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Elephants are known as the most enormous land animal and a surprisingly gentle giant in the animal kingdom. Emotional, intelligent and beautiful in the wild, sadly elephant populations have been rapidly decreasing due to various threats, perhaps most significantly poaching.
Save The Elephant Day aims to change this alarming trend by educating people about elephants and the plights they face, encouraging everyone to do their bit and help save them from extinction.
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Syracuse Basketball: Competition intensifies for 4-star target Justin Taylor (itlh; Adler)
According to some recruiting analysts, Syracuse basketball coaches have pursued stellar 2022 wing Justin Taylor for a while now and made him one of their biggest priorities in this cycle.
The 6-foot-6 shooting guard/small forward, a junior at the St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Va., has spoken highly of the Orange program in numerous interviews.
Taylor, a top-100 prospect in his class per the majority of recruiting services, also talks to ‘Cuse 2021 five-star commit Benny Williams about potentially joining the team’s 2022 cycle.
But a range of other high-major squads is also in the mix for Taylor, and the list of schools that have offered him scholarships recently expanded.
Taylor revealed on Twitter that he landed a new offer from Florida, which is often one of the best teams in the Southeastern Conference.
The Gators captured national championships in 2006 and 2007. More recently, over the past decade or so, Florida has reached numerous Elite Eights as well as a Final Four. Thus, the Gators certainly could prove formidable competition for the Orange and Taylor’s other suitors.
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Boeheim Provides Update on Bourama Sidibe's Health (SI; McAllister)
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim appeared on Brent Axe's show "On The Block" on ESPN Radio Thursday and discussed a variety of topics. One of which was Bourama Sidibe and his return to the Orange. He provided some context to Sidibe's injury that should be encouraging to Syracuse fans.
"Here's the thing with Bourama that people aren't listening to me," Boeheim said. "He had an infection. He did not have any damage to his knee. None. He had an infection that was cleaned up. He's working out, he's lifting, doing all that. We're easing him back in because he was out from the knee surgery. The second thing, the reason he was out for the rest of the year, was the infection. He's fine. Anybody can get hurt, but right now he's perfectly healthy."
The fact that what kept Sidibe out was an infection and not further complications from the knee, meaning structural issues, is a good sign. If Sidibe can stay healthy next season, the combination of him and Jesse Edwards has the potentially to be as good as Syracuse has been at center in several years.
Again, the health of Sidibe is critical to that as is the continued development of Edwards. Sidibe has struggled to stay healthy during his career, and it is fair to point that out. But he did start to emerge down the stretch of the 2019-20 season. If he can be close to that type of player, it makes a significant different for next year's roster.
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How have ACC schools mined transfer market? Ranking top 10 transfers into ACC (PS; $; Waters)
The transfer portal taketh away, but the transfer portal also giveth.
In the weeks since the end of the college basketball season, more than 50 men’s basketball players from the ACC’s 15 member schools have entered the portal.
The number of players who have transferred into the ACC isn’t quite as high -- it stood at 20 as of Thursday afternoon -- but there have been some significant additions.
Here is a ranking of the top 10 players who have transferred to ACC schools:
1. Armaan Frankin, Indiana to Virginia
Michigan State's Aaron Henry (0) is defended by Indiana's Armaan Franklin (2) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, in Bloomington, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP
Virginia coach Tony Bennett needed some experienced backcourt help after Casey Morsell and Jabri Abur-Rahim transferred out following the season. The backcourt was an even more critical area as Kihei Clark will enter his senior season next year.
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ACC Panic Room: Transfer portal won't doom college basketball (wralsportsfan.com; video; Panic Room)
Lauren Brownlow and Joe Ovies discuss North Carolina's coaching staff, roster flux, and why the transfer portal isn't as bad as people make it.
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Gallery: A look into Syracuse Co-Op Market's opening day in the Salt City Market (DO; photo gallery; Lee)
Alexandra Muraca works for Firecracker Thai in the Salt City Market. She's hopeful that the co-op will bring more people into the cafeteria.
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