracuse guard Tyus Battle is facing a difficult decision.
Should he stay in the NBA draft where his fate varies from one mock draft to another? Or should he return to school for another year with no guarantee that his NBA draft stock will rise significantly?
Battle, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, led Syracuse in scoring last season. He broke the school record for minutes played at 39.0 per game. He was the go-to guy on an Orange team that staged a surprising run to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16.
If Battle does decide to remain in the draft, he would become the 15th player in Syracuse history to leave school early for the NBA.
How did those decisions work out? In almost every case, the decision to leave early turned out to be the right decision.
Here is a look at each Syracuse player who left school early to enter the NBA and how their decision looks in retrospect.
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ACC Teams Again Make Strong Showing in Academic Progress Report Data (theacc.com)
Teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference continue to be among the top percentage of Division I colleges and universities that meet standards and excel academically, as reflected by Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA on Wednesday.
Each Division I institution is held accountable for the academic progress of its student-athletes through the APR, a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete, each term.
Current ACC Highlights include:
- All 58 ACC football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball programs meet or exceed the required 930 APR average
- Men’s Basketball: 12 ACC teams have an APR above the average 967 (most among peer conferences)
- Women’s Basketball: 11 teams have an APR above 982 average (most among peer conferences)
- Baseball: six ACC teams have an APR above 983 average (second most among peer conferences)
- North Carolina Men’s Basketball
- Syracuse Men’s Basketball
- Louisville Women’s Basketball
- Notre Dame Women’s Basketball
- Virginia Women’s Basketball
Syracuse Basketball: Tyus Battle works out for 2 NBA teams (itlh.com; Esden Jr)
Syracuse basketball star Tyus Battle continues his individual workouts with a few NBA teams, while he tries to make a decision on his future.
We’re still in the midst of Tyus Battle watch as we await his decision that will come somewhere in the next week. As Syracuse basketball fans are probably painfully aware, the latest he can make this decision is May 30th at midnight.
We’ve spoken with multiple league sources with one coming out publicly in Adam Zagoria suggesting that it seems likely at this point that Battle is staying in the 2018 NBA Draft.
Although this is the world of basketball and anything can change. But before we start breaking down whether he is staying or going, let’s talk about a new development, what teams he is working out for:
- Brooklyn Nets individual workout (reported by Michael Scotto of the Athletic)
- Orlando Magic individual workout (reported by Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog.com)
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ACC's proposal to expand NCAA tournament a tough sell (dailypress.com; Teel)
n each of the past two college basketball seasons, an ACC team has been among the last four excluded from the NCAA tournament. Last week, the league proposed expanding the tournament from 68 to 72 teams.
Coincidence? I think not.
Tournament bids are worth millions to conferences and their members. They keep coaches employed and earn them bonuses. So of course the ACC’s coaches, and scores of their colleagues, want to expand the field.
But Paul Brazeau, the league’s senior associate commissioner for men’s basketball, insists there’s an altruistic component to the ACC’s suggestion.
“The question was simply put out there,” he said. “How can more teams, not more of our teams — Saint Mary’s, Middle Tennessee State — is there a way, without adding days, adding weekends, is there a way to increase the number of teams?”
There is a way, which ACC commissioner John Swofford outlined last week in announcing the 72-team concept. But the issues are: Does the tournament need another four teams? How much resistance will the ACC’s idea encounter?
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