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Welcome to Color TV Day!
On today's date in 1951, at 4:35 p.m. Eastern Time, CBS made what is regarded as the first color television broadcast. It was an hour-long variety show called Premiere, which featured Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, Robert Alda, and Faye Emerson. The chairman of the FCC and both the president and board chairman of CBS also appeared on it. The program was transmitted from CBS's New York City studio to the city, as well as to Boston, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Only televisions built for color could pick up the transmission, so most people—those with black-and-white sets—who were tuned to CBS just saw a blank screen. Most of those who were able to view the program saw it at a hotel, in department stores, or in an auditorium. Because of this groundbreaking broadcast, today is known as Color TV Day.
The path to color television stretched back before this moment, and went on for many years after this initial broadcast—it wasn't an all-at-once switch. There was a long invention process, and other hurdles included the need for production facilities to make the new color sets, the cost of stations converting to color transmissions, and the cost of the color sets to the public.
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Syracuse basketball player Eddie Lampkin watches as chef Antoine Smith stirs a Cajun sauce in advance of Saturday's pop-up kitchen on Syracuse's North Side. Mike Waters | mwaters@syracuse.comMike Waters | mwaters@syracuse.com
Lampkin opens cloud kitchen, dreams of owning restaurant in Syracuse (PS; $; Waters)
Eddie Lampkin transferred to Syracuse University less than a month ago and basketball season is still five months away, but the 6-foot-11 center is already making an impact off the court in his new home.
On Saturday, Lampkin and his friend, Antoine Smith, opened a pop-up cloud kitchen and for one night served up dishes like fried catfish, fried shrimp and lamb chops served over Cajun pasta to folks on the city’s North Side.
Using the name “We Snapping,’’ Lampkin and Smith operated out of the kitchen in the former Antonio’s restaurant on North Salina Street. Smith ran the kitchen, while Lampkin keenly watched the goings-on.
“Can Eddie cook?’’ Smith said, repeating the question as he stirred the Cajun sauce soon to be mixed with penne pasta. “I wouldn’t say he’s a cook. He’s a taster. He comes up with ideas. The Eddie Lampkin dry rub; that’s his idea. He thought of it and I put it together.’’
The pairing of Lampkin, the towering basketball player, and Smith, the 37-year-old self-taught chef, was forged last year when Lampkin was playing for the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Smith had been in Boulder for nine years and had connected through his homemade dishes with Colorado’s football and basketball teams.
When Lampkin arrived in Boulder last year, he soon learned of Smith’s cooking.
“My barber told me about him,’’ Lampkin said. Lampkin went to Smith’s and became a fan instantly. “I used to be at his house every day. He makes different stuff every day.’’
Smith started cooking when he couldn’t find the Southern-style food he grew up on in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“When I moved to Colorado, the food just wasn’t Southern,’’ Smith said. “I wanted to change what I was eating, so I started to learn more and more.’’
He watched cooking videos on YouTube and Instagram. He opened the cloud kitchen, filling to-go orders.
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4-stars, 5-stars who have heard from Syracuse basketball since contact period opened (itlh; Adler)
Earlier this month, on June 15, Syracuse basketball coaches and their peers nationwide could start initiating direct communication with rising high school juniors as the contact period opened for the 2026 class.
Prior to this, the Orange staff had offered scholarships to at least eight 2026 players, at least as far as I can tell, and I assume that 'Cuse coaches will dole out more offers to prospects in this cycle in the future.
On June 15, or since then, Syracuse basketball coaches have reached out to a handful of four-star and five-star players in the 2026 class amid the contact period opening, according to social media posts.
We're going to delve into which rising juniors have heard from the Orange, although this list isn't meant to be fully exhaustive. Some 2026 prospects could have heard from the 'Cuse of late, but nothing is publicly available or I missed the news; it's also possible that Orange coaches may contact additional rising juniors in the coming weeks and beyond.
Syracuse basketball has reached out to these 4-star and 5-star players in the 2026 cycle.
Alex Constanza
Constanza is a five-star guard/small forward who stars for the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He received a 'Cuse scholarship offer this past January.
Deron Rippey Jr.
Rippey, who is rated as five stars by the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, is a talented point guard from the Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J. He was offered by the Orange in late August of last year and took an unofficial visit to Syracuse basketball in late February of 2024.
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BAS: 2024 NBA Mock Draft (RX; HM)
BAS: 2024 NBA Mock Draft
The NBA draft will begin just two days and run from Wed, Jun 26, 2024 to Thu, Jun 27, 2024. Who will be selected? Here's a reputable guess...
From AP: NBA mock draft: Frenchman Alexandre Sarr to go No. 1, more big men to follow
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Sources: Big East on cusp of announcing new six-year media deals (PS; SBJ)
The Big East is on the cusp of formally signing a new set of six-year media rights pacts as soon as this week with Fox, NBC and TNT that will begin with the 2025-26 school year (taking it through the 2030-31 term), sources tell SBJ. Financial terms were still being finalized at presstime, but sources noted the conference will see a significant rights fee uptick. Fox and CBS have one more school year remaining on a 12-year, $500M deal with the Big East (an average annual value of around $41.67M).
Fox will continue as the lead “A” network in the new deal, as it had when it initially signed on with the Big East prior to the 2013-14 school year. Sources tell SBJ the rankings for selections of games have already been decided among the conference’s new media partners. CBS, which had long been a Big East partner, will not return with the conference, as the sides were not able to carve out a smaller fourth package of rights, per sources. CBS broadcast only had a handful of games under the existing deal (two to three each season).
Representatives from Fox, NBC, TNT and the Big East each declined comment when reached by SBJ. The Big East’s media deal was critically important to the league’s long-term future as the college landscape continues to shift dramatically amid the potential for revenue sharing and the outsized impact football continues to have on the industry.
The Big Ten ($1.1B annually) and SEC ($710M annually) both received massive media rights bumps in their latest negotiations on deals that are each worth north of $7B over their lifetime. The College Football Playoff, too, received an extension on its original deal with ESPN worth $1.3B annually starting in 2026. The CFP’s extension will also share revenue unequally among the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC in a twist likely to see the financial chasm between the Big Ten and SEC over the rest of their counterparts continue to grow.
The Big East, which does not sponsor football, thus exists in a tricky in-between amid college sports’ power structure. The new media deal represents a step toward increased stability, as has the conference’s recent run of success in men’s basketball (The Big East has won four of the last eight national titles). That said, the framework settlement in the House, Hubbard and Carter antitrust cases figures to hit those schools sans big-time college football hard.
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MBB: Big East TV Value foreshadow ACC value? (RX; HM)
MBB: Big East TV Value foreshadow ACC value?
Just a quick post for this evening...
According to SBJ, the Big East - a power basketball conference that doesn't even play football - is about to get a 'significant rights fee increase':
Why is that important to ACC fans? Because the ACC is coming up on a look-in and ESPN is coming up on an opt-out date and... if basketball television rights are on the way up, guess who else that benefits besides the Big East?
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Former Syracuse assistant coach Troy Weaver catches on with Washington Wizards (report) (PS; $; Carlson)
Former Syracuse men’s basketball assistant coach Troy Weaver, a key component of the Orange’s national title team in 2003, will join the Washington Wizards front office as a senior advisor, according to a report by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Wojnarowski cited anonymous sources.
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Weaver had spent the previous four years as the general manager of the Detroit Pistons, leading an unsuccessful rebuild of the franchise. Weaver stepped down this offseason shortly after Detroit hired former Duke star Trajan Langdon as its new president of basketball operations, indicating a new direction.
The Pistons had some bad luck in the NBA Draft lottery during Weaver’s time, failing to land the top pick in the draft despite finishing with the league’s worst record multiple times.
Still, Detroit failed to make any tangible progress toward building a competent team. Detroit failed to make the playoffs and had the worst record in the NBA in each of the past two seasons.
According to Wojnarowski, team owner Tom Gores did praise Weaver after his departure for helping the franchise get out from a number of bad contracts.
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2 Upstate NY cities named among the most affordable in the world (PS; Herbert)
Two cities in Upstate New York have been named among the most affordable places to live in the world.
A new Demographia study by Chapman University in California and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Canada analyzed 94 major cities in eight countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, and Singapore. Each metropolitan area was ranked based on a median multiple, a price-to-income ratio that divides the median house price by the median household income.
Rochester and Buffalo were found to be in the top 10 most affordable cities in the world, ranking No. 2 and No. 6 overall, respectively. Pittsburgh ranked No. 1 in the world.
The rest of the top 10 included mostly U.S. cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati and Louisville. Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, ranked fifth overall.
Five U.S. cities, meanwhile, were named “impossibly unaffordable,” including Honolulu, Hawaii, and four locations in California (San Jose, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego). Another 17 cities were dubbed “severely unaffordable,” including New York City, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and multiple cities in California (Riverside-San Bernardino, Sacramento, Fresno) and Florida (Miami, Orlando, Tampa).
No other cities in New York state appeared in the report, which also found the gap between housing costs and income has widened since the Covid pandemic.
“For decades, home prices generally rose at about the same rate as income, and homeownership became more widespread,” study author Wendell Cox said. “But affordability is disappearing in high-income nations as housing costs now far outpace income growth.”
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Darling Doughnuts in Saratoga Springs, New York was recently named one of the best doughnut shops in America by readers of USA Today. The shop serves a rotating menu of 90 different flavors of yeast-based doughnuts. Sunny Hernandez | ahernandez@nyup.comSunny Hernandez | ahernandez@nyup.com
‘Darling’ square doughnut shop in Upstate NY named on list of America’s best (PS; Hernandez)
In a delicious declaration, an Upstate New York doughnut shop known for its square-shaped treats has been named on a national list for the best in the country.
Darling Doughnuts in downtown Saratoga Springs ranked at spot number 7 on USA Today’s list of 10 best doughnut shops in America.
The shop, which opened in the Capital Region in 2020, serves a rotating menu of square-shaped, yeast-based doughnuts in over 90 different handcrafted flavors. Depending on the week you may get to try caramel stroopwafel, orange creamsicle, root beer float or Arnold Palmer doughnuts.
There are also nostalgic childhood flavors like Dunkaroos, Lucky Charms, and Cosmic Brownies. The only flavors served each week are their most popular: the cinnamon sugar with a spicy twist Churro flavor and the sparkly and swirly Galaxy Glazed.
Once a month, Darling Doughnuts also serves what they call “doughrogies” doughnut-pierogi hybrid which get turned into savory flavors like everything bagel or pizza with cheese, tomatoes and pesto.
In addition to the cases of their yeast doughnuts, they also offer additional breakfast selections like cake doughnuts and homemade pop-tarts.
See more photos from Darling Doughnuts below:
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