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Welcome to World Octopus Day!
World Octopus Day is part of International Cephalopod Awareness Days, which take place from October 8–12 each year. Since octopuses have eight arms and squid have eight arms and two tentacles, the holiday week begins on the eighth day of the tenth month. Cephalopods are a class of marine invertebrates. Related to snails and clams, cephalopods have arms and tentacles, three hearts, large brains, and blue blood. This day of the week is dedicated to octopuses!
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Welcome to World Octopus Day!
World Octopus Day is part of International Cephalopod Awareness Days, which take place from October 8–12 each year. Since octopuses have eight arms and squid have eight arms and two tentacles, the holiday week begins on the eighth day of the tenth month. Cephalopods are a class of marine invertebrates. Related to snails and clams, cephalopods have arms and tentacles, three hearts, large brains, and blue blood. This day of the week is dedicated to octopuses!
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Syracuse basketball watches 5-star Alex Constanza, who wants to visit 'Cuse soon (PS; Adler)
Amid the fall recruiting period that began in early September, Syracuse basketball coaches have hit the road to check out various four-star and five-star recruits during open gyms at their respective high schools.
One of the more recent developments in this regard centers on Orange 2026 five-star target Alex Constanza, who received a scholarship offer from the 'Cuse coaching staff in mid-January of this year.
Top recruiting analyst Jake Weingarten, who is the founder of Stockrisers.com, first reported that both Illinois and Syracuse basketball were in for the 6-foot-8 Constanza on October 3 amid an open gym at his school, the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is one of the best squads in the Sunshine State.
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Orange assistant coach Allen Griffin is the lead recruiter for Constanza, an elite guard/small forward who received All-America honors at Westminster as a sophomore in the 2023-24 season. Ed Constanza, Alex's dad, confirmed to me via text messages that Griffin was at Westminster last Thursday to check out the younger Constanza.
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https://www.sportskeeda.com/college...cnamara-set-reunite-special-talk-event-albany (sportskeeda.com; Geoff)
Legendary Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim and his former player Gerry McNamara are reuniting for a special event in Albany, New York, on Wednesday at the Crown Plaza Albany-The Desmond Hotel.
Boeheim and McNamara will be guesting in a one-hour panel discussion along with Albany native and former NCAA referee Jim Cahill, who serves as supervisor of officials for the Big East Conference. Siena Athletic Director John D'Argenio is also part of the panel, according to the report of ESPN Radio 104.5 FM citing the Siena Saints' website.
ESPN personality Doug Sherman will be the event's moderator, while Siena president Chuck Seifert will speak during the panel discussion, which will also celebrate Syracuse and Siena's rich basketball traditions and success stories.
Boeheim and McNamara were a part of the 2002-03 Syracuse Orangemen (now Orange) team that won the 2003 NCAA Tournament, beating Kansas 81-78 in the final. Boeheim won his first and only national title as coach, while McNamara was a vital piece in Syracuse's run in the season, where they went 30-5.
Other players of that illustrious squad were Hakim Warrick, Kueth Duany and Syracuse legend Carmelo Anthony, who was awarded the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament after scoring 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists in the national final against the Jayhawks.
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NCAA’s $2.78B settlement with colleges to allow athlete payments gets preliminary OK (PS; AP)
A judge granted preliminary approval Monday to the $2.78 billion legal settlement that would transform college sports by allowing schools to pay players.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken released an order setting a timeline for a deal that would put millions of dollars into the pockets of college athletes, who can begin applying for payment on Oct. 18.
A final hearing is set for April 7, 2025, the day that one of college sports’ biggest moneymakers, March Madness, comes to a close with college basketball’s national title game. If finalized, the deal would allow the biggest schools to establish a pool of about $21.5 million in the first year to distribute money to athletes through a revenue-sharing plan. Athletes would still be able to cut name, image and likeness deals with outside groups.
Former college athletes from as far back as 2016 would be able to apply for their share of $2.576 billion set aside to help them recoup money they could’ve made from NIL deals, which weren’t allowed until 2021.
“We are pleased that we are one step closer to a revolutionary change in college athletics that will allow billions in revenue sharing,” said plaintiff attorney Steve Berman.
The judge’s approval comes 11 days after attorneys tweaked wording in the original settlement agreement to address Wilken’s concerns. The main change involved getting rid of the word “boosters” and replacing it with a better-defined description of whose potential NIL deals would be subject to oversight by a neutral arbitrator once the deal goes through.
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MBB: 3-Day ACC Basketball Tip-Off This Week (RX; HM)
MBB: 3-Day ACC Basketball Tip-Off This Week
From the ESPN press release of October 7, 2024...
ACC Network to Present Three Days of On-Site Coverage from Expanded ACC Women’s and Men’s Basketball Tipoff Events in Charlotte, Oct. 8-10
Nothing But Net hosts Justin Walters and Taylor Tannebaum and ACC PM host Mark Packer to anchor live coverage from ACC Women’s Tipoff Presented by Ally and ACC Men’s Tipoff, Live from Uptown Charlotte Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET
ACC Network will present three full days of live, on-site coverage of the ACC Women’s and Men’s Tipoff events from Charlotte, Oct. 8-10. Justin Walters, Taylor Tannebaum and Mark Packer will host daylong coverage from multiple sets beginning at 9 a.m. ET all three days from the ACC basketball media days.
ACC Tipoff will feature interviews with head coaches, student-athletes, insiders and more across the Nothing But Net and ACC PM sets inside The Hilton Charlotte Uptown Tuesday-Thursday...
During the ACC Women’s Tipoff on Tuesday, Oct. 8, Walters will be joined on-set by analysts Muffet McGraw, Kelly Gramlich, Ivory Latta and Debbie Antonelli. On Wednesday, Oct. 9, women’s Tipoff coverage will continue throughout the morning before coverage shifts to the men’s Tipoff following the Commissioner’s Forum at 12:30 p.m. Men’s coverage continues Thursday with Tannebaum hosting alongside analysts Joel Berry II, Carlos Boozer, Seth Greenberg and Luke Hancock. Packer will report live from the ACC PM set and interview student-athletes and coaches throughout all three days of coverage.
The ACC enters the 2024-25 women’s basketball season with six teams ranked in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Women’s Basketball Top 25, including 2023-24 ACC Tournament champion Notre Dame (No. 6), Final Four participant NC State (No. 9), Duke (No. 10), North Carolina (No. 13), Louisville (No. 17) and Florida State (No. 19). On the men’s side, two teams are ranked in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Men’s Basketball Top 25 – Duke (No. 8) and North Carolina (No. 10).
During the upcoming season, ACC Network will feature extensive live game and surrounding studio coverage of women’s basketball games and a record 106 men’s basketball games.
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Heather Kass went to an estate sale in 2022 at 308 Clinton Street in Fayetteville. While others looked at the "stuff," she was more interested in buying the house, built and owned by Leopold Stickley, of the famous furniture brand, in 1890. The view upon entering the front of the house. The fireplace burns wood. Courtesy of Monica Browning Photography Courtesy of Monica Browning Photography
House of the Week: Take a step back in time at furniture maker Leopold Stickley's home in Fayetteville (PS; $; Croyle)
Heather Kass calls herself an appreciator of “old things.”
So, it was not a surprise when, in 2022, she found herself at an estate sale outside of the Queen Anne-style home at 308 Clinton Street in Fayetteville.
Dating back to 1890, the house was originally built and owned by Leopold Stickley, one of the founders of the famous furniture company.
“While the people looked at the stuff,” she said, “I was looking at the house.”
Kass has lived in the village of Fayetteville for “a very long time,” and said that her “radius” when it comes to buying a house is “very small.”
When the time came to own a piece of the village history, she jumped on the opportunity.
Built in 1890, Leopold Stickley's house in Fayetteville is for sale.
Leopold Stickley, remembered as the “Revered Dean of Cabinet Makers,” founded L & J.G. Stickley in Fayetteville.
His Herald-Journal obituary on Nov. 2, 1957 credited him with being “one of the first to produce traditional furniture in cherry wood,” and said he was “the dean of the (furniture) industry’s designers.”
The company’s website said that “Stickley survived the end of the Arts and Crafts movement because Leopold adapted to popular tastes and lead the furniture marketplace during uncertain times.”
It makes sense that his house would be of the same high quality as his famous furniture was.
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Beverage industry chips in for Syracuse’s new $3 million recycling cart program (PS; $; Boyer)
Syracuse taxpayers are getting a $728,000 assist from the nation’s top non-alcoholic beverage companies to launch the city’s new recycling program.
City public works crews this week began delivering 42,500 wheeled carts with lids to 33,000 properties that residents will begin using for curbside recycling service.
The city’s costs to purchase the blue carts and educate residents about how to use them reached $3 million. To help reduce the impact on the taxpayer-funded city budget, Syracuse officials sought grant funds and successfully secured money to cover about a quarter of the cost from a consortium of beverage companies that includes The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo. The grant for Syracuse is part of the American Beverage Association’s partnership with nonprofit The Recycling Partnership to encourage robust recycling programs.
“Our bottles and cans are made to be remade,” said American Beverage President and CEO Kevin Keane in a press release. “Whether redeemed or recycled at home, New York’s beverage companies want our valuable containers back. These upgrades in Syracuse will go a long way to make recycling more accessible for residents and more effective at keeping recyclables out of landfills where they don’t belong.”
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