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The United Nations has been involved in the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities since before the creation of this holiday. In 1976, they proclaimed 1981 to be the International Year of Disabled Persons. In 1982, the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons was adopted, and to assist governments and organizations in its implementation, the General Assembly proclaimed 1983–1992 as the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons.
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Florida St. hopes to rebound in ACC opener vs. Syracuse (cbssports.com; FLM)
While Syracuse enters its Atlantic Coast Conference opener feeling good about itself, the same probably can't be said for Florida State.
The Orange will look to build on a big win when they return to action Saturday against the Seminoles in Tallahassee, Fla. Florida State will try to recover from a lopsided result against one of the nation's elite teams.
Syracuse (4-3) has not enjoyed the smoothest start to the season -- losing to Colgate for the first time since 1962, among other issues -- but the Orange showed plenty of character on Tuesday in a 112-110 double-overtime win over Indiana.
Joseph Girard III hit two free throws with 0.8 seconds remaining to propel Syracuse, which also received a combined 53 points from Buddy Boeheim and Jimmy Boeheim.
"These guys have a lot of heart," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said of his team. "They got back, took the lead and we made great plays and got the lead back, and that's hard to do."
The Big Ten/ACC Challenge did not go nearly as well for Florida State (5-2, 0-0). The Seminoles were trounced by No. 2 Purdue 93-65, as they trailed by double digits through almost the entire second half and never made much of a push against the loaded Boilermakers.
Florida State was short-handed for the matchup with Purdue, as starting point guard RayQuan Evans missed the game to attend his brother's funeral and starting center Tanor Ngom sat out with a knee strain.
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Fla St. looks for home win vs Syracuse (lancaster.com)
Syracuse (4-3, 0-0) vs. Florida State (5-2, 0-0)
Donald L. Tucker Center, Tallahassee, Florida; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Florida State looks for its fourth straight win over Syracuse at Donald L. Tucker Center. The last victory for the Orange at Florida State was a 74-58 win on March 9, 2014.
SUPER SENIORS: Syracuse's Buddy Boeheim, Jimmy Boeheim and Cole Swider have collectively scored 58 percent of the team's points this season, including 67 percent of all Orange scoring over the last five games.BRILLIANT BUDDY: B. Boeheim has connected on 30.2 percent of the 53 3-pointers he's attempted and has made 10 of 38 over his last five games. He's also converted 90.2 percent of his free throws this season.
STREAK STATS: Florida State has won its last three home games, scoring an average of 81.7 points while giving up 68.
ASSIST-TO-FG RATIO: The Seminoles have recently used assists to create buckets more often than the Orange. Florida State has 47 assists on 89 field goals (52.8 percent) across its previous three contests while Syracuse has assists on 43 of 89 field goals (48.3 percent) during its past three games.
DID YOU KNOW: Florida State is rated first among ACC teams with an offensive rebound percentage of 35.6 percent. The Seminoles have averaged 12.1 offensive boards per game.
Film Session: Syracuse (insidethehall.com; Corazza)
In Indiana’s double-overtime loss to Syracuse, Miller Kopp scored a career-high 28 points. The Northwestern transfer shot 9-of-16 from the field, 4-of-9 from 3-point range and also hit 6-of-7 from the line.
Kopp didn’t just catch and shoot in this one. As he has in other games this season, Kopp showed an ability to ball fake out of the corner and counter a closeout by hitting a tough baseline runner. He also got all the way to the other side of the basket via a ball fake out of the corner for a tough lay-in at the rim. And when Race Thompson went to the bench, Kopp played the middle of the zone, got a pass and quickly turned around and hit a jumper at the free-throw line with confidence.
We’ll take a look at Kopp’s multi-faceted career night in the latest edition of Film Session:
Early in the first half, Kopp receives a pass with space down in the left corner. He ball fakes on Jesse Edwards and heads baseline. But Kopp opts against one of his runners and instead keeps going, eventually bumping into the help defense and trying to make a pass that was picked off. He’s whistled for the offensive foul. This was the early part of the game when Indiana was turning it over like mad. That said, on a team with turnover issues, Kopp has been outstanding in that category. His turnover percentage of 5.7 is 38th best in the country, per KenPom.
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Syracuse basketball recruits Justin Taylor (left) and Quadir Copeland pose for a photo after their IMG Academy basketball game on Dec. 1, 2021 in Bradenton, Florida. (Donna Ditota|syracuse.com)
Impressions of SU recruits Quadir Copeland and Justin Taylor after IMG game (PS; $; Ditota)
Two of Syracuse’s basketball recruits are already achieving a certain on-court chemistry, one full year before they enter college as Orange teammates.
Quadir Copeland, the point guard, and Justin Taylor, the shooting guard/small forward, attend the lush and lavish IMG Academy here and play for the campus Post Grad team.
On Wednesday night, they started for IMG as the Ascenders faced Clearwater Academy at home. IMG raced out to a 30-point lead at the half and continued to dominate the rest of the way. (The teams played two 20-minute halves.) Taylor scored 15 points, Copeland added 11.
Here are a few impressions of both players, with the caveat that they played Wednesday night against an inferior team.
Quadir Copeland
First, the physical news. Copeland is a long, athletic guard. He’s in the area of 6-foot-5, maybe 6-6.
On Wednesday, he faced pressure the entire game, whether it was a man press or a zone press. And he handled it with no problems.
He’s extremely confident with the ball and understands how to protect it – his height makes him a target for smaller, peskier guards but Copeland was unfazed by the pressure. He’s got a tight handle, stays low to the floor and can do some fancy things with the ball. He puts it behind his back to change direction in traffic. He can zip the ball into tight places.
His quickness enabled him to beat defenders off the dribble and finish (usually with a dunk) or find teammates either on the perimeter or at the rim. I don’t recall him taking a jump shot the entire game. He was 3-of-5 at the free throw line; he clanged the first two, then swished the next three.
There is some serious sizzle and bounce to his game, which makes him fun to watch.
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Syracuse Basketball: Indiana win could change trajectory of SU’s season (itlh; Adler)
It wasn’t always pretty, as Syracuse basketball coughed up an 18-point, second-half lead against Indiana on Tuesday night, and the Orange blew several opportunities to seal the deal at the end of regulation and into the extra sessions.
But the ‘Cuse hung tough and showed a lot of grit in squeaking out a 112-110, double-overtime triumph versus the Hoosiers in this year’s ACC-Big Ten Challenge from the Carrier Dome.
During the television broadcast, respected analyst Jimmy Dykes said on multiple occasions that the Orange really needed to come out on top in this non-conference battle.
Dykes also said several times that a ‘Cuse conquest could help change the trajectory of the 2021-22 campaign for Syracuse basketball. While the current stanza is still in its relative infancy, I wholeheartedly agree with Dykes, and I’ll explain why.
Syracuse basketball landed a big confidence booster in beating Indiana.
Heading into its showdown with the Hoosiers (6-1), the Orange had lost three of its past four games. Colgate stunned the ‘Cuse (4-3), and then Syracuse basketball fell to VCU and nationally ranked Auburn in the Bahamas, with a victory over Arizona State sandwiched in between.
Now, head coach Jim Boeheim has made it clear that his remade roster in 2021-22, which includes three transfers and one freshman, is a work in progress. The 2-3 zone defense isn’t all that good at this juncture.
With daunting duels in the near future versus Florida State, Villanova and Georgetown, the Indiana encounter appeared as sort of a must-win for the Orange, if you can make such a declaration this early in the season.
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Jimmy Boeheim "On The Block" 12-2 (ESPN; raedio; Axe)
Syracuse men’s basketball forward Jimmy Boeheim joins Brent to discuss the Indiana game, a piece of advice his dad gave him for the first time ever and more.
'Cuse Militia Podcast - Armchair Media Network (armchairnetwork.com; podcast; Cuse Militia)
Episode 339- Syracuse Basketball: Indiana Post-game/Fl State Preview!
Syracuse Basketball: 5-star targets’ team ascends to No. 1 national ranking (itlh; Adler)
The 2021-22 campaign for prep-school squads and public high schools is just getting underway, and there is a new team at the top of new national top-20 rankings with connections to Syracuse basketball.
Jordan Divens, the national basketball editor for MaxPreps, has unveiled a new set of ratings for elite teams across the country. These rankings do not include more traditional prep schools and public high schools, which Divens features in a different set of ratings.
But in Divens’ new top 20, the No. 1 squad is the powerhouse Montverde Academy out of Montverde, Fla. Two of the stand-outs for the Montverde Academy in this current stanza are 2023 five-star forward Kwame Evans Jr. and 2024 five-star power forward Derik Queen.
Both the 6-foot-8 Queen and the 6-foot-9 Evans are Orange recruiting prospects, with the ‘Cuse coaching staff having offered each top-flight player in October, according to media reports.
Syracuse basketball five-star targets suit up for a stellar prep-school group.
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Syracuse Basketball: 5-star target, No. 2 junior, to drop list soon, talks visits (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball 2023 five-star target Kwame Evans Jr. says that he may release a list of his top contenders in the near future, according to a recent interview with 247Sports national analyst Dushawn London.
Will the ‘Cuse, which offered a scholarship to Evans in October, make the cut? That remains to be seen. I’m not a recruiting analyst, nor am I in Evans’ inner circle, however, I don’t necessarily have a super optimistic feeling about the Orange’s chances here, given all the big-time programs vying for the services of the elite 6-foot-9 forward.
Evans, a junior at the powerhouse Montverde Academy in Montverde, Fla., was ranked No. 2 overall in his class by the industry-generated 247Sports Composite at the time of this writing.
Numerous analysts have said of late that he could end up as the No. 1 prospect across the country in the 2023 cycle when all is said and done.
Prior to joining the Montverde Academy, Evans competed for the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He recently took an official visit to blue-blood Kentucky and has been offered by those Wildcats.
Syracuse basketball faces intense competition for five-star Kwame Evans Jr.
Some of Evans’ other offers include from Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, Memphis, Texas, Southern California, Florida, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Kansas, LSU, Maryland, Tennessee, Texas A&M, St. John’s, Georgetown, Virginia Tech and Auburn.
With recruiting titans such as Kentucky, Kansas, Memphis and others in the mix for Evans, it will prove quite challenging for Syracuse basketball to win out for him.
Regarding the Orange’s prospects with him, 247Sports national basketball director Eric Bossi recently said to me via Twitter, “Evans has EVERYBODY after him and could be some work to do in order to catch up on him already.”
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Short ribs shine at Moro’s Kitchen in Skaneateles (Dining Out Review) (PS; $; Paventi)
Put Ed Moro and a beef short rib together in the same kitchen, and something delicious will happen. It’s a fact.
The short rib dish ($30) at his Skaneateles restaurant Moro’s Kitchen was so tender from braising that it split simply from looking at it. The long slow cook broke down the fatty tissue, flavoring it from within and contributing a concentrated beef flavor to the tomato- and vegetable-based sauce. Whole plum tomatoes mingled on the dish with the chunks of boneless beef.
Stringy and succulent, the short ribs provided contrast to the dense polenta beneath it. Salty and nutty parmesan cheese enriched the blend of dairy and cornmeal, which slowly absorbed the braising liquid.
Simply, it was what we’ve come to expect from an Ed Moro short rib dish. The elegant beef cut has been featured on the menu at his French-inspired Auburn restaurant, Moro’s Table, since it opened in 2010. Five years later, it joined the lineup when he opened Moro’s Kitchen, located in the Jordan Street space formerly occupied by Garage Eatz and Joe’s Pasta Garage.
Boneless short rib over polenta at Moro's Kitchen, Skaneateles, N.Y. (Jared Paventi | jaredpaventi@gmail.com)
Fellow restaurant critic Jane Marmaduke Woodman recently described Moro’s Kitchen as gourmet takeout. We wanted to see how good it is in-house.
Moro’s Kitchen is modern Italian. Traditional Italian-American dishes like eggplant parmigiana and ravioli appear on the menu alongside housemade pasta with African-spiced bolognese and a truffle-scented mushroom ragu.
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JMA Wireless to hold job fair this week for new 5G manufacturing plant in Syracuse (PS; Moriarty)
JMA Wireless will hold a two-day job fair this week to fill manufacturing, business and technology positions at its 5G manufacturing plant under construction in downtown Syracuse.
The fair will be held the community room at Salt City Market, 484 S. Salina St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4.
JMA, which is based in Clay, plans to hire 100 people at the new facility, which is under construction at the former Coyne Textile site on Cortland Avenue.
More information is available about JMA job openings on the careers page of the company’s website.
