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Welcome to World Brain Tumor Day!
Every year on June 8th, World Brain Tumor Day raises awareness and educates people about brain tumors. The day also pays tribute to those affected by brain tumors.
In the United States, over 700,000 people live with brain tumors. In just one year, 84,000 people in the country will be diagnosed with a brain tumor. Brain tumors are either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous.) A malignant tumor is sometimes referred to as brain cancer. This type of cancer falls into the same category as central nervous system cancers. On a global scale, 330,000 children and adults worldwide were diagnosed with cancer of the central nervous system in one year. This number continues to rise along with the mortality rate for brain cancer.
SU News
SU basketball reveals jersey numbers for 6 incoming freshmen and one transfer (PS; Waters)
A bumper crop of incoming freshmen plus one transfer means that Syracuse basketball fans will have to get used to a slew of new jersey numbers when the team opens the 2022-23 season next November.
On Tuesday, SU athletics revealed which numbers the new players will be wearing next season. Five of the seven were worn as recently as last season, while one hasn’t been worn by a Syracuse player since 1984.
Chris Bunch, a 6-foot-7 freshman forward, will wear No. 0, which Jimmy Boeheim wore just last season. Maliq Brown, a 6-9 forward, will wear No. 1, which walk-on Paddy Casey wore last year.
Judah Mintz, a 6-4 freshman guard, will wear No. 3. The number is closely associated with current SU assistant Gerry McNamara, but was worn during the 2020-21 season by Kadary Richmond.
Justin Taylor, a 6-6 wing, has been given the No. 5 that Frank Anselem wore the last two years. Anselem transferred to Georgia after this past season. Peter Carey, a 6-11 center, will wear No. 23. Most Syracuse fans remember that as Eric Devendorf’s number, but walk-on Niko Ruffin wore it last year.
Quadir Copeland, a 6-6 guard, will wear No. 24. Last year, walk-on Chris LaValle wore that number. Former Syracuse star quarterback Donovan McNabb wore that number when he walked onto the basketball team in 1996 and 1997.
Finally, Mounir Hima, a 6-11 center who transferred to SU from Duquesne, will wear No. 55. The last SU player to wear that number was Sean Kerins in 1984.
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As Syracuse basketball prioritizes 4-star point guard, he’s on a tear in AAU (itlh; Adler)
You’d be hard-pressed to find a point guard in the rising junior class who has been playing at a higher level of late on the AAU circuit than Syracuse basketball priority recruit Robert Wright III from Philadelphia.
The 6-foot-1 Wright, a four-star prospect who is easily one of the fastest risers in the 2024 cycle in recent months, capped off a stellar sophomore season by putting forth elite performance after elite performance in grassroots basketball.
In April, with college coaches including the Orange basketball staff in attendance during NCAA live periods on the AAU tour, Wright earned a ton of praise from national analysts and scouts for his play.
At various other AAU events more recently, he’s been deemed a stand-out performer by experts. For example, at the third session held by Nike’s EYBL league this spring, with this latest slate of games occurring over the Memorial Day weekend in Louisville, Ky., Wright was simply phenomenal, according to media reports.
Syracuse basketball began pursuing four-star point guard Robert Wright III early on.
Per an article from Griffin Greenberg, the creator of The Green Hoop Web site, in Louisville Wright averaged 20 points, 6.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds per encounter, while connecting on a ridiculous 60.6 percent from the field and 48.1 percent from beyond the arc.
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Syracuse men’s basketball: Boeheim brothers and Cole Swider land workouts ahead of NBA Draft (TNIAAM; Cohen)
Three former members of the 2021-22 Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team in Cole Swider, Buddy Boeheim, and Jimmy Boeheim have all participated in at least one professional workout with NBA teams over the last week. The three players are hoping to make a strong impression ahead of the NBA draft on June 23rd.
Swider has a workout with the 2020 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers on May 28th.
Swider also had workouts with the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks ahead of June’s draft. While the Lakers don't have a draft pick for 2022, they could sign Swider to a Summer League contract or even trade for a mid to late second-round pick to select the sharpshooting forward. It’s been reported that Swider has upcoming workouts planned with Sacramento, Boston, Washington, Portland, and Brooklyn.
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Miami basketball fourth in ACC projected metric power rankings (caneswarnnig.com; Rubenstein)
College Basketball metrics analyst Bart Torvik projects Miami as the 20th best team in the country in 2022-23 and the fourth-best team in the ACC. The Miami basketball team finished 26-11 overall, 14-6 and in fourth place in the ACC in 2021-22. Miami advanced to the NCAA Tournament regional final in program history.
Perennial ACC Basketball powers Duke who is fourth, North Carolina sixth and Virginia 16th are the only conference programs projected ahead of Miami entering the 2022-23 season. The Miami basketball program has returning starters, wing Jordan Miller and guard Isaiah Wong plus six new players to the 2022-23 roster.
Miami head coach Jim Larranaga has frequently used the transfer portal to improve his roster. Guards Kameron McGusty and Charlie Moore were the corps of the Miami basketball team in 2021-22 with Wong. McGusty began his collegiate career at Oklahoma and Miami was the fourth program for Moore.
The 2022-23 roster was re-fortified by the addition of two transfers and four incoming freshmen that add much-needed size for Miami. All four freshmen and one of the incoming transfers are at least 6’6 or taller. Larranaga hopes to build on the NCAA Tournament run next season. Miami has quickly returned to being competitive.
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MBB: 2022 NCAAT vs NBA Finals - TV Ratings (RX; HM)
2. Most of the TV value of college basketball is locked up in the NCAA Tournament.
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Other
Gyros!
St. Sophia’s Greek Fest brings baklava and more back to DeWitt: Here are the details (PS; Cazentre)
After two years as a drive-thru event, the annual St. Sophia’s Greek Cultural Festival is ready to welcome visitors back for the real thing this week.
The 49th annual fest runs Thursday through Sunday (June 9 to 12) at St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, 325 Waring Road.
Just about everything that has made the Greek fest one of Central New York’s biggest and most popular festivals is back: That means souvlaki and gyros, Greek wine and beer, dancing and music and a festival marketplace.
“We’ve got pretty much all the wonderful things that people love about the festival,” said Liz Steinberg, who handles marketing for the fest.
The is the 49th year for the fest, which is a fundraiser for the church and donates money to public programs in DeWitt.
While the food menu, led by the bountiful lamb and chicken combination plates, will be familiar from past fests, there will be some new things on the beverage side of things.
That includes a new red wine, Domaine Harlaftis Nemea, and a new sparkling wine, Bianco Nero Pink. There will also be a Greek craft beer, Crazy Donkey, from Santorini Brewing. Special Greek wine, spirits and beer tasting sessions will be part of the festival’s entertainment schedule.
Where: St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, 325 Waring Road
When: 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 9; 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 10; noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 11; and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 12.
Food and drinks: Many Greek specials are served in the main tent, along with a pita booth, beer and wine and more. See full menu.
Entertainment / things to do: Greek music and dancing takes place in the main tent, and there is a also a Greek marketplace in the church hall. See event schedule.
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Isaac Rubenstein, owner of Middle Ages Brewing Company, has watched the growth of the craft brewery scene in Upstate New York as the region has become a beer destination. ANYA WIJEWEERA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Amid craft beer’s rise, upstate NY is growing into a beer destination. Here’s why. (DO; Fernandez)
When Isaac Rubenstein’s parents founded Middle Ages Brewing Company in 1995, few other breweries existed in the area. They selected an industrial building and bootstrapped it into a craft brewery, now the oldest in Syracuse. It became their passion project.
“It was just us,” Rubenstein said of Middle Ages’ role in the craft beer scene.
The region’s craft beer industry has since grown immensely. As of 2018, Onondaga County alone held 21 craft breweries, according to the New York State Brewers Association (NYSBA), and their economic impact exceeded $144 million.
“It’s really just picked up kind of exponentially,” said Andrew Brooks, owner of Syracuse’s Talking Cursive Brewing Company, which opened in 2019.
Craft beer has boomed nationally as well. The number of craft breweries across the country nearly doubled between 2015 and 2021, according to the Brewers Association, and craft beer volume sales increased by about 8% from 2020 to 2021. Unlike big name brands such as Budweiser, craft brewers are independent, their production is smaller and they use more traditional ingredients.
New York state is at the top of those upward craft beer trends too. Craft breweries more than quadrupled statewide between 2012 and 2021, according to the NYSBA, making New York the third-largest beer-producer in the country as of 2021. And a large portion of that growth has taken place in central and western New York, multiple board members from the NYSBA said.
Though New York was once known largely for wine, beer is now “emerging in high levels,” said Andrew Coplon, founder of a national coalition of brewers called Craft Beer Professionals. Within the past few months, the state’s total number of craft breweries surpassed the total number of wineries for the first time in over five decades, the New York Liquor Authority told Syracuse.com.
“It is a beer destination,” said Ian Conboy, a NYSBA board member and owner of Lucky Hare Brewing Company.
Over half a dozen people familiar with the industry attribute craft beer’s boom in the region to the Farm Brewery Bill, which the state passed in 2012. One of the first pieces of legislation of its kind in the U.S., the bill allowed breweries to sell directly to consumers without a restaurant to accompany their taproom.
In an attempt to level the playing field between the beer and wine industries, the law also allowed brewers to develop satellite locations and lessened the cost of starting a craft brewery, fueling a movement that allowed New York craft beer to surge, many familiar with the industry said. A decade later, the region has more competition between brewers, more quality beer and more nationwide recognition, multiple New York brewers said.
“It really changed the trajectory of how quickly you could open up,” said Chris Spinelli, owner of ROC Brewing Company in Rochester and a NYSBA treasurer.
...
Every year on June 8th, World Brain Tumor Day raises awareness and educates people about brain tumors. The day also pays tribute to those affected by brain tumors.
In the United States, over 700,000 people live with brain tumors. In just one year, 84,000 people in the country will be diagnosed with a brain tumor. Brain tumors are either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous.) A malignant tumor is sometimes referred to as brain cancer. This type of cancer falls into the same category as central nervous system cancers. On a global scale, 330,000 children and adults worldwide were diagnosed with cancer of the central nervous system in one year. This number continues to rise along with the mortality rate for brain cancer.
SU News
SU basketball reveals jersey numbers for 6 incoming freshmen and one transfer (PS; Waters)
A bumper crop of incoming freshmen plus one transfer means that Syracuse basketball fans will have to get used to a slew of new jersey numbers when the team opens the 2022-23 season next November.
On Tuesday, SU athletics revealed which numbers the new players will be wearing next season. Five of the seven were worn as recently as last season, while one hasn’t been worn by a Syracuse player since 1984.
Chris Bunch, a 6-foot-7 freshman forward, will wear No. 0, which Jimmy Boeheim wore just last season. Maliq Brown, a 6-9 forward, will wear No. 1, which walk-on Paddy Casey wore last year.
Judah Mintz, a 6-4 freshman guard, will wear No. 3. The number is closely associated with current SU assistant Gerry McNamara, but was worn during the 2020-21 season by Kadary Richmond.
Justin Taylor, a 6-6 wing, has been given the No. 5 that Frank Anselem wore the last two years. Anselem transferred to Georgia after this past season. Peter Carey, a 6-11 center, will wear No. 23. Most Syracuse fans remember that as Eric Devendorf’s number, but walk-on Niko Ruffin wore it last year.
Quadir Copeland, a 6-6 guard, will wear No. 24. Last year, walk-on Chris LaValle wore that number. Former Syracuse star quarterback Donovan McNabb wore that number when he walked onto the basketball team in 1996 and 1997.
Finally, Mounir Hima, a 6-11 center who transferred to SU from Duquesne, will wear No. 55. The last SU player to wear that number was Sean Kerins in 1984.
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As Syracuse basketball prioritizes 4-star point guard, he’s on a tear in AAU (itlh; Adler)
You’d be hard-pressed to find a point guard in the rising junior class who has been playing at a higher level of late on the AAU circuit than Syracuse basketball priority recruit Robert Wright III from Philadelphia.
The 6-foot-1 Wright, a four-star prospect who is easily one of the fastest risers in the 2024 cycle in recent months, capped off a stellar sophomore season by putting forth elite performance after elite performance in grassroots basketball.
In April, with college coaches including the Orange basketball staff in attendance during NCAA live periods on the AAU tour, Wright earned a ton of praise from national analysts and scouts for his play.
At various other AAU events more recently, he’s been deemed a stand-out performer by experts. For example, at the third session held by Nike’s EYBL league this spring, with this latest slate of games occurring over the Memorial Day weekend in Louisville, Ky., Wright was simply phenomenal, according to media reports.
Syracuse basketball began pursuing four-star point guard Robert Wright III early on.
Per an article from Griffin Greenberg, the creator of The Green Hoop Web site, in Louisville Wright averaged 20 points, 6.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds per encounter, while connecting on a ridiculous 60.6 percent from the field and 48.1 percent from beyond the arc.
...
Syracuse men’s basketball: Boeheim brothers and Cole Swider land workouts ahead of NBA Draft (TNIAAM; Cohen)
Three former members of the 2021-22 Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team in Cole Swider, Buddy Boeheim, and Jimmy Boeheim have all participated in at least one professional workout with NBA teams over the last week. The three players are hoping to make a strong impression ahead of the NBA draft on June 23rd.
Swider has a workout with the 2020 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers on May 28th.
Swider also had workouts with the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks ahead of June’s draft. While the Lakers don't have a draft pick for 2022, they could sign Swider to a Summer League contract or even trade for a mid to late second-round pick to select the sharpshooting forward. It’s been reported that Swider has upcoming workouts planned with Sacramento, Boston, Washington, Portland, and Brooklyn.
...
Miami basketball fourth in ACC projected metric power rankings (caneswarnnig.com; Rubenstein)
College Basketball metrics analyst Bart Torvik projects Miami as the 20th best team in the country in 2022-23 and the fourth-best team in the ACC. The Miami basketball team finished 26-11 overall, 14-6 and in fourth place in the ACC in 2021-22. Miami advanced to the NCAA Tournament regional final in program history.
Perennial ACC Basketball powers Duke who is fourth, North Carolina sixth and Virginia 16th are the only conference programs projected ahead of Miami entering the 2022-23 season. The Miami basketball program has returning starters, wing Jordan Miller and guard Isaiah Wong plus six new players to the 2022-23 roster.
Miami head coach Jim Larranaga has frequently used the transfer portal to improve his roster. Guards Kameron McGusty and Charlie Moore were the corps of the Miami basketball team in 2021-22 with Wong. McGusty began his collegiate career at Oklahoma and Miami was the fourth program for Moore.
The 2022-23 roster was re-fortified by the addition of two transfers and four incoming freshmen that add much-needed size for Miami. All four freshmen and one of the incoming transfers are at least 6’6 or taller. Larranaga hopes to build on the NCAA Tournament run next season. Miami has quickly returned to being competitive.
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MBB: 2022 NCAAT vs NBA Finals - TV Ratings (RX; HM)
MBB: 2022 NCAAT vs NBA Finals - TV Ratings
Just to put things into perspective:Let's break that down. Here are the ACC basketball teams highlighted, along with TV networks in parentheses:
OBSERVATIONS:
1. Three college basketball games drew bigger TV audiences than the NBA finals (so far).2. Most of the TV value of college basketball is locked up in the NCAA Tournament.
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Other
Gyros!
St. Sophia’s Greek Fest brings baklava and more back to DeWitt: Here are the details (PS; Cazentre)
After two years as a drive-thru event, the annual St. Sophia’s Greek Cultural Festival is ready to welcome visitors back for the real thing this week.
The 49th annual fest runs Thursday through Sunday (June 9 to 12) at St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, 325 Waring Road.
Just about everything that has made the Greek fest one of Central New York’s biggest and most popular festivals is back: That means souvlaki and gyros, Greek wine and beer, dancing and music and a festival marketplace.
“We’ve got pretty much all the wonderful things that people love about the festival,” said Liz Steinberg, who handles marketing for the fest.
The is the 49th year for the fest, which is a fundraiser for the church and donates money to public programs in DeWitt.
While the food menu, led by the bountiful lamb and chicken combination plates, will be familiar from past fests, there will be some new things on the beverage side of things.
That includes a new red wine, Domaine Harlaftis Nemea, and a new sparkling wine, Bianco Nero Pink. There will also be a Greek craft beer, Crazy Donkey, from Santorini Brewing. Special Greek wine, spirits and beer tasting sessions will be part of the festival’s entertainment schedule.
Details:
What: St. Sophia’s Greek Cultural FestivalWhere: St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, 325 Waring Road
When: 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 9; 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 10; noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 11; and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 12.
Food and drinks: Many Greek specials are served in the main tent, along with a pita booth, beer and wine and more. See full menu.
Entertainment / things to do: Greek music and dancing takes place in the main tent, and there is a also a Greek marketplace in the church hall. See event schedule.
...
Isaac Rubenstein, owner of Middle Ages Brewing Company, has watched the growth of the craft brewery scene in Upstate New York as the region has become a beer destination. ANYA WIJEWEERA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Amid craft beer’s rise, upstate NY is growing into a beer destination. Here’s why. (DO; Fernandez)
When Isaac Rubenstein’s parents founded Middle Ages Brewing Company in 1995, few other breweries existed in the area. They selected an industrial building and bootstrapped it into a craft brewery, now the oldest in Syracuse. It became their passion project.
“It was just us,” Rubenstein said of Middle Ages’ role in the craft beer scene.
The region’s craft beer industry has since grown immensely. As of 2018, Onondaga County alone held 21 craft breweries, according to the New York State Brewers Association (NYSBA), and their economic impact exceeded $144 million.
“It’s really just picked up kind of exponentially,” said Andrew Brooks, owner of Syracuse’s Talking Cursive Brewing Company, which opened in 2019.
Craft beer has boomed nationally as well. The number of craft breweries across the country nearly doubled between 2015 and 2021, according to the Brewers Association, and craft beer volume sales increased by about 8% from 2020 to 2021. Unlike big name brands such as Budweiser, craft brewers are independent, their production is smaller and they use more traditional ingredients.
New York state is at the top of those upward craft beer trends too. Craft breweries more than quadrupled statewide between 2012 and 2021, according to the NYSBA, making New York the third-largest beer-producer in the country as of 2021. And a large portion of that growth has taken place in central and western New York, multiple board members from the NYSBA said.
Though New York was once known largely for wine, beer is now “emerging in high levels,” said Andrew Coplon, founder of a national coalition of brewers called Craft Beer Professionals. Within the past few months, the state’s total number of craft breweries surpassed the total number of wineries for the first time in over five decades, the New York Liquor Authority told Syracuse.com.
“It is a beer destination,” said Ian Conboy, a NYSBA board member and owner of Lucky Hare Brewing Company.
Over half a dozen people familiar with the industry attribute craft beer’s boom in the region to the Farm Brewery Bill, which the state passed in 2012. One of the first pieces of legislation of its kind in the U.S., the bill allowed breweries to sell directly to consumers without a restaurant to accompany their taproom.
In an attempt to level the playing field between the beer and wine industries, the law also allowed brewers to develop satellite locations and lessened the cost of starting a craft brewery, fueling a movement that allowed New York craft beer to surge, many familiar with the industry said. A decade later, the region has more competition between brewers, more quality beer and more nationwide recognition, multiple New York brewers said.
“It really changed the trajectory of how quickly you could open up,” said Chris Spinelli, owner of ROC Brewing Company in Rochester and a NYSBA treasurer.
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