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Welcome to National Flitch Day!
A flitch is a measurement for bacon. It is half or one side of a pig and is now known as a slab in the United States. Flitch Day is based on and dedicated to an old English custom which goes back to at least the thirteenth or fourteenth century, and by some accounts to 1104. The custom was also mentioned in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which was published in the late fourteenth century.
The custom mainly took place in two locations: Whichnoure (now Wychnor Hall), Staffordshire, and Little Dunmow in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. In Little Dunmow, married couples would prove that neither one of them had had any thoughts over the previous year and a day in which they wished that they hadn't been married. The couple would kneel in the churchyard on two hard, pointed stones while taking an oath in front of monks and the rest of the town. If it was believed that they hadn't had any thoughts of regret, they were given a flitch of bacon and were paraded around town. It was quite rare for a couple to actually be given a slab of bacon. The custom lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. It was also brought to America by English colonists but was not long practiced there.
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Swofford reveals potential ACC Network programming (dailypress.com; Teel)
The ACC rarely kicks off a football season with multiple conference games. The ACC has never tipped off a men’s basketball season with a full complement of league contests.
Next year’s launch of the ACC Network figures to change those scheduling norms.
Presiding over his 22nd preseason ACC football gathering, commissioner John Swofford revealed those programming details, and more, during a one-on-one interview Wednesday afternoon.
Swofford also addressed ACC Network distribution, financial projections and the revenue gap his member schools are fighting against their Power Five peers.
The ACC Network is scheduled to launch in August 2019. As with any start-up, the league and its television partner, ESPN, crave a splashy debut. So why not schedule accordingly?
Swofford cemented Wednesday that the ACC will stage multiple league games to start next football season. He didn’t reveal matchups, but based on non-conference contracts already in place, the most likely candidates are Virginia Tech at Boston College, Georgia Tech at Clemson and Pittsburgh versus Syracuse or Virginia.
Power Five leagues generally avoid Week One conference games. There are only two this season — Northwestern at Purdue in the Big Ten, and Virginia Tech at Florida State in the ACC — and there was only one in 2017: Ohio State-Indiana in the Big Ten.
“There will be some conference games in Week One,” Swofford said, “and there will be some high-profile games during the course of the season that you might expect to be on ABC that will be on the ACC Network in all probability, in both football and men’s basketball. And that could continue.”
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Syracuse fires coach Bernie Fine
Throwback Thursday
Syracuse University fired its long-time assistant basketball coach Sunday after three men accused him of molesting them in 1970s and 1980s. NBC’s Jay Gray reports.
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Cicero volunteer firefighters take on Backstreet Boys for Lip Sync Challenge (PS; Doran)
Members of the Cicero Volunteer Fire Department are the latest to join in the nationwide viral Lip Sync challenge among police and fire departments. The challenge started several months ago, and has spread across the U.S.
Four Cicero firefighters lip synced to the Backstreet Boys' "Everybody (Backstreet's Back) video on a recent Saturday night.
Sergeant Steve Schlie coordinated the effort.
"We decided to do it, and we threw out different songs and then just decided to do this one,'' Schlie said. "We did it in one take, and then edited it.
"With all the bad stuff we see, we want people to see we have fun too,'' he said.
Along with Schlie, firefighters Andrew Sager, Jon Briggs and John Colwell star in the video.
The department said they now challenge the Syracuse police department, Syracuse fire department, North Syracuse fire department and Clay fire department to take the lip sync challenge.
Chittenango police have taken the challenge, and departments all over the country are participating.
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