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Welcome to Steel Day!
Today is expected to be the day steel starts getting installed for the new roof at The Stadium in Syracuse. It is expected the hard shell section of the roof will be built first, then the PTFE section.
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Syracuse Basketball: 2022 4-star center Donovan Clingan could start “now” (itlh; Adler)
Donovan Clingan, a ridiculously talented 2022 center, says that Syracuse basketball is among the teams making him a high-priority target.
Top-50 prospect Donovan Clingan, a 2022 four-star center, says that Syracuse basketball, former Big East Conference rival Connecticut and Big Ten Conference powerhouse Michigan State are “recruiting me really hard,” according to a report.
Per the recruiting services 247Sports and Verbal Commits, the Orange represented the first Power Five conference crew to offer a scholarship to the 7-foot-1 low-post star, back in August of 2019. Clingan attends Bristol Central High School in Bristol, Conn., and competes on the AAU circuit for the Boston-based Team Spartans.
Although just a rising junior whose recruitment still has a long way to go, Clingan has already landed more than a dozen offers. In addition to the ‘Cuse, UConn and MSU, he holds offers from Virginia Tech, Rutgers, Providence, Notre Dame, UMass, Maryland, Iowa, Georgetown, Boston College and Yale.
In the article by Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog, Clingan said, “I’m UConn’s No. 1 recruit, one of Syracuse’s top recruits and also one of Michigan State’s top recruits.”
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Syracuse Basketball: Games this year is the right plan, Jim Boeheim says (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim says that waiting until early next year to start the 2020-21 season is not the right move.
Don’t count Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim as among those who think that the 2020-21 campaign should get delayed until after the calendar year flips because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
His former assistant, current Iona head coach and two-time national champion Rick Pitino, has opined that the NCAA should push back the upcoming term and begin it in January of 2021, with teams then only suiting up for conference contests. Boeheim isn’t in the same camp as Pitino on this topic.
Kevin Willard, the head coach at former Big East Conference foe Seton Hall, told the New York Post in an interview that he believes waiting until Jan. 1 of next year to get hoops going is a mistake.
Boeheim sent out this tweet in response to the New York Post article. “Coach Willard has this 100% right. Playing games in November and December is the correct action plan for college basketball.”
I’ve said more than once that if nixing the non-conference slate enables a 2020-21 stanza to more feasibly happen, I’m in favor of it, but Willard makes some really excellent points.
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4-star Franck Kepnang staying in 2021 gives Syracuse basketball a shot (gingerlaes.com; Evans)
Syracuse basketball target Franck Kepnang, a four-star center, has elected to stay in the 2021 class rather than reclassify to the 2020 recruiting cycle, according to reports from Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog and other media outlets.
It seems like an uphill battle for the Orange to pick up Kepnang, a top-25 prospect nationally, as there hasn’t proven a lot of chatter lately linking Kepnang to Syracuse basketball.
But in the fickle recruiting world, one never entirely knows what’s going to happen until a high-school player announces his ultimate destination.
What does appear fairly certain, though, is that if the 6-foot-11 Kepnang moved to the 2020 class, the ‘Cuse would have gotten removed from contention.
That’s because, heading into the 2020-21 campaign, Syracuse basketball already has a quartet of centers on its roster, including four-star incoming freshman Frank Anselem from Prolific Prep in Napa Valley, Calif., who committed to the Orange in early June.
Another center is John Bol Ajak, a redshirt freshman who went to the Westtown School in West Chester, Pa., where Kepnang is presently a rising senior.
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9 days for coronavirus test results? System’s failure threatens CNY’s handle on virus (PS; Coin)
When Tanika Jones-Cole heard about the novel coronavirus potentially being spread at the Rye Day community party, she took her daughter, Ajahnik Brown, to get a test. They went to the Syracuse Community Health Center on July 1.
Brown, who had body aches and a bad cough, isolated herself in her bedroom waiting for the results. Jones-Cole, who runs a day care business in her home, had to turn away the children. Her daughter couldn’t go to work at an assisted living facility.
Finally, on Friday, July 10, the results came back: negative.
Four months into the pandemic, long after it appeared America had figured out how to test and get results quickly, we’re sliding backward, as Brown’s story shows.
The nationwide delay in testing, experts say, is driven by uncontrolled spread of the virus around the country, overtaxed laboratories struggling to process 800,000 samples a day, and incoherent policy from Washington, D.C. Long waits for results, they say, threaten our ability to defeat a highly infectious and potentially deadly respiratory virus.
The testing delays are a frustrating déjà vu: When the pandemic in the U.S. began in New York in March, tests results often took a week or longer because testing supplies were in short supply and laboratories were still readying testing machines. As the demand eased and lab capacity grew, the turnaround dropped to a couple of days.
And here we are again at a week or longer.
“It is just astounding that we’re dealing with testing problems again this far into the pandemic,” said Dr. Helen Jacoby, an infectious disease doctor at St. Joseph’s Health, in Syracuse. “As a country I’m not sure that we’re better off” than in the beginning.
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