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Welcome to International Hamburger Day!
International Hamburger Day celebrates hamburgers! Traditionally, a hamburger consists of a patty of ground beef that has been pan-fried, barbecued, or flame broiled, and it is served in a bun. Condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and relish are often included, as well as toppings such as lettuce, tomato, onion, bacon, pickles, and cheese. Besides the hamburger made of ground beef, there are many variations of the burger, such as the turkey burger, veggie burger, and bison burger. Burgers are commonly served at fast food restaurants and diners, and even at high-end restaurants.
There are many people who claim to have invented the burger. Some sources say that Louis Lassen did it, at Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 28, 1900. No matter who came up with the hamburger, it was created sometime around the turn of the nineteenth century, and its popularity was boosted at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Some popular early restaurants that served a burger were White Castle starting in 1921, Kewpee Hamburgers starting in 1923, Big Boy beginning in 1936, and McDonald's beginning in 1940. Although the hamburger was created in the United States, its name is taken from the city of Hamburg, Germany.
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Jim and Juli Boeheim donate to help with costs of extra scholarships (cnycentral.com; Tamurian)
When the NCAA announced special waivers for those senior student-athletes in the Class of 2020 that saw their spring sports season ended far too soon it was met with almost universal praise.
It's fair after all, to give those senior stars one last chance to end their career on their own terms.
The question though becomes how to individual schools pay for it?
Sure, there's a perception that college athletic departments are flowing with money, but the reality is budgets are generally tighter than that.
On top of that, most major schools are facing the incredibly real possibility of at the very least losing significant ticket revenue from their main money-maker football attendance this fall. If those games are played at all.
Suddenly, just making those ends meet becomes far from certain. Considering for Syracuse alone, there are 28 student-athletes returning next year that were expected to leave their respective programs in 2020. That's 28 students that require support across the board, financial aid and in some cases scholarships.
That's where the Boeheim family comes in.
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#TwineANDWine: Ex SU star Leo Rautins makes trick shots, sips wine by pool (videos) (PS; Waters)
The trick shots into a pool-side basketball goal began as a joke.
When the NBA decided to fill the sports void created by the coronavirus pandemic with a H-O-R-S-E competition, the folks at Canada’s TSN thought it would be fun to have some of their on-air talent perform some trick shots.
They toss wadded up balls of paper into trash-cans or a rolled up sock into a clothes hamper.
But Leo Rautins took it to another level. Rautins, the former Syracuse University basketball star and current analyst for Toronto Raptors’ television broadcasts, used a goal in his backyard pool at his home in South Florida for a trick shot.
"I did that and I was talking a lot of trash and people got a kick out of that,'' Rautins said.
Fans wanted to see more of Rautins’ repertoire, so he began posting a daily video on his Twitter page. The videos always appear at 5 p.m. They feature a trick shot followed by Rautins offering some words of encouragement as he pours a glass of wine.
The videos, which Rautins has labeled with the hashtag #Twineandwine, remain very popular with thousands of views each day.
"People are struggling,'' Rautins said. "People have got a lot of things on their minds. They’re worried, they’re stressing, they’re feeling insecure and sports isn’t around. Sports offers a release, a distraction and escape or whatever you want to call it, but right now there aren’t any sports going on.
"It seemed like the right time to do something like this and give people a little distraction.''
The shots stand out as much for Rautins’ creativity in thinking up the shots as his ability to actually make them.
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Could Elijah Hughes be Syracuse's most successful NBA player since Jerami Grant? - The Juice Online (the juice; Irvine)
The Syracuse men’s basketball team has gone two consecutive years without a player selected in the NBA Draft — the first time that has happened since 1998.
This begs the question: how does Elijah Hughes, the Orange’s lone entrant into this year’s draft, stack up against SU’s prior selections?
The redshirt junior led the ACC in scoring at 18.8 points per game and was selected to the ACC’s all-conference first team. But despite these accolades, Hughes has largely been absent from NBA mock drafts until recently.
One knock on Hughes is his age. He turned 22 in March, which makes him relatively old by NBA Draft standards. But with the NBA on pause due to COVID-19, scouts have had a chance to reexamine Hughes’s game with growing appreciation.
The 6’6’’, 215-pound shooting guard has the prototypical body of an NBA shooting guard. Although he is mostly known as a long-range shooter, Hughes’ playmaking is an underappreciated aspect of his game. He averaged 3.5 assists per game last season and honed his downhill attacks to the basket in his final season.
Many mock drafts now project him to be selected in the late 1st or early 2nd round. That would make him SU’s first selection since Tyler Lydon was picked 24th overall in the 2017 draft.
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Clear-cut Syracuse basketball rival is anything but definitive these days (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball is in a weird place these days as far as a chief rival is concerned.
Earlier this week, we debated a topic posed by FOX College Hoops as it pertains to Syracuse basketball. Namely, what’s preferred between beating a rival on an annual basis or winning consecutive national championships.
My colleagues at Inside The Loud House and I would absolutely vote in favor of titles over rivals, but that discussion brought up another interesting question to consider.
Does the Orange really even have a pronounced rival as things currently stand? I believe that the answer at this time is unfortunately not.
The ‘Cuse moved from the old Big East Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013, so Syracuse has served as an ACC member for seven seasons. In those seven campaigns, the Orange has made the Big Dance on four occasions, including trips to the Final Four and the Sweet 16.
During its ACC tenure to date, the ‘Cuse has struggled at times, but it has also battled with its new league opponents in a bunch of really exciting encounters.
However, to suggest that Syracuse is in a heated rivalry with, say, Duke doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The Blue Devils versus North Carolina is an in-state, storied rivalry that is unmatched in collegiate hoops. So the Orange is never going to amount to the main rival for Duke or UNC.
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Ranking college basketball's top 15 transfers of the 2020 recruiting cycle (cbssports.com; Cobb)
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6. Liam Robbins
Old school: Drake | New school: Minnesota
Robbins needed a year at prep school to lose weight and attract college interest after high school, but his rise has been meteoric since he got on the right track. The 7-footer will now get to test his game in the sport's toughest league after a breakout sophomore season in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Iowa native averaged 14.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.9 blocks this season. If his game continues progressing on its current trajectory, he'll be a force in the Big Ten in his remaining two seasons of eligibility.
7. Mac McClung
Old school: Georgetown | New school: Texas Tech
The offensive firecracker who carried a heavy load as a sophomore for Georgetown when healthy is headed to Texas Tech after two seasons at Georgetown. McClung is a good athlete and capable scorer, but he reportedly wants to play more point guard in order to bolster his NBA profile. That will require a fairly drastic change in approach for McClung after he was a score-first guard for the Hoyas. In that sense, sitting out a season could be beneficial for McClung's development if he does not receive a waiver for immediate eligibility. If he can make the transition to distributor and up his shooting efficiency, he could prove to be one of the league's best guards.
8. Alan Griffin
Old school: lliinois | New school: Syracuse
Griffin is headed back to his home state to try and build on the progress he demonstrated as a sophomore. The 6-foot-5 guard averaged 8.9 points and 4.5 rebounds in just 18.1 minutes per game for the Illini after playing sparingly as a freshman. He's a good outside shooter (41.6% from 3-point range this season) and has a great pedigree as the son of former NBA veteran and current Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin. If eligible immediately, Griffin will be tasked with helping the Orange replace the production of Elijah Hughes, who led the ACC in scoring this season.
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Column: Ch. 7's Syracuse connection remains strong; Hollywood's Buffalo connection takes a hit (buffalonews.com' Pergament)
Leftovers after the long holiday weekend:
This is the time of year that WKBW-TV (Channel 7) usually announces what recent Syracuse University graduates will be joining the station under an E.W. Scripps program (Channel 7’s owner) and which SU graduates from the class of 2019 are leaving.
But the Covid-19 pandemic has interfered with this yearly practice.
Because of the pandemic that closed colleges and led to remote learning away from campus, Channel 7 won’t be having a new class of SU graduates.
However, the station will still have a strong Syracuse flavor as it is keeping all four multimedia journalists from the 2019 class from SU’s Newhouse School of Public Communications for another year.
“It’s a real win for us as normally they are recruited and placed at other Scripps stations across the country,” explained Channel 7 News Director Rob Heverling in an email. “The pandemic required us to suspend starting a new class of JCPs (Journalism Career Program) this summer. The plan is to restart the JCP program as we approach next spring when we’ll recruit four new Newhouse grads and our current group of JCPs will be heading to other Scripps stations.”
The returnees from the 2019 SU class are Jeddy Johnson, Gilat Melamed, Taylor Epps and Olivia Proia.
Two members of the 2018 class of the partnership between Scripps and SU also remain full-time MMJs at Channel 7 – Rebecca Thornburg and Nikki DeMentri.
And Jeff Slawson remains from the class of 2017.
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During the coronavirus shutdown, Chris Baker and Katrina Tulloch try to make iconic Syracuse foods at home. Next up? Pierogi from Eva's European Sweets.
