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Welcome to INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY (aka REMEMBERING CALI DAY)!
EVERYONE IS TO PUT THE CAPS LOCK ON BEFORE TYPING ON INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY, A DAY THOUGHT UP BY DEREK ARNOLD OF IOWA IN 2000. HE STARTED THE DAY AS A PARODY, TO TAKE A JAB AT THOSE WHO WRITE IN CAPS WHEN IT IS NOT NECESSARY. WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS OFTEN USED TO INDICATE THAT THE PERSON TYPING IS SHOUTING, AND ITS USE IS OFTEN SEEN AS BEING RUDE OR ANNOYING. BEING THAT CAPS LETTERS ARE ALL THE SAME HEIGHT, THEY ARE HARDER TO READ THAN LOWER CASE LETTERS. THIS GIVES ONE INDICATION OF WHY THEY MAY BE SEEN AS BEING ANNOYING. THE DAY WAS ORIGINALLY JUST CELEBRATED ON OCTOBER 22, BUT AFTER "INFOMERCIAL KING" BILLY MAYS PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 28 IN 2009, THE DAY BEGAN BEING CELEBRATED ON THAT DATE AS WELL. THIS IS BECAUSE THE CAPS LOCK KEY STARTED BEING CALLED THE BILLY MAYS KEY BECAUSE BILLY MAYS SEEMED LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS YELLING WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT A PRODUCT.
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Former Syracuse center Jesse Edwards signs two-way deal with Minnesota Timberwolves (PS; Waters)
Jesse Edwards wasn’t selected during the NBA’s two-day draft, but it didn’t take long for the former Syracuse basketball center to sign as an undrafted free agent with an NBA team.
Edwards, who played at Syracuse for four years before transferring to West Virginia for his fifth year of eligibility, signed a two-way deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves shortly after the conclusion of the second round of this year’s NBA draft on Thursday.
Edwards, a 7-foot native of the Netherlands, began his college career as an unknown and unheralded recruit. He briefly attended IMG Academy in Florida before coming to Syracuse as part of the 2019 recruiting class.
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Keeping Up With The 315 6-27-24 (soundcloud; The 315)
Brian recaps night one of the NBA Draft, breaks down why a highly rated recruit could be coming to Syracuse football, and discusses Syracuse assistant coach Allen Griffin's comments on wearing the number 44.
30 Minutes in Orange Nation 6-27-24 (ESPN; radio; Orange Nation)
Steve and Paulie finish talking about wearing old jersey numbers, answer Jordan’s question as to whether or not the NBA Draft has become a farce, and discuss Judah Mintz’s chances of getting picked in the NBA Draft.
Judah Mintz not selected in 2024 NBA draft: What now for the former Syracuse guard? (PS; Waters)
Syracuse guard Judah Mintz, who entered the NBA draft with two years of eligibility remaining, went undrafted during the second and final round of the league’s 2024 draft on Thursday.
Mintz, a 6-foot-3 guard, had hoped to be drafted after putting his name into the NBA draft for the second time in as many years. He removed his name from consideration a year ago, instead electing to return to Syracuse for his sophomore year.
He enjoyed a successful 2023-24 season that saw him average 18.8 points, 4.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game.
Mintz was one of several well-known college players who entered this year’s draft with eligibility remaining and weren’t among the 58 players selected in the two-round event.
Others included Creighton’s Trey Alexander, Kentucky’s Justin Edwards, Louisiana Tech’s Isaiah Crawford, West Virginia’s Jalen Bridges and David Jones of Memphis.
It marked the fourth consecutive year in which no Syracuse player was taken in the NBA’s draft. The last Syracuse player drafted was Elijah Hughes, who was the No. 39 pick in the 2020 draft.
But not hearing his name called during the draft does not end Mintz’s pursuit of his NBA dream.
Mintz will hope to follow the path that former Syracuse forward Oshae Brissett took the NBA. Brissett entered the 2019 draft after his sophomore year and wasn’t selected. Brissett has carved out an NBA career, working his way from the G-League into stints with the Indiana Pacers, the Toronto Raptors and the Boston Celtics.
Brissett became just the second Syracuse player to ever appear in an NBA Finals game as he earned an NBA championship ring this year with the Celtics.
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Gerry McNamara at Siena: His vision, his inspirations, the way his team is shaping up (PS; $; Ditota)
Peter Carey had an inkling, a sense of what Gerry McNamara would look like as a college basketball head coach.
Carey spent two seasons with McNamara at Syracuse. During those years, McNamara worked for Jim Boeheim and Adrian Autry, but Carey said players knew where McNamara stood on core values and player responsibilities.
“He was always kind of projecting his thoughts, even as an assistant,” Carey, who transferred to Siena, said Wednesday during a Saints media opportunity. “Just like cohesiveness within the team, a team based on respect, an environment where people can talk to each other and they’re receptive to that. A place where guys can really grow not just individually but as a team.”
McNamara took the Siena job last March. He assembled his coaching staff, three of whom have Syracuse ties. He recruited eight new players, convinced a few Saints to stay and might not be done with roster moves.
For nearly a month, he has held summer workouts on campus, the value of which he underlined Wednesday as he stood before microphones and assessed where Siena was at the infancy of his head coaching career.
At this point, Siena players have spent considerable time with McNamara. They are familiar with his constant, no-nonsense endorsement of the daily grind, the gist of which was encapsulated in his opening remarks to reporters.
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2024 NBA Draft 2nd Round Picks (RX; HM)
2024 NBA Draft 2nd Round Picks
Here are the Second Round NBA draft picks this year...
| 2024 Draft - 2nd Round | |||
| PICK / NBA TEAM | PLAYER | POS | SCHOOL/CLUB |
| 31. Toronto Raptors | Jonathan Mogbo | F | San Francisco |
| 32. Utah Jazz | Kyle Filipowski | F-C | Duke |
| 33. Milwaukee Bucks | Tyler Smith | F | G League Ignite |
| 34. Portland Trail Blazers traded to New York | Tyler Kolek | G | Marquette |
| 35. San Antonio Spurs traded to Indiana | Johnny Furphy | G-F | Kansas |
| 36. Indiana Pacers traded to San Antonio | Juan Nunez | G | Ratiopharm Ulm (Germany) |
| 37. Minnesota Timberwolves traded to Detroit | Bobi Klintman | F | Cairns (Australia) |
| 38. New York Knicks traded to Oklahoma City | Ajay Mitchell | G | UC Santa Barbara |
| 39. Memphis Grizzlies | Jaylen Wells | F | Washington State |
| 40. Portland Trail Blazers to Phoenix (via New York) | Oso Ighodaro | C | Marquette |
| 41. Philadelphia 76ers | Adem Bona | C | UCLA |
| 42. Charlotte Hornets | KJ Simpson | G | Colorado |
| 43. Miami Heat traded to Atlanta | Nikola Djurisic | F | KK Mega Basket (Serbia) |
| 44. Houston Rockets traded to Miami | Pelle Larsson | G | Arizona |
| 45. Sacramento Kings | Jamal Shead | G | Houston |
| 46. LA Clippers | Cam Christie | G | Minnesota |
| 47. Orlando Magic traded to New Orleans | Antonio Reeves | G | Kentucky |
| 48. San Antonio Spurs | Harrison Ingram | F | North Carolina |
| 49. Indiana Pacers | Tristen Newton | G | Connecticut |
| 50. Indiana Pacers | Enrique Freeman | F | Akron |
| 51. New York Knicks traded to Dallas | Melvin Ajinca | F | Saint-Quentin Basketball (France) |
| 52. Golden State Warriors | Quinten Post | C | Boston College |
| 53. Detroit Pistons | Cam Spencer | G | Connecticut |
| 54. Boston Celtics | Anton Watson | F | Gonzaga |
| 55. Los Angeles Lakers | Bronny James | G | USC |
| 56. Phoenix Suns traded to New York | Kevin McCullar Jr. | G | Kansas |
| 57. Memphis Grizzlies | Ulrich Chomche | F | NBA Academy Africa |
| 58. Dallas Mavericks traded to New York | Ariel Hukporti | C | MHP Riesen (Germany) |
Duke's Filipowski and UNC's Ingram were both drafted in the 2nd round, as expected. Clemson's P J Hall was not selected, but Boston College Eagle Quinten Post was.
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Cappa santa al prosciutto e basilico from Rosalie's Cucina in Skaneateles.
Rosalie’s in Skaneateles is as good as it ever was (Dining Out Review) (PS; $; Pucci)
Death, taxes, the menu at Rosalie’s Cucina. Few things have been as consistent since Rosalie’s opened its doors in Skaneateles nearly three decades ago.
In particular, the dishes marked on the menu with a little star, denoting them as Romano family recipes, have remained stalwarts. Philip Romano, an Auburn native who founded Fuddruckers and Romano’s Macaroni Grill, among many other restaurant and entrepreneurial successes, opened the restaurant on the village’s western outskirts in 1995. Romano built and named the restaurant for his sister, Rosalie, who tragically died after about one year of running the restaurant.
With its terracotta tiled roof and stucco walls, Rosalie’s looks every bit the Tuscan villa it seeks to emulate. Inside, the once-plain white walls now bear the signatures of decades of diners, from presidents and celebrities, to your average diner looking for a spare square inch to leave their mark.
The polenta starter at Rosalie's Cucina in Skaneateles.Jacob Pucci
While not officially marked as family recipes, the polenta ($9.50) and beef carpaccio ($15) starters have both been on the menu in some form seemingly from day one. They were joined by a loaf of warm, homemade bread and olive oil, accompanied by fresh garlic, grated cheese, red pepper flakes and oregano — the start to all dinners at Rosalie’s.
A pair of grilled polenta wedges sat atop what the menu listed as simply “spinach puree,” but instead, was a lively whip of what appeared to be goat cheese and finely chopped spinach. Olive oil-braised tomatoes were tender and sweet and joined by oil-cured olives and capers for a puttanesca-style combination that paired well with the polenta. A generous helping of sauteed baby spinach and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar finished the dish. It was wonderful, though, under the heat of the broiler or heat lamp, the fresh mozzarella that dotted the plate had melted and became a bit rubbery.
We overheard the diners at a neighboring table tell their server that they’ve traveled and eaten throughout Europe and the best beef carpaccio they’ve had was at Rosalie’s. While my experience eating beef carpaccio is a bit more...domestic, I can attest that Rosalie’s version ranks right near the top.
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Steve Featherstone
Downtown workers rally to save falcon chick that fell from Syracuse’s tallest building (PS; $; Featherstone)
James Murray was leaving work in downtown Syracuse on Monday evening when a strange bird stopped him in his tracks under the portico of the Chase Tower building on the corner of S. Salina and W. Fayette streets.
“I sort of froze because it’s pretty jarring to see a bird like that just sitting on the sidewalk,” Murray said.
Murray thought the awkward looking bird with the big yellow feet and tuft of white down on its head might be a peregrine falcon chick.
“I know what they look like,” he said, “and sometimes walking around downtown you’ll see a skeleton of a pigeon, so I suspected it was a peregrine falcon. But that’s not a place you’d expect to see one.”
“I was really nervous,” Murray added, “I wasn’t really sure what to do.”
Not wanting to frighten the chick, Murray sat down and started calling wildlife rehabilitators. He reached Jean Soprano at Kindred Kingdoms Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Pennellville. Soprano believes the chick probably got blown from its nest atop the State Tower Building and glided to the ground two blocks away.
“Was he ready to fledge yet? Maybe not, we don’t know,” Soprano said. “But you know how these teenagers are, they’re risk takers, all of them, every species.”
The falcon chick, which was about the size of a crow, showed no fear of people until Murray and two other passersby tried to coax it into a cardboard box. Then it flapped its wings and flew just high enough to cross over rush-hour traffic streaming down S. Salina Street.
The three falcon Samaritans followed, darting between cars and buses, and found the chick on the sidewalk outside a Dollar General store. It flapped away again, this time into Bank Alley.
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Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com
James Taylor brings fire while Syracuse provides rain (review) (PS; $; Herbert)
James Taylor brought the fire while Syracuse provided the rain on Wednesday night at the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater.
Flanked by nearly a dozen seasoned performers and session musicians (such as legendary drummer Steve Gadd and vocalist Dorian Holley), Taylor played a two-and-a-half-hour show consisting of two sets and an encore – walking through his discography like a country road. He expressed gratitude throughout the performance for his fans, especially those on the lawn, who had braved heavy rain to attend the show.
“Thanks for coming out tonight in spite of what’s coming down from the skies,” Taylor said. “It’s not the weather we asked for – but it’s good singing weather, I think.”
The show began at 8:15 p.m. with a well-edited compilation video of the six-time Grammy winner singing the first verse of his hit “Something in the Way She Moves” throughout his career. Taylor then took the stage with his band to play the rest of the song, before sharing an anecdote of auditioning with the song in 1968 for Paul McCartney and George Harrison in London.
“Paul liked the song enough that he signed us to the label. George liked the song so much he went home and wrote it himself,” Taylor joked, referencing the Beatles’ song “Something.” “Imitation is the highest form of flattery. I stole just about everything from the Beatles.”
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Here’s how a citizens committee thinks $500 million should be spent as Micron comes to Clay (PS; Coin)
A citizens committee tasked with recommending how a $500 million community fund should be spent offered some broad suggestions today on Central New York’s greatest needs.
The 16-member committee, formed last year to help prepare for the arrival of Micron Technology, offered six top areas in the Community Priorities Document: education, job training, housing, health, sustainable development and funding for businesses owned by women, minorities and veterans.
Nonprofit groups can eventually apply for funding in those broad categories, although the process of applying for and awarding grants haven’t been drawn up yet. Once they are, the committee will hold workshops to explain how organizations can apply for money.
“This is about maximizing the moment, and that’s exactly what I think we are going to do,” said Melanie Littlejohn, co-chair of the committee and chief executive officer of the Central New York Community Foundation.
The committee was formed shortly after Micron announced in October 2022 it planned to spend up to $100 billion to build a computer chipmaking complex in the town of Clay. The project, the biggest private investment in state history, has the potential to dramatically alter life in Central New York.
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