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Welcome to National Drink Beer Day!
Today is for drinking beer! Beer making can be traced to about 6,000 years ago in ancient Sumeria. At that time, beer was cloudy because of lack of filtering, and it was drunk through a straw. By 2000 BCE, the Babylonians were brewing 20 types of beer. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans made beer, although wine became much more popular with the Romans—they considered beer to be the drink of the Barbarians and it was only popular on the edges of the Empire. Germanic groups were brewing beer by 800 BCE.
Because of contamination, beer was a much safer drink than water during the Middle Ages; it was drunk by people of all ages from all classes. The Catholic Church even got involved with brewing beer, and abbeys were testing grounds for improvements in brewing. Beginning in the ninth century, in Germany, hops began being introduced, standards were set up for beer, and beer began being mass-brewed. The 1516 Beer Purity Law—Reinheitsgebot—said a certain level of quality must be met for German beer. All beer could only be made with water, hops, malted barley, malted wheat, and yeast.
In the 1800s, Louis Pasteur discovered the role of yeast in the fermentation process, as well as pasteurization. Soon came along automatic bottling, commercial refrigeration, and railroads. All of these advancements allowed beer to be more easily produced and distributed. By 1880, there were 3,200 breweries in the United States. Prohibition closed them, but today there are almost as many breweries as there were in 1880, aided in part by the rise in the number of small craft breweries. With so many breweries and styles of beer to choose from, there is plenty of beer that can be drunk on National Drink Beer Day!
SU News
NBA Finals: Dion Waiters, L.A. Lakers set to face Miami Heat (PS; $; Herbert)
Former Syracuse basketball star Dion Waiters and the Los Angeles Lakers will face the team he started the season with in the 2020 NBA Finals.
The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics, 125-113, on Sunday night to win the Eastern Conference Finals 4-2. Bam Adebayo scored a season-high 32 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and star Jimmy Butler scored 22 points to send Miami back to the finals for the first time since 2014.
Waiters, 28, began the NBA season with the Heat but was suspended three times, including after a reported reaction to some marijuana edibles. He appeared in just three games before getting traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, who waived him, and joining the Lakers mid-season.
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What we’re hearing about Syracuse ahead of the start of practice (the athletic; Gutierrez)
Syracuse will begin practice on Oct. 14, then play in a game (we hope) about five weeks after that. As the season approaches, here’s what we’ve been hearing about the team.
Syracuse’s leading scorer is focused on his defense. Buddy Boeheim will play a lot, get his shots and probably score around 15 points per game this season. That much is clear. But the junior has continued to improve his quickness and agility. Through quarantine, he played one-on-one daily with his brother, Jimmy, who is 6-foot-9. Buddy also played with former Syracuse guard Eric Devendorf. Both were difficult covers for Boeheim, challenging him to be better against a good guard (Devendorf) and a strong forward (Jimmy).
“They’re very different players,” Boeheim says. “Guarding them every day was a good experience for me. I feel like I’m a much better athlete this year. I put on about 15 pounds, have been conditioning better, and hoping to be more of a leader on defense.”
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Axe: Hey Syracuse, don’t forget this Carrier Dome improvement (PS; $; Axe)
We were promised a “wow” factor with the opening of Carrier Dome 2.0 and the unveiling of $118 million in renovations and that was kept for the most part.
The eye-popping center-hung scoreboard and new sound and lighting systems will provide an enhanced fan experience whenever they can return to the “Loud House.”
“It’s amazing,” Syracuse head coach Dino Babers said. “You’re going to love it and it’s going to wow you to death when you get a chance to see it.”
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Georgetown Basketball: HoyaSaxa.com (hoyassaxa.com)
Georgetown Out of Wooden Legacy
Updated 9/25/20
CBS Sports reported Wednesday that Georgetown will drop out of the four team Wooden Classic, scheduled for Nov. 25. This was confirmed in a tweet from reporter Eamonn Brennan on Friday:
Georgetown won't be playing in the Wooden Legacy this year, Patrick Ewing confirmed to me today. Cited safety concerns and the likelihood of a mandatory 14-day quarantine after returning from Florida to D.C. Still expects to play Syracuse and the B12-Big East Challenge.
— Eamonn Brennan (@eamonnbrennan) September 25, 2020
The multi-team Wooden Legacy event was scheduled for Anaheim, CA on Nov. 26-28 and include UCLA, Virginia and Kansas. UCLA has not committed to any fall sports and the event was reported to be moving to Orlando, FL due to ESPN Events moving its tournaments to Orlando. However, travel from Florida back to DC would be subject to a 14 day quarantine according to DC law.
Ewing is more optimistic on a Dec. 5 home game with West Virginia as part of the Big East-Big 12 series. Travel from West Virginia, however, is one of 33 states which DC requires a 14 day quarantine, and absent a change on DC quarantine rules, would make a trip from Morgantown infeasible.
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Duke’s ACC Dominance Is Impressive (DBR; Jacobs)
The ACC’s most enduring domination by one school over another ended last season when Clemson rallied in the late going at Chapel Hill, the Tigers’ own Bermuda Triangle, and won in overtime. (See the Sept. 27, 2020 piece on DBR.) That ended a streak of 59 straight losses dating back to January 1926 in Tar Heel home arenas.
Duke hasn’t been involved in any streak of that duration, but there have been a few notable recent runs. Several arose or were extended over the past decade, which Mike Krzyzewski adjudged his best ever at the school.
Duke is 28-3 combined against lowly Boston College and Wake Forest since 2011. All of its losses came on the road. The Blue Devils are 19-2 against the Eagles since BC joined the ACC for the 2006 season, with a pair of 2020 wins.
They’re 24-4 against the Demon Deacons since Boston College came aboard in 2005. Last year Wake Forest beat Duke at Winston-Salem in overtime, after 11 straight losses to the Blue Devils.
Georgia Tech hasn’t beaten Duke in more than a decade, since January 2010, a run of 13 games. The teams most recently clashed early in the 2020 calendar year.
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Salt City Market, the downtown Syracuse food hall, resets opening to January 2021 (PS; Cazentre)
Salt City Market, the downtown food hall that will offer tastes from around the world, is pushing back its grand opening from this fall to January 2021.
Construction of the market in a former parking lot on South Salina Street across from the Marriott Downtown Syracuse hotel is going well, but there’s been a hold-up in some of the pieces needed for the project to be completed, said market manager Adam Sudmann.
One part, the “skin” of the building, is coming from Spain but has been delayed in part by a resurgence of the coronavirus there, Sudmann said. Another piece is delayed coming from Texas.
The $22 million project is funded by the Allyn Foundation, which created Syracuse Urban Partnership, a separate nonprofit to own the building and run the food hall.
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