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Welcome to National Son and Daughter Day!
Son and Daughter Day, which goes by other similar names such as National Son's and Daughter's Day and Son's and Daughter's Day, is a day that celebrates sons and daughters and brings parents and children together for some quality time. Parents spend time with their children, give them gifts, make something for them, call them on the phone, and show their appreciation for them in other ways.
J. Henry Dusenberry of St. Joseph, Missouri, a hotel employee who had previously been the business manager of old Missouri Wesleyan College, was behind the movement for the creation of a day dedicated to sons and daughters. In 1936, he got the idea to have a day to honor sons and daughters just like there had been a day to honor mothers and fathers, after he heard a young person ask why there wasn't such a day. He started trying to get recognition for the day, known as Sons and Daughters' Day, in the spring of 1936. Clubs were formed in 22 states to boost the movement for the day; the first club was in St. Joseph, and Dusenberry was named its president. The day was held on the fourth Sunday of October. To observe the day, parents were to put a vase in a prominent place in their home, and a flower was to be put in it for each child, including for children no longer living at home and for deceased children. Each flower was to be named for the child it represented.
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SU Top 100: #27 John Wallace – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Unsworth)
While Syracuse’s iconic number 44 jersey is mostly remembered for the running backs who donned it, a uniform with that same identifier hangs in the rafters of the Dome for an Orange basketball legend. Forty years after Jim Brown ran wild on the turf, John Wallace dominated on the hardwood.
Wallace grew up in Rochester and attended Greece-Athena High School, where he led the Trojans to an undefeated record and state title his senior season. He received numerous All-American honors, as well as the “Mr. Basketball” award for the state of New York.
When Wallace came to the Hill in 1992, Syracuse had a vacancy at the forward spot, as Dave Johnson had exhausted his years of eligibility, and was headed to the NBA. SU already had a star in sophomore guard Lawrence Moten, but needed a physical presence to pair with Conrad McRae down low. And that’s exactly what Wallace provided. The 6-foot-7 freshman started every game his freshman season, averaging 11 points and 7.5 rebounds, and was named to the Big East All-Freshman team. Unfortunately, Syracuse’s 20-9 record wasn’t enough to sneak the Orange into the NCAA tournament.
Wallace took an even larger role in his sophomore campaign, as he led the front line with 15 points and 9 rebounds per game on the way to second team All-Big East honors. He also drew more fouls, shooting almost double the amount of free throws compared to his freshman year. Although SU never cracked the top 10 in 1993-94, Wallace played a big hand in defeating two of the nation’s top ranked teams. Syracuse beat both number four Kentucky and number five UConn at the Dome. Wallace had 18 points and 13 rebounds against the Wildcats, and 25, 10, and 6 blocks against the Huskies. This time the Orange would reach March Madness, but only to lose in an overtime finish to Missouri.
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Syracuse Basketball: Carmelo Anthony 15th in NBA scoring history (itlh; Mlodzinski)
Syracuse basketball legend Carmelo Anthony has hit a stride with the Portland Trail Blazers. Now, the super scorer hit a new career mark.
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 124-121, with Damian Lillard erupting for 51 points. In the win, former Syracuse basketball superstar, Carmelo Anthony, had 20 points and 7 rebounds. However, a few different numbers stick out more.
26,411 and 15.
Those are the number of points Melo has scored in his NBA career and where he ranks on the all-time list.
Just 14 players in the history of the thousands that have suited up in the National Basketball Association have scored more points than Anthony, and that list may keep getting shorter.
Melo passed two former Boston Celtics on the night in John Havlicek and Paul Pierce and now sits less than 100 points away from catching Tim Duncan. He passed Pierce on a free throw in the first half, before scoring a few more buckets in the second half. It may be hard for him to pass Duncan this season, but next season it isn’t out of the question.
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Memphis basketball's home attendance increase in 2019-20 was second-most in the country (commercialappeal.com; Munz)
The Memphis basketball program maintained significant momentum at the box office in 2019-20.
According to numbers released by the NCAA on Monday, the Tigers' year-over-year average per-game increase of 2,247 is the second-highest number among all Division I schools. Last year – Penny Hardaway's first season as coach – Memphis' average attendance per home game was 6,225 more than the 2017-18 season (the largest increase in the country).
The Tigers' average home attendance during the 2019-20 season ranked ninth in the country at 16,312. Syracuse topped the list at 21,704, while Kansas was eighth with 16,388 and Indiana was 10th with 16,300.
Memphis was No. 1 in the AAC, while Cincinnati was second with 11,100.
In two seasons under Hardaway, the Tigers are 43-24. Last season, which was cut short before the AAC tournament because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Memphis was 21-10. The Tigers are 33-6 at FedExForum since Hardaway took over.
NCAA Basketball: A look at a potential expanded 2021 NCAA Tournament (bustingbrackets.com; Burgess)
Here is how an expanded field would be constructed
My proposal is for a 76-team tournament that, like the season that precedes it would be a little unconventional, Joe Lunardi of ESPN recently proposed an 80-team tournament with some interesting tweaks that I will employ, here are the details:
Selection Sunday
-Conference tournaments will be done on Saturday, allowing the committee a full day to finalize the selection, bracketing and seeding process.
The field
-Teams that win both the regular season and conference tournament will be rewarded by playing at the first and second-round sites closest to their campus, regardless of seed (as long as bracketing principles allow).
-The remaining teams will be at-large teams.
First Four and others
-Dayton and the First Four will still be used, only in a different manner.
-As many have wanted, the First Four will consist of the final eight at-large teams selected by the committee.
-The first four teams left out of the field as well as the next four teams out will also be involved in the tournament.
-The teams in the First Four and the first 8 teams left out of the tournament will take part in a soccer-style drawing conducted by the chairman of the committee after the bracket is revealed.
-This drawing will result in four four-team groups, with no conference being represented more than once in each group.
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Notre Dame Won't Join ACC for Long Haul. But if it Ever Joins a Conference, That's Not the Right One. (SI; Gould)
While we’re waiting for the Big Ten to pull the plug on its college football season, a few thoughts on what Notre Dame’s ACC arrangement means for its future independent status. And by the way, I don’t expect any college football this fall—whether the Big Ten reaches that decision first or it all gets shut down at the same time.
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How do you feel about all the attention focused on Notre Dame-Clemson? That it’s the conference game of the year, if not the century?
And the new round of conversation about whether the Irish should join a conference permanently now that they have taken the unprecedented step of seeking shelter from the Coved-19 storm in the ACC?
Answer to first question: Um, bigger than Georgia-Alabama and LSU-Alabama this year? Auburn-Alabama, any year? Penn State-Ohio State this year? Ohio State-Michigan, any year? Oklahoma-Texas many years? I’ll hang up and listen.
Clemson-Notre Dame certainly would be the biggest conference game the ACC has seen in years. It took a pandemic. . .
By the way, this is where I put in the disclaimer that all of this ND-Clemson-ACC talk is extremely hypothetical. Because I don’t believe a college football season will happen. Or should happen.
Answer to second question: Talking about whether Notre Dame should join a conference is like pondering the Kardashians. If it interests you, fine. But trust me. Nothing is going to happen.
Here’s why: ND doesn’t need or want a conference. It is used to making its own decisions. It doesn’t know how to sit around a table with partners and make decisions. That is not solely my conclusion. I was given that line of reasoning in many conversations years ago with ND officials when the Big Ten was recruiting the Irish hard.
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HBO documentary about SU alum Craig Carton’s ‘downfall’ gets release date (PS; Kratch)
Syracuse University alumnus Craig Carton’s comeback has taken another step forward.
The long-awaited HBO documentary on the former WFAN morning host’s stunning fall will debut this fall. “Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth” will premiere Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. ET.
“Through a series of candid and intimate first-person interviews with Carton, the film reveals how the radio host’s secret insatiable gambling addiction, financed by an illicit ticket-broking business, brought his career to a sudden halt when he was arrested by FBI agents and charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud on September 6, 2017,” the network said in a statement.
The documentary will also feature interviews with former Gov. Chris Christie, Carton’s old co-host, Boomer Esiason, other members of the “Boomer and Carton” team and WFAN program director Mark Chernoff.
Carton, 51, resigned shortly after his arrest and was convicted for his role in the Ponzi-like ticket scheme in November 2018. He was then sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison in April 2019. Carton was released in June and while he has not yet spoken publicly, WFAN appears to be laying the foundation for his return, likely to save its floundering drive-time program, after parent company Entercom brought back Carton confidant Chris Oliviero to run the station.
“Craig is a fascinating and complex character,” said Martin Dunn, who directed and produced the documentary with Marie McGovern. “He knows that people either love or hate his on-air persona. But as his close friends and former colleagues reveal, there are many more facets to his life.”
Carton graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School in 1991 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He co-hosted “Boomer and Carton” on WFAN from 2007 until 2017.
