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Welcome to National Root Beer Float Day!
Tuesday is “National Root Beer Float Day.” Did we need a day to celebrate the root beer float? Probably not. But since we have one, we might as well use it to score some free root beer.
A&W is celebrating the day by offering root beer enthusiasts a coupon for a free two-liter of the beverage.
Like all good deals, there’s a catch: The company wants you to commit to spending an hour on Friday nights without technology. That said, they can’t exactly check up on that one, so if you want to cheat we’re guessing you can probably get away with it.
To get a coupon, go to rootbeer.com on Tuesday and make the pledge. When you do, you’ll get a coupon that can be used to score a free two-liter of root beer that you print out and immediately use.
Unfortunately, if you want to go the float route, you’ll have to buy ice cream on your own.
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How Syracuse basketball’s trip to Italy compares to past overseas tours (PS; Waters)
Roosevelt Bouie and Dale Shackleford had been teammates at Syracuse for a year, but the two big men weren’t exactly getting along.
The two were practicing against each other as the Syracuse basketball team was preparing for an upcoming tour of Italy in the summer of 1977. Shackleford would hit Bouie with a hard foul. On the next play, Bouie would come back harder.
“Dale and I were kinda feuding,’’ Bouie said. “We were killing each other in practices. It wasn’t friendly.’’
The team finally took off for Italy. In one game against an Italian club, Bouie got tangled up with an opponent while battling for a rebound. The Italian player pointed at Bouie and said something in Italian.
“I take a step toward him and Dale shoves me out of the way,’’ Bouie recalled. “He said ‘You have to go through me.’ I’m standing there thinking, ‘I didn’t know you even liked me.’
“From that point forward,’’ Bouie said, “we were attached at the hip.’’
Later this week the Syracuse Orange basketball team will embark on a tour of Italy.
The Orange will play four games in seven days, traveling from Vincenza to Siena to Rome.
Remarkably, this marks just the fourth time in Jim Boeheim’s 43-year tenure that he has taken the SU basketball team on a summer trip outside the United States, with the first going all the way back to that 1977 trip in which Bouie and Shackleford formed their unbreakable bond.
The Orange’s previous tours took place in 1977, 1990 and 2013.
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Orange Watch: The last sports year for Syracuse's Carrier Dome as we know it - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: There’s been a lot of activity around the Dome this summer, and it has nothing to do with the outcome of the games that are contested on the building’s playing surfaces. Cranes, big and small, have been appearing the last couple of weeks, the beginning of the preparation work for when the Dome’s doors close March 1, 2020 for six months of work to construct a new, non-air supported roof that will forever change the look of the Syracuse skyline.
It will be quite an interesting scene on campus just over five weeks from now. Some 50,000 people will make their way to the southwest corner of the university quad or along a crowded Irving Avenue to attend the first home football game (7:30 p.m. ET) of the 2019 season between Syracuse and defending national champion Clemson, also to be televised nationally on ABC.
Most attending the biggest home game in the four year Dino Babers era will traverse around orange construction safety signage and the like, and in the case of the Dome’s west end a huge crane, with smaller construction equipment also scattered about.
It’s all about maximizing time to get a new permanent roof in place to replace the pillow-like, air supported Teflon pieces that have helped form one of the city’s signature looks for nearly 40 years, and an additional end to the accompanying air pressure (and often times adventurous) entering and exiting the building.
» Related: Previewing Syracuse’s 2019 Special Teams
Here’s a capsule look at how the mandatory Dome closing date of next March 1 will affect the three primary sports:
Football – The 2019 season will not see any games impacted by the impending spring closure, other than the tell-tale signs of the forthcoming work, but it’s the September 19, 2020 home opener against old rival Colgate (SU begins the season a week earlier at Rutgers) that will bear watching. That is 203 days from the closing to the scheduled game to do the heavy lifting necessary to get the new roof in place and the site ready for a football game to be contested.
Basketball – We’re predicting that the ACC gives Syracuse basketball a home game on the extra day in February 2020 for leap year, or Saturday, February 29, to be specific, when the schedule is released in a couple of weeks (Duke perhaps?). That would only mean the first seven days of March the Orange would have to play a conference road game, or two, before the ACC Tournament gets underway March 10 in Greensboro. Ending the regular season with two ACC road games is not ideal, but not unbalanced. And, no jokes, please, about losing the hosting option for the NIT. The Orange is headed to the NCAA Tournament in 2020, Jim Boeheim’s sixth decade as head coach.
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