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Welcome to Pinot Noir Day!


Every wine deserves to have a day dedicated to its consumption, and none more so than Pinot Noir. Pinot Noir is so named due to the dark color of the grapes, and the pine-cone shaped clusters they grow in on the vine. Showing a strong preference for cooler climates, the grape of the same name is grown primarily in Burgundy, France, though Willamette Valley, Oregon in the USA and Walker Bay region of South Africa both produce notably large crops. Of course, cultivating Pinot Noir is not a task for the faint of heart, for these grapes are difficult to cultivate and tricky to turn into wine.

Perhaps that’s appropriate for a wine that is both rich and complex. The skin of the grapes are thin and don’t offer the protection of thicker skinned grapes, and can be finicky during the aging process, frequently being uneven and unpredictable. The tight clusters require careful management lest rot set in, and this often involves careful management of the canopy.

For those who are willing to brave it and cultivate the skill, the wine that is produced is beyond measure. Pinot Noir Day celebrates all that is required to produce this wine and the delicious bounty that unfolds.

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https://theathletic.com/2000172/2020/08/17/how-can-syracuse-maximize-the-talent-of-marek-dolezaj-in-his-senior-year/ (theathletic.com; $; Gutierrez)

The thing about Marek Dolezaj’s transition play is that it doesn’t appear logical. You don’t see it coming. A 6-foot-10 string bean runs full speed up the court, and the defense doesn’t know how to react. He splits defenders, dodges double-teams and traps, then maneuvers his way toward the rim. In the final push, he dribbles fairly low to the ground, head up, while attacking the basket with force. He unleashes that spin move of his, maintaining balance in the process, and then deftly finishes with a layup from either hand. It’s not lightning quick or all that smooth, but it produces the end result he desires. Two points.

“It feels like you are dizzy,” he says of the coast-to-coast, spin-by-defenders experience. “I know Coach (Jim Boeheim) probably doesn’t like it.” Dolezaj laughs at that notion because many times he surprises even himself. Yet transition buckets, open-court dunks, put-backs, layups and spins define him. They are part of what makes Dolezaj, well, Dolezaj; it helped the forward/center average 10.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game a year ago. That was solid growth from the year prior. But in a lengthy conversation this offseason, he says he’s not going to pat himself on the back as a decent starter on a team that finished 18-14. He’s aiming higher. He feels, on the whole, as though he has underperformed in his three seasons at Syracuse. So during quarantine, he set out to bulk up his thin frame, adding about 15 pounds by eating several meals per day, snacking — always snacking — and consuming three or four protein shakes a day. He says the strides are noteworthy, and he’s happy with his size and physique.

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Jerami Grant can be difference for Denver Nuggets during playoffs (itlh; Mlodzinski)

Jerami Grant wowed Syracuse fans for two years. Now he has a chance to do the same for Denver, where he can be the key during their NBA playoff run.

The Denver Nuggets have one of the deepest rosters in the NBA. Former SU star Jerami Grant comes off the bench for head coach Michael Malone. However, if he can continue his play in the bubble, he can elevate the Nuggets to another level.

Grant paid a pivotal role in the Nuggets’ game one win over the Utah Jazz, scoring 19 points, dishing out three assists and attributing a block and a steal each.

The high-flying forward started slowly in the first quarter, but eventually showcased his recently added jump shot, knocking down a three and a long two. Grant tallied 8 points in the first half, tied for the third-most on the Nuggets. He also provided one assist, a nice inside look for an easy layup for Paul Millsap.
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Orange Watch: Syracuse's Kent Syverud should take charge with ACC football - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)

Item: Stubbornly, the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 among the Power 5 conferences, the AAC, Conference USA, and Sunbelt among the Group of 5 conferences, and three independents (Army West Point, BYU, and scheduled ‘Cuse foe Liberty) are clinging to hope of pulling off the 2020 college football season during the midst of the months-long pandemic. With counterparts in the Big Ten and Pac-12 taking the advice of their health experts and declining the major risk of future potential medical incidents involving the well-being and safety of athletes in those programs, the decision, although painful to the players, needs to be made sooner than later. With the balance of health and safety versus the potential loss of major revenue, it takes leadership to bring sensibility to such a major decision.

Mistakes and miscommunications are common in all industries, and that was disturbingly illustrated in national news stories this past week involving SU.

For the third time in pre-season camp, the Orange football team opted out of practicing last Friday, seeking clarification of communications regarding Covid-19 testing protocols, specifically when weekly testing would commence during camp, and how often players would be tested if the ACC season comes to fruition the week of Sept. 7 (the ACC will test three times per week).

Then this past weekend came word that the university’s admissions department blundered in inadvertently sending out dozens of emails congratulating prospective students for being accepted by the university, citing a technical glitch for the embarrassing error.
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Losing In The ACC Has Gotten Easier Since Expansion (DBR; Jacobs)

Losing has grown more common lately, though there’s no sign it’s become more popular.

Last year a third of the ACC’s membership (.333 percent) finished with losing records. In 2019 it was 6 of 15 teams (.400). Neither season was perceived as a vintage effort for the ACC.

Seven ACC members had losing records in the past two years.

In fact, since the most recent league expansion in 2014 and 2015, just six ACC programs (.400) avoided a losing season – Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Syracuse and Virginia.

That’s right – Clemson.

Last season’s most stunning plummet from the stratosphere of success was of course endured by North Carolina. UNC finished 14-19, and at 6-14 tied for 13th in the ACC, after going 29-7, 16-2 in the league, in 2019.

Coach Roy Williams’ worst stumble previously at Chapel Hill came in 2010 when, as in 2020, the Tar Heels had to replace a corps of top scorers who left early for the pros, survive a rash of injuries, and struggle to find and keep a gifted playmaker to run the offense. The ’10 team was 5-11 in the ACC, 20-17 overall.

Since the advent of the ACC, UNC suffered losing records fewer times than any other program – in 1955, 1962, 2002 and 2020 – under Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, Matt Doherty and Williams, respectively.
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NCAA looks to September for decision on basketball tipoff (AP)

The NCAA will likely decide next month whether to start the college basketball season on time or have a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt said Monday that mid-September will likely be the first of many decisions about the 2020-21 season. Gavitt said the NCAA has developed and studied contingency plans in case the season cannot be started on Nov. 10.

Four conferences, including the Big Ten and Pac-12, have postponed fall sports and hope to play in the spring. Six leagues, including the Big 12, ACC and SEC, are moving forward with plans to play in the fall.

The Pac-12 has said its postponement includes basketball, but other conferences have not mentioned plans for hoops.

Students at colleges across the country have started returning to campuses in recent weeks, leading to new COVID-19 clusters, and numerous football programs have been hit by positive tests.


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Film company American High leaving Liverpool? Syracuse Studios building for sale (PS; $; Herbert)

American High, the film production company that made Central New York its home three years ago, is looking to leave Liverpool.

A “for sale” sign sits outside the American High building, the former A.V. Zogg Middle School now known as Syracuse Studios. Commercial real estate group Cushman-Wakefield and Pyramid Brokerage are listed as the exclusive agent for the 97,000-square-foot building located at 800 4th Street in Liverpool, as first reported by the Eagle Star-Review.

American High founder and filmmaker Jeremy Garelick, who bought the property for $1 million to turn it into a film school and production studio, confirmed the listing to syracuse.com | The Post-Standard but said that he doesn’t really want to leave Liverpool.

“The Village of Liverpool has been incredibly gracious and welcoming to us,” Garelick said in an email. “It’s just that they have codes and responsibilities that don’t apply to the anomaly that is American High.”

Syracuse Studios has been used for at least eight movie productions in less than three years, including 2020 Sundance Film Festival standout “The Night House” and American High films like Pete Davidson’s “Big Time Adolescence,” which sold to Hulu for $4 million; the love triangle rom-com “Banana Split;” and the upcoming teen party comedy “The Binge,” directed by Garelick and featuring Vince Vaughn. The building also houses The Academy at Syracuse Studios, a film school that began offering classes to the public earlier this year, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Village of Liverpool Code Official Bill Reagan tells syracuse.com | The Post-Standard that Garelick is facing additional costs, though, in attempts to create a soundstage within the Syracuse Studios building for a commercial film studio. There are no issues with the film school, Reagan said, but New York state fire codes require a sprinkler system for buildings intended for filming purposes.

“Obviously, it’s not inexpensive,” Reagan said. “And I think Mr. Garelick feels that he’d rather put money into the film industry and employing people rather than one building.”

Reagan said he’s spoken to the state numerous times for a way to resolve the code requirements, but the only solution appears to be a costly modern upgrade for the two-story limestone and brick building, built in 1928 as Liverpool’s high school.

“The village would love to see them remain here as a film school but the one thing we can’t do is change the state fire code,” Reagan said.
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