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Welcome to World Rock Paper Scissors Day!
One of the world's simplest and most common hand signal games is celebrated today. Rock paper scissors is usually played by two people, often when something needs to be chosen, such as whose turn is next. Hands are made into the shape of a rock, piece of paper, or scissors. A rock is made with a fist, paper by holding the hand in a flat, outstretched position, and scissors by making a fist, with the middle and index finger pointing out like a V at a slight angle. Rock breaks scissors, paper covers rock, and scissors cuts paper.
A similar game was first mentioned in Wuzazu, a book by Xie Zhaozhi, a Chinese writer of the Ming dynasty. Known as shousiling, the game was said to date back to the Han dynasty which ranged from 206 BCE to 220 CE. Hand signal games traveled from China to Japan in the seventeenth century, where they became known as sansukumi-ken, and rose in popularity. "Ken" meant fist games, "san" meant three-way, and "sukami" meant deadlock. There were variations of the games, the earliest being mushi-ken. The first form of the game to use symbols for rock, paper, and scissors was jan-ken. Created in the late nineteenth century, the modern version of the game is derived from it.
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CBB Rank 2024: No. 71, Syracuse Basketball (cbbreview.com; Mlodzinski)
Syracuse basketball hasn’t played in March Madness since 2021, but the Orange have a talented enough roster to break the curse.
The tradition continues! CBB Review is again ranking the top 100 teams heading into the new college basketball season. Each day, we will reveal the next team until we reach the team slotted at number one. Up next: Syracuse basketball.
The Orange finally got back to a 20-win season under first-year head coach Adrain Autry, something they hadn’t done since the 2018-19 campaign. Although they didn’t reach the NCAA Tournament, there were notable improvements on the Hill, including a home win over seventh-ranked North Carolina.
Syracuse will have to move on this season from scoring superstar Judah Mintz, who left for the pros. However, other than losing Mintz and transfers Maliq Brown and Quadir Copeland, Syracuse returns most of its core. Juniors JJ Starling and Chris Bell are the top returners, while incoming transfers Eddie Lampkin Jr., Jaquan Carlos, Jyare Davis, and Lucas Taylor all averaged at least 10 PPG at their previous schools.
The Orange also has 5-star Donnie Freeman, who catapulted toward the top of the recruiting rankings in the summer. He could wind up starting at power forward and have a great offensive game, which could help replace what was lost in Mintz’s scoring production.
There’s no doubt that Autry has a very deep and talented roster, but getting it to click together and take another step forward and get back to playing Syracuse basketball will be the greatest task.
Click here to learn more about our preseason top 100 teams heading into the 2024-25 college basketball season.
Head coach: Adrian Autry (2nd season overall, both at Syracuse)
2023-24 record: 20-12 (11-9)
2024 postseason finish: No postseason
Notable departures:
- Judah Mintz (18.8 PPG, 4.4 APG, 3.2 RPG, 2.1 SPG)
- Maliq Brown (9.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG, 1.8 APG, 2.2 SPG, 69.8 FG%)
- Quadir Copeland (9.6 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 2.8 APG, 1.5 SPG)
- Justin Taylor (5.0 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.0 APG)
- vs. Colgate (Nov. 12)
- vs. Texas (Nov. 21)
- vs. St. Joe’s OR Texas Tech (Nov. 22)
- at Tennessee (Dec. 3)
- vs. Georgetown (Dec. 14)
- vs. Maryland (Dec. 21)
Projected Rotation
PG: Jaquan Carlos (6-0, 160, Sr.)2023-24 stats: 10.4 PPG, 6.3 APG, 4.4 RPG, 1.6 SPG, 34.4 3P% (Hofstra)
SG: JJ Starling (6-4, 200, Jr.)
2023-24 stats: 13.3 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 1.9 APG
SF: Chris Bell (6-7, 180, Jr.)
2023-24 stats: 12.0 PPG, 2.3 RPG, 0.7 APG, 42.0 3P%
PF: Donnie Freeman (6-9, 190, Fr.)
247Sports Composite #13 ranked recruit
C: Eddie Lampkin (6-11, 265, Gr.-Sr.)
2023-24 stats: 10.6 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 2.2 APG, 57.9 FG% (Colorado)
6: Jyare Davis (6-7, 215, Sr.)
2023-24 stats: 17.1 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 2.4 APG (Delaware)
7: Kyle Cuffe (6-2, 180, Rs.-So.)
2023-24 stats: 3.2 PPG, 1.0 RPG, 0.5 APG
8: Naheem McLeod (7-4, 265, Jr.)
2023-24 stats: 3.9 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 0.1 APG, 1.9 BPG, 59.4 FG%
9: Elijah Moore (6-4, 170, Fr.)
247Sports Composite #99 ranked recruit
10: Lucas Taylor (6-5, 195, Rs.-Jr.)
2023-24 stats: 14.5 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 1.8 APG, 35.4 3P% (Georgia State)
11: Chance Westry (6-6, 190, Rs.-So.)
2023-24: DNP (Injury)
2022-23 stats: 2.5 PPG, 1.0 APG, 0.7 RPG (Auburn)
Syracuse Basketball team MVP: JJ Starling
...Syracuse athletics: new faces bring new hope to the Orange (TNIAAM; Chiappone)
The 2020s marked a weird time to be a Syracuse Orange fan of football plus men’s and women’s basketball. The state of the three major programs was influx, each of their futures ranging from worrisome to uncertain and questionable. As a former student who saw all the chaos firsthand, 2022 was really a weird year for the trio.
Syracuse football went ballistic with a 6-0 start, then lost six of their last seven and the question of “what comes next?” for Dino Babers appearing over and over again. Men’s basketball had its first losing record under Jim Boeheim after a super-fun Sweet 16 run in 2021; back then, I never thought I’d see Boeheim gone while I was an undergrad. As for women’s basketball, the Quentin Hillsman baggage loomed very large, and Vonn Reed wasn’t the savior there.
Then came 2023-24. The outlooks for FB, MBB and WBB shot up. New or newish faces taking over, a re-energized enthusiasm among the students/fans and (for now) promising results to point to.
Football brought in Fran Brown, coming off eight very up-and-down years under Babers; suddenly, the aura around the program is real. So is the process, the successful offseason and the general refreshed state of the team moving forward.
On the basketball front, two new coaches (Adrian Autry in his first year and Felisha Legette-Jack in her second) faced different challenges but the same broad issue: addressing declining results from programs with past success.
Nobody’s shoes will ever be harder to fill than Boeheim’s. Seriously, when’s the next time we’ll see a college coach stay with the same program for over four decades? Autry stepped in with an incredible young (and eventually injury-plagued) roster, and the results were pretty good for year one. Syracuse reached 20 wins for the first time since 2018-19 and won its most games versus ACC opponents in the 20-game conference schedule format.
Of the three, FLJ’s resume looks the strongest so far (albeit in two seasons over one). After a 20-win season in 2023 (most in four years) and nearly making the postseason, Legette-Jack took the Orange inside the AP top-25 for most of 2024, won ACC Coach of the Year, earned an NCAA Tournament win and nearly upset an elite UConn squad. They also finished 2nd in the ACC regular season standings after being projected for ninth during the preseason.
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NY man charged with stealing sword, bullhorn from Rick Pitino’s St. John’s office (PS; AP)
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for stealing a ceremonial sword and bullhorn from Coach Rick Pitino’s office at St. John’s University, New York City police said Saturday.
Emanuel Yakubov was arrested Friday, one day after police released surveillance footage showing two men walking down a hallway in the building, with one carrying the stolen sword and the other holding the bullhorn.
Yakubov, who lives in Queens where the Catholic institution is located, was charged with burglary, petit larceny, trespassing and possession of stolen property, police said. He remained in custody Saturday. It was unknown whether he had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
Police said the theft happened Tuesday night when two people gained entry to the university athletics department offices “without authorization” and removed a number of items before fleeing on a moped.
The second suspect was still at large Saturday, police said.
“St. John’s University is grateful for the rapid response made by the NYPD and the recovery of stolen property,” university spokesperson Brian Browne said in a statement. “The safety and security of our campus community are essential, and our cooperative relationship with law enforcement helps ensure that.”
Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Pitino, a Hall of Fame coach, was hired by St. John’s last year with the hopes of restoring a once storied Big East program that had its heyday in the 1980s.
Syracuse Men's Basketball على Instagram : "Rivalry meets homecoming, all while chasing a dream they worked for together. #44Films presents Papa’s Beast: A Judah Mintz Story, dropping Monday."
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Country singer Megan Moroney performs at the New York State Fair's Suburban Park Stage in Geddes, N.Y., on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com)Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com
Megan Moroney draws 2nd largest crowd in NYS Fair concert history (review, set list) (PS; $; Herbert)
If you saw Megan Moroney perform at the New York State Fair Monday night, consider yourself “Lucky.”
The “Tennessee Orange” singer drew 47,000 fans to the Suburban Park stage, the second largest crowd in NYS Fair concert history. Fellow country artist Lainey Wilson holds the current record with a crowd of 53,200 at the same stage last year.
Moroney, fresh off opening for Kenny Chesney on his stadium tour, kicked off the show with fan favorites from last year’s debut album, “Lucky,” and “I’m Not Pretty.” The majority female audience held out their phones, recording every minute of it — except for when they were filming themselves for TikTok videos.
The Georgia native wore a short tangerine dress with sparkly orange booty shorts and white boots, frequently smiling as her golden curls made her look like a beauty queen. She completed the look with a bouquet of flowers when she performed “Miss Universe,” a lovelorn anthem about a boyfriend leaving her for a magazine-quality model.
But Moroney herself could soon be a country superstar appearing on the cover of magazines. She has an “aw shucks” charm and earnest lyrics that earned her an ACM Award for best new female artist last year and a nomination for the CMA Awards’ 2023 Song of the Year (”Tennessee Orange”).
Her voice isn’t as powerful as Wilson’s, and her vocals didn’t mesh well with the guitars on the mostly acoustic “Hope You’re Happy,” but she’s got her own brand: Moroney’s backing band wore “emo cowgirl country” shirts and stage crew members wore “Am I Okay?” hoodies. Her diary-in-a-dive-bar writing style especially resonates with women, including longtime country fans and those wearing their first pair of cowboy boots. Many in the audience held up signs showing their appreciation, requesting songs or bragging about driving five hours just to see Moroney.
“Y’all make my dream come true every day,” Moroney told the audience.
Moroney’s also clearly getting more comfortable in front of bigger crowds, occasionally pausing mid-song to lean forward and wave at audience members much like Taylor Swift in her “Eras Tour” concert.
alright so I posted a tick tock and I was like what song should I play the New York State fair and I was looking through the comments right before the show and this was the last minute decision this was not on the setlist this morning but it’s a song that we’ve never played for ash like at a show before I’ve done it at my VIP meet and greets but never to show and it’s one of my favorites off the new album and so this is an
Comparing Moroney to the biggest music star on the planet may sound crazy, but don’t forget Swift was once a young country singer with teardrops on her guitar, too. Moroney is still about two or three heartbreaks away from becoming the next Swift, or at least adding some Swifties to her fanbase with great singalong songs like “Girl in the Mirror.”
“This is the first state fair I’ve ever headlined,” Moroney said. “So this is an exciting night for me and, you know, I just want to take a second to say that I appreciate y’all so much. I mean, the posters that you all have made, I see y’all in the T-shirts, and y’all are just making me feel incredibly welcome. And I want y’all to know that the love is extremely reciprocated.”
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NYS Fair concerts today: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and more (Tuesday, Aug. 27) (PS; Herbert)
Welcome to our daily New York State Fair concert guide! We’ll be publishing a list of music performers and showtimes every day of the 2024 NYS Fair on syracuse.com.
There are two main stages: Suburban Park and Chevy Court. Suburban Park will host the Fair’s largest concerts in the New York Experience area on the west end near Gate 10, in the back of the Midway and past the Expo Center. Chevy Court is located near Gate 1, next to the Center of Progress Building and by the Dairy Products Building. Both have limited seating available.
No tickets are required for concerts. All are free with admission to the Fair, which is $8 this year — and free for seniors 65 and older and kids 12 and under. Tuesday is Fire & Rescue Day / Beef Day; admission is free to any active or retired member of a fire department or emergency services organization with their badge and photo ID.
Here’s what to expect on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024 (Day 7):
Little Anthony & The Imperials - 1 p.m. at Chevy Court
Little Anthony is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer best known as the lead singer of the R&B/soul group Little Anthony and the Imperials. Jerome Anthony Gourdine’s signature high-pitched voice helped sell more than 50 million records worldwide thanks to hits like “Tears On My Pillow,” “Goin’ Out Of My Head,” “Hurt So Bad,” and “Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko Bop.”
Blue Öyster Cult - 6 p.m. at Chevy Court
Known for classics like “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” “Godzilla” and “Burnin’ for You,” the heavy metal/hard rock band has been performing for more than five decades since forming in Stony Brook, New York, on Long Island, in 1967.
Stephen Sanchez - 8 p.m. at Suburban Park
Sanchez, 21, is best known for the breezy ballad “Until I Found You,” which has more than 2 billion streams on Spotify (including a piano version and a duet version with Em Beihold). He released his debut album last year and performed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
More music:
- Organist Nancy Wildoner - 2 p.m. at Empire Theater
- TJ Sacco acoustic - 2:30 p.m. at The Shamrock at the Fair
- Bill Ali - 2:30 p.m. at Suds Courtside Grill
- Binghamton HS Steel Drum Band - 3p.m. at Pan-African Village
- Mira Grimm - 4 p.m. at Empire Theater
- Keep Up - 5 p.m. at The Eatery Pub
- DJ Dretronix - 5 p.m. at Pan-African Village
- PT Cruisers - 6 p.m. at The Shamrock at the Fair
- Rezezens - 7:15 p.m. at The West End II
- Hard Promises - 7:30 p.m. at Suds Courtside Grill
- Mediations - 8 p.m. at Pan-African Village
See full daily entertainment schedules here.
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Concert rules: The NYS Fair website outlines its policy for events at Suburban Park or Chevy Court.
- Smoking/vaping is not permitted within the grassy areas of Chevy Court or Suburban Park.
- No standing on benches or tables.
- No sitting on shoulders of another.
- Aisles must be kept clear of people, strollers, wheelchairs, scooters, etc.
- Seats may not be “saved” for others. In the event of personal necessity, an individual may hold up to 2 additional seats for a limited time.
- Unattended personal items, such as blankets, clothing, coolers, bags, etc., that are intended to save seats will be collected and held for return to the Fairgoer.
- Wheelchair and limited-mobility seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each wheelchair and limited-mobility seat is allowed 2 companion seats. Companions seated in the wheelchair section must remain seated.
- Vision and Hearing Impaired seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each Vision and Hearing Impaired patron is allowed 1 companion seat. Companions seated in the Vision and Hearing Impaired section must remain seated.
- No professional cameras or professional recording devices allowed.
- No umbrellas while the show is underway.
Nearly 70,000 enjoy sixth day of the 2024 NYS Fair (PS; $; Moss)
Nearly 70,000 people enjoyed the sixth day of the New York State Fair, officials said.
A total of 69,934 people entered the fairgrounds on a bright, sunny Monday, according to fair spokesperson Sean Farnsworth.
About 388,000 people have visited the Fair so far this year, as it reached the halfway mark Monday.
Hundreds gathered Monday for a ceremony honoring fallen officers. The honorees included Onondaga County Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Hoosock and Syracuse police officer Michael Jensen, who were shot and killed this spring.
The fairgrounds were also packed at night, as 47,000 people took in a performance from country singer Megan Moroney at Suburban Park. It was the largest crowd this year at the Fair for a concert, officials said, and the second-largest concert in Suburban Park’s history.
The State Fair runs through Labor Day, Sept. 2.
Melanie Smith (left) and Terri Faes have been coming to the New York State Fair together since 1968. They did their annual visit on Thursday. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)(Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)
Their annual NYS Fair trip has been a common bond between two sisters since 1968 (PS; Miller)
The 90 minutes spent in a rear-facing bench seat of their family’s lime green station wagon felt more like 9 hours. How many times would Terri Faes and her younger sister Melanie Smith have to sing “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” before finally reaching the New York State Fair?
When the trip from their Chaumont home finally ended at the main gate, their parents gave them $5 to last the entire day. They barely heard the “have fun” or noticed the wave goodbye as they ran toward what was always their favorite day of the year.
“The first time we came here, we knew it was special,” Terri said the other day while walking through the Colonnade.
“It still is,” Melanie interrupted. “It always will be.”
Their first State Fair trip was 1968. Terri was 8 and Melanie was 6. They’ve come back together every year since, except 1984 when Melanie was 9 months pregnant with her son. He just turned 40 on Saturday.
Their days here over the past 56 years have followed a similar itinerary with a menu that’s adjusted with time and tastes. They visit the buildings to see animals, and they share a few meals.
“We always share because we wanted to make our money last all day,” Terri said while sharing a fried chicken dinner with collard greens from Henry’s Hen House in the Pan African Village.
Their parents used to pack a cooler with sandwiches and instruct the girls to return to the car for lunch. That left them money for fried dough and a caramel apple.
Like their mother, they watch at least one concert in Chevy Court. If there was a country act back in the 1970s, their mom would pack some beers in the cooler and sit on a bench for hours before the show. “She’d just sit there and get nicer and nicer as the day went on,” Melanie said.
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