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Welcome to National Pickle Day!
National Pickle Day is observed annually on November 14. It may be a Dill, Gherkin, Cornichon, Brined, Kosher Dill, Polish, Hungarian, Lime, Bread and Butter, Swedish and Danish, or Kool-Aid Pickle. Whichever is your choice, eat them all day long.
The term pickle comes from the Dutch word pekel, meaning brine. In the United States, the word pickle typically refers to a pickled cucumber.
– Each year in the United States, 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed.
– Pickles are a great snack, low in calories and a good source of vitamin K, though they can be high in sodium.
– When served on a stick at festivals, fairs or carnivals, pickles are sometimes known as “stick pickles”.
– A rising trend in the United States is deep-fried pickles which have a breading or batter surrounding the pickle spear or slice.
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Madison Square Garden remains vital to Syracuse basketball (PS; Waters)
Allen Griffin grew up in Brooklyn. As a kid, Griffin watched as Pearl Washington, another Brooklyn native, returned to New York City as the point guard for the Syracuse University basketball team.
Washington dazzled the Garden crowds and turned the World's Most Famous Arena into Syracuse's home court.
Griffin wound up going to Syracuse and played at Madison Square Garden 14 times over the course of his college career. This Thursday, Griffin, now an assistant at Syracuse, will be back at the Garden as the 15th-ranked Orange takes on former Big East rival Connecticut in the 2K Empire Sports Classic.
It will mark the 37th consecutive season that Syracuse will play at Madison Square Garden.
"It's part of Syracuse University's basketball identity,'' Griffin said of the Garden. "When you think about Syracuse, obviously, you think about the Carrier Dome and 30,000 fans, but the next thing that comes to your mind is the Garden. As a kid from Brooklyn, I always wanted to play for Syracuse and play at the Garden.''
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SYRACUSE AT THE MECCA: Top SU men’s basketball moments at MSG (DO; Heyen)
Syracuse plays in the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden on Thursday and Friday. The Orange have a storied history in what’s known as the “Mecca” of basketball. The current iteration of MSG, its fourth version, was completed in 1968. Here are four of the Orange’s top moments on that court since then.
1. 1992 Big East Championship: Syracuse beats Georgetown behind Hopkins
Lawrence Moten, SU’s all-time leading scorer, dropped 15 points in the first half against the Hoyas to send the Orange into the halftime break tied at 29. But Georgetown focused on shutting Moten down in the second half.
That meant Mike Hopkins had to step up. The then-junior guard and future Syracuse associate head coach made 6-of-7 shots that night, including scoring eight points in the second half. Syracuse needed every bit, as SU hung on to win the Big East title, 56-54.
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Dan Hurley readies UConn men's basketball to face Syracuse zone defense (courant.com; Amore)
UConn followers are well versed in the virtues of the Syracuse zone defense, and have a decades old love, but mostly hate relationship with it.
On Thursday, new Huskies coach Dan Hurley gets his first crack at it and, as we’re beginning to learn, he tends to start with his own defense.
“We’ve got to really get after them,” Hurley said, “especially in the backcourt. We’ve got to really pressure them and make them exert a lot of energy, and once the ball gets into that scoring area, we’ve still got to figure out which guys we want to pressure. … We’ve got to try to weaken their zone by getting into their legs in the offensive end with our pressure.
“That’s a big, big part of the game. Playing against their zone is probably 30 to 35 percent of what the game is. Sometimes, you get so stuck on, ‘How are we going to score against the zone?’ But there are other things we need to do well so that it doesn’t come down to just that one aspect.”
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Episode 96- Syracuse Basketball, UCONN Preview, Syracuse Football, Notre Dame Preview! - Armchair All-Americans (armchairallamericans.com; podcast; Cuse Militia)
Episode 96- Syracuse Basketball, UCONN Preview, Syracuse Football, Notre Dame Preview!
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Talking turkey with Bob Bitz, former owner of Plainville farms (PS; Weaver)
Ask Bob Bitz what most people misunderstand about turkeys, and he doesn't hesitate.
"They aren't dumb," said Bitz, laughing. No, he added. They won't drown themselves standing in the rain.
Bitz would know. In 1923, his grandfather, William Ward, and father, Harry Bitz, bought eight leftover turkeys from a seller at what is now the Central New York Regional Market. They brought the birds back to their dairy and vegetable farm in northwestern Onondaga County. They fattened the birds, then sold them around the holidays.
"They decided they liked it," Bitz said a few weeks ago.
Those eight birds grew into Plainville Turkey Farm. It's a business that, near the end of the last century, produced as many as 1 million turkeys a year -- including 100,000 for one Thanksgiving.
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