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Welcome to American Beer Day!
American Beer Day is a day dedicated to drinking brews made in America. Over 200 million barrels of American beer are sold each year, and Americans spend over $100 million on beer annually. The United States is only second to China in the number of breweries it has and the amount of beer it produces. Beer consumption in America has ebbed and flowed, but as of the late 2010s, beer has been flowing more than ever.
Beer making can be traced to about 6,000 years ago in ancient Sumeria. At that time, beer was cloudy because of the lack of filtering, and it was drunk through a straw. By 2000 BCE, the Babylonians were brewing twenty 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.
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Orange Watch: Still no official schedule for Syracuse basketball - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: The college basketball season tips-off the night before Thanksgiving (Nov. 25), with Syracuse reportedly set to open at home against Bryant on Nov. 27. After last year’s abbreviated ACC Tournament due to the onslaught of the current pandemic, and with four and a half weeks before play begins, there’s still continued uncertainty surrounding the exact makeup of this year’s potential 27-game SU schedule.
The new term related to college basketball scheduling is MTE. That is the acronym for multiteam event, and it stands to reason that multiple teams gathering at one location to play a round-robin format, is going to be prevalent throughout the upcoming season. It may even end up being as widespread for conference games as it is for non-league matchups.
The NCAA last week announced teams could play in two MTEs to help with scheduling up to a maximum 27 games (24 games plus three in an MTE format), and added flexibility to the number of days of competition allowed in specific events in case of delays due to health and safety issues.
Already several non-conference November MTE’s have either been reconfigured and moved to different locales, such as the ambitious undertaking at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut involving some 35 teams over 11 days competing in different event pods, or canceled outright.
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WTLA-AM (ESPN; radio; Steve & Seth)
Syracuse Basketball guard Buddy Boeheim joins the show to tell Steve and Seth how he’s been keeping his skills sharp during the pandemic and more.
Report: ESPN pulls plug on Orlando bubble for College Basketball - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Geisinger)
An already challenging season of college basketball has been dealt another curveball. According to a report from Seth Davis at The Athletic, ESPN has decided to drop plans and call off its potential Orlando-based bubble for the start of the 2020-21 season.
The network’s decision comes due to a lack of agreement over health and safety protocols regarding COVID-19. ESPN wanted to abide by guidelines generated by the Center for Disease Control (CDC); however, those approaches are more restrictive than what many conferences plan to implement, per Davis.
While plans for these early-season multi-team events (MTE) were never actually finalized before cancellation, more than two dozen programs set to participate in 10 different events will be impacted by the decision.
BREAKING: ESPN has abandoned plans for a college basketball bubble in Orlando, leaving dozens of teams without games a month before the season starts.
via @SethDavisHoops Exclusive: ESPN abandons plan for college basketball bubble events in Orlando
— The Athletic CBB (@TheAthleticCBB) October 26, 2020
As Davis notes, one of the major sticking points between ESPN and the schools centered on what to do if someone tests positive for COVID-19. ESPN, under CDC guidelines, wanted anyone that’s tested positive for coronavirus to be re-tested after a 90-day clearance period. According to Davis, several schools were unwilling to accept those terms and re-test so soon.
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Podcast: ACC preview, predicting FSU basketball’s starting and finishing five (tomahawknation.com; podcast; Rogner)
We begin this episode with special guest Ariya Massoudi, man about town, voice of FSU women’s basketball, and discuss where Florida State basketball fits in to the upcoming 2020-21 ACC basketball season. It seems to be a fairly clear tier 1, but trying to find tiers 2 and 3 is a bit tricky.
After he signs off, Matt and Michael pivot to Seminoles hoops, focusing on who might be in the starting five this season, and more importantly who might be in the finishing five. Scottie Barnes and Sardaar Calhoun are bringing unique skillsets to the team, and we talk about how they may fit in.
Next up is the recruiting segment where we discuss the decommitment of Bryce McGowens, and how that affects the class. Finally, we briefly address the upcoming 2020 NBA Draft where Devin Vassell and Patrick Williams are sure to be 1st round picks.
We’re now under month until college basketball tips off, so stay tuned to Tomahawk Nation for more insight and discussion about the season.
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Light snow falling on top of Schiller Park, Syracuse, NY. Dick Blume | dblume@syracuse.com
Snow season could begin this week across Upstate NY (PS; $; Coin)
Snow has started popping up in National Weather Service forecasts for this week across Upstate New York.
The snow season will start tentatively, as it often does, on hilltops and in the mountains, as rain turning to snow as late fall temperatures hover around freezing. A combination of cold temperatures and several waves of low pressure tonight and Thursday night could bring wet snow on Tug Hill, in the hills near Buffalo and south of Syracuse, and in the Adirondacks.
Whiteface already had a little snow, of course, but that’s 4,800 feet high and nobody lives there. The real snow season, when you start rummaging through the basement for your winter boots and coats, begins in earnest this week.
It’s about on schedule. The average first day of snow in Binghamton is Oct. 31, although that’s partly a quirk of the weather service’s penchant for putting observation stations at airports. The Binghamton airport sits at about 1,600 feet above sea level; the city is about 850 feet.
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