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Welcome to Mayflower Day!

The Mayflower, a merchant ship that usually carried wine and dry goods, left Plymouth, England, on today's date in 1620, and headed for the New World, with 102 passengers and a small crew. It had originally started its voyage to cross the ocean the previous month along with a smaller ship, the Speedwell, but the Speedwell leaked, so the supplies and passengers from it were put on the Mayflower, and the Mayflower made the journey alone. Almost 40 of the Mayflower's passengers were protestant separatists who hoped to establish a new church in the New World, separate from the Church of England. Known today as Pilgrims, they referred to themselves as Saints. The rest of the passengers were secular colonists. The travelers were given permission to establish their settlement from the Virginia Company.

The Mayflower is estimated to have measured 80 or 90 feet in length and 24 feet in width. Captain Christopher Jones, who led its voyage, owned it and purchased it in 1608, shortly after it had been built. It encountered brutal storms on its journey across the Atlantic, and on November 21, 1620, it made landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, much farther north than where it was supposed to land. On that day, the Mayflower Compact, a 200-word document that outlined the rules of governing for the passengers, was signed by 41 of them. It was the first document that established self-government to be signed in territory that would eventually be part of the United States. On December 21, 1620, the ship landed at Plymouth Rock. The passengers disembarked on December 26, at what is now Plymouth. There they established Plymouth Colony, the first permanent colony in New England. Today we remember the ship that made the founding of this colony possible.

SU News

(youtube; podcast; Locked on Syracuse)

There's been some news regarding Syracuse Orange Basketball 2025 recruiting in recent weeks. Derek Dixon announced he's making his decision on September 27th with Syracuse in his final six list of schools. Acaden Lewis announced his top four, but the Orange unfortunately didn't make the cut. Adrian Autry's only '25 commit Sadiq White earned his 5th star on ESPN and is transferring to IMG Academy. Plus, Kiyan Anthony recently had an in-home visit with the Cuse.

Jackson Holzer provides a Syracuse Basketball recruiting update on this edition of Locked On Syracuse.

Update on Sadiq White, Kiyan Anthony & More with Syracuse Basketball | Syracuse Orange Podcast (youtube; podcast; Locked on Syracuse; premieres at 10 AM EST)

There's been some news regarding Syracuse Orange Basketball 2025 recruiting in recent weeks. Derek Dixon announced he's making his decision on September 27th with Syracuse in his final six list of schools. Acaden Lewis announced his top four, but the Orange unfortunately didn't make the cut. Adrian Autry's only '25 commit Sadiq White earned his 5th star on ESPN and is transferring to IMG Academy. Plus, Kiyan Anthony recently had an in-home visit with the Cuse.Jackson Holzer provides a Syracuse Basketball recruiting update on this edition of Locked On Syracuse.

NBA Draft: Syracuse Forward Donnie Freeman Brings Elite Versatility Into His Freshman Season (SI; Derryberry)

Donnie Freeman is a very young prospect and one of the most versatile defenders in the incoming freshman class. While his game is still somewhat raw overall, his physical tools and play style seem to be a perfect fit for Syracuse. The defensive upside that Freeman brings to the table is near the top of the 2025 class and could lead to him being selected in the lottery.

As a 6-foot-10 forward with high-level fluidity, Freeman can make a solid impact as early as day one. He has impressive lateral and vertical athleticism. While he does get overly aggressive at times, getting the defensive system of Syracuse figured out early could be a key to unlocking his one-and-done potential. The long wingspan of Freeman combined with his timing while challenging at the rim makes him a dangerous rim protector regardless of the level of competition he is playing with. He may be overpowered by back-to-the-basket big men in college, but the agility-based defense will be valuable on all levels.

He can be effective on the interior regardless of whether he is the primary defender or helping off-ball. Even though he does not have a strong frame, he has wiry strength and plays with physicality on both ends. The strength aspect is one portion of his game that will surely be a point of emphasis for improving before his freshman year at Syracuse. It will be interesting to see how he is used, but he will more than likely serve more as a forward than a center. If he is forced into switches, Freeman can hold his own against quicker opponents. He should eventually be able to hang with most wings but may struggle at times during his freshman year due to this still being somewhat new to him. All-in-all, Freeman will make an impact for the Orange, but exactly where that impact is felt is still in the air.
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John Bol Ajak, a former Syracuse basketball player, attended the celebrity basketball game during Syracuse University’s Coming Back Together triennial event on Sept. 12, 2024. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.comDennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com

Former Syracuse basketball player establishes scholarships for kids in Africa, plans to move home (PS; $; Ditota)

He has described it, over the years, as the reason for his existence.

Now, John Bol Ajak – or Bol to everybody who knows him – will begin the next phase of his charitable work.

The first annual HumBol gala will take place Sunday in Philadelphia. Bol, the former Syracuse basketball player, is using the event to officially introduce his foundation, which aims to bring kids from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya to American schools and place them with Lost Boys of Sudan families who have been here for years.

Bol was born in South Sudan and moved with his family as an infant to the Kakuma camp to escape civil war. He remembers sitting under trees and writing in the sand during his refugee camp classes.

He came to America on September 15, 2014 at age 14 to build a better life. But his initial days here were marked by homelessness and confusion as he tried to navigate his brave new world. When a host family took him in, he slowly started to learn how to survive and thrive in the United States.

He’s hoping to make that path smoother for other kids from Africa who emigrate here. Some, like him, he said, arrive in America all alone.

“That’s one of the main factors that made me start the HumBol Foundation,” he said. “Most of the kids coming from home, they feel like it’s the lottery when you come to America. But they don’t know the struggle and how to make it in America. They think it’s a dreamland.


“I just want to establish a better home for kids so they can get help for what they need, so they can better transition. I had a culture shock when I first came here.”

The ultimate goal, Bol said, is to establish 1,000 scholarships for kids living in the Kakuma camp. His foundation has already secured a spot at the Church Farm School for Deng Mabior, who was born in the United States to a Lost Boys of Sudan family.

The Lost Boys fled Sudan during civil war in the 1980s and walked approximately 1,000 perilous miles before settling in Kenya, where the Kakuma Refugee Camp was established. In 2000, the United States resettled about 3,600 Lost Boys and 86 Lost Girls in America.
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Derrick Coleman returns to Syracuse to host a pair of events to support the Orange women’s basketball program (PS; $; Waters)

From the lanes to the hardwood, Derrick Coleman is hoping to help out the Syracuse community and also provide support for Syracuse University’s women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack with a pair of events this weekend.

On Friday night, Coleman will host Legends & Lanes with celebrities including former SU men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim taking aim at the pins at Apex Entertainment in Destiny mall.

The event runs from 7 to 11 p.m. on Friday. Syracuse football coach Fran Brown and members of the SU basketball staff are also expected to attend.

Then on Saturday afternoon, Coleman has organized a community fair in conjunction with a basketball game, featuring former SU players including Paul Harris, Lawrence Moten, Dajuan Coleman and others.

The goal, Coleman said, is to recognize the achievements of Legette-Jack while also boosting her basketball program.

“I want to help Felisha raise money for the program and do something for the city of Syracuse,’’ Coleman said. “That’s important. We’re still trying to bridge the gap between the city and Syracuse University.’’

The community fair and celebrity basketball game will be held at Nottingham High School on Saturday afternoon and will begin at 12:30 p.m. The celebrity game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. Tickets for the events are priced at $5 and available at the door.

A share of the proceeds will also go to Nottingham High School’s athletic department. Nottingham is the alma mater of Legette-Jack, who went onto play at Syracuse University and will enter her third season as the Orange’s coach this year.

“I wanted to help honor Felisha,’’ Coleman said. “I think she’s done so much not only for the university, but the city of Syracuse. She’s home-grown. I wanted raise money to help her with the program.’’

Coleman and Legette-Jack go back to their overlapping years at Syracuse University. Coleman played at SU from 1986 to 1990. He ranks second on SU’s all-time scoring list with 2,143 points. He is the career leader in rebounds with 1,537; almost 500 more than the next-highest SU player.
Legette-Jack played on the SU women’s team from 1984 to 1989. She finished her career with 1,526 points and 927 rebounds.

In addition to the game, Saturday’s slate includes a backpack giveaway and a community fair. Organizations focusing on financial planning, educational support, health services and home ownership will be on hand.
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The CBT Celebrity Classic Basketball Game

Former Syracuse basketball player retires, plus notes on Naheem McLeod and more (PS; $; Ditota)

Brandon Triche has been hiding in plain sight.

The former Syracuse basketball guard, introduced at Thursday night’s Coming Back Together charity basketball game at the JMA Wireless Dome as the only Orange starter to win 120 games, played his last serious basketball in 2023.

His professional career ended there, in Dubai, playing for Shabab Al Ahli. He’s been home in DeWitt since.

Blame it on the knees.

He’s had two ACL surgeries on his left knee. The last three or four years of his professional career, he needed gel injections to lubricate the knee and labored to keep it strong.

“The issue was on my third year, I ended up hurting my right knee. I thought I tore my meniscus but the doctor ended up saying it was cartilage. It was basically this feeling that you’re not going to be able to get away from it,” Triche, 33, said. “I can’t baby this one and then baby that one. It made me be in really great shape, but it took so long. I literally made basketball a 9-to-5.”

Triche said he is generally at peace with his decision to end his playing career. He does not miss the stress of his situation in Dubai, where he was asked to do everything. The season he averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds, the feeling was essentially, “Why didn’t you average 30?”

He said he was playing maybe the best basketball of his UAE career in 2022-23, but decided he’d had enough.

He’s now beginning to build a mentor/trainer relationship with high-level area players hoping to play Division I basketball.

He wants to get into coaching, preferably at the college level. He has no ambition to be a head coach, he said. He wants to help with the daily grind of incremental improvement. He’s willing to show up at midnight to rebound, to spend time “translating” for a player what a head coach asks of him. Throughout his SU playing career, Triche was described by Jim Boeheim as a diligent worker.
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NCAA Basketball: Syracuse and Louisville among teams with key MTEs on their schedules (bustingbrackets.com; Burgess)

The regular season begins in less than two months and that means the march towards March does as well. Even though teams are just finding their footing during the first few weeks of the season, the weeks leading up to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays can be vitally important to a team's postseason resume. The myriad of multi-team events that take place in the first month of the season is the first real chance for a lot of teams to make an early statement. Sometimes those MTE results can carry the weight of their resume, be it positively or negatively for the entire season.
Ask Charleston about the importance of MTEs and a team's resume. Two seasons ago the Cougars won their MTE by beating Davidson, Colorado State, and Virginia Tech and rode that momentum to a 31-win season and domination of the CAA. The importance of MTEs isn't just about resume impact, it's also about the potential effect it can have on a team's psyche as the season gets rolling. With most MTEs beginning the week before Thanksgiving, the feast could be extra festive for some.

There are some teams in particular that could get their seasons off to a roaring start with a good showing during the MTE season, while others could spiral if the opposite happens. However, with a new season, hope springs eternal so we’ll focus on the positive. Let's look at five teams that could raise some eyebrows with a strong showing in an early-season tournament.

Syracuse Orange​

Red Autry led the Orange to 20 wins in his first season at the helm, but it's looking for bigger things in year number two. That quest will begin in earnest the week before Thanksgiving when they take part in the Legends Classic in Brooklyn along with Texas, Saint Joseph's, and Texas Tech.

The Orange, while they do return a handful of players, lost some key cogs from last season’s team. Star Judah Mintz left for the draft after averaging over 18 points per game, three rebounds, and four assists. Mintz went undrafted but would go on to sign a 10-day exhibit contract with the Philadelphia 76ers. They also lost sophomores Maliq Brown and Quadir Copeland to the transfer portal.
The key returners for Autry are juniors Chris Bell and JJ Starling who netted over 25 points per game last year. In the portal, the Orange brought in four guys who averaged double-digit points last season. Jaquan Carlos was a big-time point guard at Hofstra, dishing out over six assists, four rebounds, and 10 points. Eddie Lampkin, Jr. brings his 10 points and seven rebounds from Colorado to Syracuse this season. Autry dipped into the CAA for Jyare Davis who scored 17 points with 7.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists at Delaware. Lucas Taylor led Georgia State with 14.5 points on over 35% from deep last season and that would help a Syracuse team that shot just 33% from three last year.
The Legends Classic is important to Syracuse because, in their first game, they face a borderline top-25 team in Texas and then face the winner of Saint Joseph’s and Texas Tech. The Red Raiders look to be a potential at-large candidate that Syracuse could be compared to during the selection process. Ideally for Syracuse, it would be important for the team and their resume to come away with the title in this tournament leading into their matchup with Tennessee in the ACC/SEC Challenge on Dec. 3.
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Syracuse Basketball: Latest rumblings as 4-star DMV guard Derek Dixon set to decide (itlh; Adler)

Toward the end of the month, 2025 four-star guard Derek Dixon from Washington, D.C., plans to make his college decision, and Syracuse basketball is in his top six.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Dixon, a top-50 national prospect in the high school senior class, is down to the Orange, Vanderbilt, Arizona, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Virginia.

Per various media reports, Dixon is expected to make his commitment announcement on September 27. He has taken official visits to all of his finalists, except for Arizona, as Dixon recently canceled his planned official visit to the Wildcats, according to 247Sports national analyst Travis Branham.

Dixon is a standout at Gonzaga College High School in D.C., which is likely to arrive as a preseason top-10 national team ahead of the upcoming 2024-25 campaign. This spring and summer, he played well for the 17U squad of the Washington-based Team Takeover in Nike's EYBL league, a grassroots program to which the 'Cuse staff has deep ties.

The latest rumblings on 2025 four-star guard Derek Dixon, who has Syracuse basketball in his top six.

Orange coaches offered a scholarship to Dixon on June 15 of last year, when the contact period first opened for 2025 prospects. His first official visit occurred in late September of 2023, and it was to Syracuse basketball.
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Four-star guard Acaden Lewis, who visited Syracuse, cuts list of potential schools to 4 (PS; $; Carlson)

Four-star point guard Acaden Lewis, who reportedly made an unofficial visit to Syracuse over the summer has cut his list of potential schools to four and did not include the Orange.

Lewis listed his potential college options as Duke, Kentucky, UConn and North Carolina.

Lewis is considered a four-star prospect by all four of the major recruiting services. ESPN lists him the highest at No. 28, while On3.com and Rivals rank him lowest at No. 55 in the Class of 2025.

Syracuse currently has one player committed in its Class of 2025. Power forward Sadiq White is ranked a five-star prospect and the No. 25 player overall in the class on the 247 Sports composite rankings. He is ranked as high as No. 15 by ESPN.

Kiyan Anthony, the son of Syracuse great Carmelo Anthony, is also a highly-touted prospect in the Class of 2025.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/college...son-kiyan-anthony-explains-got-offer-syracuse (sportskeeda.com; Dhillan)

Being the son of Carmelo Anthony, fans expected Syracuse Orange tonaturally extend an offer for Kiyan Anthony. However, the 17-year-oldclaims that his basketball connection is not the reason the universityinvited him to play for its program.

In episode 1 of "Evolution 2.0" released yesterday, Kiyan claimed that hisskills and overall ceiling were the main factors in him getting the offer.

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His father, Carmelo Anthony, was a one-and-done player with the program during the 2002-03 season. He broke multiple rookie records by scoring 22.2 points per game and averaging 10 rebounds a contest. Named the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player by four major entities,Anthony led the Orangemen to their only NCAA championship.

Carmelo Anthony posted 22 games with double-doubles and scored indouble digits in every game of the season, being the highest scorer in24 of the 35 games.

Melo’s career-high rebounds (15) came in a Big East Tourney gameagainst Huskies, career-high points (33) against Texas Longhorns in theNCAA semifinal, and career-high assists (7) in the championship gameagainst Kansas.

Kiyan Anthony garnered more than 20 offers throughout the nation.However, the combo guard narrowed it down to just six programs afterhis EYBL Peach Jam stint this year, naming USC Trojans, Scarlet Knights,Syracuse, Ohio State, Florida State, and Auburn Tigers.

So far, the Long Island Lutherans senior has only visited Florida Stateand the Orange. He was slated to visit the Trojans in mid-Septemberbut rescheduled it for early October. It is the farthest university from Kiyan Anthony's home in the state of New York.
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Post Malone takes a selfie with a fan outside Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.Provided by Fred Mangine

Post Malone fuels up for Syracuse concert at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (PS; Hayes)

Syracuse native Post Malone stopped by Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Friday night ahead of his highly anticipated hometown concert Saturday.

The well-known barbeque restaurant took to Facebook Saturday to share images of him with staff and fans. The singer sported an “I Heart NY” shirt.

“Posty’s back in Syracuse, getting his pre-show BBQ fix,” the Dino post wrote. “Being the most humble and polite local he’s always been, hangin’ with fans.”

Life-long Syracuse resident Fred Mangine ran into Post he was walking into the restaurant. He said the singer was friendly and accommodating to the small crowd that gathered. Mangine said Post gave autographs and selfies before going inside.

Post Malone, born Austin Richard Post, is set to perform at the Empower FCU Amphitheater at Lakeview for his third stop on the “F-1 Trillion Tour” and his first performance in his hometown since playing at Syracuse University in 2015.

The tour will feature the artist’s first country album and his sixth studio album “F-1 Trillion.” The album was released on August 16 and has earned the singer four nominations at the 2024 Country Music Awards. All four nominations are celebrating the artist’s collaboration with country superstar Morgan Wallen on “I Had Some Help.”
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Ride through Upstate NY wine country with the only rail bike history tours in the U.S. (PS; Hernandez)

An Upstate New York rail bike company is offering a workout with a historical twist on its rail bike rides—the only one of its kind in the U.S.

Finger Lakes Rail Riders in Penn Yan claims to be the only rail bike company in America which provides a historical narration of the area as you pedal through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Upstate New York’s wine country.

They were also awarded a Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award earlier this year, according to an announcement on their Facebook page.

At FLRR, riders will travel in pairs, with a solo seat option to ride with the guide, along a mostly flat five-mile path . The two-hour excursion includes a 25- to 30-minute narration of Yates County history, delivered with a humorous touch by your guide through a two-way radio on each bike.

Think Disney’s “Jungle Cruise,” but Upstate New York style.

Over the course of your journey, you will see working farms, relics from the railroad that was once there, and a one-room Mennonite schoolhouse. Participants are encouraged to ask questions along the way.

“People can come and ride on existing railroads that have been here since 1851,” founder and owner Kathy Ferron told RochesterFirst. “They can get a little exercise, they can see some beautiful scenery — Yates County is an absolutely spectacular place to see.”

While in the area, visit some of the finest Penn Yan has to offer in the Finger Lakes, including paddling on beautiful Keuka Lake, and not one, but two award-winning ice cream spots, The Spotted Duck and Seneca Farms.

FLRR rides run Sunday through Tuesday and Friday through Saturday from now until October 29. The cost per two-seater bike is $88 and there is no age limit to how young or how old a rider has to be.

One person can pedal for two, as long as their fitness level allows it.

FLRR answers more questions about their rides on their website FAQ page.

Rail bike options have grown over the years, giving some abandoned railroad tracks new life by allowing passengers to travel down them on two or four person machines. There are several companies across Upstate New York which offer different kinds of excursions and experiences. Some even offer pet-friendly rail bike tours.

 

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