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Welcome to National Forgiveness Day!
Forgiveness is a process, not an act, and it teaches the forgiver about themselves as well as about those being forgiven. It can set them on a path to healing from mental or emotional pain, trauma, and grief. It relieves stress—from anger, resentment, and bitterness—and gives permission to heal and to stop living in the past, so the future can be looked to instead. It provides physical health benefits too, since less anxiety and stress transfers to lower blood pressure, a stronger heart, an improved immune system, and even possibly the reduction of physical pain. National Day of Forgiveness provides the opportunity to understand the benefits that forgiveness provides, and it encourages developing ways to incorporate forgiveness into one's life.
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Eddie Lampkin Jr., a 6-foot-11, 265-pound center, transferred to Syracuse from Colorado where he averaged 10.6 points and 7.0 rebounds last season. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Getty Images
Which Syracuse basketball transfer will have the biggest impact this season? (Mike’s Mailbox) (PS; $; Waters)
We keep passing key markers on the way to the Syracuse basketball team’s season-opener on Monday, Nov. 4, against Le Moyne.
The most recent sign of the season’s approach was the official start to practice for the Orange. The Syracuse players and coaches held their first full practice this past Tuesday. It was the first of 30 allotted practices over the 42-day period leading up to the first game of the season.
And, if the questions pouring into the Mailbox are any indication, the fans appear to be narrowing their focus on the upcoming season.
We’ve got some good questions this week, so let’s get started.
(If you have a question for the Mailbox, email it to mwaters@syracuse.com).
Q: Who do you think will be the most impactful transfer this year?
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Mike: Syracuse coach Adrian Autry brought in four transfers to bolster the Orange’s roster for the 2024-25 season.
The transfer portal additions were necessary in part because of the departures of eight players off last year’s squad, including starting point guard Judah Mintz, who entered the NBA draft, and seven other player who decided to transfer.
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Syracuse Basketball: Sadiq White, Kiyan Anthony fall in rankings; 4-star target soars (itlh; Adler)
A Syracuse basketball commit and various recruiting targets made some major moves when updated its national top 150 in the 2025 class a few days ago.
At this juncture, the Orange staff has one verbal pledge in the senior cycle, from talented forward Sadiq White Jr. out of Charlotte, N.J. White verbally committed to the 'Cuse in late May and took an official visit to Syracuse basketball last weekend.
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Recently, several Orange 2025 targets have pledged to other programs or not included Syracuse basketball in their list cuts. However, 'Cuse coaches continue to pursue a handful of high school seniors, as the team looks to add a couple of highly rated 2025 prospects to join White in this cycle.
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Syracuse Basketball: 3 thoughts on ACC schedule release (itlh; Mlodzinski)
With so many teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, it varies year to year how the schedule will shake out. But it's safe to say that this might be one of the most stacked home schedules since the Orange moved conferences in 2013.
Syracuse basketball will host Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, and NC State, among others. It's not every year that multiple blue bloods, recent NCAA Tournament champions, and a Final Four team from the year before make a pit stop to the Dome, even in a conference as great as the ACC. In other words, Syracuse basketball fans lucked out.
Of course, the team will still have plenty of challenging games. However, it's a schedule that has a lot of cool wrinkles and one that Syracuse basketball fans should really appreciate.
My three thoughts on the ACC schedule for Syracuse basketball.
1. Biggest surprise of the SU schedule
If there's one game Syracuse hoops fans circle year in and year out, it's the Duke game. The two historic college basketball programs play at least once a year, and sometimes twice in the regular season.
This year, Duke and Syracuse meet once, and interestingly enough, it's on a Wednesday.
That might not sound like a big deal, but given how much of a marquee game this usually is, it's a bit of a surprise.
Since joining the ACC in 2013, this is just the sixth time Syracuse and Duke have played a regular season game on a weekday, and the second time at the Dome. Syracuse won the last weekday Dome clash with Duke in 2017, 78-75.
Sure, with Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski no longer on the sidelines, some of the luster of this game has been lost.
The game will still be aired on the ESPN family of networks and I'm sure the Dome will exceed 30,000 fans, especially if the Orange and Blue Devils are both playing well by February. But not having it on a Saturday feels sort of lame.
2. Tough stretch to end the season
They really saved the best for last - or worst - depending on how you look at it - for Syracuse basketball.
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(youtube; radio; Cuse Sports Talk)
Voice of the Orange Matt Park joins Steve Infanti and Paulie Scibilia to give his way-too-early thoughts on the Syracuse men's basketball schedule, look ahead to the Holy Cross football game on Saturday, weigh in on the Matthew Sluka story, and more.
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Destiny USA sues longtime mall restaurant over unpaid rent (PS; $; Moriarty)
Destiny USA is suing one of its oldest tenants, a popular national-chain restaurant known for its 1950s’ diner vibe, for more than $100,000 in unpaid rent.
Carousel Center Co., the Pyramid Cos. entity that owns the Syracuse shopping mall, filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Johnny Rockets, alleging the restaurant has not paid $140,026 in rent this year.
The unpaid rent includes the restaurant’s fixed monthly rent, plus additional charges for such things as insurance, taxes, common area maintenance and late fees, according to the lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Onondaga County against The Johnny Rockets Group, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
Neither Johnny Rockets nor mall representatives responded to requests from syracuse.com | The Post-Standard for comment.
Johnny Rockets’ corporate parent, FAT Brands, is facing legal troubles after federal prosecutors earlier this year accused its founder and controlling shareholder of siphoning off $47 million from the company to fund his lavish lifestyle, leaving the company without enough cash to pay its own bills.
(Update: Erin Mandzik, senior director of corporate communications for FAT Brands, said in an email Thursday evening that Johnny Rockets at Destiny USA restaurant is independently owned and operated and the legal matter will need to be resolved between the franchisee and the mall operator.)
Johnny Rockets opened on the second level of the original section of Destiny USA in June 1999, when the mall was named the Carousel Center. The location between a Williams-Sonoma store and an American Eagle Outfitters store was unusual, given that all other eateries in the mall were in or near the mall’s food court at the time.
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Sugarbeets cake, made with beets and walnuts, at Sugarbeets Kitchen and Bar, Rome, N.Y. (Jared Paventi | jaredpaventi@gmail.com)
Even the desserts are made with beets at Rome’s Sugarbeets Kitchen and Bar (Dining Out Review) (PS; $; Paventi)
Ironically, there were only two items on the menu at Sugarbeets Kitchen and Bar in Rome that contained beets. One was the pickled beet salad that we skipped. The other was served at dessert.
Yep. Beets for dessert.
Shredded beets and walnuts were at the core of the Sugarbeets cake, a warm spiced cake similar to a carrot cake in texture and moistness. The cake took its sweetness from the natural sugars of the root vegetable but without any of the deep red hue that you might expect. Cinnamon added warmth to each forkful, which was counterbalanced by the coolness of an accompanying scoop of vanilla ice cream.
To be honest, our visit to Rome wasn’t only about visiting Sugarbeets. It’s been two months since a tornado on July 16 devastated the city. The veritable randomness of the storm toppled a church steeple and ripped roofs off buildings on West Liberty Street, and damaged structures on Erie Boulevard West. Blue tarps cover the scars and caution fencing keeps onlookers at a distance. On West Dominick Street, where Sugarbeets is located and parallel to those two areas, it looked like just another late summer evening in the city.
The 5-year-old restaurant is part neighborhood bar, part bistro. A moderately-sized bar area faces the street and entertained a group of regulars and those waiting for takeout orders. A dining room with seating for about 40 connects to a secluded patio with outdoor seating. Owner Logan Smith was visible in the kitchen and dining room, expediting and running dishes to tables to support his waitstaff. Two waitresses teamed up to cover the dining room, clearing plates and refreshing drinks efficiently while offering deep knowledge of the menu.
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