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Welcome to Opera Day!

While many of us would recognize an opera if we heard one, we may not be as familiar with the definitions and distinctions surrounding this complex musical genre. In short, an opera is a piece of performance art that combines music with text to create a dramatic enactment of a story, complete with acting, scenery, costumes and dance. The term opera is in fact the Italian for “work”, and the text is called the libretto, meaning “small book”. There are a whole range of types, from opera seria (noble and serious) and opera buffa (comedic) to operetta (light opera) and semi-opera (combining spoken dialogue with masque-like sections).

Generally speaking, operas consist of two kinds of music: recitatives and arias. Recitatives closely resemble speech and are there to help move the plot along, whereas arias are elaborate and often long songs for individual characters, allowing them to express their thoughts and emotions to the audience. This is one of opera’s defining characteristics compared with most musicals; whereas the more modern genre tends to intersperse its hits with spoken dialogue, operas are pretty much entirely sung, even if this means the recitative passages aren’t always especially tuneful!


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SU center Bourama Sidibe's return offers hope with a dose of reality (PS; $; Waters)

Syracuse center Bourama Sidibe played in a game for the first time in over two months, but his return was not exactly a rousing success.

Sidibe, out since suffering a torn meniscus in Syracuse’s season-opener against Bryant on Nov. 27, played 11 minutes in Syracuse’s 78-61 loss at Clemson on Saturday.

With 12 minutes and 15 seconds remaining in the first half of Saturday’s game, Sidibe pulled off his warmup jacket, headed to the scorer’s table and checked into the game.

Sidibe’s presence on the court was a welcome sight for a Syracuse team that has had major problems with bigger, stronger teams during his long absence.

As Sidibe’s recovery stretched well beyond the initial four-week projection, Marek Dolezaj, a 6-10, 201-pound forward, manned the middle of SU’s zone defense.

“Marek’s trying,’' Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said after the loss to Clemson. “He’s just not big and strong enough to be in there.’'
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LASTING IMPRESSIONS: A look at Jim Boeheim’s 1st moments with 5 decades of recruits (DO; Crane & Emerman)

Nearly every part of the last half-century of Syracuse men’s basketball history began with one thing: An introduction. With Jim Boeheim meeting a teammate, recruit, coach or staffer.

There are few in college sports as synonymous with his alma mater as Boeheim, who grew up outside Syracuse, played at Syracuse and is in his 45th season as head coach. The Hall of Famer has mentored countless young men from around the world, including 18 All-Americans, dozens of future pros and numerous champions.

Here are several of those players’ first memories of Boeheim, from before SU hired him as head coach to today:

Roosevelt Bouie, 1976-1980
30-year-old Boeheim was leading Syracuse’s summer camp, a typical duty for assistant coaches, when he met Bouie, who was then 16. Alongside Louis Orr, Boeheim’s first recruit, Boeheim and Bouie developed a rapport that set the Syracuse men’s basketball program in motion.

Bouie wanted a coach with the same temperament as his father. He didn’t want a Bobby Knight-type who would scream at him when he inevitably made mistakes on the court. That wasn’t how he’d been raised, so he didn’t know how he’d respond to such a coaching style.

“Coach Boeheim was a man of a few words, just as my father was,” Bouie said. “I figured, if something went wrong, he wouldn’t jump up and scream and throw things, he’d come over and talk to me and try to figure out what happened.”

Bouie was recruited to programs nationwide — Oklahoma, Michigan State, Duke, Georgia Tech — but wanted to stay close to his hometown of Kendall, New York. In the spring of 1976, with former head coach Roy Danforth departing for Tulane, Syracuse began a national search for its next coach. But Boeheim, then 32, believed he was next in line.
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Daily Orange Sports and its transition covering games during COVID-19 (DO; Preeson)

While covering basketball games for The Daily Orange, senior staff writer Danny Emerman would take a moment to listen to the announcer remind fans to be respectful, despite the fact that there were no fans in the stadium.

Emerman said it was strange to hear — especially from his courtside seat. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Emerman said, members of the media weren’t typically given such good seats.

”They usually have us behind the basket,” Emerman said. “So that’s a plus, I guess.”

Seating assignments are one of the many ways in which covering sports for The D.O. has changed because of COVID-19. Reporters have made plenty of adjustments, including conducting interviews over Zoom and covering some away games by watching them on TV. But the sports staff continues to report on Syracuse University’s athletic events.

Reporters no longer get one-on-one interviews with athletes in-person as in years past, which creates some challenges.

“That has become much trickier without any human interaction, and you’re always just one small square on a Zoom screen,” Emerman said. “In our reporting, the way to get around that is trying to really emphasize backsourcing, so writing stories by talking to players, parents, and high school coaches, and trainers or whatever.”

Athletic schedules this year have been subject to sudden changes. Teams at other universities have canceled parts of their seasons. And games have been postponed or called off at the last minute due to COVID-19 exposure.

No matter how much the sports team plans its coverage, there’s still uncertainty.
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Axe: The good, bad and ugly remaining on SU basketball’s schedule (PS; $; Axe)

The Syracuse University men’s basketball team is licking its wounds after one of the worst losses of the 2020-21 season on Saturday at Clemson.

Syracuse was dominated on all sides of the ball in a 78-61 loss to the Tigers.

The Orange sit with an overall record of 10-6 and a 4-5 mark in ACC play. The natives are restless and are starting to question if Hall of Fame head coach Jim Boeheim can rescue Syracuse from its latest fall.

Syracuse’s NCAA Tournament resume lacks a shining star: It is 0-4 in Quadrant 1 games this season. The Orange is 1-5 on the road this season. The next game for the Orange is Tuesday night at North Carolina State.

Does the rest of the 2020-21 SU basketball schedule provide SU with some advantages on paper?
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ACC Roundup - Two Great Escapes, Two Blowouts (DBR; King)

In Saturday’s ACC Action, Pittsburgh fell to Virginia, 73-66, Virginia Tech survived Miami 80-76 in overtime, Clemson dropped Syracuse 78-61, Clemson nipped Notre Dame 82-80 and, in one of the sadder ACC games in recent times, NC State pounded Boston College 81-65.

State went on a 37-3 run - but it was predictable.

BC, the worst team in the ACC, had only six scholarship players available. What did anyone expect would happen?

State ran wild for much of the game and at one point was up 37-8.

To their credit, the Eagles kept trying but this game was gone early and there was no getting it back.

The only question now is who will replace Jim Christian. This isn’t all his fault - there’s a lot of bad luck involved - but clearly it’s not working.

Pitt was in the game against Virginia for about 26 minutes before the Cavaliers pulled away. But it was how they pulled away that was different: Pitt scored 16 straight points in just over 3 1⁄2 minutes.
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Next stop, Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession - syracuse.com
In this Monday, July 20, 2020 file photo, men watch the launch of the "Amal" or "Hope" space probe at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The orbiter is scheduled to reach Mars on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. NASA’s rover will arrive on the scene a week later, on Feb. 18, to collect rocks for return to Earth _ a key step in determining whether life ever existed at Mars. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)AP


Next stop, Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession (PS; $; AP)

Next stop, Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession - syracuse.com
After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.

The stakes — and anxiety — are sky high.

The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. NASA’s rover, the cosmic caboose, will arrive on the scene a week later, on Feb. 18, to collect rocks for return to Earth — a key step in determining whether life ever existed at Mars.

Both the UAE and China are newcomers at Mars, where more than half of Earth’s emissaries have failed. China’s first Mars mission, a joint effort with Russia in 2011, never made it past Earth’s orbit.

“We are quite excited as engineers and scientists, at the same time quite stressed and happy, worried, scared,” said Omran Sharaf, project manager for the UAE.

All three spacecraft rocketed away within days of one another last July, during an Earth-to-Mars launch window that occurs only every two years. That’s why their arrivals are also close together.

Called Amal, or Hope in Arabic, the Gulf nation’s spacecraft is seeking an especially high orbit — 13,500 by 27,000 miles high (22,000 kilometers by 44,000 kilometers) — all the better to monitor the Martian weather.

China’s duo — called Tianwen-1, or “Quest for Heavenly Truth” — will remain paired in orbit until May, when the rover separates to descend to the dusty, ruddy surface. If all goes well, it will be only the second country to land successfully on the red planet.

The U.S. rover Perseverance, by contrast, will dive in straight away for a harrowing sky-crane touchdown similar to the Curiosity rover’s grand Martian entrance in 2012. The odds are in NASA’s favor: It’s nailed eight of its nine attempted Mars landings.

Despite their differences — the 1-ton Perseverance is larger and more elaborate than the Tianwen-1 rover — both will prowl for signs of ancient microscopic life.

Perseverance’s $3 billion mission is the first leg in a U.S.-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade.
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