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Welcome to National Limerick Day!
National Limerick Day, held every year on May 12, pays homage to the man who made the short poems widespread — Edward Lear. Lear was an English poet who is known for his nonsense-style, often writing with made-up words, telling tales of “Quangle-Wangles,” and “runcible spoons.” He wrote 212 limericks, most of which didn’t follow the specific rhyming rules of the style. Although the by definition limericks have five lines, Lear’s were often shown in three or four, to give space to his accompanying illustrations and drawings. (A favorite of his: “There was an Old Man of Peru, who watched his wife making a stew; But once by mistake, In a stove she did bake, That unfortunate Man of Peru.”)
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A letter to Busting Brackets: Pick Syracuse basketball higher! (itlh; Mlodzinski)
Our friends at the Busting Brackets FanSided page slated Syracuse basketball at tenth in their 2020-21 ‘Way Too Early’ ACC rankings. We’re here to complain!
Dear Busting Brackets,
We, Inside the Loud House, one of the most knowledgeable sites about Syracuse basketball, would formally like to file a complaint in your ‘Way Too Early’ ACC rankings. We believe your prediction of tenth place is far too low and quite frankly, doesn’t represent the Orange how it should.
Before we go any further, we need to clear some air. We respect everything about you and would recommend any college basketball fan out there to read your articles. You know what you’re talking about!
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Why COVID-19 will Benefit Boeheim’s Army – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Klein)
With sports on hold due to the coronavirus, Syracuse fans shifted their concerns to The Basketball Tournament’s fate. The SU alumni team, Boeheim’s Army, competes in the winner take all, single elimination tournament every summer. Boeheim’s Army is scheduled to host one of the regions at SRC Arena on the campus of Onondaga Community College in late July and early August. Nobody knows if fans will be allowed to attend the games. Nobody knows if the tournament will be played. But if it is, the quarantine will only help The Basketball Tournament and Boeheim’s Army in the long run.
The demand for live sports has never been greater. Baseball fans from across the country are itching for new competition that they have resorted to watching Korean Baseball. The demand for basketball might be even stronger because fans were left on a cliffhanger with the NBA’s playoffs about to begin and the NCAA Tournament cancelled.
There’s nothing else for sports fans to consume besides old games. Fans have watched more games from the 1980s than they did when swatch watches were popular. So if The Basketball Tournament is held over the summer, even without fans in attendance, TV ratings will be through the roof.
Ever since its inception in 2014, ESPN has carried the games on ESPN radio and largely the ESPN3 online platform. This year’s tournament would likely get promoted to ESPN and ESPN2.
With even more of a national spotlight thanks to an even larger investment from the Worldwide Leader of Sports, the tournament has the platform to develop a national fanbase, a step up from today’s regional cult following. On top of that, unlike past years, TBT won’t be competing with baseball or any other sporting event for national attention.
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Commentary: Two months have passed since sports shutdown, what it means about us (cnycentral.com; Tamurian)
As of this writing, late in the evening on May 11, 2020, we've hit the two months mark since live sports were watched by Central New York Sports fans.
For a refresher, it was the 9:00 p.m. game on March 11, 2020 that Syracuse Basketball was beating North Carolina 81-53 at the ACC Tournament. An exclamation point on a roller coaster season that had fans excited for what could be the rest of the week in Greensboro. Could the Orange make a run? The fantasies were starting to blossom.
Then everything stopped.
Stopping so suddenly that a Big East Tournament game was stopped at halftime.
If you told me and probably many others on that scary and uncertain day that we'd make it more than two months, 60+ days without sports I don't know that I could have grasped it then. At least with any sort of sanity.
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Five ACC foes who could cause Duke basketball problems next season (balldurham.com; Wynne)
It is an undeniable truth that Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski has had inimitable success in the ACC. Coach K has cut down the nets at the conclusion of 15 conference tournaments. He has led 12 different teams to regular-season championships (or shares thereof). Over the last decade, the Blue Devils are 132-46 in conference play, an average of 13.2 such wins per season.
There are reasons for optimism that a Jordan Goldwire-captained Duke basketball team will finish atop the ACC next season. Duke catches Wake Forest home and away and, over the last 10 seasons, has lost just twice in 19 games to the Deacons (including last season’s devastating double-overtime loss in Winston Salem).
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https://accsports.com/acc-news/rise...yers-moved-the-most-in-updated-2020-rankings/ (accsports.com; Geisinger)
247 Sports recently updated its prospect rankings for the 2020 basketball recruiting class. There was a fair amount of movement, too, including several ACC prospects.
Caleb Love, heir to the point guard throne at North Carolina, jumped up to a top-10 ranking — from No. 23 to No. 6. Walker Kessler, Love’s soon-to-be (fingers crossed) classmate at UNC, fell from No. 13 to No. 25. Kessler remains as 5-star recruit, though.
247 class 2020 rise/fall:
Caleb Love +17 from #23 on 10/1 to #6
Makur Maker -12 from #5 on 4/14 to #17
Keon Johnson +6 from #21 on 10/14 to #15
Zay Todd -13 from #14 on 10/17 to #27
Walker Kessler -12 from #13 on 4/12 to #25
Mark Williams +13 from #29 on 11/1 to #16
— fendo (@dancingwithnoah) May 6, 2020
Incoming Duke center Mark Williams, moved up 13 spots: No. 29 to No. 16. Williams is now a 5-star recruit, too.
Other Top 100 Names
- Scottie Barnes, FSU: moved up one spot; now No. 8
- Jalen Johnson, Duke: fell back four spots; now No. 12
- Day’Ron Sharpe, UNC: fell two spots to No. 20
https://accsports.com/acc-news/ncaa-adjusts-model-simplifies-net-rankings-for-2020-21-season/ (accsports.com; Geisinger)
Prior to the start of the 2018-19 college basketball season, the NCAA unveiled a new resource designed to help rank teams ahead of Selection Sunday and the NCAA Tournament: the NET rankings. (The NCAA Evaluation Tool.)
After two seasons of use, however, the NCAA has elected to alter the NET formula; the hope is to simplify the process. Of the metrics initial five factors, only two will remain: Team Value Index (TVI) and adjusted efficiency rating. TVI, according to the NCAA, “is a result-based feature that rewards teams for beating quality opponents.”
The adjusted efficiency — net points per 100 possessions — is adjusted for a couple difference factors: location of game and opponent strength.
The changes will be put in place for the 2020-21 season.
NET CHANGES
The NCAA D1 MBB Committee is increasing the accuracy of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) by reducing the five-component metric to just two.
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Hidden Gems of CNY: An old trailer that serves the Dominican flavor from a vacant city parking lot (PS; Miller)
Believe it or not, you can find a new place serving great food during a pandemic. I happened by one last week.
And this gem is more disguised than it is hidden. It’s an old 18-foot camper parked in a vacant lot on the city’s Near West Side. At the corner of Seymour and Niagara streets you’ll find El Trailer del Sabor, Spanish for The Flavor Trailer.
Inside Lucy Diaz will be preparing authentic Dominican food, and her boyfriend Manuel Lopez will be at the window taking orders from customers.
“I love the look on people’s faces when they take their first bite of my food,” Lucy said. “People will try it, and they’ll come back, and they’re willing to wait for it if there’s a line. I like to test Americans with something new.”
She grew up in the Dominican Republic, where she cooked three meals a day at home. She emigrated to the United States 10 years ago.
Lucy and Manuel met a few years ago. He was driving a taxi, taking her to work at Dominick’s Neighborhood Market on the North Side. She talked about her passion for cooking, and he commiserated about how ride-sharing apps like Uber were killing his business. They’ve been together since.
They bought this camper for $300 in LaFayette and gutted it, replacing the insides with kitchen equipment bought from a restaurant that had closed. After painting it blue with a red stripe and tacking on some white lights, they got their restaurant permit from the city in September and opened for business.
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