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Hot, spicy, plain, sticky, or sweet, it seems Americans never have enough chicken wings to eat. In fact, they eat about 30 billion of them per year. Wings come in numerous flavors, such as lemon pepper, pepper parmesan, barbecue, honey mustard, sweet and sour, and garlic. They are often dipped in blue cheese, ranch dressing, or plum sauce, and are served with celery sticks and carrot sticks.
The most famous are Buffalo wings, which were invented in Buffalo, New York. Fittingly, National Chicken Wing Day was proclaimed by Buffalo Mayor Stan Makowski in 1977. Buffalo wings are deep-fried without any breading, and then coated or dipped in a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and melted butter. They are usually served with blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing, and with carrot sticks and celery sticks.
Buffalo wings were invented by Teressa Bellissimo at Buffalo's Anchor Bar in 1964. According to multiple stories, Teressa, who owned the bar with her husband Frank, deep-fried some wings for her son Dominic and his college friends, who had come into the bar hoping for a late-night snack. Before serving them, she tossed them with cayenne hot sauce and butter. Chicken wings had otherwise usually used for chicken stock at the bar, and according to some accounts, the bar had recently accidentally received a shipment of wings and had too many to know what to do with.
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No trip to Spain for Boeheims; USA East Coast forced to cancel August tour due to Covid concerns (PS; $; Waters)
Jimmy and Buddy Boeheim will have to wait until Syracuse’s season-opener to play their first game with their father as coach after USA East Coast was forced to cancel its upcoming tour of Spain.
USA East Coast director Guy Rancourt said he was forced to cancel plans for the four-game tour of Spain with three teams of college players due to rising Covid rates in Spain.
Rancourt said he had been in touch with the Center for Disease Control and learned that Spain’s recent spike in Covid cases had been primarily among those ages 10 to 23.
He said the decision to call off the tour was made in part because of concern over a player or coach testing positive and being forced to quarantine in Spain.
The cancellation comes within 24 hours of USA East Coast losing one of its three head coaches. Memphis assistant Larry Brown had to remove himself from the team’s trip due to contact tracing issues.
The players and coaches were set to assemble this Saturday for a brief two-day training camp at Manhattan College. Then they were scheduled to depart for Spain on Monday. The game were to have been played in Valencia and Barcelona against teams from Spain and France.
This is the second year in a row that USA East Coast’s annual European tour has been cancelled. In past years, Syracuse players such as James Southerland, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Gbinije had taken part in the trip. Two years ago, SU associate head coach Adrian Autry and assistant coach Allen Griffin had served as the team’s coaches.
This year, as he expanded the traveling party from one team of college players to three full squads, Rancourt had enlisted head coaches Boeheim, Brown, South Carolina’s Frank Martin and Columbia’s Jim Engles to coach the teams.
With Brown having to cancel, Jim Boeheim had switched to the Red team, which included his sons, Buddy and Jimmy. Jimmy will be a senior at Syracuse this season after transferring from Cornell where he spent his first three college years.
Instead, Jimmy and Buddy will wait until November before taking the court as teammates for the first time since their days at Jamesville-DeWitt High School.
How Much did Barstool Disrespect the Dome? – Orange Fizz – Daily Syracuse Recruiting News & Team Coverage (orangefizz.net; Klein)
Nothing screams Syracuse more than the Dome itself. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to its critics when Syracuse fans scream in defense of the Dome.
Barstool recently posted a map identifying the best college basketball venues in each state. According to these judges, Hinkle Fieldhouse isn’t the historic hub of college basketball. Despite Arizona leading the Pac-12 in attendance year after year, McCale Memorial Center didn’t make the cut. Most curiously, the Dome isn’t there either.
Almost everyone reading this is team Dome, and most have probably had the first-hand experience on the Hill. It’s the only basketball venue of its kind because its the only college basketball venue that also houses football and lacrosse. So, the Dome of course houses the largest crowds. Despite struggling to make the tournament year after year, the Syracuse faithful never disappoints. In 2019, despite presumptive top-pick Zion Williamson sitting on the sideline, the Duke-Syracuse game reset the on-campus attendance record with 35,642 on a cold February night.
These judges gave the Empire State nod to St. John’s. No, not because of their former home away from home Madison Square Garden. In fact, the Red Storm only played one game in the world’s most famous arena last year. That was the Big East Tournament. So, Barstool truly picked Carnesecca Arena in Queens over the Dome.
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Former SU basketball star Jason Hart to become new coach for G League Ignite (report) (PS; $; Curtis)
Jason Hart is one step closer to coaching in the National Basketball Association.
The former Syracuse guard is finalizing a deal to become the new head coach of the G League Ignite, according to a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Hart, 43, spent the last eight seasons as an assistant at Southern California, four of which he served as the associate head coach next to Andy Enfield. He will replace former NBA player and assistant coach Brian Shaw, who will join the Los Angeles Clippers as its top assistant coach.
Hart issued a statement on social media about the NBA’s recent influx of new Black coaching hires on July 12. He responded to his own tweet Wednesday with “Spoke it into existence! #GodsPlan!”
The G-League Ignite, one of the newest teams in the NBA’s developmental league, has signed top American and international prospects to compete against G League veterans in order to prepare them for the NBA draft.
This year’s draft will be held on Thursday and will feature two of the top projected lottery picks in forwards Jalen Green and Jonathan Kuminga — both of which participated in the Ignite’s inaugural season last year during the G-League bubble in Orlando.
Hart played at Syracuse from 1996 to 2000 and was taken as a second-round pick in the 2000 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. He left SU as the program’s all-time leader in steals and second in assists.
Syracuse Edition: Pick a Guard, Any Guard – Orange Fizz – Daily Syracuse Recruiting News & Team Coverage (orangefizz.net; Ezeir)
The last piece to the puzzle of an already stout 2022 recruiting class is a point guard. SU commit Kamari Lands can man the power forward spot at 6’8”, but also dominate in a stretch 4 role with the ability to handle the ball beyond the perimeter. Recent Syracuse commit Justin Taylor has the height of a small forward but the build and skillset of a shooting guard.
When perusing around the recruiting class, the Orange are honed in on three point/combo guards that can all take the ball up the court and facilitate the offense.
Quadir Copeland
The Orange are all in on this three-star, 6-foot-6 combo guard. He officially visited Syracuse last month and continues to impress SU as a true point guard fit in its scheme.
Copeland can both score and attack the basket with more furiosity than most SU PGs in the past. His size allows better penetration off the dribble, resulting in dive or kick opportunities for forwards cutting to the dish or spot-up shooters beyond the perimeter.
His three-star ranking gives Syracuse the upper hand, so much so that the Orange are by far the most decorated program recruiting the Pennsylvania native. A crystal ball prediction on 247Sports, on top of an open spot to fill in 2022 has all the arrows pointing toward Copeland in Orange.
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Quadir Copeland Releases Top 8, Sets Commitment Date (SI; McAllister)
Class of 2022 point guard Quadir Copeland has set a commitment date for August 10th and will decide among his top eight. Copeland released his top eight of Oklahoma State, Oregon, LaSalle, DePaul, Miami, Syracuse, Maryland and Penn State. He made the announcement in an Instagram point on Wednesday.
With Peach Jam in the rearview mirror, Copeland has turned his focus to his recruitment. He took an unofficial visit to Maryland and official visit to Syracuse in June, and that appears to be enough for his final decision.
Copeland says the best part about his trip to Syracuse was spending time with the players and coaches.
"The best part really was, in my eyes, going to coach Boeheim’s house for dinner," Copeland said after the visit. "Just chillin’ with the whole team. That was amazing just being around all of those types of people and it just felt like a family there. No one treated me like I was a high school kid or treated me any differently. They treated me like I was already going to Syracuse. So it was just normal with how we bonded and connected. It was just a regular team.
"Nobody was acting like they were too big. Everybody was treating me like I was one of them. Even coach Boeheim. I got talk to him a lot over this visit. Amazing guy. Wise guy. He had a lot of history to back it up. You would think he’d forget some but he remembers it all from Earl the Pearl Monroe to Dion Waiters to Michael Carter-Williams. He remembered all that. He had so many stories to tell us and we were all eager to listen to him. That was really the best part of the trip."
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Syracuse Basketball: No. 1 freshman, a SU target, significant interior threat (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball has had its fair share of struggles getting consistent scoring in the paint during recent seasons. A highly touted prospect out of Baltimore could prove just the recipe to diminish those woes down the road.
The Orange, per various media reports in recent months, has shown an interest in 2024 five-star power forward Derik Queen, a 6-foot-8 player who is a freshman at the Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore and runs on the AAU circuit with the Baltimore-based Team Thrill.
As we noted in a column not too long ago, when ESPN recently published its national rankings of the top-25 prospects in the 2024 class, Queen checked in at No. 1 overall, as well as No. 1 at power forward and No. 1 in Maryland.
Since he just wrapped up his freshman campaign, Queen has a long way to go in his recruiting process, although he’s already received a handful of high-major scholarship offers.
National recruiting analysts say that Queen boasts an excellent mid-range game, a skill-set that has drawn comparisons to former ‘Cuse legend Carmelo Anthony.
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Chris McCullough carries Boeheim’s Army to TBT quarterfinals: ‘I feel like I belong in the NBA’ (PS; $; Ditota)
Chris McCullough wanted to play for Boeheim’s Army for two straight summers before it finally happened his year.
There was the time he signed a quick overseas deal to help a Philippines pro team reach the playoffs, a gig that kept stretching into one more game before culminating with a Philippines title and the coronation of McCullough as a Philippines basketball hero. Then last year, a friend from his Bronx neighborhood was killed right before the start of The Basketball Tournament and through his sorrow, McCullough lacked the heart to play basketball.
But this year would be different. This would be the summer McCullough would pull on an orange and white uniform and play for a TBT collection of Syracuse alums.
McCullough, now 26, wanted to be part of something Syracuse-based. He wanted to play in The Basketball Tournament’s summer showcase.
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Chris McCullough Showcases Immense Talent in Boeheim's Army's Win (SI; McAllister)
During Boeheim's Army's 69-54 win over Always A Brave on Wednesday, there was one player who had a standout performance. Former Syracuse forward Chris McCullough paced the Army with 19 points on 7-11 shooting, seven rebounds and two blocks. He also hit a three pointer and was 4-5 from the charity stripe. McCullough flat out showed off his immense talent as his play propelled Boeheim's Army to what was essentially a road win.
If he can keep playing at that high level, it may not only lead Boeheim's Army to a The Basketball Tournament championship, but it could also lead to another NBA opportunity. The talent that led to the first one was on full display Wednesday night.
McCullough scored in transition, showing off his ability to run the floor. He hit mid-range jumpers that he created himself or made off a feed from a teammate, hit a three, made plays out of the post and attacked the rim. Offensively, McCullough did it all. On the defensive end, McCullough blocked two shots and proved able to provide resistance in the paint.
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College basketball teams with the most NBA 1st-round draft picks (ncaa.com; Wilco)
College basketball teams with the most NBA first-round draft picks
| RANK | COLLEGE | CONFERENCE | FIRST-ROUND PICKS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kentucky | SEC | 54 |
| 2 | North Carolina | ACC | 52 |
| 3 | Duke | ACC | 48 |
| 4 | UCLA | Pac-12 | 39 |
| 5 | Kansas | Big 12 | 33 |
| 6 | Michigan | Big Ten | 27 |
| 7 | Indiana | Big Ten | 26 |
| 8 | Arizona | Pac-12 | 24 |
| 8 | Louisville | Atlantic Coast | 24 |
| 8 | Syracuse | Atlantic Coast | 24 |
| 11 | Ohio State | Big Ten | 23 |
| 12 | Michigan State | Big Ten | 21 |
| 13 | Notre Dame | ACC | 20 |
| 13 | Connecticut | Big East | 20 |
| 13 | Maryland | Big Ten | 20 |
| 16 | Georgia Tech | ACC | 19 |
| 17 | Texas | Big 12 | 18 |
| 18 | North Carolina State | ACC | 16 |
| 18 | Minnesota | Big Ten | 16 |
| 18 | St. John's (NY) | Big East | 16 |
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Locations of Summerfest in Syracuse
Salt City Summerfest, Bluegrass Picnic Ramble, STEM Olympics: 13 things to do in CNY (PS; $; Croyle)
We have entered the “dog days” of summer but that does not mean there is any let-up in the variety of activities to take part in all over Central New York.
If you are in downtown Syracuse, take advantage of the second week of Salt City Summerfest, which will have live music all over the city. You can take part in “Drink Like a Girl” run or walk and beer tasting at Geneva or help the Rescue Mission at their running and cycling fundraiser at Long Branch Park in Liverpool.
There is also a variety of live music, theater, and arts from around the region.
Salt City Summerfest
Led by CNY Jazz Central, the Salt City Summerfest continues with pop-up entertainment throughout Downtown Syracuse. On Friday and Saturday evening, from 5:30-8 p.m., enjoy free music performances at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown Patio, Armory Square, Hanover Square, the Salt City Market and more. Schedules will be posted each week at SaltCitySummerfest.org. The weekend event, and Wednesday lunch concerts, continue through Sept. 11.
Where: Throughout Downtown Syracuse
When: Friday and Saturday, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
How much: Free
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