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Welcome to Orange Chicken Day!
Orange chicken, a Chinese-American dish beloved at Chinese restaurants in North America, particularly at Panda Express, where it is believed to have been invented, is celebrated today with Orange Chicken Day. Sometimes known as orange peel chicken, orange-flavored chicken, or tangerine chicken, orange chicken consists of chopped and battered chicken that's fried until it's light and crispy and then coated in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce that thickens and caramelizes like a glaze. The secret to the sweet and sour taste of the dish—at least when it comes to Panda Express—is a contrast of brown sugar, honey, and oil from orange peels with soy sauce and Chinese black vinegar.
Orange chicken is similar to some sweet and sour dishes in China and is often considered to be a Chinese food in America, but it is not regularly found in China. It may be viewed as a variation of another American-born dish, General Tso's chicken. Chef Andy Kao claims to have developed the recipe for orange chicken at a Panda Express in Hawaii in 1987, as a modification of a bone-in dish the restaurant served. While it's an American creation, it may have been inspired by a tangerine chicken dish from Hunan province, China, that translates to "dried citrus peel chicken." The Chinese dish diverges in preparation and taste from orange chicken, however, and is fresh and spicy instead of sweet and sour. Besides Panda Express, where it is the signature dish, orange chicken is regularly found in school cafeterias, at military bases, and in the frozen meal aisles in supermarkets. It is prepared, enjoyed, and celebrated today, on Orange Chicken Day!
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Is SU basketball at a competitive disadvantage with its small staff? (PS; $; Ditota)
When Syracuse hired Alex Kline to be the general manager of its men’s basketball program, it added a crucial element to what had been the ACC’s most skeletal staff.
The NCAA, in January 2023, allowed each men’s basketball program to have as many as five assistant coaches, though only three of those could recruit off-campus. Last month, the NCAA ruled that six “countable” coaches could recruit, though their recruiting efforts were limited to four per day during the academic year evaluation period and during the spring and summer evaluation period.
A “countable coach,” by the NCAA’s definition, is “an institutional staff member or any other individual outside the institution (e.g., consultant, professional instructor) with whom the institution has made arrangements who engages in off-campus recruiting activities or provides technical or tactical instruction related to a sport to a student-athlete at any time.”
Before adding Kline, Syracuse had three assistant coaches (Allen Griffin, Brenden Straughn, Dan Engelstad) and a director of basketball operations (DOBO) in Peter Corasaniti.
Based on positions listed on every ACC school’s website, Syracuse has the smallest men’s basketball staff in the conference.
Six other ACC programs have just three assistants (BC, Clemson, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech), but all those programs have DOBOs and additional personnel in their men’s basketball programs.
Clemson, for example, has a DOBO, a director of recruiting and a director of player development. Notre Dame has an assistant to the head coach, a development and recruiting coordinator, a director of recruiting and a DOBO.
Six ACC men’s basketball programs have five assistant coaches and those schools, too, have positions like GM, director of player personnel and/or recruiting coordinators on their staffs.
Pittsburgh has two associate head coaches, three assistant coaches – one of whom is also chief of staff in charge of recruiting and NIL, plus an assistant AD in charge of scouting and a director of alumni and player development. Wake Forest has five assistants, a DOBO, a GM and a director of player relations. California has five assistants, a director of operations and player development, a coordinator of recruiting operations and a director of business operations.
Stanford, SMU, Virginia and Georgia Tech also have five assistant coaches, plus additional personnel.
All of this is to say the Orange, right now, lacks the number of coaches many of its ACC peers have.
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Demetris Nichols, a former Syracuse star and graduate assistant coach, is now a player development coach with the Philadelphia 76ers. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
Former Syracuse basketball player Demetris Nichols leaves Wake Forest for NBA job (PS'; $; Waters)
Demetris Nichols recently left Wake Forest after one year as an assistant coach to become a player development coach with the Philadelphia 76ers.
In a telephone interview from Salt Lake City, where he is already working with the Sixers’ summer league team, Nichols said he enjoyed his year at Wake Forest, but the opportunity to return to the pro ranks was just too good to pass up.
“It’s very very difficult to get into the NBA,’' Nichols said. “When you get this kind of opportunity, you don’t want to let it pass by.’'
The move to Philadelphia reconnects Nichols with Sixers coach Nick Nurse. The two got to know each other several years ago when Nichols played for the Iowa Energy of the D-League and Nurse was the team’s head coach. They reunited two years ago when Nurse was coaching the Toronto Raptors and Nichols was an assistant with Toronto’s G-League affiliate.
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Syracuse Basketball: 4-star balls out in front of Adrian Autry; Kiyan Anthony wins (itlh; Adler)
The annual Peach Jam tournament on Nike's EYBL circuit commenced on Saturday, with numerous Syracuse basketball targets set to vie for the coveted crown in the main 17U division during an NCAA live period.
Peach Jam runs from July 13 to July 21 in North Augusta, S.C. Currently, there is an evaluation period where college coaches can watch high school prospects in person from July 11 to July 14, with another live period next weekend.
I'll certainly track how Orange recruits fare at Peach Jam, and high school players for whom the 'Cuse staff is in attendance.
Two Syracuse basketball priority recruits who I'll discuss here are 2025 four-star guard Acaden Lewis from Washington, D.C., and 2025 four-star shooting guard Kiyan Anthony from New York City.
Syracuse basketball recruiting targets are competing in AAU events over the next week.
The 6-foot-5 Anthony suits up for the Baltimore-based Team Melo, while the 6-foot-3 Lewis does the same for the Oxon Hill, Md.-based Team Durant. Both recently scored top honors for their performances during the EYBL's regular season this past spring.
Team Durant and Team Melo didn't make the 24-squad Peach Jam field. Rather, they're both competing in a separate event called the Peach Invitational Tournament ("PIT").
On Saturday, per top writer Sam Lance and others, 'Cuse head coach Adrian Autry was on hand, along with many other college coaches, to watch Team Durant battle the Chicago-based Mac Irvin Fire.
In front of Autry, Lewis led Team Durant to an 85-69 triumph. Per a box score for this contest on the EYBL Web site, Lewis dropped 21 points, to go along with four rebounds and three assists. He was 8-of-19 from the field.
A few days ago, Lewis, a standout rising senior at the Sidwell Friends School in D.C., disclosed a top eight of Syracuse basketball, Kentucky, two-time defending national champion UConn, North Carolina, Duke, Tennessee, Michigan and Auburn.
He plans to officially visit the 'Cuse at some point, I've been told, and Lewis landed a scholarship offer from the program in late April of this year.
Anthony and Team Melo, on Saturday, defeated the Columbus, Ohio-based All Ohio Red by a final of 77-74. Anthony registered 16 points, three boards and three assists on 7-of-18 shooting from the field.
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Syracuse Basketball: Per scout, SU staff watches 4-stars, 5-stars on Adidas circuit (itlh; Adler)
As the shoe-sponsored AAU circuits have conducted competitions this weekend amid an NCAA live period, Syracuse basketball coaches are out and about watching highly rated prospects across various classes.
The Adidas 3SSB league, for one, has been holding its season-ending playoffs of the current grassroots hoops term, with those playoffs culminating on July 14 in Rock Hill, S.C. The current evaluation period for college coaches to be on hand for recruits has been taking place from July 11 to July 14.
According to a post on X from top scout Ron Hampston, the 'Cuse staff was reportedly in attendance for at least one game involving the 16U team of Wildcat Select, a 3SSB program that, according to its Web site, has prospects who hail from states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, among others.
Hampston, in his X post, noted three players on Wildcat Select in the 16U division: Tay Kinney, Jonathan Sanderson and Kameron Mercer.
The Syracuse basketball staff reportedly was in the house for some top-flight prospects.
Per his X page, Kinney is a 6-foot-3 point guard/shooting guard in the class of 2026. He goes to Newport High School in Newport, Ky. Kinney is rated four stars, with most recruiting services placing him inside the top 35 nationally of the rising high school junior class.
According to his bio on the On3 Web site, Kinney holds scholarship offers from schools such as Cincinnati, Louisville, Purdue, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Illinois, Xavier, Ohio State and Dayton, among others.
Sanderson is a 6-foot-3 point guard in the 2026 cycle out of Saline High School in Saline, Mich. He is ranked a four-star, top-50 national prospect in his class, per multiple recruiting Web sites.
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The steeple at St. Patrick's Church on Tipperary Hill was installed Friday evening. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)
Syracuse church replaces its steeples — 99 years after they fell down (PS; Miller & Boyer)
For 35 years, St. Patrick’s Church featured two gothic steeples that towered over North Lowell Avenue on Syracuse’s Tipperary Hill. But a 1925 storm toppled the structures, and the church’s congregation never got around to replacing them.
That changed this week.
A pair of prefabricated steeples arrived on flatbed trucks from Kentucky on Thursday. With a massive crane set up in the church’s parking lot, the work of lifting and attaching them was completed on Friday evening with a small group of parishioners and church leaders watching it all slowly unfold.
Onlookers included the church’s pastor, the Rev. Kevin Maloney.
“So often these days, there are so many reasons to look down,” he said. “These new steeples give us a reason and a reminder to look up.”
The new steeples measure 70-feet and 135-feet high from the ground. The church secured a variance from the city earlier this year to exceed the neighborhood’s 50-foot height limit.
The steeples were the latest in a series of parishioner-supported upgrades St. Patrick’s has made using funds from a $1 million capital campaign launched in 2019 for its 150-year anniversary a year later. The church’s building at the corner of North Lowell Avenue and Ulster Street opened in 1872, with the original steeples added in 1890.
The church fixed its broken electronic bell system and integrate it into the new steeple design. It also installed a 100-year-old bell that once hung in the steeple of a Presbyterian church in Auburn.
The new additions come as the church prepares for its big summer community event. The St. Patrick’s Irish Fest takes place July 19 and 20 in the block surrounding the church.
After the crew from Campbellsville Industries slid the Celtic cross into the main steeple at 7:22 p.m. Friday, Father Kevin let the carillon loose with a click of a remote control as onlookers applauded. Random carols from the chimes alerted the neighborhood that the work was done.
“This is a historic day, one that changes the landscape of our city, our neighborhood and community,” he said. “A steeple is a beacon of hope, a reminder of what church can and should be.”
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