Miniature Golf Day celebrates the miniaturized version of golf, also known as mini-golf, minigolf, crazy golf, or putt-putt. Miniature golf was invented in the late 19th century in Scotland, likely as a way to allow women to golf, as they weren't supposed to raise their arms above shoulder level. The game focused on putting, which kept arms low.
In the late 19th century the sport crossed the Atlantic, and following World War I it became became very popular in the United States. The Thistle Dhu course opened in North Carolina in 1916, ushering in the era of the standardized miniature golf course. With the invention of an artificial green in 1922, the miniature golf boom started, and lasted until the late 1930's when the Great Depression helped to dampen the popularity of the sport. Improvements in obstacles on the green by the Taylor Brothers and Lomma Brothers in the 1950's may have helped the sport to once again gain popularity.
The game is usually played on AstroTurf, carpet, or concrete. There are regularly nine or eighteen holes, just like in traditional golf. But, unlike traditional golf, there usually is no more than a ten yard distance from tee to cup. The layout of the course is set up in such a way as to many times require bank shots, and there commonly are tunnels, and obstacles—such as windmills—that must be navigated around.
Let’s get you all caught up on where Syracuse basketball targets in the class of 2022 reside in the latest national ratings from .
Recruiting service has unveiled its latest national rankings for high-school players in the 2022 class, and a range of Syracuse basketball targets have seen their ratings increase or decrease.
Before we get to possible future recruits for the Orange, we’ll begin with a current 2022 commit, five-star point guard Dior Johnson, who is No. 4 in the new rankings. Johnson, who pledged to the ‘Cuse this past February, attends the Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va.
Jarace Walker, a five-star small forward from the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., checks in at No. 12, down two positions.
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Syracuse basketball commits and targets in the 2021 and 2022 classes are suiting up for powerhouse prep-school programs in the upcoming season.
If you peruse the list of Syracuse basketball commits to date and Orange targets in the next two recruiting cycles, you’ll see that these players are competing for a who’s who of prep-school heavyweights this coming stanza.
Assuming that high-school basketball is able to occur amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, it wouldn’t come as a surprise at all if a prep team with a connection to the ‘Cuse ends up claiming a national championship.
Let’s start with 2021 commit Benny Williams, recently anointed by as a five-star prospect in his class. The small forward, a top-25 player nationally in the 2021 recruiting cycle, has transferred from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., to the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
The IMG Academy, which won the GEICO High School Nationals title in April of 2019, is also the home of Orange target Jarace Walker, a 2022 five-star small forward deemed by the primary recruiting services as a top-10 prospect overall in his cycle.
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Well this is smart and underscores the reality of both living in a pandemic and geography: the Greensboro Coliseum is pitching the idea of hosting an ACC bubble.
According to Greensboro Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Brent Christensen, “I think it’s a great shot in the arm for a community that I think is still feeling the effects of losing the men’s basketball tournament, the ACC men’s basketball tournament.
“We were all so excited about that, had so many things planned,”Christensen told Greensboro’s WFMY. “I still have my ticket stub for Thursday as a keepsake, as a reminder of what COVID has done, especially in this community. You have to take your hat off to the folks at the Coliseum, putting together a great plan.”
They should talk to some potential sponsors like Double Bubble and Brut and someone who makes bubble bath. What an easy sell. C’mon, Greensboro, get it together!
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“Sources tell @CBSSports that Duke, which is not expected to play in the South Dakota/Battle 4 Atlantis event, is in the process of trying to build a multi-team event this season to be held at Duke and would center around a theme and backdrop of social-justice activism.”
Obviously neither situation - Duke pulling out of Atlantis or starting a new event in Cameron - has been confirmed yet. We’d think the key would be getting enough quality teams to participate. Given the pandemic, it might make sense to do something unusual and invite the other area ACC teams.
Duke could, in fact, replicate the Dixie Classic structure and invite four outside teams to pay the ACC schools.
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A popular diner that hasn’t even been open for two years is moving to a larger building to accommodate its constant flow of customers.
Second Chance Diner is leaving its original location at 103 Bennett Road in Camillus and heading 2 miles up the road to West Genesee Street. It will move into the spot that last housed the Rio Grande Mexican restaurant at 5407 W. Genesee St. That restaurant closed last year and has been vacant since.
Owner Eddie DePalma signed the lease on Sept. 3 and began work on the new place immediately, starting with coating the red exterior with grayish blue paint. He said he will work 20-hour days just so he can meet his self-imposed opening date of Nov. 15.
“If we didn’t expand, we probably would’ve had to go out of business,” DePalma said Friday afternoon in his future dining room. “We outgrew our current location after six months. We lose customers because we’re so small. People come in and have to leave because they don’t want to wait two hours to eat. I don’t blame them. Breakfast is supposed to be fast. They come in and want to eat. This will allow that to happen."
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Miniature Golf Day celebrates the miniaturized version of golf, also known as mini-golf, minigolf, crazy golf, or putt-putt. Miniature golf was invented in the late 19th century in Scotland, likely as a way to allow women to golf, as they weren't supposed to raise their arms above shoulder level. The game focused on putting, which kept arms low.
In the late 19th century the sport crossed the Atlantic, and following World War I it became became very popular in the United States. The Thistle Dhu course opened in North Carolina in 1916, ushering in the era of the standardized miniature golf course. With the invention of an artificial green in 1922, the miniature golf boom started, and lasted until the late 1930's when the Great Depression helped to dampen the popularity of the sport. Improvements in obstacles on the green by the Taylor Brothers and Lomma Brothers in the 1950's may have helped the sport to once again gain popularity.
The game is usually played on AstroTurf, carpet, or concrete. There are regularly nine or eighteen holes, just like in traditional golf. But, unlike traditional golf, there usually is no more than a ten yard distance from tee to cup. The layout of the course is set up in such a way as to many times require bank shots, and there commonly are tunnels, and obstacles—such as windmills—that must be navigated around.
Let’s get you all caught up on where Syracuse basketball targets in the class of 2022 reside in the latest national ratings from .
Recruiting service has unveiled its latest national rankings for high-school players in the 2022 class, and a range of Syracuse basketball targets have seen their ratings increase or decrease.
Before we get to possible future recruits for the Orange, we’ll begin with a current 2022 commit, five-star point guard Dior Johnson, who is No. 4 in the new rankings. Johnson, who pledged to the ‘Cuse this past February, attends the Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va.
Jarace Walker, a five-star small forward from the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., checks in at No. 12, down two positions.
...
Syracuse basketball commits and targets in the 2021 and 2022 classes are suiting up for powerhouse prep-school programs in the upcoming season.
If you peruse the list of Syracuse basketball commits to date and Orange targets in the next two recruiting cycles, you’ll see that these players are competing for a who’s who of prep-school heavyweights this coming stanza.
Assuming that high-school basketball is able to occur amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, it wouldn’t come as a surprise at all if a prep team with a connection to the ‘Cuse ends up claiming a national championship.
Let’s start with 2021 commit Benny Williams, recently anointed by as a five-star prospect in his class. The small forward, a top-25 player nationally in the 2021 recruiting cycle, has transferred from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., to the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
The IMG Academy, which won the GEICO High School Nationals title in April of 2019, is also the home of Orange target Jarace Walker, a 2022 five-star small forward deemed by the primary recruiting services as a top-10 prospect overall in his cycle.
...
Well this is smart and underscores the reality of both living in a pandemic and geography: the Greensboro Coliseum is pitching the idea of hosting an ACC bubble.
According to Greensboro Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Brent Christensen, “I think it’s a great shot in the arm for a community that I think is still feeling the effects of losing the men’s basketball tournament, the ACC men’s basketball tournament.
“We were all so excited about that, had so many things planned,”Christensen told Greensboro’s WFMY. “I still have my ticket stub for Thursday as a keepsake, as a reminder of what COVID has done, especially in this community. You have to take your hat off to the folks at the Coliseum, putting together a great plan.”
They should talk to some potential sponsors like Double Bubble and Brut and someone who makes bubble bath. What an easy sell. C’mon, Greensboro, get it together!
...
According to CBS’s Matt Norlander, Duke is expected to pull out of the Battle 4 Atlantis, which has moved to South Dakota due to the Corona virus pandemic, and instead will host an event in Durham. Here’s what he tweeted.
“Sources tell @CBSSports that Duke, which is not expected to play in the South Dakota/Battle 4 Atlantis event, is in the process of trying to build a multi-team event this season to be held at Duke and would center around a theme and backdrop of social-justice activism.”
Obviously neither situation - Duke pulling out of Atlantis or starting a new event in Cameron - has been confirmed yet. We’d think the key would be getting enough quality teams to participate. Given the pandemic, it might make sense to do something unusual and invite the other area ACC teams.
Duke could, in fact, replicate the Dixie Classic structure and invite four outside teams to pay the ACC schools.
...
A popular diner that hasn’t even been open for two years is moving to a larger building to accommodate its constant flow of customers.
Second Chance Diner is leaving its original location at 103 Bennett Road in Camillus and heading 2 miles up the road to West Genesee Street. It will move into the spot that last housed the Rio Grande Mexican restaurant at 5407 W. Genesee St. That restaurant closed last year and has been vacant since.
Owner Eddie DePalma signed the lease on Sept. 3 and began work on the new place immediately, starting with coating the red exterior with grayish blue paint. He said he will work 20-hour days just so he can meet his self-imposed opening date of Nov. 15.
“If we didn’t expand, we probably would’ve had to go out of business,” DePalma said Friday afternoon in his future dining room. “We outgrew our current location after six months. We lose customers because we’re so small. People come in and have to leave because they don’t want to wait two hours to eat. I don’t blame them. Breakfast is supposed to be fast. They come in and want to eat. This will allow that to happen."
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First thing I've heard about ACCN payouts, and it sounds really good!
The start of the new @ACCFootball season last weekend marked the 2nd year of the @accnetwork. 2019 saw the @ESPN subsidiary grow into a successful distributor of #ACC content, with the network paying $240M annually for the rights. For more on media deals: SportsAtlas – Powered by Sports Business Journal. pic.twitter.com/PiIoNLUym8
— SportsAtlas (@thesportsatlas) September 18, 2020
Dare I even believe this means $240 million to the ACC (with an equal amount going to ESPN?). If that's the case, this translates into $16 million per school. Wow!
...but even if it's split 50/50, that's still $8 million per school for a year without an ACC basketball tournament champion, without ACC baseball or lacrosse for the most part, and without Comcast. Not bad at all!
Posted 2 days ago by Hokie Mark
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