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SU Basketball Brings Awareness to Make-A-Wish CNY (nccnews.com; Berube)
Jim Boeheim continues his vision of the Ms. Orange Luncheon
By 2015, the Make-A-Wish chapter of Central New York will have been granting wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses for 30 years, granting 1,500 wishes for the children in their region. One of the organization’s largest fundraisers is the Ms. Orange Luncheon, which this year was hosted on October 26, 2014 in the OnCenter War Memorial Stadium.
The Ms. Orange Luncheon was a vision dreamed up by Syracuse Basketball Head Coach Jim Boeheim 22 years ago. Players such as current assistant coaches Mike Hopkins and Gerry McNamara are amongst the teams that have participated in this luncheon event benefitting Make-A-Wish.
“We’ve been doing this event for a long time and it’s just a great event,” Boeheim said. “Kids that really need their wish to come true– we can make that happen for a lot of kids just by being here for a couple hours. I’m happy our players get involved and see this.”
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Ranking the Top Teams in College Basketball: 351-1 (SI; Hanner & Winn)
Woo Hoo! Syracuse is Ranked Higher Than 151st!
We simulated the season 10,000 times so we could tell you the most likely national champion -- and how the other 350 teams fall in line after that. The answer to "Who's No. 1?" will be revealed Tuesday on SI.com and in Sports Illustrated's College Basketball Preview Issue, but we're unveiling the rankings in stages: 351-151 on Oct. 30, 150-51 on Oct. 31, 50-26 on Nov. 3, and 25-1 on Nov. 4. (SI.com's player and conference statistical projections can be found here.)
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The simulation is run 10,000 times -- and teams are ranked by their median outcome -- to account for significant variance in player performance. While past stats and recruiting rankings have some predictive value, college players are at such a developmental stage in their careers that their performance can vary far more year-to-year than their counterparts in the NBA. In the model's simulations, if a player performs well below expectations, his playing time will diminish to make room for rising teammates. Injuries and depth also come into play: A team such as Louisville, which has 11 projected quality ACC players on its roster, including two returning point guards, is projected to fare well in a vast majority of simulations. A team such as Syracuse, on the other hand, which has just one true point guard on its roster -- and an untested freshman at that -- is at more risk of negative outcomes.
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Orange Watch: Novembver a Big Month for Orange Basketball and Football (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: We’ve always looked forward to the one crossover month of the year (once in a while you can throw in December) when both Cuse football and hoops are (usually) playing meaningful games for different reasons, in this instance football in its challenging stretch run to become bowl eligible, and basketball to fine tune its rotation with three new (fulltime) starters against an equally testing early schedule.
It’s an interesting contrast to the two-sport doubleheader inside the Dome this weekend, the football team (3-5, 1-3) fighting for its post-season life against winless conference opponent North Carolina State (4-4, 0-4), and the basketball team opening up play against a not-so-ordinary first exhibition game opponent, a Carleton University team that it’s most familiar with from the August 2013 Canadian exhibition tour, SU having to come from 15 points down in the second half in Ottawa to win by four.
While the Syracuse football defense continued its strong season-long aggressive style in forcing four turnovers in last week’s loss to Clemson, the offensively-challenged side of the ball, 13th in the 14 team ACC in scoring at 20 points a game, will first face a N.C. State defense Saturday (3:00 p.m. ET / ACCRSN) that’s giving up a bunch of points in conference play, providing a benchmark goal for AJ Long and company to shoot for four scores.
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'Hidden Treasure' Restored in Downtown Syracuse: The 19th Century Erie Canal Bridge Few Ever See (PS; Kirst)
Halloween: A time in Syracuse for tales about wailing shades of fear, phantoms that walk half-seen through darkened halls.
But a city, as it is, involves a different kind of ghost. At every corner, even with the bricks beneath each street, you feel the sweat and sacrifice of those who came before.
Understandably, that is not the primary thought these days for weary motorists on Erie Boulevard West, near the National Grid Building -- where the ramp for the West Street arterial has been closed for months.
Yet the project goes back to why our larger community exists. Drivers cannot see what's going on beneath that road, which bridges Onondaga Creek. They cannot see the work crews that walk each day through stone tunnels, crews redoing the repairs from a 107-year-old Erie Canal collapse known at the time as "The Great Canal Catastrophe."
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In a new action TV series pilot for "The Undersigned," Samantha Roy plays a sassy, intelligent graduate of Le Moyne College, who studies high energy particle physics at Syracuse University. She develops the ABRA, a small arm brace capable of creating holographic images and emitting an electromagnetic pulse
New TV Pilot Set in Syracuse, An Action Adventure Story Titled "The Undersigned" (PS; Tulloch)
Syracuse will serve as the backdrop of its own modern-day Robin Hood tale next fall.
"The Undersigned" follows three intelligent women from broken homes who hustle thieves to survive. When the Syracuse Police realize the women only steal from criminals, they hire them as an elite unit to catch thieves in the city. Every time the women recover stolen money, they leave a cut at a local shelter and quickly become known as pillars of strength for those in need.
The action-adventure television series began shooting this month in Ottawa, Canada and will start next month in downtown Syracuse and Cicero. See the trailer below.
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Syracuse was the right setting for the series because the story starts in Ottawa, but the characters must end up in a border city.
"It's simple proximity," Carlick said. "You could set it in Watertown, but it's a lot more picturesque in Syracuse. We just shoehorned the plot to make it work."
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Miner to Cuomo: You'll Have Our Syracuse Billion Plan by Thanksgiving (PS; Knauss)
Mayor Stephanie Miner said Syracuse leaders will put a proposal before Gov. Andrew Cuomo by Thanksgiving for a state-funded economic development program on par with the "Buffalo Billion," Cuomo's high profile initiative in Western New York.
In response to Cuomo's comments Wednesday saying he would like to see an ambitious proposal from Syracuse, akin to "the Inner Harbor on steroids,'' Miner this morning started recruiting economic development officials, college presidents and others to pull a concept together.
"I have been in touch with a number of community leaders across the board, asking them to join with me to put together a plan to seize on that opportunity,'' Miner said today. "And everybody has reacted with relish.''
Miner said she anticipates forming an informal "leadership group'' that will meet to craft a vision to present to the governor.
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Hotel Syracuse Renovations to Start This Fall as Part of a $57 Million Project to Reopen in Early 2016 (PS; Moriarty)
Renovations to the Hotel Syracuse will start this fall as part of a $57 million project that will lead to its reopening in early 2016, the building's new owner said today.
Ed Riley, of Syracuse Community Hotel Restoration Co. 1, told about 600 people at CenterState CEO's Economic Champions luncheon that repairs to the historic building's exterior masonry and to its leaky roof will start in the next 30 to 45 days. Those repairs are Riley's top priority because water leaking from the roof has damaged the hotel's interior, as well as the masonry near the roofline.
"We've got to get the building weather-proofed," he said afterward.
The heart of the hotel's renovation, however, will begin in February or March. That's when the hotel's 90-year-old rooms will be demolished and replaced with larger, fully modern rooms. Riley said that work will take about a year. He said the hotel will reopen with 261 rooms sometime in the first three months of 2016.
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SU Basketball Brings Awareness to Make-A-Wish CNY (nccnews.com; Berube)
Jim Boeheim continues his vision of the Ms. Orange Luncheon
By 2015, the Make-A-Wish chapter of Central New York will have been granting wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses for 30 years, granting 1,500 wishes for the children in their region. One of the organization’s largest fundraisers is the Ms. Orange Luncheon, which this year was hosted on October 26, 2014 in the OnCenter War Memorial Stadium.
The Ms. Orange Luncheon was a vision dreamed up by Syracuse Basketball Head Coach Jim Boeheim 22 years ago. Players such as current assistant coaches Mike Hopkins and Gerry McNamara are amongst the teams that have participated in this luncheon event benefitting Make-A-Wish.
“We’ve been doing this event for a long time and it’s just a great event,” Boeheim said. “Kids that really need their wish to come true– we can make that happen for a lot of kids just by being here for a couple hours. I’m happy our players get involved and see this.”
...
Ranking the Top Teams in College Basketball: 351-1 (SI; Hanner & Winn)
Woo Hoo! Syracuse is Ranked Higher Than 151st!
We simulated the season 10,000 times so we could tell you the most likely national champion -- and how the other 350 teams fall in line after that. The answer to "Who's No. 1?" will be revealed Tuesday on SI.com and in Sports Illustrated's College Basketball Preview Issue, but we're unveiling the rankings in stages: 351-151 on Oct. 30, 150-51 on Oct. 31, 50-26 on Nov. 3, and 25-1 on Nov. 4. (SI.com's player and conference statistical projections can be found here.)
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The simulation is run 10,000 times -- and teams are ranked by their median outcome -- to account for significant variance in player performance. While past stats and recruiting rankings have some predictive value, college players are at such a developmental stage in their careers that their performance can vary far more year-to-year than their counterparts in the NBA. In the model's simulations, if a player performs well below expectations, his playing time will diminish to make room for rising teammates. Injuries and depth also come into play: A team such as Louisville, which has 11 projected quality ACC players on its roster, including two returning point guards, is projected to fare well in a vast majority of simulations. A team such as Syracuse, on the other hand, which has just one true point guard on its roster -- and an untested freshman at that -- is at more risk of negative outcomes.
...
Orange Watch: Novembver a Big Month for Orange Basketball and Football (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: We’ve always looked forward to the one crossover month of the year (once in a while you can throw in December) when both Cuse football and hoops are (usually) playing meaningful games for different reasons, in this instance football in its challenging stretch run to become bowl eligible, and basketball to fine tune its rotation with three new (fulltime) starters against an equally testing early schedule.
It’s an interesting contrast to the two-sport doubleheader inside the Dome this weekend, the football team (3-5, 1-3) fighting for its post-season life against winless conference opponent North Carolina State (4-4, 0-4), and the basketball team opening up play against a not-so-ordinary first exhibition game opponent, a Carleton University team that it’s most familiar with from the August 2013 Canadian exhibition tour, SU having to come from 15 points down in the second half in Ottawa to win by four.
While the Syracuse football defense continued its strong season-long aggressive style in forcing four turnovers in last week’s loss to Clemson, the offensively-challenged side of the ball, 13th in the 14 team ACC in scoring at 20 points a game, will first face a N.C. State defense Saturday (3:00 p.m. ET / ACCRSN) that’s giving up a bunch of points in conference play, providing a benchmark goal for AJ Long and company to shoot for four scores.
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Other
'Hidden Treasure' Restored in Downtown Syracuse: The 19th Century Erie Canal Bridge Few Ever See (PS; Kirst)
Halloween: A time in Syracuse for tales about wailing shades of fear, phantoms that walk half-seen through darkened halls.
But a city, as it is, involves a different kind of ghost. At every corner, even with the bricks beneath each street, you feel the sweat and sacrifice of those who came before.
Understandably, that is not the primary thought these days for weary motorists on Erie Boulevard West, near the National Grid Building -- where the ramp for the West Street arterial has been closed for months.
Yet the project goes back to why our larger community exists. Drivers cannot see what's going on beneath that road, which bridges Onondaga Creek. They cannot see the work crews that walk each day through stone tunnels, crews redoing the repairs from a 107-year-old Erie Canal collapse known at the time as "The Great Canal Catastrophe."
...
In a new action TV series pilot for "The Undersigned," Samantha Roy plays a sassy, intelligent graduate of Le Moyne College, who studies high energy particle physics at Syracuse University. She develops the ABRA, a small arm brace capable of creating holographic images and emitting an electromagnetic pulse
New TV Pilot Set in Syracuse, An Action Adventure Story Titled "The Undersigned" (PS; Tulloch)
Syracuse will serve as the backdrop of its own modern-day Robin Hood tale next fall.
"The Undersigned" follows three intelligent women from broken homes who hustle thieves to survive. When the Syracuse Police realize the women only steal from criminals, they hire them as an elite unit to catch thieves in the city. Every time the women recover stolen money, they leave a cut at a local shelter and quickly become known as pillars of strength for those in need.
The action-adventure television series began shooting this month in Ottawa, Canada and will start next month in downtown Syracuse and Cicero. See the trailer below.
...
...
Syracuse was the right setting for the series because the story starts in Ottawa, but the characters must end up in a border city.
"It's simple proximity," Carlick said. "You could set it in Watertown, but it's a lot more picturesque in Syracuse. We just shoehorned the plot to make it work."
...
Miner to Cuomo: You'll Have Our Syracuse Billion Plan by Thanksgiving (PS; Knauss)
Mayor Stephanie Miner said Syracuse leaders will put a proposal before Gov. Andrew Cuomo by Thanksgiving for a state-funded economic development program on par with the "Buffalo Billion," Cuomo's high profile initiative in Western New York.
In response to Cuomo's comments Wednesday saying he would like to see an ambitious proposal from Syracuse, akin to "the Inner Harbor on steroids,'' Miner this morning started recruiting economic development officials, college presidents and others to pull a concept together.
"I have been in touch with a number of community leaders across the board, asking them to join with me to put together a plan to seize on that opportunity,'' Miner said today. "And everybody has reacted with relish.''
Miner said she anticipates forming an informal "leadership group'' that will meet to craft a vision to present to the governor.
...
Hotel Syracuse Renovations to Start This Fall as Part of a $57 Million Project to Reopen in Early 2016 (PS; Moriarty)
Renovations to the Hotel Syracuse will start this fall as part of a $57 million project that will lead to its reopening in early 2016, the building's new owner said today.
Ed Riley, of Syracuse Community Hotel Restoration Co. 1, told about 600 people at CenterState CEO's Economic Champions luncheon that repairs to the historic building's exterior masonry and to its leaky roof will start in the next 30 to 45 days. Those repairs are Riley's top priority because water leaking from the roof has damaged the hotel's interior, as well as the masonry near the roofline.
"We've got to get the building weather-proofed," he said afterward.
The heart of the hotel's renovation, however, will begin in February or March. That's when the hotel's 90-year-old rooms will be demolished and replaced with larger, fully modern rooms. Riley said that work will take about a year. He said the hotel will reopen with 261 rooms sometime in the first three months of 2016.
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