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Welcome to National Hot Dog Day!
National Hot Dog Day celebrates the popular cooked sausage, which many times is eaten in a bun. Hot dogs gained in popularity in the United States in the early 20th century, and are similar to frankfurters and wieners, which take their names from Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. In the United States, hot dogs were traditionally sold at hot dog stands and carts, and were prominent in New York City, as well as Chicago. They have become a prominent part of American culture, and have been closely associated with baseball. Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile have also become cultural icons.
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Syracuse Basketball: Jim Boeheim really likes his team, and he should (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim is providing a bit of praise for his Orange ahead of 2020-21.
One of the character attributes that I admire about Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim is his candidness. Positive or negative, he calls it as he sees it, including when his own team is performing poorly.
So when Boeheim said, via this tweet put out by Matthew Gutierrez of The Athletic, that he believes the Orange is “a really good team this year,” that gets me excited, even if an official game within the 2020-21 campaign is still at least two months away.
The season could start even later than originally planned, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, as NCAA officials and other stakeholders sort out the best approach.
Regardless, Boeheim said in that tweet, “I think we’re going to play this year.” And I wholeheartedly believe him.
Jim Boeheim via @BookCameo: "We have a really good team this year. Some young guys, veterans. Marek and Bourama are much stronger this year…I think we're going to play this year." Named freshman guard Kadary Richmond as the most impressive newcomer. "Really good point guard."
— Matthew Gutierrez (@MatthewGut21) September 9, 2020
Syracuse basketball did lose star forward Elijah Hughes following the 2019-20 stanza, a term in which he led the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring. You cannot replace Hughes with just one individual.
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Syracuse Basketball: In 346-team field, the top-20 foes for Orange to face (itlh; Adler)
ACC coaches are proposing that all squads get invited to the Big Dance next spring, and we have the ultimate Syracuse basketball bracket.
When word broke on Wednesday that Atlantic Coast Conference coaches, including Syracuse basketball boss Jim Boeheim, are proposing that every team receive a bid to the 2021 NCAA Tournament, I did a double-take.
Really? On the one hand, I get it. Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty over the 2020-21 campaign, have a level playing-field and invite everyone to dance. Plus, the Orange is guaranteed to compete in March Madness!
However, how feasible is an NCAA tourney that features 346 Division I crews? ESPN resident bracketologist Joe Lunardi, for one, noted on Twitter, “Hate to be that guy, but… ACC proposal for a 346-team NCAA college basketball tournament won’t work.”
By the way, a shout-out to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein and Stadium’s Jeff Goodman, who proved among the first to report on this fascinating possibility.
To that end, and in all honesty we’re really just having some fun with this column, but should a 346-group field transpire, what follows is a list of the top-20 opponents that we’d want Syracuse basketball to potentially tee off against, and of course conquer, on the way to the national title.
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The Top 5 Syracuse Players to Go Pro Under Boeheim – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Amendolara)
Jim Boeheim has dedicated his life to the university. Boeheim began his career at Syracuse in 1963 as a guard for the basketball team and went into coaching just six years later. Not the coach, nor anyone else, would have realized at the time that Boeheim would spend a half century as part of Syracuse basketball. During his time at the school, Syracuse became one of the top programs in America, producing top-notch players to go onto the NBA. But who is the best player to develop under Boeheim’s watchful eye? That’s especially intriguing after The Fizz’s ambitious Top 100 list unveiled last month.
Here is a look at the top 5 players to play under Boeheim before moving onto the NBA. The NBA season is nearing the Conference Finals and Finals
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5) John Wallace – 1992-96
Wallace is remembered as a strong power forward that bullied defenders down low throughout the early to mid-1990s. At 6ft 8in tall, Wallace was a strong fighter in the low post. His size helped him pull down 1,065 career rebounds while scoring 2,119 career points. Wallace led Syracuse to the 1996 Final Four, which was only the third time the Orange had reached the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.
4) Rony Seikaly – 1984-88
Some of Boeheim’s best teams were in the mid- to late-1980s. Future NBA stars came through Syracuse and made major impacts on the Orange. Rony Seikaly was one of them and partnered in the paint with Derrick Coleman to lead the team to the 1987 NCAA Final. The 1987 game was Syracuse’s first-ever final and unfortunately, it wasn’t successful. The team fell to the Indiana Hoosiers 74-73. The 6ft 11in Seikaly collected 1,094 rebounds and swatted away 319 shots. He went on to play 11 seasons in the NBA as a dependable center.
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While a Neat Idea, Is ACC's March Madness Plan Possible? (SI; Forde)
What about the bracket?
This is not a glib question. There are glib answers—use the side of the Empire State Building, paint it on Devils Tower, convert drive-in movie screens—but it’s a serious question. How do you make a bracket for a 346-team NCAA tournament?
The suggestion to expand the Big Dance to infinity and beyond came out of the Atlantic Coast Conference on Wednesday. The proposal: Every eligible Division I men’s team gets a bid in 2021, with the opening rounds taking the place of conference-championship tourneys and early-round bracketing based on geography. By the second week, the tourney would look pretty much like normal: 64 to 68 teams.
All 15 ACC men’s basketball coaches in the nation’s premier conference signed off on it. The league office is behind it as well. We’ll see how much support this logistical clusterbomb of a concept can garner nationally.
First things first: This has to be bracketizable. The millions of casual fans who gravitate to March Madness to pick winners via a tree diagram cannot be discounted. Every office, every school, every bar and every barber shop needs a bracket that fits on a computer screen and/or a sheet of printer paper.
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Checking in with CNY Native and Niagara Head Basketball Coach Greg Paulus (localsyr.com)
Before Niagara University Head Basketball Coach Greg Paulus made a name for himself as a rising coach, he made a name for himself as a star athlete during his high school an college careers. The former CBA student took the Duke basketball court by storm followed by a stint at Syracuse University too before taking on coaching roles at various positions across the US.
Last year, Paulus won the Joe B. Hall Award as the top rookie basketball coach in the country and on Thursday he’ll take part in the CNY Purple Eagle Golf Classic to benefit Niagara Athletic Department. As a Central New York native, Paulus looks back on his time in Syracuse fondly and is proud to continue his career in the Empire State.
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Eddie Brennan, president of Beak & Skiff | 1911, shows how the LaFayette apple orchard adapted to Covid-19 regulations. Video by Katrina Tulloch.
