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Welcome to World Elephant Day!


World Elephant Day asks everyone to "help conserve and protect elephants from the numerous threats they face" and "to experience elephants in non-exploitive and sustainable environments where elephants can thrive under care and protection." It is a day to express concern, share knowledge, and support solutions for the better care of captive and wild elephants; it is a day to honor elephants, spread awareness about the critical threats they face, and to support solutions to help ensure their survival. It brings "attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants" and is "a vehicle by which organizations can rally together to give voice to the issues threatening elephants."

The day was thought up in 2011 by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark, and by the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation, specifically by Sivaporn Dardarananda, the Foundation's Secretary-General. It was founded on August 12, 2012, by Patricia Sims and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation, and first observed on that day. The Foundation is a non-profit that was started in 2002 as a Royal Initiative of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand, and has the mission of acquiring captive elephants and reintroducing them to live as wild elephants in protected forest habitats. The day was created in part to celebrate the work of the Foundation. On the first World Elephant Day, Patricia Sims and Michael Clark released Return to the Forest, a documentary which focuses on the work of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation.


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SU player nears end of 2-week quarantine: ‘I can’t wait to get back’ (PS; $; Waters)


On July 29, Jesse Edwards left his parents home in Amsterdam and traveled to Syracuse.

Since his return to the Syracuse University campus, the 6-foot-11 sophomore center on the SU basketball team has remained quarantined in his campus apartment.

That’s nearly two weeks of Netflix, reading, finishing up his summer school work and relying on teammates to bring him his meals.

“Basically, I just have to say to myself, ‘Get through it, get through it,‘ ” Edwards said of the quarantine experience. “I’ve just been inside most of the time.”

Aside from the occasional walk or run, Edwards has had to remain in his apartment — until today.

Edwards’ quarantine is scheduled to end Wednesday, allowing him to join his teammates in their workouts at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.

“I’m looking forward to it,’' Edwards said. “I want to see my locker even. It’s going to be fun for sure to get back in there and get into a rhythm. I know they’re out there practicing and I want to be there with them.”

But over the past two weeks, Edwards has binged on “Ozark,” played around on his piano and, when he didn’t cook something in his kitchen, waited for teammates to bring their post-practice meals back to him.
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Syracuse basketball, N.Y. teams represented well in Lunardi prediction (itlh; Mlodzinski)

ESPN bracketologist, Joe Lunardi released another way-too-early edition. He included Syracuse basketball in the field of 68, but just barely.

Syracuse basketball is on the cut line for what seems like a tenth straight year, as the Orange have talented players, but nothing to set them clearly inside NCAA Tournament projections. ESPN bracketologist, Joe Lunardi has SU in as an 11-seed.

In his August 10 edition, Lunardi placed Syracuse hoops in a play-in game versus Marquette, with both teams as 11-seeds. As a last-four in team, he has the Orange in the Dallas, Texas regional, with a round-of-64 game against 6-seed Houston and Texas Tech as the would-be 3-seed.

Of course, the Marquette game sticks out as an old Big East matchup. The teams haven’t faced since their conference days, but Syracuse leads the all-time series 8-4, with the Orange taking the last meeting in the 2013 Elite Eight.

The Orange would be a threat to any team it faces, as Joe Girard III and Buddy Boeheim are sure to form one of the top shooting backcourts in college basketball. Experience down low from Bourama Sidibe, Marek Dolezaj, and rising sophomore, Quincy Guerrier, should create a balanced team that Head Coach Jim Boeheim can use to his advantage.

For Marquette, it will be about replacing Markus Howard. The Big East’s all-time leading scorer was a flat out bucket getter, but Steve Wojciechowski knows how to recruit to the Golden Eagles’ shooting strengths.

Although Syracuse basketball is the premiere New York team, Lunardi included plenty of others in his bracketology, citing how good of a basketball state it is.

He gave Siena, which is located in Albany, a 15-seed as the automatic qualifier from the MAAC. Colgate, which is in Hamilton, also received a 15-seed, which would come from the Patriot’s auto-bid. Western New York’s Buffalo Bulls are currently projected as a 14-seed by Lunardi, in the challenging MAC.

For what it’s worth, northeast hoops made up a lot of Lunardi’s bracket. Other than the New York teams listed above, Lunardi has Villanova (1 seed), Rutgers (6), UConn (9), Seton Hall (11), Providence (11), Vermont (12), Yale (13), and Farleigh Dickinson (16) all in the field of 68.
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Who would serve in Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's Orange Party? - The Juice Online (the juice; Cheng)

The presumptive nominee for the United States Democratic Party, Joe Biden (a Syracuse grad) named his running mate yesterday, Senator Kamala Harris. That got me thinking, if Syracuse athletics were to form an Orange Party, what would the administration look like?

Here are some of my thoughts:

President: Jim Boeheim. Well, this one was easy. Boeheim first arrived from nearby Lyons in 1963 and he’s been head coach of the basketball team since 1976. He’s been named the Naismith College Coach of the Year (2010), won a National Championship (2003) and has been to five Final Fours (1987, 96, 03, 13, 16) among many, many other accolades. Boeheim is never afraid to tell you what’s on his mind, which would play well in this political age.

Vice President: Dino Babers. Prior to 2019, the last time Syracuse had finished a season in the AP Top 25 was in 2001. That, in and of itself puts Babers in high esteem on the Orange ticket. Babers brought his unique style of football to the Hill and has had some memorable speeches along the way. After listening to his “Who’s House? Our House!” speech, how could you not vote for him?
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SU Top 100: #22 Lawrence Moten – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Aki)

Checking in at 22nd on our SU Top 100 list, we find a guy who scored a lot of points. And by “a lot,” I mean the most in program history. You can find his number hanging in the Carrier Dome rafters and his “Poetry in Moten” nickname is arguably one of the greatest Orange monikers.

Lawrence Moten brought his smooth swinging style of play to SU in 1991 and by the time he left, he was one of the greatest players in Big East history.

Scoring was Moten’s game. He left SU not just as the most accomplished scorer in program history with 2,334 points, but he outscored every single player in Big East history to that point (his Big East record was finally broken this year by Marquette’s Markus Howard). He is one of six 2,000 point scorers in Orange history.

Moten began his career with a bang after winning Big East Rookie of the Year and was named to the All-Big East Third Team en route to a Big East Championship for the Orange. He tacked on three All-Big East First Team nods to his trophy case to go along with three total NCAA Tournament runs.

The most impressive part of Moten’s game was his consistency. There was no surer thing than seeing double figures next to his name in the box score. Over his career he averaged 19.3 points per game and had 10 or more points in 118 of his 121 games. But maybe the most impressive feat is the fact that even though he is the all-time scoring leader in Orange history, he only eclipsed the 30 point threshold six times. You would figure a program’s all-time leading scorer would have 10-12 of those in their bag. For context, Tyus Battle reached the 30 point mark four times in his three seasons and still sits almost 700 points behind Moten.

Following his prolific college career, Moten was selected 36th overall in the NBA Draft by the Grizzlies. He couldn’t latch on with Vancouver at the time and tried to find a spot with the Washington Bullets, but things did not work out there either. He was out of the league in three years.
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The Syracuse University Alumni Club of South Florida is pleased to invite you to our Aug. 20 Zoom program with Antwon Bailey ’11 and Tony “Red” Bruin ’86 as they share their experience on how college athletics shaped their future. Bruin played forward on the Syracuse basketball team from 1979-1983. A third-team All-Big East selection during the 1981-82 season, Bruin was drafted by the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers. He currently works in the Jasper County School District in Bluffton, S.C. Bailey was a running back on the Syracuse football team from 2008-2011. After rushing for 1,051 yards and earning first-team All-Big East honors his senior season, Bailey earned an invitation to training camp for the NFL’s Washington Football Team. He currently teaches math and is the running backs coach at St. John’s College High School in Baltimore, MD. We’re looking to connecting (virtually) with you during our program!

Thursday, August 20, 2020
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM


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Indian River football coach Cory Marsell doesn't think that sport will be played this fall. (Kevin Rivoli)

As college football teeters, CNY high school coaches unsure about fall start (PS; Kramer)

The 2020 college football landscape is growing more foreboding by the day as Power 5 conferences wrestle with the wisdom of trying to hold a season in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

High school officials in New York state are pondering the same equation, although with a much different set of variables.

The infection rate in New York overall is hovering around the three percent mark, with that figure dipping below one percent in in Central New York. And high schools can build regional schedules to avoid interaction with players from other parts of the state or country.

But scholastic sports don’t have near the medical resources or capability for testing that colleges do. And college programs can try to tighten up and keep players in a little more of a bubble regiment than high schools might.

So as New York state’s Sept. 21 start of fall practice looms, a large question shadows the sport: if major college programs, which sniff piles of cash as a motivation, decide it’s not feasible to play football now, how likely is that high school teams still try to thread that needle?

As of Tuesday, 13 states across the country have decided to cancel fall high school football.

“If they (colleges) don’t do it, I don’t see any way of high schools looking at doing it on the fall,” said Skaneateles football coach Joe Sindoni.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given his OK for schools to re-open for in-person learning this fall, but as of now interscholastic sports are still prohibited. New York State Public High School Athletic Association officials are scheduled to talk with the governor’s office this week to get further clarification on what athletics might be allowed.

If fall sports are canceled, New York has a plan to try and play three seasons worth of sports in the second half of the school year.

Several Section III football coaches and organizing officials recently weighed in on the feasibility of this area playing the sport starting next month:

Cory Marsell, Indian River head coach


“My personal opinion is I don’t think you are going to see a fall season. I’d rather have them wait, push it off to that spring start. It’s a smarter thing to do. The longer you wait, the more you know about how players react. We want to play football, period, but we want to see it done safely. I’m afraid if they get it started, then they’ll end up canceling.”
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